Mitch Potter

Writer of things for the Toronto Star. Past postings to J'lem, London, DC. Started as journo when cut/paste involved glue/scissors.
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[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

Accidentally tripped over this gem from @TorontoStar archives while researching something else. Banting & Best (the latter only 23), experiment obsessively day & night in sweltering lab, sleep beside their work, discover insulin. What a gift to humanity.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Iran’s top security official said the Strait of Hormuz would not reopen until the U.S. met a sweeping list of demands, including withdraw the U.S. military from around Iran, pay war reparations and release frozen Iranian assets. https://t.co/D731AnzqFr

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

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[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

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[Majd khalaf (مجد خلف) @majdkhalaf1993]

The #WhiteHelmets heroes saved her
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[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

@TessKalinowski Aw jeez, you fine people. Thanks. @jleerankin @RMadonik (BTW that's ultra-prepared Rick "Two Of Everything" Madonik wearing about 1/10th of his usual Afghan kit).

[Canada's CPHO @CPHO_Canada]

4/4 This early sign of reassurance from BC should spur all Canadians to keep up with our new habit of #PhysicalDistancing, despite the disruptions and hardships. #StayHomeSavesLives #FlattentheCurve #PlanktheCurve

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

@lauraarmy All good except for our live-in kleptomaniac, Fritz The Pup.

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

Note to Canada: when we get through this, let's name schools, hospitals, airports and everything else after the selfless heroes who got us there.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

#Breaking: At least thirteen Toronto health care professionals — doctors, nurses and long term care workers — have tested positive for COVID-19, according to Toronto Public Health. https://t.co/Oljuk0SeUw

[Jeff Rider @gazette_gamer]

Here's an early look at Sunday's @wvgazettemail. Good stuff throughout from @caitycoyne @RyanEQuinn @LaciePierson @PhilKabler @rsteelhammer @GazMailOutdoors and more.

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

"Mr. President -- First, allow me to congratulate you on the all-time-records tens of thousands of reporters who've come to see you today. Far more reporters than ever gathered for Obama."

[Weijia Jiang @weijia]

Former @PressSec @seanspicer is in the @newsmax seat for Trump’s upcoming briefing... in the role of a reporter. #Coronavirus

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

@ShreeParadkar @ColinDMello @RitikaGoelTO 2020 through the lens of 1942. Lets make ventilators for all who need them.

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

Update: Thanks all for sharing, it helped Hadi get traction! He is now wheel's up for Canada, rejoining his wife & kids in Regina.

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

Hey world, please share -- Can anyone help our Libyan friend @HadiNaser? He's trapped tonight en route from Canada to Libya, stuck in the empty international transit zone at Brussels airport. Can't go forward, can't go back, as borders slam shut. Hasn't slept in 35 hours. Stuck.

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

@Spartacussin @FidelCatsro @HadiNaser There's a lot of livelihoods on the line at the company he founded, I can understand how he felt need to race back to meet those responsibilities. Yes his wife is Canadian citizen. She's trying to get Ottawa's attention, I am told.

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

@CarsinLanesTO @tomhanks Ask him after he's slept maybe? He's not a source for epidemiology, he's a web developer (and the least political guy I know in the Middle East). But incredibly welcoming, provided major help to traveling @TorontoStar reporters over the years.

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

Hey @RMadonik -- Hadi is such a standup guy -- and the reason we were able to slip so smoothly to Benghazi during the Libyan uprising. He smoothed the way from Tripoli, led us to @muttardi.

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

Hadi sent this of his current location. He's literally the only person in the transit zone in Brussels. @tomhanks could probably turn this into a movie when he gets better. Oh wait ...

[Mitch Potter @MPwrites]

Hadi was in Regina with his (Canadian) wife and kids, visiting family. He was flying back to Tripoli via Tunis to get back to work at his IT company, @LibyanSpider. He's got a staff of 50 there. Then border slammed shut. Denied boarding to Tunis, tried to reroute. No way home.