Michael John Lo
Skeetin' from Victoria, Canada. Reporter with the Times Colonist newspaper, prev. words in the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Capital Daily & more. He/him. Allergic to eggplant, shrimp, lobster.
- Reposted by Michael John LoA lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
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- Reposted by Michael John LoI've spent my day tracking down Canadian companies that have direct or indirect contracts supporting ICE operations. So far, I've found NINE. I've reached out to all of them. I plan to publish my video on this tomorrow, detailing the companies, contract amounts and purposes.
- Reposted by Michael John LoIt's time to board the Mothership. www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
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- Working the Christmas shift for @timescolonist.bsky.social today, and it's surreal to get almost zero emails in my inbox. Maybe this is how it feels to be in a zombie apocalypse.
- Reposted by Michael John LoBehold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfTat://did:plc:mencpxk4spd3xn3qotwkyyqf/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3ma7dtn6w7j2x
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- Reposted by Michael John LoWe're hiring for a nine-month contract covering federal politics! Posting coming soon, but don't hesitate to reach out if you're interested — jimmy at nationalobserver dotcom
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- The changes that were voted in by council would mean that the Times Colonist would lose CoV ad money equivalent to the annual wages for a reporter or two, if I'm understanding this correctly
- OneBC members were speaking to a videographer outside the Clearihue Building near Ring Road when someone began throwing orange-coloured smoke bombs. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/t...
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- Reposted by Michael John LoInternational media, you can do better than this. "Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
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- Reposted by Michael John Lo(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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- Reposted by Michael John LoOh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
- For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
- Reposted by Michael John LoHi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
- www.timescolonist.com/local-news/f... Have no idea why our Liberal MPs are so smarmy-looking in this photo but here's my file on up to $6M promised to Royal Athletic Park, filed on deadline
- Reposted by Michael John LoA Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
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- This freaking unmute/mute clownshow...
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- absolute loss for teen vogue
- Been hugely enjoying the live coverage put out by the Globe and Mail team for the Jays games this weeked. This update from @grahamisador.bsky.social made me laugh:
- A OneBC political staffer is organizing a rally in Victoria this Sunday to "raise awareness about the alarming rise in antisemitism and to stand united for safety, respect, and protection of our Jewish community." The event is being billed as family-friendly. A police escort is expected.
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- "since 2009"
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- Excited for this!!
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- Would this be a record number of parties in the house for the province?
- A bit of a familiar story here: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/o...
- There's about 20 people in council chambers listening to council ask questions on this agenda item. One guy showed up wearing a shirt saying "no extra 41,000 homes."
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- Well. Now we know where Kevin Hall ended up: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/f...
- Reposted by Michael John LoToday, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more. Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!
- Fascinated by this reddit post on our local subreddit. Some users have accused it of being astroturf-y but I decided to respond anyways. Sometimes reporters just report on what they see and can't be an all-knowing eye in the sky.
