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Saba Eitizaz

@sabaeitizaz.bsky.social
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Host/Producer @Toronto Star podcasts. Digital journo. Ex #CBC #BBC. CJFE’s Tara Singh Hayer Memorial Award recipient. Finalist PEN Canada Ken Filkow Prize for advancing freedom of expression. Got a story? Tell me: seitizaz@thestar.ca

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
we all knew Bari Weiss was a deranged right wing hack but I thought that she’d at least be a little more subtle about it while running cbs news
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"Mr. Mamdani, you are more than welcome to come to one of my safe houses."
Masih Alinejad, who was targeted for assassination by the Iranian regime at her Brooklyn home, responded to a statement released by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani that today's military strikes on Iran Show
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...They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
We warned for years.
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Way too much credit with that comparison.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 28/12/2025
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them" - Maya Angelou
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I think it’s pretty near. Just quieter. And with less reporting on it. Which is probably worse.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/09/2025
Maria Ressa going on the Daily Show and being like, "we tried to warn you [colonizers] this shit you created is bad and self-destructive [but you never listen brown people and women]" is basically the story of "western civilization" in a nutshell
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Anyone else feeling like the world is completely falling apart? Like we’re not able to hold it together as a species anymore?
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And the hate and extremism spreads and spirals. As @rachelgilmore.bsky.social predicted.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Getting fun messages now. Guess it’s gonna be another one of those weeks…
User DMs me “we’re gonna find you”
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Please report this website:
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is a serving politician QTing a young woman journalist — someone already subjected to a sustained and dangerous hate campaign, including rape and death threats. Doing this at such a volatile moment can only add to her risk. Ironically, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is also expressing her views.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Variety describes Bari Weiss as “a well-regarded opinion writer who has tilted at extreme views, particularly those who are emblematic of the progressive “woke” movement.” Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
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CBS News Agrees Not to Edit ‘Face The Nation’ Interviews Following Homeland Security Backlash
CBS News said it would cede its power to hold "Face the Nation" interviewees to account after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem complained
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
It’s not him but it’s still fucked to have supporters like that.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 04/09/2025
NEW: The Carney government invited President of The Heritage Foundation, those behind Project 2025 to address cabinet. Though the ostensible reason was to gain insight on approaching US trade talks, a deeper look reveals far more. Carney's policies uncomfortably echo Project 2025. #cdnpoli
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Why Does Carney Value Project 2025?
A meeting of the minds or thoughtful diplomacy?
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Why you talking to a moose tho 🫎
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 16/08/2025
Seeing long COVID get any coverage is good, so kudos to @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social, Kevin Jiang and the This Matters team for covering this.
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Long COVID, the pandemic that never ended for millions of Canadians
Podcast Episode · This Matters · 2025-08-15 · 20m
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Frm intro to convo to the end leans into the fact that the pandemic never ended.Titles are more for length than anything else but as someone with lived experience of long COVID and suffering still, I can tell you it’s a whole other pandemic on its own and deserves to be.Thank you for listening! :)
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Hmmm…it’s like three female journalists raised the alarm on this in 2022 and then were subsequently shut down. I wonder who they could be… @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social @rachelgilmore.bsky.social These threats have been happening to female reporters and of colour yet nothing substantial was done
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
So many armchair generals out here tweeting war games & strategy (while clueless) as Israel escalates strikes across the region & the world sits at a dangerous crossroads. Giving“little boys playing in the sandbox” energy at a critical and rather shameful point in history.
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Iran state media confirming at least four officials,including Revolutionary Guard Corps commander-in-chief Gen. Hossein Salami, have been killed in Israeli strikes. Reuters quoting an Israeli military source saying that Iran’s top nuclear scientists also killed.
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Israeli strike likely killed Iranian chief of staff, top nuclear scientists, official says
Israel's strikes on Iran on Friday have likely killed members of Iran's general staff, including the chief of staff and several senior nuclear scientists, an Israeli defence official said.
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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 · 13/06/2025
Very unlikely that any military action by Israel is ever taken without the knowledge and consent of the U.S.
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Yup. 💀
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
NEWS 🚨 Israel has attacked Iran.
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Israel announces attack on Iran capital Tehran
Explosions reported in capital Tehran as Israeli Defence Minister announces
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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
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What Carney's big border bill could mean for refugees and civil liberties
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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...
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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
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...
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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?
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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...
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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
Episodes available on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts. This is an important one, folks. Children can’t advocate for themselves. open.spotify.com/episode/46BO...
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New report reveals how Ontario schools restrain and isolate students with disabilities
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
You can read the full report on @clontario.bsky.social and also if you’re a parent finding out your child may be in distress and facing a similar situation, there are resources provided here that can help including a special education guide. communitylivingontario.ca
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Home - Community Living Ontario
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Saba Eitizaz @sabaeitizaz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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...
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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.
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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.
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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
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Is Canada's immigration dream broken?
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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
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Is Canada's immigration dream broken?
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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
Oh he’s always on there. A man known for spouting some of the worst vitriol especially against racialized women.
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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 · 02/04/2025
For reference, this is the same organization where this also happened: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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CTV says staffers ‘no longer’ work for news team after manipulated Pierre Poilievre clip
The news network said two of its CTV News staff violated editorial standards when they spliced a clip and misrepresented Pierre Poilievre.
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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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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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