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Reporter covering international affairs for the @globeandmail jdickson @globeandmail .com

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Janice Dickson
7 months
“You should tell the world about women who are now in temporary occupied territories and in Russia. They’re still alive and they need our help.” Our story on Ukrainians sexually assaulted by Russian troops who occupied their villages. #Ukraine
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2 years
Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly says the force is now aware of “a significant element from the United States” in funding and organizing of the demonstrations. He said they have converged in the city and there “are plans for more to come” #cdnpoli
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3 years
I'm getting texts/voice notes from former Afghan employees who worked at Canada's embassy in Kabul. One man's voice is trembling as he says "please, please help us." Two former employees said they sold their homes and belongings thinking they would be evacuated.
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5 years
Andrew Scheer chose to attend the United We Roll rally but will not attend a single pride parade #cdnpoli
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5 years
Scheer won't march in Pride parades this year, but Conservatives say they fight for gay rights in 'many ways' via @mariedanielles #cdnpoli
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2 years
Protesters are singing and dancing in front of the police line. #ottawa #cdnpoli
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5 years
But how does anyone make the travel argument when Scheer scrums until we run out of questions on his plane?
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4 years
My twitter feed is full of people complaining about snow in April. It's tone deaf. 22 people were just killed in Canada's deadliest mass shooting, please continue to spare a thought for Nova Scotians.
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2 years
“The 239-page report says the ethnic cleansing campaign in Western Tigray has included murder, torture, rape, sexual slavery, enforced disappearances, widespread pillage of livestock and crops, looting and occupation of homes, and other crimes.” #Tigray
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2 years
Ethnic cleansing campaign in Western Tigray documented in new probe /via @globeandmail
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4 years
According to the lawsuit, Nygard "recruited, lured and enticed young, impressionable and often impoverished children and women, with cash payments and false promises of lucrative modeling opportunities to assault, rape and sodomize them."
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Janice Dickson
5 years
Wow, here's the msg from #DaughtersOfTheVote : "we are the women of Canada and we stand with Jody and Jane" #cdnpoli
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Kaitlyn
5 years
We are the woman of Canada and we stand with @Puglaas and @janephilpott 🇨🇦 #DaughtersOfCanada
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5 years
Jerry Dias defends Unifor's spot on Trudeau's media panel and in the next breath says he's going to ramp up his campaign against Scheer #cdnpoli
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Kristy Cameron
5 years
. @JerryPDias says he is not going to tone down his anti-Scheer campaign. "I'm probably going to make it worse. He's really irritating me the last few days." @EvanLSolomon #cdnpoli #ESS
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5 years
Yellow Vest members are commenting on this story on FB, one musing about pouring acid on the PM and another about putting his head on a pike. #cdnpoli
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5 years
RCMP ‘aware’ of comments made about Trudeau on Yellow Vest Facebook page /via @globeandmail #cdnpoli
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5 years
You can barely see him but Andrew Scheer is making his way through this energized crowd in North York #elxn43
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4 years
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is proposing sending $2,000 to *every* Canadian and an additional $250 per child. He says folks who do not need the extra support will pay it back later in taxes #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
5 years
. @UBCIC calls on PM Trudeau to "immediately and categorically publicly condemn the racist and sexist innuendo about Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould that is being spread by unnamed elected officials and staff of your government in media reports." #cdnpoli
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3 years
‘They just vanished’: Tigrayans disappear for months in secret Ethiopian detention camps /via @globeandmail
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5 years
Conservative MP Leona Alleslev said her former Liberal colleagues approach her in the washroom, on the escalator, on the bus to tell her how what she did was "despicable" and says she's been called a "traitor" #cdnpoli
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5 years
Wow. Jean-François Roberge tweeted that if Malala Yousafzai wanted to teach in Quebec, it would be an honour, but like in other “open and tolerant countries, teachers can’t wear religious symbols while they exercise their functions.”
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Quebec education minister says Malala can teach here if she removes headscarf
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2 years
Sloly repeats that "there may not be a policing solution to this demonstration." #cdnpoli
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5 years
I would say there are roughly 50 women with their backs to the PM right now #cdnpoli
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5 years
Trudeau leave House before MPs unanimously pass motion apologizing to Mark Norman #cdnpoli
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5 years
Last night I scrolled through the page to find people calling for a mosque in Alberta to be burned down or blown up. It was within the same hour as the news broke in New Zealand.
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1/2 The reactions to #Christchurch have started on #YellowVestsCanada . #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
3 years
This story points out that Liberal MPs on the National Defence committee had Michael Wernick removed from the witness list because of health reasons. Mr. Wernick told the Globe he is not aware of having any health issues, and would be willing to appear before committee. #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
3 years
The federal government will set up an independent body to investigate accusations of sexual misconduct, racism and discrimination in the military after facing criticism over how it handled allegations against top officials via @globeandmail #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
6 years
Thrilled to announce that I have accepted a contract position in the parliamentary bureau of The Canadian Press starting May 7. I will miss everyone at iPolitics and I am so grateful for the last three years here, but I’m very excited for new adventures with the CP team.
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Janice Dickson
2 years
Sloly says police cannot prevent more trucks from coming to the city this weekend.
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Janice Dickson
6 years
Civil Liberties Association urges Hussen to help Iranians get permanent residency via @ipoliticsca #cdpnoli #DelayedIranianApplications
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Janice Dickson
2 years
Good afternoon from Istanbul. I’m here for the @globeandmail , as part of its team covering Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Janice Dickson
8 months
"The text of the new trade deal in fact does not commit either Canada or Ukraine to a carbon tax, also known as a levy on fossil fuels. It merely says both sides are expected “to promote carbon pricing and measures to mitigate carbon leakage risks."
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Janice Dickson
8 months
Conservatives vote against upgraded Canada-Ukraine free trade deal, citing concerns over what they allege is ‘carbon tax’ in it /via @globeandmail
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Janice Dickson
5 years
I'm in court today on the Vice-Admiral Mark Norman matter, Marie Henein told the judge that after not receiving a single note from Michael Wernick, she received a 60 page memo from Wernick to PMJT that's been entirely redacted #cdnpoli
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5 years
Historica Canada is calling out the CPC for using a fake Heritage Minute, saying it does not approve of them being used for partisan political purposes. Demands CPC remove it from its platforms. #cdnpoli
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A statement on the fake "Heritage Minute" shared by @CPC_HQ and @AndrewScheer :
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Janice Dickson
3 years
Sexual violence being used as weapon of war in Ethiopia's Tigray, U.N. says
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Janice Dickson
3 years
Some personal news – I’m heading to Washington and then Berlin for the @ICFJ Arthur F. Burns fellowship. I will continue to write for the Globe, but I’m also joining Die Welt's foreign policy desk. Really looking forward to spending August and September in Berlin!
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Janice Dickson
5 years
A quick glance at Yellow Vest facebook pages show that post Mr. Wernick's comments, a whole lot more of those members are calling the PM a "traitor," with more than one member saying he should be "hung for treason" #cdnpoli
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5 years
This is the crowd gathered in the Quebec riding Laurier—Sainte-Marie waiting for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh #elxn43 #cdnpoli
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2 years
PMO readout says Trudeau spoke with Doug Ford and the PM "was clear that the preemptive use of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause is wrong and inappropriate, and should only ever be used in the most exceptional of circumstances." #cdnpoli
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh greets striking hotel workers outside the Westin #cdnpoli #elxn43
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Trucks and protester’s vehicles blanketed in snow on day 22 #cdnpoli #convoy
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Police making arrests on Waller #cdnpoli
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5 years
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh kicks off Election Day with a morning visit to his campaign office in Burnaby #elxn43 #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
7 years
In finance committee @PierrePoilievre asks @Bill_Morneau six times what year the budget will be balanced. Morneau repeats that their approach is working #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
5 years
Bernier promises to build border fences if elected PM #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
6 years
More than 200 Iranians report lengthy wait times for permanent residency via @ipoliticsca #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
6 years
I asked @AhmedDHussen about the backlog impacting #DelayedIranianApplications and he said he's "prepared to work harder on client services" but his understanding is that applications are in the security screening stage, so it's a q for @RalphGoodale
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Janice Dickson
2 years
Two terrible back to back nights in Dnipro, with two missile attacks Thursday and two more last night/early this morning. #Ukraine
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2 years
Two trucks and one large RV leave Wellington as police continue to clear the street #cdnpoli
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1 year
A Sudanese Canadian man travelled from Toronto to Egypt in May to meet his wife and stepson who fled Sudan, thinking it would take two weeks for them to get travel documents. Two months later, he's lost his job and is facing eviction.
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Janice Dickson
5 years
Criticism swift and mounting over Mary Ng’s photo of eating ice cream while two Canadians remain detained in the country #cdnpoli
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Erin O'Toole
5 years
'Let them eat ice cream...'--How incredibly out of touch considering the treatment of our citizens.
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Janice Dickson
4 years
Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips is vacationing on the Caribbean island of St. Barts, despite federal and provincial officials long urging Canadians to avoid non-essential travel and Ontario being in a lockdown to limit the spread of COVID-19 #onpoli
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Janice Dickson
4 years
This Canadian Senator Donated to Donald Trump’s Re-Election Effort, Violating Campaign Finance Laws via @Justin_Ling via @vice #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
5 years
In fact there are some troubling messages under the story about Wernick warning someone will be shot in the next campaign, with some saying "we can only hope" and others saying "we could only wish" etc. #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
5 years
. @AndrewScheer says in a release that @JustinTrudeau should use his visit to the Canadian Force's base in Petawawa today to "come clean about his political interference in the Vice Admiral Mark Norman trial." #cdnpoli
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5 years
Hundreds of supporters gathered at Oak Bay high school in Victoria waiting for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh #cdnpoli #elxn43
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3 years
Why Do We Let Corporations Profit From Rape Videos?
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3 years
“I’ve no problem with consensual adults making porn,” says a Canadian student. “Who cares?” “The problem is that many people in pornographic videos weren’t consenting adults. Like her.” Via @NickKristof
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3 years
Why Do We Let Corporations Profit From Rape Videos?
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Janice Dickson
5 years
. @RonaAmbrose private member's bill requiring sexual assault education for judges finally passed the Senate constitutional affairs committee, with a few amendments, after a long night of debate and hearing from witnesses #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
2 years
The scene in front of Parliament right now #cdnpoli
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2 years
RCMP charge four men with plotting to murder officers in connection with Coutts border protest /via @globeandmail
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2 years
Before Russia's invasion, these young Ukrainians organized bar crawls and parties. Now they're bringing that spirit to the hard job of cleaning up homes destroyed by Russian shelling. We spent Saturday afternoon with them in Chernihiv @begemotus_ #Ukraine
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Janice Dickson
9 years
Mark Critch launches "u are a tool" Twitter campaign against Paul Calandra: http://t.co/NsP3350mRt #cdnpoli #elxn42 http://t.co/gan9gPEZ6w
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Janice Dickson
4 years
Hundreds of Canadians and permanent residents are frustrated by the length of time it is taking to bring their spouses to Canada as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced visa offices to close and application processing has slowed via @globeandmail #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
2 years
In hotels across Islamabad, Afghans who worked for Canada's military mission in Afghanistan continue to wait to come to Canada. Their kids always say “e-mail” not knowing what it means, but understanding that after people get them, they go to Canada.
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Janice Dickson
2 years
Getting very tense here as police just pushed further, they’re playing a recording now telling people to leave or they will be arrested
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Janice Dickson
5 years
. @theJagmeetSingh tells delegates: "if anyone says you're being difficult for speaking truth to power, you're not being difficult, you're being courageous." #cdnpoli
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Janice Dickson
7 years
Preston Manning tells Tory caucus in an email to stop attacking concept of carbon pricing: #cdnpoli
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Scheer says he would launch inquiry into SNC-Lavalin affair if elected /via @globeandmail #cdnpoli #elxn43
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Janice Dickson
6 years
I am excited and honoured to say that @chantaldasliva and I have been awarded a Migration Media Award for our reporting on refugees living in Athens and Lesvos. This award includes a grant to return to Greece to continue our reporting on this important issue.
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