@DaveObeeTC

Editor and publisher at the Times Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia

 Victoria, British Columbia
Joined September 2016
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REMINDER: The TC Book Sale continues today until 5 p.m. at the Victoria Curling Club! 📚📚📚 #yyj
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Times Colonist book drive dropoff today until 3:30 at the curling club on Quadra Street. Short short lineups this afternoon!
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My latest for the Star: The self-styled progressive left's sudden appreciation for free speech thestar.com/opinion/star-col… @torontostar #israelhamaswar @theatlantic @thenation @TheFIREorg @glukianoff #freespeech #cdnpoli

Andrew Phillips: The self-styled progressive left’s sudden appreciation for free speech

The basic point about free speech still applies: either it extends to those you disagree with, or it’s meaningless.

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My former colleague ⁦@LisaLaFlamme_⁩ discusses her career. Proud to call her a friend and to hear her talk about the future of the craft.
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Our fab Lieutenant Governor #JanetAustin is a great supporter of our craft. She delivers an authentic address on the challenges of journalism at the #websters. Always encouraging professionally and personally.
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🧵Carrie Davidson has chased after every scrap of information about her great-grandmother’s life, searching for a missing piece of her family legacy. projects.seattletimes.com/20…

The lost patients of WA’s abandoned psychiatric hospital

Nostalgia and a quest for justice unearth the complex legacy of Northern State Hospital as the country wrestles with its mental health crisis.

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@STWatchdog reporter @sydbrownstone describes how she unlocked public records and worked with video journalist @laurenfrohne, photojournalist @karenducey and graphics artist @vizscience to tell the story of Washington’s abandoned psychiatric hospital. seattletimes.com/seattle-new…

Reporter’s notebook: Unearthing Northern State Hospital’s past

Investigative reporter Sydney Brownstone describes what inspired her story on the now-shuttered hospital and the work that went into uncovering it.

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He uncovered 200 headstones. She was searching for remnants about her great-grandmother’s life. This documentary unearths buried stories of Northern State Hospital, WA's abandoned mental hospital. seattletimes.com/photo-video…

Documentary: Northern State Hospital and the quest for answers

He uncovered 200 headstones. She sought remnants of her great-grandmother’s life. This documentary unearths buried stories of an abandoned mental hospital.

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@CHEK_News14 Jul 2023
At a time when the fire hazard on Vancouver Island is extreme, Meta is blocking access within Canada to all CHEK News posts on its Instagram site. As of Friday morning, even urgent public information from CHEK News is restricted from view within Canada. #cdnmedia
A screenshot of the CHEK News Instagram account. Where there would typically be Instagram posts, instead there is the following message: "People in Canada can't see your content. Content from news publications can't be viewed in Canada in response to Canadian government legislation."

ALT A screenshot of the CHEK News Instagram account. Where there would typically be Instagram posts, instead there is the following message: "People in Canada can't see your content. Content from news publications can't be viewed in Canada in response to Canadian government legislation."

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Given all that has been in the news lately about the women's bodies that are thought to be in the landfill at Winnipeg, this could be the most insensitive headline of the year: winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/a-great-…
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David Sovka: B.C. honeybees versus Anaphylaxis Dave timescolonist.com/life/david…

David Sovka: B.C. honeybees versus Anaphylaxis Dave

One of the most frightening aspects of anaphylaxis, apart from all the dying, is that you don’t know you are doomed by a certain allergen — until you do

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7/ what to do next. Hubby only has one kidney and can’t run the risk of having the remaining kidney damaged. Is there any doctor in #yql who can offer any advice?
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6/ outside the emerg dept. He’s crying and shaking from the pain - begged me to just take him home because he couldn’t sit in the Triage room any longer, so we left Lethbridge and went home. When we got home, he was passing blood. I’m not a nurse or a doctor and I don’t know…
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5/ a bed for him. In other words, he was expected to remain in the waiting room with no assistance. I went outside and found hubby retching in a dark area of the parking lot. I got him in our vehicle and was tempted to call an ambulance but then noticed a lineup of ambulances
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4/ from the pain. He says if he’s going to die, he wants to be in his own bed. I try to get him to stay but he walks out. I make my way to the Triage desk and show the docs from Coaldale emerg. Nurse says she can’t help him if he won’t stay but then says she doesn’t have a …
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3/ a sign in the room states “Triage does not mean first-come-first-served” but that is exactly what is taking place! Hubby’s pain med is wearing off, he’s clammy and now in worse pain but the nurse continues to simply call ‘next’. He needs to lay down and is now crying -
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2/ we go to emerg at #coaldale hospital and he’s triaged thru immediately (great staff there). But they close at 10:30 and can’t monitor hubby so he gets a shot for pain and we are sent to #yql hospital emerg. We wait in “Triage” with hubby writhing in pain. He needs to lay down
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1/ This! This is Alberta Health Services? ⁦@AHS_media⁩ #yql #yeg Husband is on high dose antibiotic and recuperating at home from pneumonia. Not a problem, as home is the best place for him right now. BUT - last night he developed excruciating pain from a kidney stone.
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This disgusts me. Consider reading the entire thread. This is Russia... a sick society led by a lunatic.
Oleksandr Mykhed@mykhed_o25 Oct 2022
1. This thread is about the report of the UN Independent International Commission about the russian atrocities and violence in Ukraine. It is hell. I focus here only on the cases of rape and violence. Plese STOP russia.
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