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1 Jun, 7 tweets, 1 min read
Should have been the Edmonton Etymologists
Maybe the Edmonton Tunas
The Edmonton Shrimp
The Edmonton Furniture
All of these sound good and uncontroversial to my inexpert ear
Perhaps the Edmonton Plurals if they want to go meta
Go Plurals!

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3 Jun
It gives me great pleasure to announce the death of Lt General Manas Kongpan, disgraced and bereft in a Thai prison, the most evil man I have encountered in 30 years of journalism... Image
Manas died Wed in a prison hospital. He got off lightly. In 2009, reporters Alan Morison & Chutima Sidasathian came to @SCMPNews with a tale so hideous it seemed impossible: The Thai military was secretly towing #Rohingya refugees out to sea on wrecks & casting them adrift... Image
@SCMPNews Hundreds were dying under the most nightmarish circumstances. Skeletal men, baked to death by the tropical sun in excrement-filled hulks, as they drifted. Dying of thirst, starvation. Drowning. How many? We'll never know Image
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31 May
Oh, hi, you don't think China cares what Canada thinks? Well, the media chief of Citic (China's state investment gigacorp) LITERALLY BOUGHT CONTROL of a Canadian newspaper. The insane story (spoiler, he dies in a Chinese prison) is here...A THREAD: scmp.com/magazines/post…
I investigated the astonishing tale of Li Bolun & Global Chinese Press (a major Cdn Chi-language paper) last year. It's cited today in a report by @alliancecanhk to Can parl committee on China. That's Li on right with Citic's late chief Wang Jun, one of China's most powerful men Image
So, never mind the subtlety of Chinese influence on local media: Here's Citic, THE CHINESE GOVT'S OWN COMPANY, literally buying a Cdn newspaper. Look. Here's the share certificate! Image
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28 May
These are the max diameters of trees that are STILL ALLOWED TO BE KILLED under the BC govt's law that is meant to protect especially large trees.

Sitka spruce (yellow): 2.83m
Coastal red cedar (red): 3.85m

(assumes logging truck width 2.6m)
Diameters are including bark, measured at "breast height", ie: 1.3m off the ground. BC govt says this tree, a spruce, "might" have been saved under the new laws. Others (incl me) are not sure. Look at that yellow circle.
And just because, here are the supposed maximum growth potentials of these two species which was used to devise the big-tree law...again, Sitka spruce (5.6m) in yellow, and coastal red cedar in red (7.7m). Hard to even conceive that trees this big ever existed
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28 May
So apparently the carcass of this forest god is worth $30,000, which makes as much sense as valuing your children by their weight as hamburger mince
BC govt says it was killed last year between March and Aug 2020...ie: one month before laws to prevent the felling of super-large trees came into effect. So it was legal, if you think that matters vancouverisawesome.com/video/old-grow… via @viawesome
Priceless? Nope. Price of a Honda Civic, they reckon
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27 May
It began as an internet beef. The women used a variety of insults on Chinese forums: donkey, dog, 'most famous cheap woman of Shanghai', ‘old aunt selling bus tickets’. On Tues, it spilled into real life, when Jin Lu was stabbed in a Vancouver courtroom... scmp.com/news/china/dip…
Lu's online rival Catherine Qinqin Shen has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault. It's a wild tale, first told by @proctor_jason of @cbcnewsbc (hat tip). No way was I not picking this one up.
(and while on the subject: reporters should be as free and frequent with hat tips, online and in their content, as their employer allows, IMO. @proctor_jason did the heavy lifting on this...he reported on the original case last year. So yeah. No harm acknowledging a good pickup)
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21 May
Yesterday, Dr Bonnie Henry phoned me for a long talk abt my reporting, outbreak protocols...and a document I had obtained revealing a deadly Covid-19 outbreak that WAS NOT PUBLICLY DISCLOSED. Day ended with Dr H scooping me at her press conf. A THREAD... scmp.com/news/china/dip…
DBH told yesterday's presser that undisclosed outbreaks were added to tally. What she didn't say: this happened only after I told health authorities I'd obtained documentation of undisclosed cases at the Terraces on Seventh: 10 residents infected, 1 dead (later updated as 2 dead)
What shocked me most was this: the VCH document I showed DBH suggested the Terraces infections were NOT considered an outbreak. Instead the document listed the fancy retirement high-rise in Sth Granville as being only under "enhanced surveillance". What??
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