Alison Masemann

@EllaRoseJoyner Hi Ella -- hoping to connect from CBC Radio, re a poss interview re EU and tariffs. Also sent a message via your website -- I'm at alison.masemann@cbc.ca

@NatashaMarrian I'm a producer with Canadian radio, hoping to connect with you re a possible interview with our programme next week on SA and US tariffs. I'm at alison.masemann@cbc.ca -- hope to hear from you!

@agmutambo HI Aggrey -- I'm a producer at CBC Radio in Toronto -- hoping to connect re a possible interview re US/Kenya relations and tariffs -- could we connect? alison.masemann@cbc.ca

US to shut down diplomatic missions in several African countries: "The Department is bloated, bureaucratic, and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this new era of great power competition.... "Over the past 15 years, the Department’s footprint has had unprecedented growth and costs have soared. But far from seeing a return on investment, taxpayers have seen less effective and efficient diplomacy. The sprawling bureaucracy created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America’s core national interests...." state.gov/building-an-am…

📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement:

BREAKING: The Canadian Anthem is now blasting on speakers outside the White House.

Google has just removed Pride Month and Black History Month from the calendar app. This comes as they obeyed Trump by changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to “Gulf of America.”

This is an official White House account pushing out this message.

Boos ringing out during the US national anthem here ahead of the Clippers-Raptors game

Leavitt just claimed fentanyl ODs have killed tens of millions of Americans. Bad as fentanyl deaths have been, that's overstating the number by at least 2000%. But no one cares, because it's just accepted that they're going to make numbers up.

I was interested in the origin of this "$50M for Gaza condoms" comes from. In FY 2023, USAID spent about $45.7M on oral and injectable contraceptives for the Middle East, and it entirely went to Jordan.

Just listening to @AC360 @jamiegangel & @CNN panel covering Jimmy Carter's funeral suggest all leaders who served w the late President have passed away - which is not actually true, bc the youngest PM in #Cdnpoli history @RtHonJoeClark is certainly there to honour Mr. Carter 🇨🇦🇺🇸

Why Greenland? Here's why.

Very proud of our @bbcworldservice teams who have launched live radio service for Syria just days after the fall of Assad. In English and Arabic, 8 hours a day on MW and FM. A true lifeline for a country emerging from a nightmare. Thanks to colleagues across @BBCNews

Here is Nova Scotia's Covid-19 update for Dec.1st to Dec.7th. Cases up drastically, hospitalizations, ICU and death backlog high again. Situation is critical. Hospitals are asking people to not come to the hospital. #NovaScotia #novascotiacovidupdate

This is my old uni paper too. Definitely not cool.

Latest numbers: across the seven battleground states, the '20-'24 swing towards Trump was ~3.1 pts. Across the other 43 states (+DC), it was ~6.7 pts. Bottom line: the Harris campaign swam impressively against some very strong underlying currents.

Martin Sheen getting the crowd singing “America The Beautiful” before last night’s rally with #MichelleObama and ⁦@aliciakeys⁩ .

A student journalist broke one of the biggest stories in the final days of the presidential election