Ben Okazawa

formerly: @exclaimdotca @blogto | bylines: @cbc @repasianproject + more | 🇯🇵🇨🇦

[Ben Okazawa @OkazawaBen]

Late thread of some untweeted work from 2022:

For my final-year practicum, I interviewed Olympic gold medallist Carol Huynh, who told me about her struggle with mental health and self-worth after the 2008 Olympics.

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[CBC News @CBCNews]

The Loblaw grocery chain overcharged customers by selling underweighted meat across 80 stores for an undisclosed period that ended in December 2023, a CBC News investigation has found. https://t.co/2Xulchv0Ki

[Ben Okazawa @OkazawaBen]

@armenzarg Would’ve loved Huskies

[Ben Okazawa @OkazawaBen]

@rdassaly She knows ball

[Richie Assaly @rdassaly]

Devastating read, almost impossible to fathom

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

A group of armed Israelis shot a Palestinian merchant in Jerusalem over the displays in his store, including a Palestinian map. Stories like this, of Palestinians being terrorized, don’t make a blip in Western media.

Video: @samiaah10

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

A Palestinian youth weeps as he prays after losing 9 members of his family in the Israeli occupation's massacres in Gaza.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

From the Instagram of UNICEF spokesman James Elder:

[RJPrime27🦉 @MuseBarnes]

On this day (June 13, 2019) the Toronto Raptors won their first NBA championship.
https://t.co/537a9UhYZ1

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨UN finds evidence of systematic Israeli sexual violence against Gazan women, CHILDREN & men!

Women being stripped down to their underwear & sexually harassed while male relatives are forced to watch

Female soldier forced boys to dance semi-naked & filmed them while laughing🧵

[Mr. Chung @RdotChung]

Today on the show -
@TeriHart is back
And making their @CommotionCBC debuts @OkazawaBen & @KBTHEBOSS_

We talk:
Alec Baldwin’s new reality
CRTC’s new streaming rules
And yes…Wha Gwan Delilah…

11am EST (Half Hour in Newfoundland)
https://t.co/iBBggXZvyN

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The New York Times reports Israeli military is torturing people by impaling them with hot metal rods in their rectums and tying them to electric chairs. This information is buried at the end of a single article where these details are unmentioned in the headline or subheadline.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Israel is RAPING kidnapped Gazans in the Sde Teiman prison camp

A Gazan died after penetration by an electric stick

A female IDF officer ordered the rape of a senior Gazan nurse

A UN worker forced to sit on a "hot metal stick"

This is the 4th report of IDF rape this year🧵

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

“No soap, sanitiser, or linen..Patients were on plastic sheets that were disintegrating, lying in pools of blood & nothing to change them on. People had explosive injuries..& we were giving them Tylenol & Ibuprofen for an arm that’s been Blown off, or burns to 30% of their body”

[ash 🍉 @StevieNicksTD]

"Palestinian civilians can return to their homes in Gaza"

The homes in Gaza:

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

I can’t believe what I just read…

[Evan Dyer @EvanDyerCBC]

Much has been said about bombing in Gaza, but less about the way IDF uses smaller weapons.
Here’s an IDF tanker spraying MG fire without looking or caring where it goes.
7.62 rounds can penetrate walls and can travel 4km+. This soldier also doesn’t appear to be under fire.

[Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine @nour_odeh]

There are no tents for those who survived the massacre in Rafah. They have no where to go. 1000s others who were displaced from Rafah northward are also still without tents. All have no access to water, sanitation or health services. The conditions of life are simply not there.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

The IDF posted this 1 hour ago. Huh.

[Yakup Ekmen @Yakupekmn]

Israeli occupation forces massacred nearly a hundred innocent civilians who took refuge in Rafah, thinking it was safe. This is genocide!

#RafahUnderAttack‌
#RafahMassacre