On the latest episode of In Bed with the Elephant, host Adrian Harewood speaks to Tre’vell Anderson, an American journalist, author, and podcaster, who’s worked for Out Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the Canada-based Xtra Magazine. They are currently the executive director of the Trans Journalists Association, an organization that promotes accurate and nuanced journalism about trans people and communities.
U.S. president Donald Trump has made efforts to reverse the historic gains made by the trans community in recent years, including instructing the government to only recognize two sexes: male and female.
“So many TV shows over the last 10 years have brought trans people into the living rooms across the globe. Unfortunately that visibility has not translated into protection for trans people. It unfortunately has translated into increased vulnerabilities.”
Listen to the interview wherever you listen to podcasts.
Throughout 2025, Ricochet senior investigative journalist Brandi Morin, with photojournalists Ian Willms and Julien Defourny, travelled to Ecuador to investigate Canadian mining giants that have been trampling over Indigenous rights and sovereignty. In a four part feature series, Brandi reports on the brewing conflict between the Indigenous communities and the Canadian companies, as well as the scars, both physical and mental, left as more and more ancestral lands are stolen for development.
Over the course of a year, Ricochet dove deep into coverage of Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, and their impact on the housing crisis.
The investigation kicked off in March, in the wake of a deadly fire in Old Montreal that killed seven people. Ricochet was the first to identify the man operating an illegal Airbnb network out of the building that burned, tied the building’s owner to the scheme and exposed the nature of this new, and as yet unreported, type of property scam. In the wake of the fire there was a flurry of new legislation, lawsuits and policy changes seeking to crack down on illegal short-term rentals.
We assembled a multi-outlet, multi-lingual team that dug deep into the networks fueling the illegal short-term rental market in Canada, exposed wrongdoing, and drove policy change in multiple jurisdictions.
