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Jessica Leeder

@jessleeder

🇨🇦 Storyteller + wife + mom (👧🏼👦🏻🦮🐈). new fiction in progress. Former Globe and Mail Atlantic Bureau Chief. Walrus. https://xitter.cf/t.co/vOrCCMMHam

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“Women in New Brunswick aren’t treated like women in the rest of Canada.” Read why in a new @thewalrus piece from me on the duel over preventing v providing abortions in NB. So grateful to see this out in the world (and the issue back in court soon 🤞🏻).
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@thewalrus3 Aug 2021
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From the September/October edition of The Walrus, read @jessleeder’s reported piece “One Doctor’s Fight to Provide Abortion Care in New Brunswick” here: thewalrus.ca/one-doctors-fig… 6/6

One Doctor’s Fight to Provide Abortion Care in New Brunswick

Decades after Henry Morgentaler started offering his services, doctors are still struggling to help their patients

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It’s flattering to see @nytimes rewrite my feature on two Canadian men switched at birth. You can read the original, exclusively reported @globeandmail story I took months to research and write as a former freelancer here theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
A hospital’s mistake left two men estranged from their heritages. Now they fight for answers

A hospital’s mistake left two men estranged from their heritages. Now they fight for answers

In 1955, a Manitoba hospital sent Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose home with the wrong families. After DNA tests revealed the mix-up, both want an explanation and compensation

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@nytimes3 Aug 2023
Two Canadian men who were switched at birth to families of different ethnicities are now questioning who they really are and learning how racial heritage shapes identities. nyti.ms/3qedVZp
Switched at Birth, Two Canadians Discover Their Roots at 67 (Published 2023)

Switched at Birth, Two Canadians Discover Their Roots at 67 (Published 2023)

Two Canadian men who were switched at birth to families of different ethnicities are now questioning who they really are and learning how racial heritage shapes identities.

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Scott Belton@scott_belton3 Mar 2023
This is absolutely 100% right.
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@RachelBitecofer3 Mar 2023
“What you’re telling me is that you don’t mind infringing on free speech to protect children from [drag shows] but when it comes to kids who have died from guns, you don’t give a flying f.”
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Scott Belton@scott_belton21 Feb 2023
Byline for Isla Belton….joins @jessleeder in the pro journo ranks? 🗞️ 📰
BlueJaysClassroom (@thinkBIGkids) profile pictureBlueJaysClassroom@thinkBIGkids21 Feb 2023
Check out our class opinions on election signs on InsideHalton! insidehalton.com/opinion-sto…
Should election signs be banned in Oakville?

Should election signs be banned in Oakville?

The following opinion pieces are from Karen Montgomery’s Grade 6 class at New Central Public School, and were inspired by a recent article in the Oakville Beaver.

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CORRECTION: @berrygrounds won his case in the Newfoundland Court of Appeal, as @jessleeder reported at the time: theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… #cdnmedia #cdnpoli

In landmark decision, Newfoundland appeal court judge lays out criteria for journalist protections...

In a unanimous decision thought to be the first of its kind in Canada, the court overruled a trial judge’s earlier decision to uphold contempt of court charges against journalist Justin Brake

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sariibaby@Bruce_sari2213 Feb 2023
It’s been roughly seven years from concept to completion for me to hold this book! What a feeling! I can’t wait to share it. #leavinggoodthingsbehind @McClellandBooks @PenguinRandomCA
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Jana G. Pruden@jana_pruden22 Dec 2022
Journalists rely on so many people to help us report and tell important stories. Sharif Sharaf and Mukhtar Amiri worked with @globeandmail in Afghanistan, then escaped the Taliban to come to Canada. This is a fundraiser to help them and their families: gofundme.com/f/sharif-sharaf…
Donate to Sharif Sharaf and Mukhtar Amiri, organized by The Globe and Mail

Donate to Sharif Sharaf and Mukhtar Amiri, organized by The Globe and Mail

This fundraiser is for Sharif Sharaf and Mukhtar Amiri on behalf of The Globe and M… The Globe and Mail needs your support for Sharif Sharaf and Mukhtar Amiri

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A beautiful, heart-wrenching read @chelsea_murray ❤️
Chelsea Murray (@chelsea_murray) profile pictureChelsea Murray@chelsea_murray14 Dec 2022
The first thing I've published since the before times is also one of the most personal things I've written. Thanks to @Hazlitt and @haleycullingham for giving this piece a home. hazlitt.net/longreads/best-w…
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Zoe Greenberg@zoegreenberg6 Dec 2022
I was sexually assaulted when I was 16. this summer, @PenguinRandomCA published a memoir by one of my assailants claiming my rape was consensual. now I'm ready to share my story: link.medium.com/h9k3cvTsxvb #MeToo #leahmclaren #nonfiction #survivorvoices
Penguin Random House published a memoir by one of my assailants claiming my rape was consensual

Penguin Random House published a memoir by one of my assailants claiming my rape was consensual

When the media enable authors to conceal credible allegations against them, it isn’t only individual survivors that they harm.

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Kids and adults alike waved, cheered and scrambled to get selfies with the star of the annual Christmas parade in downtown St. John's, N.L., on Sunday morning. atlantic.ctvnews.ca/a-bologn…
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One of the most helpful things you can do for someone who is anxious is remind them that they have not let you down or disappointed you, that whatever they were able to bring was enough. The amount of time we spend doubting this very important truth is a lot.
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Kate McKenna@katemckenna824 Sep 2022
I’ve watched a lot of live hits today, but this might be the best demonstration of the Magdalen Islands winds so far 😂 Posted by Sven Meier, reposted with his permission.
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An intimate, wrenching, important read by ⁦@reporteremma⁩: The harrowing, heartbreaking reality of terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons - The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Opinion: The harrowing, heartbreaking reality of terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons

Opinion: The harrowing, heartbreaking reality of terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons

Thousands of Canadian women receive grim diagnoses of life-limiting fetal anomalies each year, and yet terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons is rarely discussed

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Milestone day: my first #shortstory The Instructions is now live @epiphanylit: epiphanyzine.com/features/20… #abortion #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #canlit #fictionsharefriday #fiction #mybodymychoice
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John Ibbitson@JohnIbbitson26 Jul 2022
The Globe is hiring a new columnist. It’s the best job in Canadian journalism. If you think you have what it takes, run don’t walk to apply. Reporter, Opinion (Editorial) - Career Portal can62e2.dayforcehcm.com/Cand…
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Jane Gerster@Jane_Gerster11 Jul 2022
If so many of us feel poisoned by our products, might there be something wrong with them? If the goal of journalism is to inform people, where is the evidence it is working? washingtonpost.com/opinions/… via @washingtonpost
Opinion | I stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or the product?

Opinion | I stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or the product?

Today’s news, even high-quality print news, is not designed for humans. How do we fix it?

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@thewalrus29 Jun 2022
It is easy to assume that accessing abortion care is no longer a problem in Canada—the procedure was fully decriminalized in 1988. But, as @jessleeder reports, the battle to provide access in New Brunswick is still ongoing. thewalrus.ca/one-doctors-fig…

One Doctor’s Fight to Provide Abortion Care in New Brunswick

Decades after Henry Morgentaler started offering his services, doctors are still struggling to help their patients

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@thewalrus26 May 2022
The Walrus has an opening for an associate editor to commission and edit features on a wide range of topics for our website and print magazine. Details here: thewalrus.ca/about/careers/ #journojobs
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“When you tell lactating parents there is “no cost” to breastfeeding, what you mean is their time, their work, their physical and mental health have no value.” apple.news/A4_oCwfDPTO-UjytX…
The many, many costs of breastfeeding

The many, many costs of breastfeeding

Breastfeeding isn’t free — and it isn’t a solution to the national baby formula shortage.

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Jana G. Pruden@jana_pruden12 May 2022
Dr. Carmel Harrington lost her baby to SIDS, and spent the next 29 years trying to understand why he died. Now, she and her team of researchers have an answer. biospace.com/article/researc…
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A good day to read @jessleeder’s story on the lack of abortion access in New Brunswick. It’s also just been nominated for a National Magazine Award for long-form feature writing. #NMA22 thewalrus.ca/one-doctors-fig…
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