Shout-out to the rando who took the pains to find my FB profile to message and ask me if I'm even Canadian. I'd forgotten how quaint it is to only get insulted on social media instead of in the middle of the street.
Look at the professional, calm behaviour exhibited by my CityNews colleagues in the face of pretty heated and frankly dangerous rhetoric. I'm glad they're both ok and this is not acceptable.
#NEW
: A gov't source tells
@CBCNews
Ottawa is working behind the scenes to encourage broadcasters to cut Russia Today voluntarily.
And will soon order the CRTC to launch an expedited review process.
@CBCAlerts
#cdnpoli
#UkraineRussiaWar
FWIW bumped into that same protestor who flew from Hamilton Ont. to Surrey BC after
@JustinTrudeau
and the Liberal Party outside, after event. We asked him if he was getting paid to travel. He smiled, said 'maybe.'
#cdnpoli
We're waiting for
@JustinTrudeau
to show up at an event in a backyard in Surrey this a.m. Protestors outside. Colleagues have identified at least one who followed Liberals from Hamilton Ontario yesterday to Surrey BC today. Would not say if he's w/ an organization.
#cdnpoli
Canadian PM
@JustinTrudeau
says he does not have any information, nor has be been briefed, on any federal election candidates who have received money from China.
Hello to my new followers over the last couple of days and thank you.
Just a note that I block/mute and report people who imply/ threaten violence, or hate speech.
Have a great weekend!
Minor programming note--you'll probably be seeing more
#uspoli
content than
#ableg
tweets from me for the next three weeks as I've just arrived in Washington D.C. to help out with our election coverage for
@CBCNews
! Excited to be here.
My birthplace hasn't really been the "Suisse de l'Orient," not in my lifetime anyway. But here's Beirut from last time I visited, in 2015, versus today.
reporters: ooh I wish I had time to not file on daily news and work on a long-term feature story.
Also reporters: if I don't file daily news, do I exist?
This is not an old news story I'm retweeting. It's the fifth such attack in 10 weeks in Edmonton.
Perhaps
@edmontonpolice
can hold a news conference on this wider issue.
We are losing my dear colleague and friend
@HannahThibedeau
today--who is leaving journalism after 25 years -- most of that at the CBC.
Big hugs for someone who'll leave a big hole to fill!
Former PM Jean Chretien on Alberta today when asked about unity: "Separation... will not take them closer to the Pacific. They will still be having to go their pipelines through the United States or BC or the North..cannot blame
@JustinTrudeau
."
#ableg
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
Catching up to Tamara Lich's bail hearing as Judge explains her husband's testimony not credible--points out he had first said he did not know the name of the donor who paid for his flight--then that he did not want to reveal it, then said "Joseph" simply.
#BREAKING
: We are hearing on background that
@JustinTrudeau
is to take part in an emergency G7 meeting in Bali, where we are for the
#G20
, over missile in Poland.
#cdnpoli
Canadian national anthem by crowd of protesters in front of Russian Embassy this hour. They started singing the Ukrainian one right afterwards.
#cdnpoli
#UkraineRussiaWar
Canada's PM
@JustinTrudeau
tells media he is following results carefully and will continue to as results unfold over day or days ahead.
#cdnpoli
#uspoli
You continue to grow on me, Ottawa :) Happy to say I'll be sticking around for a year. Will miss the awesome pals
@CBCEdmonton
but looking forward to keep going w/ the equally awesome crew
@CBCPolitics
!
I commend Bell for removing RT. Russia has been conducting warfare in Ukraine since 2014 and information warfare across the world. RT is the propaganda arm of Putin’s regime that spreads disinformation. It has no place here. I’ll have more to say very soon.
#cdnpoli
Good news everyone.
I know there are robot dogs who can jump over obstacles and whatever, but if how auto-transcription tools handle my name is any indication, we've still got a few years before we need to worry about the Skynet revolution.
I've covered a lot of news conferences. It's rare for them to be packed with people who are not journalists. A lot of the community wants to hear the
@HumboldtBroncos
accident update for themselves.
This old pic of me with far too much audio equipment is either to wish you a happy
#WorldRadioDay
or fuel speculation I've been cast in the next
@Ghostbusters
movie.
(wipes microphone w/ disinfectant, taps): Good morning Ottawa! Delighted and honoured to be here for a spell covering
#cdnpoli
w/ my excellent
@CBCPolitics
colleagues. Hit me up w/ story ideas, DMs open and the email's right there in my profile.👆🏼
The setup at the Edmonton vigil this afternoon for those who lost their lives in the
#TehranPlaneCrash
. PM
@JustinTrudeau
and Alberta Premier
@jkenney
expected to speak, as well as friends and colleagues of the victims who called this city home.
radio reporters how many of you sometimes shut your eyes while you're audio editing because somehow you think that increases your hearing like some kind of superpower.
On International Women's Day, and any day, it's worth remembering women journalists still deal with a lot of crap that men do not, and worth celebrating the greats. If you're not following the mentors and peers on this by-no-means exhaustive list, here's your chance...CON'T:
We're waiting for
@JustinTrudeau
to show up at an event in a backyard in Surrey this a.m. Protestors outside. Colleagues have identified at least one who followed Liberals from Hamilton Ontario yesterday to Surrey BC today. Would not say if he's w/ an organization.
#cdnpoli
@CandiceBergenMP
did notably get cheers as she suggested a ban of the Russia Today network as one more measure Canada could take---something Heritage Minister
@pablorodriguez
hinted yesterday is coming.
The Presidential Debates Commission announces the second Joe Biden/Donald Trump face-off will be virtual, "in order to protect the health and safety of all involved."
THREAD: This morning marked 10 years since I first walked into a
@CBCNews
building , for what was a week of training/try-out as a journo. Please follow along for part-analytical, part-thankful, part-
#humblebrag
recollections about a bit of milestone for yours truly.
Here is the federal government's response after Alberta Justice Minister Kaycee Madu's social media post (see below) came to light earlier today saying the media, the NDP and federal Liberals want a "disaster on our hands" with regards to
#covid19
.
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
On Facebook, Alberta Justice Minister Kaycee Madu says new COVID-19 restrictions were necessary to avoid overwhelming Alberta's hospital system.
"That’s what the NDP, the media and the federal Liberals were looking for and want. We simply couldn’t allow that to happen."
@CBCRaffy
I don’t know if you saw this today but this is how your last name was spelled on the closed captioning of the Alberta Covid-19 press conference! It made me chuckle. I hope it does for you as well!
In a new statement, Canadian PM Trudeau, New Zealand and Australia say they "support urgent international efforts towards a sustainable ceasefire." 1st time I've seen
@CanadianPM
use that word proactively in a statement about Israel-Hamas conflict.
#cdnpoli
Sooo WWE personality Lacey Evans' rant at an
@RCMP
police officer over a ticket? According to police, it was, like much of everything in wrestling, for show.
@CBCTheNational
well service canada called to say legal action has been taken against me so as a good citizen I hit 1 to speak to someone and offered to turn myself in at the nearest police station but they just hung up.
Factual error in this
@nytimes
story, the fighting this week has been on Armenia's border proper, with the country reporting 7,600 displaced internally due to shelling by Azerbaijan.
Not in Nagorno-Karabagh.
PA announces
@JustinTrudeau
event's cancellation as media shuttled back on to bus. As this was happening I watched RCMP detail explain to one man he cannot get close to the bus.
#cdnpoli
#elxn44
@Gray_Mackenzie
asks: did you learn about these allegations from the
@globalnews
story? Trudeau says the government takes media reports seriously, repeats he has no info
So apparently
@RCMPAlberta
arrested an
@edmontonpolice
officer last week, and on Saturday March 13th the constable was charged with assault and unsafe storage of a firearm, as revealed in a news release sent out seven days later, on a Friday afternoon, at almost 5 pm.
EPS officer charged: An Edmonton Police Service (EPS) member has been charged in relation to an incident that occurred last weekend. On Saturday, March 13, 2021, Const. Hunter Robinz, a six-year member with the EPS, was charged with assault, unsafe…
At news conference with
@jkenney
, asked him what role Mark Smith had in drafting
@Alberta_UCP
education policy. First he said "none," saying his party platform development team was in charge, then said he wrote the policy, then added Smith provided "some input."
#ableg
#abvote
Pelosi is asked whether she concedes that President has not met threshold for 25th amendment. "That's not for us to decide," she says. Raskin jumps in, reiterates how the body needs to be selected in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion.
@GoAHealth
has also declined to tell CBC what they said to Postmedia about this starting with a person returning from another country, which just leaves us w/ more questions.
#abpoli
#ableg
#covid19
People returning to Canada must quarantine, so how could an outbreak even happen? Waiting 48 hours for any answers is the opposite of openness and transparency
@CMOH_Alberta
.
#ableg
#COVID19AB
Protestors again at Trudeau's next event. Supporters here too. Some of the completely illogical screaming: "crimes against humanity," a bunch of swearing.
Alberta's Criminal Trial Lawyer Association asks for: firing or resignation of
@RCMPAlberta
deputy commissioner Curtis Zablocki, officers who were seen beating Chief Allan Adam, senior officers who reviewed that footage and thought it was justified.
(BG: )
@JustinTrudeau
is up now. "Just a short time ago we had an election in this country where we asked Canadians how they wanted to keep fighting this pandemic. And the answer was clear." Science, vaccines. Similar to what he said in news conference last week.
#ProtestConvoy
#cdnpoli
@cafreeland
: Emergency act will allow financial institutions to cease providing services to accounts that appear to be financing illegal blockades, whether personal or corporate accounts.
So Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
spoke to Alberta Premier
@jkenney
about
#COVID19
situation in the province today (Alberta is leading the continent in cases). PMO readout says Trudeau offered federal help. There has been no Alberta readout of the call so far.
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
"I've never seen this intensity or anger,"
@JustinTrudeau
says, not when he was a kid visiting out west with his father, not in his last 12 years as a politician.
#cdnpoli
#elxn44
#BREAKING
: Peter Sloly has resigned as Ottawa’s Police Chief and will publicly announce he is stepping aside after the Ottawa Police Services Board meeting today, according to sources that have spoken to
@CBCNews
. Confirming Brian Lilley's earlier tweet.
#protestconvoy
#cdnpoli
We are hearing the Donald Trump campaign will make an appearance @ 11:30 EDT this morning in Nevada (6 electoral college votes, counting continues). Meanwhile here's his first tweet of the day.