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Lauren Boothby
@laurby
Video journalist @CityNewsYEG in gloriously 🐀-free Alberta on the police & crime beat. Former @EdmontonJournal, @NEWS1130 & B.C. community newspaper reporter.
Aug 20, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Today Edmonton police leadership on 630 CHED unfairly tried to discredit my reporting about their own data on the use of the navigation centre.

I analyzed high risk encampent team's sergeant shift reports obtained by @coalition4jhr

Here's what happened
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new… @coalition4jhr EPS Deputy Chief Warren Dreichel correctly identifies several caveats to this data in his discussion with Stacey Brotzel.

I note all but one of these caveats directly & clearly in my story. However, he still calls the reporting "a bit erroneous"
open.spotify.com/episode/2AtP9v…
Oct 3, 2022 • 46 tweets • 15 min read
Discussion on police funding is resuming this afternoon. #yeg #yegcc Some questions to start about the report produced by CSKA for the Edmonton Police Commission from Erin Rutherford.
Oct 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Council is set to debate a new police funding formula this morning that would give @edmontonpolice *at least* $7 million more next year & annual raises. Also, conflict of interest concerns with a @YEG_Commission report recommending a formula. #yeg edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new… More comments from the police commission on the police funding report (which concludes funding formulas = good) & why Chief McFee is not in a conflict of interest despite being the president of CSKA, which authored the report.#yeg #yegcc edmontonpolicecommission.com/per-capita-pol… Image
Oct 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Wow. I was specifically invited by a press secretary to attending this news conference but the government will not be taking my questions. #ableg #yeg #yegcc It's my day off but I thought it was important I tune in to ask questions.
Oct 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Important news conference about to begin from the Alberta government "New funding to address addiction and homelessness" #yeg #yegcc #ableg

From the news release on Alberta's homeless action plan #ableg ImageImageImageImage
May 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Man once rejected by a pretty horse girl / cyclist blocked me for pointing out the entire internet is not true 😆 Ok fine I also said this.
Apr 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Edmonton’s police commission needs to be more transparent & open up private meetings to foster public trust, says city councillor (& commissioner) Anne Stevenson. The police commission had its first public meeting with council today. #yeg #yegcc edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new… Coun. Anne Stevenson, who is also a commissioner, said there needs to be a “cultural shift” so that the oversight body becomes comfortable asking difficult questions of police leadership in a public forum.
Mar 6, 2022 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
MORE for you on the threat of wild pigs (aka boars / feral hogs) to #yeg I didn't have space for.

1. Re: idea 'predators will take care of it': here's a pig hanging out with a wolf captured on a trail camera in Alberta Image “You cannot barbecue your way out of this problem": Mike Bodenchuk, USDA.

Hunting pigs for the foodbank was tried in one Texas city. But cities that try to make it into an asset instead of full eradication failed, he said. #yeg #yegcc

📸 Barrhead trail cam Image
Nov 23, 2021 • 36 tweets • 6 min read
Premier Jason Kenney is beginning today’s COVID-19 update #yeg #ableg #covid19ab Kenney says targeted public health measures and rising vaccination rates have helped slow the spread
Nov 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I'm at the Alberta legislature for today's update from Premier Jason Kenney, Health Minister, Jason Copping and Dr. Deena Hinshaw.

Expecting to get details on Alberta's plans to vaccinate kids 5-11. This story will be updated #yeg #ableg #covid19ab
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new… Here's what I reported earlier about what we know. #ableg #covid19ab edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…
Nov 23, 2021 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
A protest supporting the fight against TC Energy’s Coastal Gaslink pipeline on Wet’suwet’en land is marching along Jasper Ave right now from Beaver Hills House Park. #yeg @edmontonjournal A few of the signs #yeg
Nov 4, 2021 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
NEWS: Developers donated at least $58,499 to Edmonton’s incoming city councillors ahead of the election. Three councillors were also part of an infill development lobbyist group.

I analyzed all the public donor lists & this is what I found. #yeg #yegcc edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new… Development executives, donating as individuals, gave the most to:

- Tim Cartmell ($22,450)
- Andrew Knack ($14,400)
- Ashley Salvador ($14,039)
- Anne Stevenson ($6,610)

Sarah Hamilton, Aaron Paquette, Jennifer Rice & Karen Principe haven’t shared their lists. #yeg #yegcc
Nov 3, 2021 • 36 tweets • 8 min read
Premier Jason Kenney is here at the federal building to give an update on Covid today. I’m told Hinshaw came by earlier but she’s not in the room now. #abhealth #covid19ab #ableg #yeg Image Kenney says it doesn’t look like we had a Thanksgiving spike. He’s talking a bit about vaccines — we’re at 87.2% of first doses and 80.6% who had both.
Sep 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Heard about a young person who got covid but seems his family are conspiracy theorists. Mum treated him at home with ivermectin, vitamins & home remedies but symptoms wouldn’t let up. She brought him to hospital & now he’s in ICU. Misinformation is killing people 😢 Really sad to see lives threatened because of grifters peddling (and sometimes profiting from) false info on social media.

Easy to be misled when the people you trust are promoting bad info, and telling you not to trust legit sources. I get that.

This is all really sad.
Sep 21, 2021 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
Word is Tim Uppal is about to arrive and speak to his team. Excitement building here. #elxn44 #cdnpoli #yeg They’ve brought in a truck and Conservative Tim Uppal going to be standing in the back of the truck to give a speech to supporters about his win in Edmonton Mill Woods shortly. #yeg #elxn44 #cdnpoli Image
Sep 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I’m at Conservative Tim Uppal’s campaign party here outside his office by Best Buy on Tamerack Way. Tim isn’t here yet but there a lively crowd here anticipating his arrival and following along with the election results. @edmontonjournal #elxn44 #cdnpoli #yeg Still too close to call, but Uppal is leading over city councillor Ben Henderson. #elxn44 #yeg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/…
Jun 26, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I’m at Churchill Square outside #yeg city hall where there’s a crowd growing here for a rally demanding action and to protect Muslim women after two sisters were attacked in St. Albert on Wednesday. Here’s a look at the scene
Jun 25, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
I convinced one of my best friends to get her COVID-19 vaccine, and I’m so happy! I found out why she was hesitant, and worked to help alleviate her specific worries and sent her some reliable, good info. People have different reasons for being skeptical or hesitant about vaccines. I asked and listened to her to find out why, and she listened to me because we have a good relationship and care about each other.