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Such an honour to create todays google doodle with my partner

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that celebrates, honours and recognizes the great Norval Morrisseau

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I missed the memo about how to use "stans" and now I'm seeing it everywhere. Only a matter of time before Justin Trudeau tweets it and kills it.

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Chris Pratt's serious face always looks like he shit his pants and he's hoping no one noticed.

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As Toronto gets hotter, not everyone sweats equally | The Narwhal

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=💥series on Toronto's climate emergency We're starting with

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“We have parks here without lights so, after the sun goes down, we play what’s called ‘midnight ball,’” says Chris Milerd, who plays at Parc Saint-Laurent. “You know it’s a sad state of affairs when you say, ‘The court isn’t so bad, at least we have electricity.’” #basketball

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Basketball thrives in a hockey town. Montreal has become a 'hotbed' for the sport but kids in the city's poorest neighbourhoods play on beat-to-shit courts. Will a new pro team (@mtl_alliance) help develop youth basketball in Quebec? My latest: rover.substack.com/p/basketball-t

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Native American Journalists Association

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🎓 Meet the 2022 Native American Journalism Fellows!

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& Priscilla Wolf selected for virtual curriculum & digital newsroom #NAJF2022 - tinyurl.com/5c3ces2k

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Brandi Morin

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Rise, revive, resist, reclaim, restore! We are the generation our ancestors foresaw to rise & take our rightful place in this day and age. We have overcome 500 years of tyranny against our survival. We gained strength & did not die. We are still here. We thrive, we rise in love❤️

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Tanya Talaga

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How are you going to celebrate National Indigenous People’s Day? Start by listening to

@JoleneBanning

as the guest host on

@CBCSuperiorMorn

!! Always good to begin your day by listening to kwe from Fort William First Nation!!

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Join us tomorrow on @CBCSuperiorMorn for a special National Indigenous Peoples Day broadcast with guest host @JoleneBanning, featuring stories that reflect and celebrate Mino Bimaadiziwin — The Good Life in all its forms for Indigenous people across northwestern Ontario.

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Stuart Miller-Davis

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This is a very well written article about the state of basketball in Montreal. Really enjoyed it

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Matthew Ross

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Great topic for a story. So timely. If this video was 10 minutes long it wouldn't have been long enough. We're going to have another Montrealer drafted into the NBA in the coming days. Great 🏀times here in Quebec.

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Basketball thrives in a hockey town. Montreal has become a 'hotbed' for the sport but kids in the city's poorest neighbourhoods play on beat-to-shit courts. Will a new pro team (@mtl_alliance) help develop youth basketball in Quebec? My latest: rover.substack.com/p/basketball-t

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Big thanks to

for taking some beautiful shots and

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Basketball thrives in a hockey town. Montreal has become a 'hotbed' for the sport but kids in the city's poorest neighbourhoods play on beat-to-shit courts. Will a new pro team (

) help develop youth basketball in Quebec? My latest: rover.substack.com/p/basketball-t

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Update: The complete list of communities where 7/14 shifts will be converted (in some manner) and which party represents their riding.

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Anyone know a lawyer who could help me set up a not-for-profit (bearing in mind I'm essentially broke).

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I'm sure it must be a coincidence that all 26 communities whose 7/14 ambulance shifts will be converted to hourly shifts are in ridings represented by CAQ MNAs.

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Can we stop using France as an example of something to aspire to? I get that we speak the same language but holy shit that country's centre to far-right wing is doing a bang up job at out-fascisting itself.

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Just don't let me live long enough to be one of those dads whose avatar is them, their kid, a hockey jersey and whose profile says something like "NOT ASHAMED TO BE CANADIAN" #FathersDay

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Respectfully: "The court highlights the evidence [that] undoubtedly shows that the effects of Law 21 will be felt negatively above all by Muslim women." -QC Superior Court

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Peter McCabe

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My first tweet 🙂 proud to have photographed

basketball as they played

@NiagaraMBB

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and @richochetmedia, was a absolute joy to be able to put photos out there that dont fit the norm of mainstream media.. I can be found here.

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Cadillac_baron

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Dear all This is my new account I used to be

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My daughter s account Who wished it back I would be pleased if you would follow me again Sincère Your ornery emotionnal support French Canadian

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Read the fine print. A plan to reduce interruptions in ambulance service which includes an option of reducing hours of ambulance service. facebook.com/10007801142230

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Why do mascots inspire such dread in me?

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Tickets - Montreal Alliance

…this week’s edition of The Rover features work by the award-winning photojournalist Peter McCabe.

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Some really good basketball at… RECORD SCRATCH the VErDuN aUdiToRiuM?!? Fast paced, motion-centric offenses, comebacks. We got it all.

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5. If you're into basketball or just want to support something local that kids here can aspire to, I recommend checking out tonight's game at the (beautifully renovated) Verdun Auditorium. $20 gets you a hell of a seat.

alliancemontreal.ca

Montreal's professional basketball team playing in the CEBL

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4. But it's not money keeping them in the game. It's an obsession with the sport they love, a passion that drives them to play hurt, to leave a team in Spain on a Thursday and wind up playing a game in Edmonton the following Monday. This is who the

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3. It is a solitary existence. They roam from one league to the next like itinerant Samurai, ready to trade their skills for a thousand bucks a game and the chance at impressing a pro scout who might be willing to throw more money at them.

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2. ...playing in front of their hometown. The others have been cobbled together from across the world, players who've made a career balling in Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, living out of a suitcase so they can keep the dream alive for a few more seasons.

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1. Tonight, thousands of fans will crowd into the Verdun Auditorium for the return of pro basketball to Montreal. About half the

players come from here, they grew up playing street/high school ball in Mtl Nord, Parc X and now's their chance to make a few bucks...

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Brendan Kelly

@brendanshowbiz

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I am trying to find two Technics 1200 turntables and a mixing board for this Saturday. If anyone can help me on this, please send me a private message. My usual place is all sold out for the weekend. Follow me & I'll follow you in order to dm. Thanks.

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Was feeling oddly un-angry. Happy? Then I remembered I hadn't been on Twitter in days.

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Learn French in 6 months? Quebec-commissioned report shows why that's nearly impossible | CBC News

Les Perreaux

@perreaux

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Learn French in 6 months? Quebec commissioned report that shows why that's nearly impossible | CBC News

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A report commissioned by the Quebec government — and then kept hidden — lays out in detail why many newcomers are likely to require more than six months to learn French, contrary to new rules put...

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Why are police showing up to medical emergencies and arresting people? It happened in St-Jérôme last week and it's happening across Canada. Punishing drug users doesn't work. Thousands are dying each year but we keep using the same punitive approach.

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When Addiction Becomes a Crime

After nearly dying of a fentanyl overdose, a man spends the night in jail with no shirt and no chance to call his lawyer.

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In the first year of the pandemic, opioids killed nearly 8,000 people in Canada. Yet we're still throwing folks in jail for nonviolent drug crimes. If people are scared to call 911, more people will die.

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Eric woke up from a overdose with his shirt cut open and defibrillator pads stuck to his chest. Minutes later he was in the back of a police car on his way to spend the night in jail. No shirt, no blanket, no meal, no lawyer. Our latest:

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When Addiction Becomes a Crime

After nearly dying of a fentanyl overdose, a man spends the night in jail with no shirt and no chance to call his lawyer.

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