journalist for the @timescolonist daily newspaper in Victoria, Canada. ✍️ also in @globeandmail @TheTyee @capitaldailyvic. he/him
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Michael John Lo retweeted
24 Mar 2025
A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.
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Navarro did not respond to multiple requests for comment before we published. He now says it is "crazy stuff". Story updated with his denial, but we stand behind the story.
SCOOP - White House official pushes to axe #Canada from the #FiveEyes intelligence-sharing network. Peter Navarro has advocated the move to put more pressure on Canada.
ft.com/content/2dfa3c11-64a7… via @ft
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Michael John Lo retweeted
23 Feb 2025
Quite the sharp Grade 11 class in Revelstoke: these creative writing students came up with a formal definition for “tariffism” amid looming U.S. import taxes & are looking to take the word to Oxford. #revelstoke #revy @RevelstokeRevue
revelstokereview.com/local-n…
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Michael John Lo retweeted
22 Feb 2025
As much as large market, region-wide outlets try to cover every council across the Lower Mainland, fact is, they can’t.
Local outlets are so, so important. Some of the best accountability pieces have been done by these reporters.
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In another sign of the struggle facing the local news industry, three Lower Mainland publications have announced they are set to close. vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0…
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Michael John Lo retweeted
22 Feb 2025
I worked at all of these outlets earlier in my career.
This is just awful.
I don't know who, if anyone, is left dedicating coverage to these communities.
Burnaby Now, New Westminster Record, Tri-City News to close burnabynow.com/local-news/bu… via @BurnabyNOW_News
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Michael John Lo retweeted
22 Feb 2025
This is terrible news for local news. These outlets did such great work to inform their communities. Local newsrooms matter so much more than people think they do. Im so sorry to all the amazing journalists who worked so hard for these newsrooms.
newwestrecord.ca/local-news/…
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Michael John Lo retweeted
21 Feb 2025
Did you feel the earthquake just before 1:30? timescolonist.com/local-news…
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21 Feb 2025
Dispatches from my first international reporting day-trip:
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Michael John Lo retweeted
7 Feb 2025
China likely behind 'malicious' WeChat campaign against Chrystia Freeland: monitoring task force nationalpost.com/news/politi…
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Michael John Lo retweeted
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Michael John Lo retweeted
7 Feb 2025
NEW: Trump nominee Kash Patel disclosed he’s receiving $1 million-$5 million in shares of a Cayman Islands holding company directly tied to a Chinese corporation the Senate & a pro-Trump nonprofit accuse of “slave labor.” Patel says he won’t divest. (cont’d)
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Michael John Lo retweeted
6 Feb 2025
In many cases, these orgs provide our last window into what is actually happening in China. They do the painstaking, risky work of tracking Chinese censorship, tallying local protests, uncovering rights violations, & documenting the Uyghur genocide.
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Michael John Lo retweeted
5 Feb 2025
Fantastic thread. And to your point of outerwear and fashion, here is a CEO wearing a Cowichan on the front page of the Victoria @timescolonist newspaper a few weeks ago
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RT @melissakchan: As an account on the 🦋 other platform responded, “Probably the only trade sanction that will actually hurt Xi politically…
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gotta hand it to this guy, he doesn't miss
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As per the last lines of my story:
The Times Colonist was unable to reach Wallis for comment regarding his future steps.
But a recent one-word social media post left a clue as to where he might go next: “Camping.”
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Michael John Lo retweeted
2 Feb 2025
B.C. Premier David Eby says effective today he's directed BC liquor sales to immediately stop buying American liquor from red states.Liquor store employees will be removing the most popular of these brands from B.C. shelves. BC will be part of Team Canada approach. @timescolonist
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Michael John Lo retweeted
31 Jan 2025
Asking difficult questions of powerful figures is my job. I asked questions I believe are in the public interest to ask.
How someone wishes to respond to a question is their choice. They don't have to answer, but I do have to ask.
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