Alison Auld
aauld.bsky.social
Alison Auld
@aauld.bsky.social
Former CP journalist now writing about academic research and innovation; freelancer with special interest in marine life and climate
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December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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As newsrooms shutter and paywalls rise elsewhere, public media delivers critical, unbiased reporting without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy.

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December 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Trump has prompted a redistricting race as he tries to maintain Republican control of the House in the 2026 elections. Democrats have fewer options to counter, as the battle heads into next year. n.pr/4oMnWW1
After Texas ruling, Trump and Republicans head to 2026 with a redistricting edge
Trump has prompted a redistricting race as he tries to maintain Republican control of the House in the 2026 elections. Democrats have fewer options to counter, as the battle heads into next year.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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In our latest article, Doing our dirty work by @aauld.bsky.social, we take a closer look at how this humble super filterer is helping to clean the contaminated waters of Boat Harbour, NS. Read it here: www.climatestoriesatlantic.ca/stories/doin... @dalhousieu.bsky.social @oceanfrontier.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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FIFA President Gianni Infantini used the World Cup draw to bestow a made-up award, the FIFA Peace Prize, to Donald Trump, a president inflicting violence both at home and abroad. @edgeofsports.bsky.social and @julesboykoff.bsky.social take a look at this absurd, risible act.
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FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd “Peace Prize”
With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up peace prize to the increasingly violent US president.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A Cancer Diagnosis Brings a New Season of Grief to the Kennedy Family www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
A Cancer Diagnosis Brings a New Season of Grief to the Kennedy Family
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November 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
@dalhousieu.bsky.social researcher Raluca Bejan releases new report on Canada's implementation of the international group's guidelines on decent working conditions for migrant workers
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Open work permits, better housing needed for temporary foreign workers in Canada: Report
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) has released a new report with recommendations for how Canada can improve the working conditions of temporary foreign workers in Ontario, Alberta and Queb...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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In March, the American government deported more than 200 Venezuelan men from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. The New York Times interviewed 40 of the men who were imprisoned. They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.
Inside Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Lots of people rightly criticizing the gutter racism here but I also want to point out how contemptibly cowardly this idea is.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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ICE is telling Dem lawmakers they can’t visit detention centers during the shutdown — citing no money or staff to support visits, says our @kyledcheney.bsky.social.


Read the exclusive story on how the Trump administration is using the shutdown to limit oversight: ow.ly/fL0b50XjLWv
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@dalhousieu.bsky.social researcher listens to ambient noise in the deep ocean to track dangerous ocean acidification | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Ambient noise can track dangerous ocean acidification
Acoustic technique could make it easier to monitor threat to marine life stemming from rising carbon emissions
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October 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.

➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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A federal jury this week found a private company that runs detention centers liable for the 2015 death of an inmate in Louisiana and awarded the man’s family $42.75 million in damages.
Jury Awards $42 Million in Death of Inmate at Private Jail in Louisiana
Erie Moore, a retired millworker and father of three, died in 2015, a month after guards slammed him headfirst to the floor at the Richwood Correctional Center, lawyers for his family said.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens reut.rs/475Anqo
US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens
The U.S. will expand the use of facial recognition technology to track non-citizens entering and leaving the country in order to combat visa overstays and passport fraud, according to a government document published on Friday.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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it's hard to Nazi what's going on here
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM