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Urbi Khan

@urbykahn

journaliste • managing editor @throughfood_ 📩: [email protected] • Signal: urbikhan.13 https://teapawt.org/t.co/xvxFmMGO7d

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Joined May 2012
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My nanu passed away in November and I felt my life, my entire self shift. I sat down to write for nanu, to say goodbye to her and remember her life and process her death the only way I know how to. Here is a bit of that story: thestar.com/opinion/2021/12/…
Urbi Khan: How I learned to grieve the death of my grandma, across the world

Urbi Khan: How I learned to grieve the death of my grandma, across the world

The wound of a loved one’s death during the COVID-19 pandemic will bleed for a long time when funeral rituals have been condensed or completely shuttered. Urbi Khan remembers her nanu, Nadira Khanum.

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Our other debut story: Nurses are burning out while hospital CEOs rake in millions. @birgitomo sat down with @throughfood_ over a Nigerian meal to talk about Canada’s health care crisis and why nurses are fighting back. youtu.be/ZfGRL1uMdRs?si=Ri-2…
Why Canada’s Nurses Are Fed Up | through food

Why Canada’s Nurses Are Fed Up | through food

Nurses in Canada, like Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi, know firsthand how a...

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Introducing @throughfood_ — our new platform exploring the people and systems shaping what we eat. One of our first stories: From the occupied West Bank, Abbas Milhem shares how farming is a form of resistance. youtube.com/watch?v=SXgAYw16… 🧵
Who Gets to Grow Food in Palestine? | through food

Who Gets to Grow Food in Palestine? | through food

Abbas Milhem has devoted his life to fighting for the land he farms...

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As executive director of the Palestinian Farmers' Union, Abbas has spent his life advocating for land, dignity, and the right to grow. Israeli settler violence, threats, and land grabs haven’t stopped him and other Palestinian farmers.
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@nathan_sing sat with Abbas over taboon bread, za’atar, olive oil, and local produce to talk farming under occupation — and the unshakable will to stay rooted. 📹hosted, directed & edited by @nathan_sing 📋produced by @urbykahn
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🍽️ We all see the world through food.  → through food is a grassroots media platform exploring the people, systems, and stories shaping what we eat. 🌐 For 100% independent reportage on the global food system →  head to throughfood.org
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Nurses are burning out while hospital CEOs rake in millions. I sat down with @throughfood_ over a comforting Nigerian meal to talk about Canada’s health care crisis and why nurses are fighting back. through food explores the people, systems and stories shaping what we eat.
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Watch the full conversation with @throughfood_ here: youtube.com/watch?v=ZfGRL1uM…
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Plastics plants are being allowed to emit benzene into the air at levels over 400 times higher than provincial guidelines in Ontario's infamous "Chemical Valley" thanks to "site-specific standards": thenarwhal.ca/ontario-air-po… #Ontario #Canada
How Ontario allows industry to evade air pollution rules | The Narwhal

How Ontario allows industry to evade air pollution rules | The Narwhal

A ‘broken’ environmental permit system often cuts the public out of decision-making and allows industry to monitor its own air pollution, experts say

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The communities we live and work in, from Scarborough to Mississauga, are being affected without us being aware of the environmental impact of factories operating in our neighbourhoods. I've worked, run programming and hung out in the same neighbourhood without knowing as well
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Residents in the Greater Toronto Area had no idea a company operating in their community uses a known carcinogen. We dug into it in a massive investigation with @TheLocal_TO, @balkissoon writes in this week’s newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-ste…
Why we dug into Sterigenics and its use of carcinogens | The Narwhal

Why we dug into Sterigenics and its use of carcinogens | The Narwhal

Greater Toronto Area residents had no idea a company operating in their community uses a known carcinogen. We dug into it with The Local

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This very important investigative story was brought to life through groundbreaking work by @KupermanLeah and @urbykahn, who uncovered critical insights into a factory using a known carcinogen. The problem is that local residents had no idea. thenarwhal.ca/sterigenics-mi…
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It's World Press Freedom Day. And nobody deserves our respect, solidarity and admiration today more than the brave and determined journalists of Gaza. We would be blind without them and they are the best of us.
Image from Barry Malone (@malonebarry)
Image from Barry Malone (@malonebarry)
Image from Barry Malone (@malonebarry)
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Residents in the Greater Toronto Area had no idea a company operating in their community uses a known carcinogen. We dug into it in a massive investigation with @TheLocal_TO, @balkissoon writes in this week’s newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-ste…
Why we dug into Sterigenics and its use of carcinogens | The Narwhal

Why we dug into Sterigenics and its use of carcinogens | The Narwhal

Greater Toronto Area residents had no idea a company operating in their community uses a known carcinogen. We dug into it with The Local

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Sterigenics is an Ohio medical-supply company that has been sued by people who say they developed cancer because of ethylene oxide exposure. Now they're setting up in Mississauga AND NOBODY KNOWS. As someone who regularly frequents the area, I am horrified thenarwhal.ca/sterigenics-mi…
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This story is such a good example of why public service journalism matters. A huge lift to show how industry is impacting human health, and why residents likely don’t know it’s happening.
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In the U.S., Sterigenics has agreed to pay out over US$400M after allegations its facilities' emissions are linked to cancer. Do Scarborough and Mississauga residents know what Sterigenics has been up to near their homes? An investigation with @thelocalto: thenarwhal.ca/sterigenics-mi…
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"Everywhere this chemical is, there’s a cloud of death. There’s a cloud of sickness." The details of this story are nuts. Just incredible, diligent, public service investigative work here by @KupermanLeah and @urbykahn thenarwhal.ca/sterigenics-mi…
The Mississauga factory using a known carcinogen | The Narwhal

The Mississauga factory using a known carcinogen | The Narwhal

High levels of ethylene oxide were detected near a now-closed Scarborough plant owned by Sterigenics, which has agreed to pay over US$400 million to claimants alleging cancer in the U.S. The company...

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Wild how few enforceable regulations there are around emissions here. And wild that almost nobody these reporters spoke to knew a company (which is paying $400M to people claiming it caused cancer in the US!) is using a carcinogen in their neighbourhood. thelocal.to/sterigenics-ethy…
A Mississauga Factory Is Using a Known Carcinogen. Residents Had No Idea | The Local

A Mississauga Factory Is Using a Known Carcinogen. Residents Had No Idea | The Local

High levels of ethylene oxide were detected near a now-closed Scarborough plant owned by Sterigenics, which has agreed to pay over US$400 million to claimants alleging cancer in the U.S. The company...

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There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our @columbiajourn students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement-… @PulitzerPrizes
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I'm from Scarborough and my mom has had cancer twice. So when @KupermanLeah and @urbykahn pitched this story, about a company using a carcinogenic chemical that moved from Scarb to Mississauga, I knew the @thenarwhalca had to tell it, with @TheLocal_TO. thenarwhal.ca/sterigenics-mi…
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Ethylene oxide is a known carcinogen. This medical sterilization company used it in Scarborough—then moved to Mississauga. An joint investigation with @thenarwhalca by @urbykahn and @KupermanLeah thelocal.to/sterigenics-ethy…
A Mississauga Factory Is Using a Known Carcinogen. Residents Had No Idea | The Local

A Mississauga Factory Is Using a Known Carcinogen. Residents Had No Idea | The Local

High levels of ethylene oxide were detected near a now-closed Scarborough plant owned by Sterigenics, which has agreed to pay over US$400 million to claimants alleging cancer in the U.S. The company...

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In the U.S., Sterigenics has agreed to pay out over US$400M after allegations its facilities' emissions are linked to cancer. Do Scarborough and Mississauga residents know what Sterigenics has been up to near their homes? An investigation with @thelocalto: thenarwhal.ca/sterigenics-mi…
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