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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Media outlets framing Israel’s strikes on Iran as “pre-emptive” might want to look up the word? What was being “pre-empted”? Maybe stop quotes-based reporting now that we are at this critical point in history and let’s do some journalism.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 13/06/2025

Thoughts and prayers for the poor bastard at Global Affairs Canada going through the thesaurus right now to find the most equivocal words known to the English language.

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Carney & the Liberal govt’s new border bill is tightening immigration laws, expanding security enforcement powers & limits refugee rights. Critics say it also risks violating Charter protections. Are we following the U.S.–Trump playbook on immigration? We tackle this on This Matters @thestar.com

What Carney's big border bill could mean for refugees and civil liberties

Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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Canada ended a program that offered permanent residency— & hope to migrant food workers—they kept food on our tables especially during the pandemic. Now a path that could lead to better conditions & rights is closed. Two Star immigration reporters on my podcast: www.thestar.com/podcasts/thi...

How the end of a pilot program for migrant food workers might affect your meals

During the pandemic, they were called essential. Migrant workers who packed our meat, picked our produce, and kept grocery shelves stocked. In return, many were offered a pathway to permanent

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

How the end of a pilot program for migrant food workers might affect your meals

During the pandemic, they were called essential. Migrant workers who packed our meat, picked our produce, and kept grocery shelves stocked. In return, many were offered a pathway to permanent

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Mercedes Maitland @mercedesdigsit.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I know kids who haven’t been able to attend full days because their schools don’t have the funds to give them what they need for more than an hour or two. But hey, everyone got $200 that one time instead, right?

Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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Kids being held down, locked in “secret rooms”,sent home because the school is unable to handle them…this is happening in Ontario. I spoke to Shawn Pegg @clontario.bsky.social about the stunning findings in a report on how the system is failing kids w/ disabilities. www.thestar.com/podcasts/thi...

New report reveals how Ontario schools restrain and isolate students with disabilities

Despite nearly $4 billion in annual special education funding, families and advocates say the system is failing the children, in a disturbing new report.

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

New report reveals how Ontario schools restrain and isolate students with disabilities

Despite nearly $4 billion in annual special education funding, families and advocates say the system is failing the children, in a disturbing new report.

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

If you’re a former leader in journalism with a history of enabling problematic white men in media, shielding their bad behaviour & consistently failing Black and other JOC, I guess it would track that the first time you do stand up for someone, it had to be a white journalist. With all due respect.

Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Um anyone have any advice/quick fix for someone who has strep throat and lost their voice completely but also they talk for a living and now they’re low-key panicking? *stares in low-key panic*

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Meanwhile on the other site…..

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Support for immigration is at its lowest in 25 years. Those who were once seen as a solution—to economic growth & an aging population—are now being blamed for everything from the housing crisis to collapsing healthcare. What changed? The episode where you find the answers in the data: @thestar.com

Is Canada's immigration dream broken?

Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Since when do segments get cancelled due to “pushback”on factual content? 4 yrs after 140 newsrooms signed a collective letter against the harassment of their most vulnerable journalists that was ironically propelled by Rachel,me & Erica Ifill. What chilling message is being sent to journalists?

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I was thinking about what @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social posted about here and she’s right. A merely two-and-a-half years later all our work is forgotten and irrelevant. I can’t deny I feel sad and angry and lied to.

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Deeply personal, painful & resonating piece on the Canadian experience of exiled international journalists. The number of times I’m patronized and underestimated on assumptions made from an accent & the very clear signs I’m not “from here”. We who used to be assets for our homeland and people.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Read what Hossam, a 24-year-old Palestinian journalist, wrote just hours before he was killed today. There are no words to describe the inhumanity of the times you and I are sharing.

Passage from Hossam Shabat:

When I arrived on the scene, I wasn’t ready for the horror before my eyes. The streets were filled with the dead. Under every stone lay a martyr. Dozens were crying for help from underneath the rubble of their homes but there was no one to respond. Screams filled the air while everyone stood helpless. My tears didn’t stop. The scenes were more than any human being could bear. The ambulances were filled with corpses, their bodies and limbs piled on top and intertwined with one another. We could no longer distinguish between children and men, between the injured and the dead.

At Al-Andalus hospital the scene was even more painful. The hospital was filled with martyrs. Mothers bid silent farewells to their children. Medical staff worked in horrific conditions, trying to treat the injured with only the most basic means available. It was an impossible situation with massive numbers of dead and wounded being brought in at a terrifying rate.

Israel’s aggression continues. Massacre after massacre, leaving only the screams of mothers in its wake and the dreams of children that have turned to ash. There is no justification for this. Everything is being crushed: the lives of innocent people, their dignity, and their hopes for a better future.

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Just a day after we ran this interview I did with Amira Elghawaby—a Muslim woman in Ajax was almost set on fire. The hateful comments under our episode post say everything. Islamophobia is escalating. The urgency of this conversation has never been clearer. open.spotify.com/episode/0zHg...

In conversation with Amira Elghawaby on the rise of Islamophobia in Canada and fighting hate

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 07/03/2025

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#StarInvestigation: A life-threatening infection is spreading inside Ontario’s most over-crowded jail. The Ontario government did not answer questions about the outbreak of invasive group A strep at Maplehurst Correctional Complex.

A life-threatening infection is spreading inside Ontario’s most over-crowded jail

The Ontario government did not answer questions about the outbreak of invasive group A strep at Maplehurst Correctional Complex.

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Tariffs looking to kick off a major trade war in N.America,but we’re in the surreal Trump timeline where everything may change by tomorrow. Meanwhile,here’s Kevin Jiang & me with a video primer on what all this means for you! And no I DON’T regret my pun play at the end. youtu.be/zJWIRzBhwcg?...

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Trump’s Tariffs are back. Here's how they could hit your wallet

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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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Trump’s Tariffs are back. Here's how they could hit your wallet

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Watch angry exchange between Trump and Zelensky at White House

As a former diplomatic correspondent, can’t state enough how bizarre this is frm a bilateral diplomacy angle. Such exchanges do happen but behind closed doors. There’s a reason Trump left the cameras rolling. Very telling re future U.S foreign policy & geopolitical role. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

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The US president accused the Ukrainian leader of being disrespectful in a tense meeting in the Oval Office.

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Rubio’s face at the Trump-Zelensky meeting today. “YUppp that’s me…you’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation….”

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Also gotta love a Vice President of the United States of America not knowing the difference between litigate and NEGOTIATE in a high-level highly media covered bilateral meeting. “Let’s go litigate those disagreements..” Are they going to file a lawsuit against President Zelensky? 🤡 😹

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