Mark MacKinnon
@markmackinnon
Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing). Add me to your top-secret group chats!
Ottawa follows the EU and sanctions Streit Group, a Canadian manufacturer of military vehicles accused of helping arm Putin’s war machine (as well as an assortment of other repressive regimes). @stevenchase.bsky.social and I recently reported on the company www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
After Ukraine struck an Iranian ship, and Tehran reportedly considered retaliating with a ballistic missile, I’m thinking today about this quote from @jaroslavabarbieri.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Five years later, I still wonder how many desperate phone calls and text messages went astray because of Canada's national inability to understand that you need to put a +1 in front of your phone number if you want someone outside the country to be able to call you...
Today’s front page of @theglobeandmail.com - the World Cup, summer books, and the trenches of eastern Ukraine… www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Life in Kharkiv - the air raid alarm has been on for 3.5 hours, and it’s the ninth alarm of the day…
Riga - the pink building in the background (almost obscured by the Ukrainian flags) is the Russian embassy…
This was an amazing honour, even as receiving a “career achievement” award made me feel old! Huge thanks to everyone at World Press Freedom Canada.
Stunning David Blumenfeld photo on the cover of today’s @theglobeandmail.com Inside is my long read on how Israel’s radical settlers feel Trump and Netanyahu are helping them achieve their dream of a “Greater Israel”… www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
In other news, Zelensky says Belarus is getting ready to enter the war on Russia’s side…
Israel’s Channel 13 with a countdown clock to Trump’s 8 pm EST deadline for Iran to either make a deal or “a whole civilization will die tonight”…
About 100 people (by my count) at anti-war protest taking place in Jerusalem right now. Not massive, but brave given that police have already cracked down on a larger peace demonstration in Tel Aviv this evening…
Day 34 of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran. (Taken near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Pretty sure the giant metal tube is part of an Iranian ballistic missile that was fired towards nearby Jerusalem…)
What a photo by AP's Hassan Ammar in Beirut. If you're friends with the Cleo-Dent model, please get this framed for her...
“Precision.” What a curious word for the BBC to use to describe a campaign that has killed more than 1,400 Iranians… The statistics on the right are from the Iranian Health Ministry (via Al-Jazeera).
The Iranian regime is “totally decapitated”! Please send help. “We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability.” But please send help.
Current scene looking over the Dahiya after Israel ordered an evacuation of the entire southern suburbs of Beirut. Note the epic traffic jam trying to get out, and people gathering on foot in the parking lot of the soccer stadium. Gunfire is Hezbollah fighters warning people to keep moving…
I can’t decide what’s more baffling - the fact that the IMF paid someone to deliver this very obvious conclusion, or the fact that the NYT thought it worthy of a news alert…
Proud that the whole @theglobeandmail.com team got recognized in today’s paper
The Russian-speakers of Donbas are being persecuted. Lenin invented Ukraine.