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This is Anastasiia Yalanskaya 🇺🇦
She was killed yesterday, just outside Kyiv, delivering supplies to a dog shelter that was without food for 3 days
The car she was in was targeted at close range
Yalanskaya stayed behind in Kyiv to volunteer as everyone fled around her
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Absolutely incredible to watch this
@jacindaardern
video be pinged around the world. In the last 48 hours, it's seemingly gone everywhere from the UK to Pakistan, and has even gone viral in Lebanon - becoming another tool for protestors to push for change
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#Breaking
: An infamous Canadian sniper, known as Wali, rumoured to have been killed by Russians in Ukraine, is alive and well and resting in the Kyiv region before heading back to the front lines
Says he was simply in black-out mode
Spoke to him moments ago. Story coming soon
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Here's Anastasiia's full story. Please read it:
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“I asked her to be extra cautious. That nowadays, a mistake costs extremely much,” her husband Yevhen Yalanskyi says.
“But she was helping everyone around. I asked her to think of evacuation but she did not listen.”
Friends and family believe she was targeted at random
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NEW: Airbnb says 61,000 nights booked in 48 hours in Ukraine this week as people across the world make bookings they don't intend to use as a way to raise money for Ukrainians
On March 2/3:
- 34,000 nights booked by US users
- 3,000 from Canadians
- 8,000 from UK
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She had a Telegram channel to keep friends updated
On Tuesday, she wrote about helping a kindergarten, where 40 children were without food & diapers, bringing aid to a military hospital & food for volunteer dogs
“We are not scared. We are united like never before.
“We will win”
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Her final Instagram story, posted just hours before her death, shows her sitting in the backseat of a vehicle, smiling into the camera, beside bags of dog food
She was with 2 other volunteers who were also killed. The father of one of them found the car, riddled with bullets
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Her friends have been left reeling.
“She was helping people. She believed in people.
“I knew her three years ago, and I knew her now, and I saw a change in her recently. She was so strong. And she was never prouder to be Ukrainian.”
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Meanwhile, in NZ: Our Prime Minister just popped her toddler to bed and has pitched up on the couch in a sweater to do a
#covid19
Q&A, as the country enters its first night of lockdown.
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On Thursday, the day she would die, Yalanskaya outlined her plans for the next day:
“I am tired. Third day in the car,” she wrote.
“Could not get to Irpin. They blew up the bridge where I went yesterday.
“Tomorrow we’ll try to enter from another side.”
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I should also mention, Anastasiia was only 26 years old
“She was one of the best human beings I knew. She was committed to help, to help her friends and relatives and whoever needed help,” her husband says.
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#COVID19
global latest:
- 1 billion people in lockdown
- India starts 14-hour curfew
- Australia about to get v draconian
- First 2 virus cases in Gaza
- China reports 46 new cases
- South Korea reports 48, Philippines 73
- Spain’s death toll over 1300
- Kuwait imposed curfew
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⚠️❣️Heartwarming moments of joy in the midst of war❣️⚠️
I spent a week hanging out at Kyiv’s train station, watching men crowd train platforms, waiting for their wives/ girlfriends/ sisters & children who fled Ukraine months ago
So many wonderful moments. This was the best 👇
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Toronto has gone completely fecking mad
We're moving out of our apartment next month. We currently pay $1870 per month for a one-bedroom, one-bathroom 683 ft² space.
It's just been relisted for $2900 per month. That's a 55% increase in less than 2 years.
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Breaking: New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern announces Level 3 lockdown for Auckland for 3 days from midnight - the rest of NZ goes to Level 2
Comes after 3 members of an Auckland family tested positive for
#Covid19
under unknown circumstances
'We are going hard and early'
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The longest queue I have seen today on Day 1 of
#expo2020
is for Al Baik, the Saudi fried chicken chain 😂
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A big conspiracy theory says the Covid vaccine could have killed 80+ Canadian doctors
I spent months investigating & speaking with the doctor's families. Most died from heart attacks, cancer or suicide
But it won't go away. And those behind it are Canadian doctors themselves🧵
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🚨Law reforms in the UAE 🚨: The Government has just announced a huge raft of legal reforms in the United Arab Emirates.
The biggest takeaways (a thread):
- Alcohol decriminalised
- Suicide decriminalised
- Male relatives no longer get a lighter sentence for assaulting females
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“I was the last person to learn the news that I was dead,” Wali says.
“I don’t understand why they push such lies. It’s pretty obvious because after a few days I’m popping out and telling everyone I’m alive.”
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This is massive news for Dubai: we're getting in on this
#GlobalGoalLive
aka 'Live Aid' mega event -- featuring
@lizzo
@MileyCyrus
@coldplay
@weareoneEXO
@aliciakeys
@billieeilish
and SO many more
#Davos2020
#WEF2020
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The line this morning at the Fort York food bank
The struggle is real in Toronto
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Two top Kiwi broadcasters eviscerating their autocue for being sexist & then changing the script is my kind of election coverage
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An extraordinary speech by Justice Mander:
“Your crimes are so wicked that even if you are detained until you die, it wouldn't exhaust the requirements of punishment & denunciation”
“You are not only a murderer, but a terrorist. You sought to essentially attack NZ’s way of life”
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Context: New Zealand has now gone from 1 case of COVID-19 to 100+ cases in less than a week
Prior to that they had eliminated Covid for 6 months. Shows just how dangerous even 1 case can be.
New Zealand Delta outbreak: 35 new cases today, bringing the total to 107
- 99 cases are in Auckland & 8 in Wellington
- Less than half of 13,000-odd contacts tested
- NZ has been in a snap, countrywide lockdown since August 17, when 1 case was found
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There are now 4 confirmed cases of
#Covid19
cases in New Zealand (other than the 23 in managed isolation), in one family, from an unknown source.
The first case was found in South Auckland, and they have no history of overseas travel.
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A moment please for this absolute hero at Emirates Towers metro station.
My metro card was out of credit & I forgot my wallet. Bearing witness to my idiocy, this staff Superman topped me up out of his own $$ & wouldn’t accept any attempt to repay him later.
Kindness. That’s it
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Also important to note: Airbnb has waived its host & guest fees on these bookings
On March 2/3, total gross booking value to Ukraine was nearly $2 million
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An RCMP officer just told me journalists have been trying to sneak on to the James Smith Cree Nation reserve by pretending they’re delivering food
Whoever you are, please for the love of God, stop it. Stop bringing us all into disrepute
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Incredible scenes from the Pharaohs' Golden Parade in Cairo
22 mummies (18 kings & 4 queens) are being transported from the Egyptian Museum to their new resting place, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation - in a multi-million dollar spectacle
#ThePharaohsGoldenParade
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Headed home to
#Christchurch
to run the marathon in honour of 51 people who can never run again.
I’ve designed my kit to reflect the love sent from Dubai (spot the neighbourhood mosque!) & some incredible Arabic calligraphy from the mother of a victim of the terror attacks
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For the second day in a row, New Zealand has reported 0 new cases of
#Covid19
(and actually, one case has been reclassified as negative, meaning NZ actually recorded a -1 today)
Impressively, there are now just 184 active cases. 1302 people have recovered from a total of 1,486
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Vilnius (Lithuania’s capital) is changing the name of the road the Russian embassy is on to Heroes of Ukraine Street
Vilnius mayor Remigijus Simasius announced the move saying: “From now on, the business card of every Russian Embassy employee will have to honor Ukrainian heroes”
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In Jacinda Ardern’s 5 years as New Zealand PM she’s dealt with:
- a pandemic
- a terrorist attack
- a volcanic eruption
- giving birth to her 1st child
So her resignation comments are kinda understandable: “I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It’s that simple”
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#BREAKING
: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Kyiv, where he has just announced the reopening of the Canadian Embassy
"Having the Canadian flag fly over the streets of Kyiv once again is yet another testament to the strength and solidarity of Canadians and Ukrainians”
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I don’t have much in common with Prince Harry — but the way I was nodding my head at every line in his description of what it feels like after coming home from a war zone… this is it
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Vanessa Burns had a 15-year relationship & 5 kids with Myles Sanderson
The weekend he killed 11 (incl. her Dad) at James Smith Cree Nation, he tried to kill her too. He'd beaten her for years
She no longer wants to be a victim. Via diaries & hours of talking, here's her story🧵
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“It is very expensive you are a person with a big and kind heart! Thanks to you, we feel that the whole world is with us! All members of my family are very grateful to you.”
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NEW: Suspended Ontario doctor Patrick Phillips has had his certificate of registration revoked, effective immediately
The decision came during a hearing by the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal -- in which he was reprimanded for his Covid-19 related conduct
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Today, we were almost as popular on Twitter as a
#Trump
tweet. And we didn't even have to offend anyone.
@weareoneEXO
#EXOPowerDubai
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Update: it’s been 3 days since she died, and Anastasiia’s body is still lying in her friend’s Dad’s house — along with the 2 volunteers she died with
Due to the intense fighting nearby, there’s no one available to remove the bodies or to take her to a morgue
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NEW: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is moving ALL of its hearings online due “to an increased number of serious threats and concern for the safety of College staff and Council members”
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is "relieved" at the Christchurch gunman's life sentence:
“It gave me relief to know that this person will never see the light of day.
“Nothing will take the pain away but I hope you felt the arms of New Zealand around you through this process."
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“You killed in my name. I am white, Muslim and proud.”
Nathan Smith converted to Islam nine years ago. He was also in Al Noor mosque in Christchurch when a terrorist killed 51 of his friends and peers
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A reminder that:
- Loblaw's net earnings in the 2nd quarter of 2022 were $387 million
- That's up $12 million from this time last year
- That's up by $121 million from the same time in 2019, BEFORE the pandemic
A price freeze also means that prices won't go down
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So what now?
Well, the vaccine is being blamed for everything from the Lisa-Marie Presley's death to Damar Hamlin's collapse to a CTV reporter's on-air medical emergency
Where does that leave us? I don't know, but it's probably not good
Here's the story
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The moment Ahmed Hafnaoui took his place on the podium, to accept his gold medal in a t-shirt and shorts - alongside swimmers from two of the best sporting countries on the planet
What an incredible moment for Tunisia
#Olympics
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It's 9pm in NZ - just 5 hours after a historic decision to lift lockdown restrictions was announced, and PM Jacinda Ardern pops in for a Facebook Live (on her bed?), inviting Kiwis to have a cup of tea with her.
"Stay home, stay safe, be kind and let's finish what we started"
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Darryl Burns was an addictions counsellor at James Smith Cree Nation until yesterday, when he quit after his sister’s murder
He & brother Ivor drove to the reserve boundary to speak in defiance of a media ban imposed by the band
“How can we get help if we don’t ask for it?”
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Family are asking Ukrainian soldiers for help but they are too busy fighting the war — the bombardment of Bucha and Irpin has devastated the surrounding area
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Awesome
#Covid19
news out of Abu Dhabi after stem cell trials
- The treatment extracts stem cells from a patient’s blood & reintroduces them after "activating"
- All 73 patients involved have recovered - 25% were in ICU
- UAE medics will now ramp up trials
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- Drinking, possessing or selling alcohol in authorised areas without an alcohol licence is no longer illegal
- Unmarried couples can now live together
- Tougher punishments for men who harass women
- BIG changes to divorce/ separation & divisions of assets & wills & inheritance
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We repeatedly asked the doctors behind this theory - William Makis and Mark Trozzi, neither of whom have active licences - for any proof they had to link the deaths to the vaccine
They did not provide any
When we did ask, Makis accused us of engaging in 'ad hominem attacks'
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Of the 48 doctors I could determine the cause of death of: 10 died from cancer, 3 in car accidents, 1 while climbing K2, 1 drowned, 5 had heart attacks & 6 died by suicide. Others battled ongoing/ abrupt illnesses or the family preferred not to say. 1 was not even vaccinated.
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Delaney Barth found her mother's body after she committed suicide. So she knows exactly how she died.
She also believes the stress of anti-vaxxers asking for vaccine exemptions pushed her mother over the edge
“For someone now to do this, it just feels so callous and cruel.”
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PM Ardern's closing remarks as NZ moves back into
#Covid19
restrictions, after reminding Kiwis they've enjoyed more freedoms than elsewhere:
"I'm asking New Zealanders to be strong and to be kind.
"We all get that sense of 'not again'.
"Please remember, we are going to be okay"
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Of the 67, one is a doctor in Australia, 1 name is mentioned twice, 1 appears to be a lawyer, 1 had their licence revoked in 2010 for sexually abusing a patient& 54 were long retired – some as early as the mid-1990s. 2/3s of this list were older than 80 when they died & 1 was 101
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Update:
NEW from Airbnb on Ukraine bookings:
- 11,200 new hosts in past week
- Most daily sign-ups on ever March 3
- 26,000 signed up to offer homes to refugees
- 4,300 signed up in past 48 hrs alone
- US, UK & Canada top bookers in Ukraine
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Sohail Anjum has just woken up from a 25-day coma battling
#Covid19
. While he was unconscious, his mother died from the virus.
He now has to learn to speak, taste & walk again. He's watched two people in his hospital room die.
His message? "Take this seriously."
A thread.
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A November iteration of the Canadian doctor conspiracy theory features 80 photographs & names. They're all real people. But none that I could find died from the Covid-19 vaccine
But many people believe it. And now the vaccine abuse is being directed at grieving families
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Homelessness in Dubai - a thread
Migrant workers are still ending up on the streets and in parks in the UAE due to their companies going bust or failing to pay them.
Charities are helping to feed them and get them into temporary accommodation but many remain in parks
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Can we talk about the number of (mostly) men showing up in Ukraine to fight with no experience/ dubious motives
Don't get me wrong, I have such respect for someone who can leave it all behind to fight for another country, but I met some interesting characters this last month
🧵
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New Zealand moving back to Level 2 means:
- physical distancing to be reintroduced
- no groups or events larger than 100 people
- bars/ restaurants must keep groups of customers separated, seated and served by a single person
- schools/ businesses stay open with measures in place
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This is Serhii & Tamara. They’re newlyweds.
The couple had just reunited in Kyiv when I met them. This was the first time they’d seen each other in 7 weeks & since they got married on April 20 over a video call - Serhii had been fighting in an ‘elderly volunteer battalion’
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The rationale Israeli settlers are using to evict Palestinians:
“You are stealing my house”
“And if I don’t steal it, someone else is going to steal it”
“Yakub, you know this is not your house”
“Why are you yelling at me? I didn’t do this”
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- There will now be harsher punishments for men who harass women, no matter how mild or severe
- The punishment for the rape of a minor or someone with "limited mental capacity" is to be execution
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🇵🇱 🇺🇦 This is the leaflet given to Ukrainian refugees crossing into Poland
“You will receive a hot meal, drink, basic medical assistance and accommodation along with transport for free.
“Don’t worry about the formalities. Your further stay in Poland will be legal.”
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#Breaking
: College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario tells me more than 40 physicians are currently under investigation for sharing unverified medical info/ issuing false exemptions
Comes after Health Minister Christine Elliott publicly called the CPSO out for inaction today
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New Zealanders: Do you use the phrase “for Africa”? Like, “there was cake for Africa”?
Cause I said it in the company of Canadians yday & they were horrified. Truth is, I’d never even thought about it - picked it up from Mum - & apparently it’s the weirdest Kiwi-only saying ever
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The solar eclipse from Toronto
A truly historic moment. What a time to be alive
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Kyiv to reopen the Canadian Embassy in May - but it is very much still closed
The blinds are drawn, gates are padlocked & a sign out front says services are still suspended
A security guard told us no one is currently working inside
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Just had to Google what a stag & doe party is and..... Canada — are you alright?!
A party to ask your friends & family to donate money to your wedding seems like a real catch 22 of a party
Remind me to never accept a wedding invitation in Canada
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Awesome to see the New Zealand flag gracing the Burj Khalifa in Dubai for
#WaitangiDay
today
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Applying for permanent residency in Canada 🇨🇦
My husband, an engineer: 519 points towards our application
Me, a journalist: 5 points
Sums up journo life really
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🚨Legal reforms for the protection of women in the UAE:
This means:
- ‘honour crimes’ are abolished - used to be a category of crime where a male relative got a lighter sentence for assaulting a female relative
- these will now be treated like any other assault
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From Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory:
“You can be anxious, sensitive, kind & wear your heart on your sleeve. You can be a mother or not. An ex-Mormon or not. You can be a nerd, a crier, a hugger, you can be all of these things & not only can you be here, you can lead. Just like me”
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Serhii’s battalion was made up of men aged over 60 & 70, who could have left Ukraine as the presidential decree covers ages 18-60
But Serhii scoffs at this suggestion
“And who will defend the country?”
“The young people should tend to their kids, we will protect the country”
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In NZ, you can be granted an exemption to leave quarantine for people to visit a dying friend or relative or grieve with family, but not to attend a funeral.
Testing takes place on days 3 and 12.
However, the women were not tested before leaving the hotel
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These pics of Ahmed Hafnaoui after realising that he’d won gold for Tunisia 😍
📸: Reuters / Marko Djurica
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Beverley Alam says one of her husband’s patients had linked him to the conspiracy theory after hearing of his death. Someone had even put up a poster about it in High River, where they live.
“He was an overworked family doctor who took more care of his patients than himself"
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And those supposed to be holding doctors accountable- aren't
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has fallen victim of it too. After a false conspiracy theory went viral about the CPSO, they received 6,000 abusive messages/ death threats - enough to call the police
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The moment a Palestinian father found out his four children had been killed by an Israeli missile in
#Gaza
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But people continue to flood to these doctors for advice & information. And it's not only on the fringes of the internet anymore -- it's all over Twitter
The Canadian doctor conspiracy theory had 3.3 million views on Twitter between Nov. 20 and Dec. 20, according to the CCDH
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Guys, I need you to know that I’m en route to New Zealand from Vancouver on a $600 RETURN FLIGHT
Yes, that’s $300 each way. For a trip that routinely costs me more than triple that
Bless you,
@FijiAirways
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Well, it’s here. The actual apocalypse has arrived in Dubai
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New Zealand lifted its lockdown measures today with a third straight day of zero
#Covid19
cases.
The country now has just 65 active cases, and 2 people in hospital.
It comes the same day the Government unveils a Budget of $50 billion to fight a deep incoming recession
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In New Zealand: flat white costs $4-$5. Anything more than that and you risk becoming a newspaper headline
In Dubai: a flat white for $9.29 (24 AED)? Totally normal. Tastes like frothy milk with a dash of coffee? Also totally normal.
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From raging infernos to golf ball sized hail - Australia has seemingly really pissed off Mother Nature. Stay safe out there, kids.
This vid from Joanne Carvolth at the National Gallery of Australia is actually quite terrifying.
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We followed the rabbithole anyway. It led to more easily debunked conspiracy theories
Makis claims September 2022 was the deadliest month for Canadian doctors in 4 years, releasing a list of 67 doctors who died...
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Ardern says 'resurgence plan' now being activated, massive contact tracing and testing operation to take place. Masks now suggested for public places - especially Auckland
"We have come too far to go backwards.
"I am asking New Zealanders once again to be strong and to be kind"
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#Breaking
: CPSO launches investigation into Toronto doctor Ira Bernstein, co-founder of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance
Also: Dr Christopher Hassell has his licence suspended. Dr Akbar Khan has had further restrictions imposed on his licence around ivermectin & Covid exemptions
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Meet Feby Baguisa. Every day, the Filipina mum rises at 3am to cook 150 meals for the needy in Deira
She pays for ingredients out of her own pocket, despite not having a job herself
Most days, 50 people queue before she arrives. She sits in the 38C heat until the food runs out
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It's a small thing to note but perhaps a fitting one: Seeing Richie McCaw described as a husband, rather than ex-All Blacks captain in a story about his wife seems fitting, considering how many women are subject to being so and so's wife as soon as they get married
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