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Special Correspondent, @GlobalNews . Cairo-born, L.A/Montreal-raised, U.K.-based. Currently in the Middle East. Parfois en français.
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On the eve of
#InternationalWomensDay
I asked a classroom full of male students in a Kabul university what they thought of the ban on female education.
#afghanistan
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More than a third of female Afghan MPs are now in Greece. They’re working on a ‘parallel Parliament’ that will keep fighting for women in
#Afghanistan
. If all goes according to plan, it will be based out of Toronto, where most in this picture are headed.
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No covid-related deaths reported in England today.
ZERO.
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Love this.
A 12-year old girl was having difficulty with her math homework during the lockdown.
So she emailed her teacher for help.
He came over, brought his whiteboard, and taught her through the window.
💪👏
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In today’s
@thesundaytimes
, “Canada’s love affair with Justin Trudeau is over.”
#cdnpoli
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Lots of talk about Trump protesters in London.
Now listen to these guys explain why they love him, including a black man who objects to his race being the reason he shouldn't support Trump.
"Nationalist is not a dirty word"
#TrumpUKVisit
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Excellent reporting. Mosque attack suspect known as right-wing troll, inspired by Marine Le Pen & stood up for Trump
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Eric is a US citizen who didn’t think the Iraq & Afghan wars were justified so he didn’t enlist. But today he crossed into
#Ukraine
to fight the Russians.
So did Olav, from Norway. He’s worried Putin could one day come for his country.
'Wars are won by people who show up'
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Nevermind kicking out diplomats, go after the homes & bank accounts says
@Billbrowder
:"It only takes a stroll through Belgravia in West London to see this. Every self-respecting member of the Putin regime has an expensive home in Britain."
#SergeiSkripal
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Shoutout to my Ma.
As a teen in 1960’s Egypt, all she wanted to do with her life was live in 🇨🇦 . It happened 20 years later and we were all traumatised by Quebec winters. Anyway, she volunteered yesterday from 8am to midnight at a polling station in Laval and I love her.
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Canadian victim ID'ed as Christine Archibald of BC, known for her volunteer work. Statement by family:
#LondonBridge
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New from Buckingham Palace:
Prince Philip has been transferred to another London hospital to be treated for an infection - which we already knew about - and to undertake testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition.
He was first admitted nearly 2 weeks ago.
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Grateful to Kian Olsheski &
@ImWatson91
for an honest conversation about a complicated subject. Putting yourselves out there in this climate is brave & your perspectives are necessary.
You can watch ‘The Transition’ Saturday at 7pm on
@CTVW5
In Glasgow, Sinead Watson’s journey took a different turn. She felt increasingly depressed following her transition to male and a sense of regret crept in. She eventually detransitioned back to female. [TWEET 3/4]
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Wickenheiser, Szabador & Jenner left this letter in the Canadian men’s hockey dressing room.
#ctvsochi
#sochi
http://t.co/KqPkJ5PVT4
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My niece told me over the holidays she wanted to be a journalist. Here is her first (master)piece, huge thanks to Officer Manuel Couture of the
@SPVM
for taking a call from an 8yr-old.
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Good morning from the Paris courthouse where a verdict is expected today in the trial of two former elite police officers who are accused of raping a Canadian tourist in 2014.
Here's the backstory:
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3rd victim Id'ed: 54yr old American Kurt Cochran. Was in London to celebrate 25th wedding anniversary.
#Westminster
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What a beautiful scene unfolding here tonight. Impromptu mass in the street, steps away from
#NotreDame
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Ukrainian man living in Poland drove 500km to the border to offer free accommodation to any mother & her children. “I’m not leaving here with an empty car,” he told me.
#UkraineConflict
#poland
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There are journalists with immeasurable egos chasing fame and recognition and then there are these guys.
#FreeWaLoneKwaySoeOo
#Myanmar
#journalism
“You can put us in jail, but do not close the eyes and ears of the people,” Kyaw Soe Oo said after being jailed with fellow
@Reuters
reporter Wa Lone for seven years in Myanmar. Their families are inconsolable.
#FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo
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To the parent (it’s gotta be a parent) who came up w/ this idea, THANK YOU. Explaining to a 4yr-old why playdates aren’t allowed anymore is heartbreaking, so “Going on a Bear Hunt” during our walks is the distraction we needed. Our street right now:
#COVID19
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Cab driver: you're from Canada?
Me: yes
Cab Driver: I like Canada even more now because Trump hates you!!
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For those using
@RobertFife
& 'racist' in same sentence: I started at
@ctvnews
under a visible minority internship, t'was Fife who fought for me to come work w/ him in Ottawa. A diverse newsroom was crucial, he told me. A more honorable & ethical bureau chief/mentor, u won't find
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Changing of the guard outside Buckingham Palace commanded by a (Canadian) woman for first time in 300 years.
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The 2 cops are sentenced to 7 years each in prison. They have 10 days to appeal.
#proc
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Canada secures 500 seats on U.S. plane, evacuates more people from Afghanistan
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Farewell to the 103-yr-old Angel of Dieppe. The nun/nurse defied Nazi orders & cared for Canadian soldiers who survived the massacre that was the 1942 Dieppe raid. Her funeral ceremony was held, fittingly, in the Canadian war cemetery, surrounded by the men who didn't make it out
Adieu à Sœur Marie-Agnès : de nombreux Dieppois rassemblés. « C’est à un jeune élu que revient la responsabilité de dire notre peine et notre reconnaissance à une personnalité devenue un symbole, une métaphore du courage et de l’abnégation », déclare
@NLanglois76
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If you read French & have the slightest interest in how a case like this plays out in a French court - it triggered lots of criticism of victim shaming - worth going through these two feeds:
@TiboChevillard
&
@aureliesarrot
#proc
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What a moment,
@Billbrowder
. This little girl’s father just ended a hunger strike and tonight she accepts a Magnitisky Human Rights award on behalf of her mum, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who’s been detained in Iran for +5 yrs.
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Harry & Meghan leaving Canada House. VIP of the day is that little flower girl who insisted on waiting for them without a coat.
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I asked this lady if there was systemic racism in the UK and if so, how she defines it.
A: she applied for a job under her real name, Hanawatu, and didn’t get a callback.
She applied again but this time under the name Rosaline.
Guess what happened next.
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Political journalism in Canada is in better shape with
@mindingottawa
in the mix.
Attorney General
@DavidLametti
appoints four
@liberal_party
donors as judges. Commons justice committee 3 weeks ago rejected investigation of Party vetting of judges. Names and donation figures here:
@j_maloney
@Cooper4SAE
@JusticeCanadaEN
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Don’t remember ever seeing an interview like this on live TV. Nick Beaton’s wife was also a front-line worker fighting to get more PPE. He reveals she was pregnant with their 2nd child when she was killed by the gunman. Watch the full intw, she deserves to have her story shared.
"I spoke to my wife minutes before her life was taken": Nick Beaton recalls the last conversation he had with his wife, who was a victim of the mass killing in Nova Scotia. Watch the full interview here:
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Sorry but not sorry. There'll be a lot of Canadiana on this twitter feed today.
#Canada150
on
#TrafalgarSquare
Square
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Canadian Capt. Megan Couto, 24, about to make history: first female captain of the queen's guard
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It's the Duchess of Cambridge's birthday today, but also the 3rd bday of a little girl named Léa, full of attitude and defiance, who just wanted her mum to leave her alone with her flamingo at the bus stop this morning. Bonne fête Habibi.
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“Before becoming prime minister, Trudeau used to talk like a human. Now his mouth gushes out a jumble of staff-approved nouns, verbs and adjectives which defy assembly into coherent and insightful sentences.”
My Last Word: Canada's real plastics problem is the politicians
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Nerd Alert. 🇨🇦 flag flies above Highclere Castle, aka
#DowntonAbbey
, ahead of a ceremony honouring the former man of the house, Lord Carnarvon, who along with Sir John A., stayed here while drafting parts of a little something called the BNA Act.
#Canada150
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Reading Red Notice by
@Billbrowder
- absolutely brilliant. BRILLIANT. But also... here's his description of a former
@FT
Moscow bureau chief - now Canada's Foreign Affairs minister
@cafreeland
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Look at that smile. She fought for women’s right to drive in Saudi Arabia and that landed her in prison for 1000 days. Her family fought incessantly for her release and today ...she finally goes home.
Loujain is at home !!!!!!
تم الافراج عن لجين
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Her lawyers framed this as a trial about consent. She arrived at the "36" happy and jovial and left in a complete state of shock, reporting the alleged crime to a female officer on duty.
The general prosecutor yesterday: "There are no good or bad victims"
#proc
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6 hrs later & still no verdict. Media attention intense here partly because the 2 cops accused of rape by a Canadian woman belonged to the same unit that stormed the Bataclan the night of the terror attack. They're seen as heroes...Which is why her claim was initially dismissed
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Oh my RT
@scottbix
: Incredible: woman gives mouth-to-mouth to fallen soldier at War Memorial
http://t.co/kotIdJX2o9
http://t.co/LzH3T8uRDS
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She met the off-duty officers at an Irish pub and after a night of flirting and heavy drinking, they invited her to their nearby HQ, the prestigious 36 Quai des Orfèvres, where she claimed she was gang-raped.
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"He’s like the poster boy for no excuses." A young man whose car broke down leaves home at midnight for a 20 mile walk, to make sure he makes it in time for first day on the job.
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Sources confirm to
@ctvnews
that in 'quiet conversations' Canada has signalled it would be open to taking in
@rahaf84427714
, the Saudi woman who barricaded herself in a hotel room to avoid going back to
#SaudiArabia
.
#cdnpoli
#RahafAlQanun
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"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism," says Macron in a lengthy speech. Trump's got the translation earpiece on.
#Armistice1918
#rememberancesunday
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2 Cda airmen killed in Dieppe buried by townspple who to this day still care for graves. 🌈 appeared after ceremony.
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Experts told us they weren’t willing to repeat on camera what they admitted to us in private because they sit on diversity boards & will almost certainly be called transphobic.
This link now includes video of 1973 groundbreaking W5 piece on trans women.
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"Where is China's Truth and Reconciliation Commission?" Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claps back at the Chinese Communist Party after Beijing and its allies call for an independent probe in remains of indigenous children in Canada.
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While her husband "touched" the Queen, Sharon Johnston - in the running for nicest woman on the planet- held my thumb
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PM Trudeau finally addresses groping allegations: doesn't recall any negative interactions but also doesn't take any follow-up Q's. Would've been nice to hear him on apology offered at the time. Why say sorry? If quote is a fabrication, say so.
#cdnpoli
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“A former senior official from a G-7 country remembers Trudeau at previous summits, including the one in Sicily, when the clean-shaven Canadian was literally mobbed by photographers wherever he went. In Cornwall, his morning runs were ignored.”
With Merkel Gone, Canada’s Trudeau Wants to Be ‘Dean’ of G-7 - Bloomberg
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While we're at it, I would enjoy twitter a lot more if journalists didn't retweet every single compliment that came their way.
I would enjoy Instagram 100% more with 100% fewer inspirational quotes.
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There's a lot going in the news but this deserves attention. A renowned Iranian Human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoodeh, was sentenced to 38 YRS in prison for representing Iranian women who have protested the mandatory hijab by having the courage to remove it in public.
Nasrin Sotoodeh is sentenced to 38 years of prison because the authorities want to creat fear in society but women of
#WhiteWednesdays
movement took off their hijab in public and hand out flowers in
#Tehran
’s metro to show that they won’t give up their fight.
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@AlinejadMasih
has done terrific work highlighting what women in Iran go through on daily basis.
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Canada’s ambassador to Ukraine:
The Kyiv metro is open and the Moscow stock market is closed.
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#ICYMI
A group of 15 men from Canada, with little to no military training, travelled to Ukraine this weekend to go fight. We caught up with them minutes before they crossed the border.
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Lawyers for the cops raised questions about her lifestyle, her behaviour with men and pointed to what they say are serious inconsistencies & contradictions in her story.
(E.g she claimed she too was a police officer - she isn't)
#proc
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It can take 12 hours to gather the right material to put a 2 min report to air.
What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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Prince Philip, 97, was involved in a car accident earlier today. He was driving a Range Rover, seen here flipped over. Was seen walking away, shaken. Buck Palace says he was seen by doctor and not injured.
Possibly his last time behind the wheel.
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Canadian studying in Nottingham. Suits fan. Royalist. Didn't just speak to both Harry & Meghan, handed them a bottle of maple syrup. Boom.
#HarryandMeghan
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9 days on,
@Billbrowder
is still on the Wanted list. If only
@INTERPOL_HQ
followed its own advice written in 2013:
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Mom went back to school at 40, with two kids & a full-time job as a secretary. One class per semester, then two.. graduated at 48 and became a social worker. Good luck Mr. Haley!
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#Coronavirus
: Greater Manchester Police warning after 660 parties shut down.
“That included 494 house parties - some with DJs, fireworks and bouncy castles - and 166 street parties.”
People, c’mon.
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Every time a fire truck leaves the scene the crowd interrupts the singing to applaud firefighters.
#notredame
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Unless you're planning on tuning out for the next 4 years,
@ddale8
absolutely needs to be part of your twitter feed.
#DonaldTrumpCheck
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Every attempt at a sentence here is worth reading.
"It is known that Drew Barrymore has had 17 relationships, engagements and marriages; psychologists believe her behaviour is only normal since she lacked a male role model in her life.."
This interview with Drew Barrymore in the Egypt Air in flight magazine is, umm, surreal.
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This is worth repeating.
Second person to get the
#Pfizervaccine
is called... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 🇬🇧
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There are 2 kids in this video that keep making me smile. But because I'm an idiot, I stopped recording when buddy was just getting started. This is 200m away from the filth of Moria Refugee Camp, in a playground created by
@salam_aldeen1
, man in red t-shirt dancing w/ the kids
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Amal Clooney's office confirms she will be representing
@ReutersWorld
journalists Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oo, who are currently on trial in
#Myanmar
. They face up to 14 years in prison for their investigation into the massacre of the
#Rohingya
in
#Rakhine
state.
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From Buckingham Palace: “The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh have today received Covid-19 vaccinations.”
She’s 94, he’s 99.
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The last time a pope visited Ireland, homosexuality was a crime. Today, Ireland's first gay PM called for a new relationship between his country & the Church. Tells Pope Francis "the wounds are still open," asks him to use his position & his influence to bring truth & justice.
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THIS IS SO GOOD.
To all the non-tennis-playing men who think they can win a point against Serena, watch this... 🙃👸🏾🎾
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Worth reminding, Putin banned U.S adoptions of Russian children after Washington passed
#Magnitsky
Act in 2012.
#cdnpoli
Didn't take long. Russian Senate threatens Canada if they adopt the Magnitsky Act. This really infuriates Putin
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Adored her, my first journalism prof. On day one, she wrote ASSUME on the board, and told us how it would make an ass out of you & an ass out of me. 12 yrs later, mat leave almost over, we skyped so she could assure me I could still do the job & be a good mom. The absolute best.
It is with sadness that the Department of Journalism learned of the passing of Linda Kay, an inspirational journalist and amazing journalism professor. We will deeply miss her. Our thoughts go to her family and friends.
@Concordia
@FASConcordia
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The sexual violence perpetrated against women & girls by Russian forces resulted in doctors requesting 5000 pregnancy termination pills for the Kyiv region. “It’s like they came with a how-to checklist on how to commit genocide,” NGO exec. dir tells me.
#ukraine
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A 🇨🇦 philanthropist donated $300K & a 🇬🇧 celebrity then did the same. At some point, a sheep served as a wedding gift to the daughter of a Taliban leader to secure safe passage.
How the plan to save female Afghan judges & their families unfolded:
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For a taste of home...they've been waiting in line for THREE HOURS for Tim Hortons coffee.
#Canada150
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Recently received a nauseating message from a Toronto Journalism student asking me for a twitter follow because it'd be good for his "branding." Wish he'd spend just one day with 11yr-old
@jaden_reports
- kudos to his mom for driving him around so he could cover actual stories.
Meet Jaden Jefferson, the 11-year-old reporter taking the journalism world by storm
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You are an absolute pro
@janisfrayer
and
@NBCNews
is so damn lucky to have you.
"In a word, it was electric. ... It was a long time coming,"
@janisfrayer
talks about the emotional moment she reunited with her son for the first time in 49 days after quarantine.
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