Sharif Hassan

Reporter at the Canadian Press. Formerly with WaPo & NYT

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

As media freedom declines globally, it appears that a growing community of exiled journalists from around the world are choosing #Canada, particularly #Toronto area, as a home and hub to hold powerful in their home countries accounable.
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[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

#MSF says it was "outraged" after a large number of women, including one of its own female employees, were arrested by Talib religious police in #Herat, #Afg, in the past week. It says the Talibs also violently dispersed a demonstration Tuesday, injuring several protesters.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

devastating news out of #Mapleton, #Ontario, where five children were tragically killed in a two-vehicle crash Friday night. Five others were also seriously injured in the incident.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

Cheers erupted at Ajax watch party after #Canada scored the equalizer against #Bosnia.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

Big day in #Toronto as #Canada is set to take on #Bosnia 🇧🇦 who knocked out Italy 🇮🇹 in the qualifying stage.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

Are #Knicks playing great this season or it is all #Mamdani’s good luck charm?

Game 4—Knicks won 107-106 after a record-breaking comeback

Game 3— #Spurs won 115-111

Game 2–Knicks defeated Spurs 105-104

Game—Knicks won 105-95

What is your prediction of Game 5 of #NBA_Final?

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

gun salute in honour of #Canada’s new governor general. #Ottawa

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

#Iraqi prime minister Ali Falih Al-Zaidi announces three days of national mourning after the death of grand ayatollah Mohammad Ishaq Al-Fayyad, one of the highest-ranking #Shia clerics in the holy city of Najaf. Al-Fayyad was born in #Afghanistan in 1930.
انالله واناالیه راجعون

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

Federal NDP leader is urging Ottawa to cancel its nearly $50 million contract with Palantir, calling it a "creepy company" which is "deeply embedded in the scariest activities...mass deportations and lawless assassinations....genocide and war crimes."

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Palantir is deeply embedded in the scariest activities of the Trump regime – enabling everything from mass deportations and lawless assassinations in international waters to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes.

CEO Alex Karp’s recent online manifesto is a truly disturbing, supremacist screed. One UK MP said it “sounds like the ramblings of a supervillain.”

The city of London, England recently canceled a contract with Palantir.

Why is Canada handing nearly $50 million in public money to this creepy company?

Doing business through a secretive contract with this MAGA-aligned tech giant is totally incompatible with the Prime Minister’s promise to defend Canadian sovereignty.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

Speaking at a #Toronto synygogue Monday, PM Carney announced a new council that would study the surge in antisemitism.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

from 1940s until 1980s, hundreds of thousands unmarried mothers were forced or coerced to give up their newborn children for adoption. Decades later, mothers and advocates are calling on #Canada’s federal govt to formally apologize for its role.

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[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

I am not a catholic but i think Pope Leo is a light in a sea of darkness.Few religious leaders around the world can match his courage & moral clarity. He takes a stand against unjust wars, unregulated AI, economic inequality &even criticizes the role of his own church in slavery.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

happy #Eidul_Adha to every Muslim around the world.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

#Toronto's most vulnerable residents -- the homeless people -- have been facing escalating violence at the hands of security guards at Union Station ahead of World Cup tournament.
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[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

@tameemafg i am okay. but yours was already burnt, so hard that when you saw my post, you couldn’t stop yourself from replying. and your burns became more severe when you saw my response about your baba.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

@sayedsalahuddin Iran war has devastated the region and impacted billions of people globally. So, ending it would be a huge achievement.

Internally, Pak is fine.

And Im pretty sure Pak will make peace with its neighbors as soon as they stop claiming over half of the country’s territory.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

#NYC mayor Mamdani has secured 1,000 World Cup tickets for New Yorkers that can be purchased at just $50 each. Mayor Chow of #Toronto should take note. She can negotiate an ever better deal with FIFA because thousands of tickets are still unsold in her city.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

#Bangladeshi Trump

via AFP

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

@lynnekodonnell Afg military, trained by US, gave the coordinates& it is equally egregious that no one was held accountable within the republic. But what makes the conversation about the coordinates complicated is that MSF had already shared its location details with US 4 days before the attack.

[Sharif Hassan @MSharif1990]

Guess, how many US military officials were charged for airstrike on MSF hospital in #Kunduz? ZERO. I dont why people even think that Pentagon would investigate itself impartially and then hold its own officers who carried out the horrific attack on #Minab school accountable?

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

"I do not trust that answer."

Admiral Brad Cooper says the investigation into an alleged U.S. airstrike on an Iranian school is "complex" and that the school is "located on an active IRGC cruise missile base".

The strike killed more than 150 people - including 120 children - in Minab on the first day of the war.

#IranWar #Minabschoolbombing