Diana Coulter
@dianac2.bsky.social
Journalist, former Comms for good folks, boy mom, loving islands & ocean, asst. editor at Canada’s National Observer
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Just in time for back to school season, we've created a section of our website devoted to entry-level explanations of big stories in Canada. We're calling them Starter Packs, and the first three are now live.
Introducing Starter Packs by Canada’s National Observer
For educators, new Canadians, and anyone who feels left behind by the news: an entry point into our national conversations.
www.nationalobserver.com
September 2, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Just in time for back to school season, we've created a section of our website devoted to entry-level explanations of big stories in Canada. We're calling them Starter Packs, and the first three are now live.
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Wild story.. I signed up for the website of the US Republican group 10XVotes on Monday to test how it works.
What I found was a search tool packed exclusively with the names and addresses of Albertans.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/i...
What I found was a search tool packed exclusively with the names and addresses of Albertans.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/i...
Alberta voter data found on website of US company linked to Centurion Project
Elections Alberta is already investigating a breach of voter data obtained by separatist David Parker. The US company, 10XVotes, has been repeatedly mentioned by Parker as having been involved in the ...
www.nationalobserver.com
May 21, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Wild story.. I signed up for the website of the US Republican group 10XVotes on Monday to test how it works.
What I found was a search tool packed exclusively with the names and addresses of Albertans.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/i...
What I found was a search tool packed exclusively with the names and addresses of Albertans.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/i...
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Huge scoop from Rory.
BREAKING: Alberta voter data has appeared on the website of a US company named repeatedly by separatist David Parker. After @rorywh.bsky.social discovered the breach, the website was taken down amid questions from Elections Alberta.
Alberta voter data found on website of US company linked to Centurion Project
Elections Alberta is already investigating a breach of voter data obtained by separatist David Parker. The US company, 10XVotes, has been repeatedly mentioned by Parker as having been involved in the ...
www.nationalobserver.com
May 20, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Huge scoop from Rory.
So proud of CNO and its talented team for not one, but two NNA nominations 🎉🎉
Nominations are out for one of Canada’s premier journalism awards. The National Newspaper Awards issued its preliminary decisions on Friday, and Canada’s National Observer is on the list.
Twice!
Twice!
Canada’s National Observer lands two nominations for National Newspaper Awards
CNO is nominated in the Innovation in Journalism category for Civic Searchlight, while Arno Kopecky's tenacious coverage of the Poilievre campaign earned a nomination for the Mary Ann Shadd Cary Award...
www.nationalobserver.com
March 20, 2026 at 11:03 PM
So proud of CNO and its talented team for not one, but two NNA nominations 🎉🎉
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CivicSearchlight is now available for free for everyone, built by the amazing @rorywh.bsky.social for @nationalobserver.com. It allows you to search municipal meetings across the country with keywords, and is really helpful for understanding how a topic has moved through time and jurisdictions. ❗☺️❗
Civic Searchlight is now free to use
You can sign up right now to access our ever-growing database covering hundreds of Canadian municipalities, no subscription required. Search 59,000 hours and counting of transcribed public meetings, a...
www.nationalobserver.com
March 11, 2026 at 3:33 PM
CivicSearchlight is now available for free for everyone, built by the amazing @rorywh.bsky.social for @nationalobserver.com. It allows you to search municipal meetings across the country with keywords, and is really helpful for understanding how a topic has moved through time and jurisdictions. ❗☺️❗
Last day, all….We're $27,000 short of our goal for the Climate Solutions Reporting Project. If you've been thinking about donating, today's the day. Help us get this across the finish line www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/124263
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/124263"
December 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Last day, all….We're $27,000 short of our goal for the Climate Solutions Reporting Project. If you've been thinking about donating, today's the day. Help us get this across the finish line www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/124263
Excellent original reporting that cuts through the conspiracies - yes, the truth is still out there but not at Mutinni: www.national-observer.com/2025/12/08/i...
Inside the AI-powered conspiracy machine selling ‘Truthwear’ to Canadians
Multiple researchers told Canada’s National Observer that conspiracy companies like Mutinni are the inevitable result of artificial intelligence colliding with the attention economy. Social media algo...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Excellent original reporting that cuts through the conspiracies - yes, the truth is still out there but not at Mutinni: www.national-observer.com/2025/12/08/i...
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This is an incredible tool built by @nationalobserver.com that will help foster enhanced transparency at the local level.
All CAJ members can join Civic Searchlight....NOW!
A big thanks to @jameswsthomson.com for this. Contact him ASAP! HT to @rorywh.bsky.social @davidmckie.bsky.social and team
All CAJ members can join Civic Searchlight....NOW!
A big thanks to @jameswsthomson.com for this. Contact him ASAP! HT to @rorywh.bsky.social @davidmckie.bsky.social and team
Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.
Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!
Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!
Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation
Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is an incredible tool built by @nationalobserver.com that will help foster enhanced transparency at the local level.
All CAJ members can join Civic Searchlight....NOW!
A big thanks to @jameswsthomson.com for this. Contact him ASAP! HT to @rorywh.bsky.social @davidmckie.bsky.social and team
All CAJ members can join Civic Searchlight....NOW!
A big thanks to @jameswsthomson.com for this. Contact him ASAP! HT to @rorywh.bsky.social @davidmckie.bsky.social and team
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Between the purge of late night comedians, Trump allies buying up TV networks, Hollywood studios and social media platforms, and news organizations getting slapped with multi-billion dollar lawsuits, there is a full-court press to dismantle the information systems propping up American democracy
ABC Suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ “Indefinitely” Over Charlie Kirk Comments
The network’s decision comes after affiliate group Nexstar said it would pull the late-night show, and the chairman of the FCC suggested he might take action against ABC.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Between the purge of late night comedians, Trump allies buying up TV networks, Hollywood studios and social media platforms, and news organizations getting slapped with multi-billion dollar lawsuits, there is a full-court press to dismantle the information systems propping up American democracy
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Heartfelt thanks to Bill Gates for calling out the cruelty of the world’s richest man.
Yes, Mr. Gates, humans DO have values although we’re seeing a real lack of them now.
#philanthropy
Yes, Mr. Gates, humans DO have values although we’re seeing a real lack of them now.
#philanthropy
Bill Gates to give away US$200-billion by 2045, accuses Elon Musk of harming world’s poor
Mr. Gates accused Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man, of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ with huge cuts to the United States aid budget
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Heartfelt thanks to Bill Gates for calling out the cruelty of the world’s richest man.
Yes, Mr. Gates, humans DO have values although we’re seeing a real lack of them now.
#philanthropy
Yes, Mr. Gates, humans DO have values although we’re seeing a real lack of them now.
#philanthropy
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Results will be coming in soon. Join @nationalobserver.com and @ricochetmedia.bsky.social we've got a stellar panel lined up and reporters across the country bringing you updates. We'll also have a live blog and analyses throughout the night.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/25/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/25/o...
Election Night Live with Canada's National Observer and Ricochet Media
Want election analysis that goes beyond tonight's results — brought to you by journalists, not spin doctors?
www.nationalobserver.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Results will be coming in soon. Join @nationalobserver.com and @ricochetmedia.bsky.social we've got a stellar panel lined up and reporters across the country bringing you updates. We'll also have a live blog and analyses throughout the night.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/25/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/25/o...
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Pierre Poilievre remains fully committed to his main election plank: importing Trump’s culture war to Canada. @adriennetanner.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/23/o...
From handguns to 'warrior spirit': Poilievre’s platform echoes Trump-era politics
As some of the values we once shared with the US erode — respect for law, pride in an ethical military, concern for the environment and protection of free speech — we must push back against this spill...
www.nationalobserver.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Pierre Poilievre remains fully committed to his main election plank: importing Trump’s culture war to Canada. @adriennetanner.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/23/o...
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It’s worth pointing out that “climate and social issues” encompasses most of what the World Bank has ever done
April 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It’s worth pointing out that “climate and social issues” encompasses most of what the World Bank has ever done
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The United States is no longer a nation under the rule of law.
I urge Canadians to avoid travel. Illegal detentions and kidnapping by ICE have become all too common for travellers and those with working VISAs.
Stay away at this time.
boingboing.net/2025/03/20/d...
I urge Canadians to avoid travel. Illegal detentions and kidnapping by ICE have become all too common for travellers and those with working VISAs.
Stay away at this time.
boingboing.net/2025/03/20/d...
Dire warning from Canada MP: "I urge people not to travel to the United States" (video)
Dire warning from Canada's Prime Minister Angus: "I urge people not to travel to the United States" (video)
boingboing.net
March 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The United States is no longer a nation under the rule of law.
I urge Canadians to avoid travel. Illegal detentions and kidnapping by ICE have become all too common for travellers and those with working VISAs.
Stay away at this time.
boingboing.net/2025/03/20/d...
I urge Canadians to avoid travel. Illegal detentions and kidnapping by ICE have become all too common for travellers and those with working VISAs.
Stay away at this time.
boingboing.net/2025/03/20/d...
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I may need this on my bumper.
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I may need this on my bumper.
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News from another cold, northern country… 🚗⚡️
www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...
www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...
Norway nears 100 per cent goal of all-electric cars
Almost 96 per cent of new cars registered in Norway in January were electric, an unparalled number in the world and close to the country’s goal of selling only zero-emission vehicles as of this year.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
News from another cold, northern country… 🚗⚡️
www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...
www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...
Ummm…hasn’t that always been the goal of good journalism - to reach your audience and good storytelling? Oh yeah … wouldn’t want to focus on that democracy bit too?
The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Ummm…hasn’t that always been the goal of good journalism - to reach your audience and good storytelling? Oh yeah … wouldn’t want to focus on that democracy bit too?
What the actual F?$&?!! Who is this guy - to think he can understand or interpret another country’s needs - oh yes, of course he’s an American (with apologies to a few because yes, I’m Canadian). www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...
Opinion | O Canada, Come Join Us
Perhaps Trump is not making a threat but offering an opportunity.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What the actual F?$&?!! Who is this guy - to think he can understand or interpret another country’s needs - oh yes, of course he’s an American (with apologies to a few because yes, I’m Canadian). www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...
January 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything. And Meta always held the cards. It’s time to quit invoking inflammatory and false language in describing the role of journalists and fact-checking.” - Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute, a non-profit that owns Politifact.
Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking partnership with US partners. Here's how that program works. - Poynter
Meta will end its eight-year partnership with independent American journalists and will instate a Community Notes model like X
www.poynter.org
January 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything. And Meta always held the cards. It’s time to quit invoking inflammatory and false language in describing the role of journalists and fact-checking.” - Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute, a non-profit that owns Politifact.
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump: The hydrants ran out because California didn't pump water from the north
Reality: The wildfires are so intense, water systems built for fighting a single house fire failed to keep up. Another surprising impact of climate change
Reality: The wildfires are so intense, water systems built for fighting a single house fire failed to keep up. Another surprising impact of climate change
LA Fire Hydrants Running Dry Poses New Danger in Combating Blazes
As firefighters battle infernos that have caused billions in damages, a shortage of water is making their job harder.
www.bloomberg.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Elon Musk and Donald Trump: The hydrants ran out because California didn't pump water from the north
Reality: The wildfires are so intense, water systems built for fighting a single house fire failed to keep up. Another surprising impact of climate change
Reality: The wildfires are so intense, water systems built for fighting a single house fire failed to keep up. Another surprising impact of climate change
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David Hockney, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica, 1990💔
January 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
David Hockney, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica, 1990💔