Thank you for reading and sharing Filipa, and the Fela reference is ✨✨✨

Waterkeeper: how water can be a blueprint for peace For Bashar Alshawwa, water is not just a basic need — it is both the heart of global inequality and the key to peace. After decades of occupation, exile and war, he is working to turn a weaponized res...

“Water no get enemy,” the Fela Kuti song goes. I’m reminded of it as I read @pacinthe.bsky.social's moving piece in @cangeo.bsky.social about Bashar Alshawwa and his work to protect what belongs to all.

canadiangeographic.ca/articles/wat...

Waterkeeper: how water can be a blueprint for peace For Bashar Alshawwa, water is not just a basic need — it is both the heart of global inequality and the key to peace. After decades of occupation, exile and war, he is working to turn a weaponized res...

Very proud of this feature, my first for @cangeo.bsky.social, published a few days ago on World Water Day: canadiangeographic.ca/articles/wat...

Waterkeeper: how water can be a blueprint for peace For Bashar Alshawwa, water is not just a basic need — it is both the heart of global inequality and the key to peace. After decades of occupation, exile and war, he is working to turn a weaponized res...

A terrific piece in @cangeo.bsky.social by @pacinthe.bsky.social

Thank you Adrian! Hope you’re well!

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."

Look, the “fraud” isn’t fraud, just “crime” isn’t crime. It’s a stand-in for race. To be nonwhite is to be fraudulent, just as it’s a crime to be nonwhite. The press does not have to accept this coded language. Reporters can say what the regime means.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

When It Matters Most, Student Journalists Are Showing Up | The Walrus Times are grim for the media industry. But young reporters are covering the stories that need to be told

“The student press also fulfilled one of the most important tenets of journalism: making sure those in power were being watched.”

Smart take by @pacinthe.bsky.social in @thewalrus.ca

thewalrus.ca/when-it-matt...

Thank you, sister!

On the left: an image of an arm holding up a microphone on a red background. On the right: text that reads “When it matters most, student journalists are showing up. Times are grim for the media industry. But young reporters are covering the stories that need to be told.”

The gutting of the media industry and harrowing realities facing journalists in Gaza have made it hard for @pacinthe.bsky.social to feel hopeful. In the student press, she's found a model for how to cover this moment with persistence, courage, and accountability. thewalrus.ca/when-it-matters-...

Thank you for coming!

Thank you for coming!

I am watching a session of @amnesty.ca 's Book Club tonight featuring @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social being interviewed by @pacinthe.bsky.social about his father Sen. Murray Sinclair's works.

Special @breachmedia.ca event in Toronto tonight, with 200+ guests to hear @desmondcole.bsky.social invu with @pacinthe.bsky.social and Sonya Fatah about the fab book “When Genocide Wasn’t News.” breachmedia.ca/when-genocid...

@pacinthe.bsky.social had gotten used to the way people walk stoically past each other in Toronto, careful not to interrupt their neighbours’ “highly practised aloneness together.” But in March, she did something that punctured that quiet: she adopted a dog. thewalrus.ca/dog-parks-are-th...

I love this! That’s so cute.

Great stuff as always from @pacinthe.bsky.social

I gotta agree. For me they haven't been polarizing (other than the one AI lovers vs AI haters discussion) but I've met a handful of people at the dog park at my girl's building that have turned into legitimate friends over the past 3 years.

LL Cool J, Jazmine Sullivan pull out of Philly July 4 concert due to workers strike The Philadelphia native has joined LL Cool J in pulling out of the Wawa Welcome America concert because of the city workers' strike.

Jazmine Sullivan and LL Cool J have both pulled out of performing at the Wawa Welcome America Fourth of July Concert in Philly in a show of solidarity with striking workers

Thank you sister Talin!!!!

Big congrats to my galpal @pacinthe.bsky.social and all the other Massey Fellows for 2025-26. @masseycollege.bsky.social

www.masseycollege.ca/2025/07/02/a...

When Genocide Wasn't News ⋆ The Breach When Genocide Wasn't NewsHow Canadian media covered up the destruction of GazaEdited by Martin Lukacs, Dania Majid and Jason ToneyAs Canadians bear witness to live-streamed ho

A war of annihilation is unfolding in Gaza, but you wouldn’t know it from Canada’s establishment media.

What they produce isn’t coverage—it’s a cover-up.

The Breach is publishing a new book, a call for truth-telling in journalism.

Order it here: breachmedia.ca/when-genocid...

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Amnesty Book Club Presents Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This YouTube video by Amnesty International Book Club

“Those are my kids. That's my kid on the roof of the fucking demolished building. It's your kid, too... Call me whatever the hell you want. I don't care. [It's the] wholesale slaughter of children. And I'm not going to be complicit in that." Omar El Akkad
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNmQ...

If you missed this excellent online discussion, you can watch the recording now via octopusbooks.ca/amnesty
@pacinthe.bsky.social @amnesty.ca

Event poster: a photo of author Omar El Akkad next to the cover of his book, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This".

Join @amnesty.ca for an online discussion with award-winning novelist & journalist Omar El Akkad, in conversation with host @pacinthe.bsky.social.

Sunday, May 4, 7pm ET
Register for the free Zoom presentation at octopusbooks.ca/amnesty

Beautiful Like the Moon by Pacinthe Mattar I’m a journalist. I use words to convey things that have been verified as true, observable, and rooted in reality. A requirement of journalism is that language be stripped of emotion, of opinions, of ...

Congrats to my former CBC colleague and “sister” @pacinthe.bsky.social for her nomination from @canadamediaawards.bsky.social for this moving , courageous essay tnq.ca/story/beauti...

Thank you, sister Talin!

*ahead of World Press Freedom Day! [May 3rd]