Sarah Lawrynuik
@sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social
Audio correspondent @economist.com; reporting on & posting about Ukraine, climate change, dystopian reality, Canada. Bylines at CBC News, @canadaland.com, @theguardian.com, etc. ☕️ Runs on: curiosity, coffee, sarcasm. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧/🇺🇦
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A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
This story is absolutely wild.
holy crap... @nickhunebrown.bsky.social with some great, important work
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This story is absolutely wild.
Back in Tbilisi, Georgia and this is day 356 of constant daily protests as the country continues its steep democratic backslide
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Back in Tbilisi, Georgia and this is day 356 of constant daily protests as the country continues its steep democratic backslide
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Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”, examines post-war accountability and retribution
The War Room newsletter: Nuremberg 80 years on, a reckoning
Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”, examines post-war accountability and retribution
econ.st
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”, examines post-war accountability and retribution
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“Everything is gone. No home, no work, no life.” On “The Intelligence” Sarah Lawrynuik asks people in Gaza what they expect from the future
Voices of Gaza: life amid a fragile peace
Also on the daily podcast: a cycling revolution and left-handed athletes
econ.st
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“Everything is gone. No home, no work, no life.” On “The Intelligence” Sarah Lawrynuik asks people in Gaza what they expect from the future
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“Research started with plants in space.” Sarah Lawrynuik tells “The Intelligence” why red-light masks may actually work bit.ly/3WsOQq7
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Research started with plants in space.” Sarah Lawrynuik tells “The Intelligence” why red-light masks may actually work bit.ly/3WsOQq7
Crushed to hear of the passing of the incredible Ken Dryden.
To the world, he was among the most famous NHLers. A lawyer, a politician.
To me, he was a professor and mentor. And the biggest reason I became a journalist. My condolences to his family. He was a truly great man.
To the world, he was among the most famous NHLers. A lawyer, a politician.
To me, he was a professor and mentor. And the biggest reason I became a journalist. My condolences to his family. He was a truly great man.
September 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Crushed to hear of the passing of the incredible Ken Dryden.
To the world, he was among the most famous NHLers. A lawyer, a politician.
To me, he was a professor and mentor. And the biggest reason I became a journalist. My condolences to his family. He was a truly great man.
To the world, he was among the most famous NHLers. A lawyer, a politician.
To me, he was a professor and mentor. And the biggest reason I became a journalist. My condolences to his family. He was a truly great man.
Meanwhile, in Canada 🇨🇦
June 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Meanwhile, in Canada 🇨🇦
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⚡️🏳️🌈After Viktor Orbán’s government passed an anti-LGBT law to ban the Pride march in Hungary, Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony announced the city will officially organize Budapest Pride as a municipal event on June 28.
This means the ban won’t apply: police can’t disperse the crowd or issue fines.
This means the ban won’t apply: police can’t disperse the crowd or issue fines.
June 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
⚡️🏳️🌈After Viktor Orbán’s government passed an anti-LGBT law to ban the Pride march in Hungary, Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony announced the city will officially organize Budapest Pride as a municipal event on June 28.
This means the ban won’t apply: police can’t disperse the crowd or issue fines.
This means the ban won’t apply: police can’t disperse the crowd or issue fines.
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Finland says Russian military aircraft suspected of violating its airspace reut.rs/3TjfaRW
Finland says Russian military aircraft suspected of violating its airspace
A Russian military aircraft is suspected of having violated Finnish airspace on Tuesday, Finland's defence ministry said in a statement.
reut.rs
June 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Finland says Russian military aircraft suspected of violating its airspace reut.rs/3TjfaRW
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I’ve spent years covering both immigration and Los Angeles and sending National Guard troops to LA feels like “a thinly-veiled message to Democratic-run places that retribution awaits those who would stand between immigrants and the administration’s deportation machine”
economist.com/united-state...
economist.com/united-state...
Sending the National Guard to LA is not about stopping rioting
The city is being punished for resisting the Trump administration’s deportation efforts
economist.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I’ve spent years covering both immigration and Los Angeles and sending National Guard troops to LA feels like “a thinly-veiled message to Democratic-run places that retribution awaits those who would stand between immigrants and the administration’s deportation machine”
economist.com/united-state...
economist.com/united-state...
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At the end of the Independence Day, fireworks were launched again.
Just yesterday, an activist was jailed for 30 days over a single firework launch. Yet here we are, launching it again. ✊🏻
Fireworks have become our symbol, and it’s now banned for that reason. #GeorgiaProtests
Just yesterday, an activist was jailed for 30 days over a single firework launch. Yet here we are, launching it again. ✊🏻
Fireworks have become our symbol, and it’s now banned for that reason. #GeorgiaProtests
May 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
At the end of the Independence Day, fireworks were launched again.
Just yesterday, an activist was jailed for 30 days over a single firework launch. Yet here we are, launching it again. ✊🏻
Fireworks have become our symbol, and it’s now banned for that reason. #GeorgiaProtests
Just yesterday, an activist was jailed for 30 days over a single firework launch. Yet here we are, launching it again. ✊🏻
Fireworks have become our symbol, and it’s now banned for that reason. #GeorgiaProtests
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Truly horrific night for Kyiv
May 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Truly horrific night for Kyiv
"Her head was shaved, her neck bruised and burn marks on her feet, according to officials. Medical examiners found a broken rib and possible traces of electric shock. Some of her organs, including her brain, had been removed."
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead
A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Her head was shaved, her neck bruised and burn marks on her feet, according to officials. Medical examiners found a broken rib and possible traces of electric shock. Some of her organs, including her brain, had been removed."
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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Five European countries that border Russia have announced their exit from a treaty banning landmines. My column, The Telegram, reported from Lithuania, where officials say they are securing the frontier between the liberal world and Vladimir Putin’s blood-soaked empire
economist.com/internationa...
economist.com/internationa...
The ugly task of Putin-proofing your border
Russia’s European neighbours hate landmines. They are installing them anyway
economist.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Five European countries that border Russia have announced their exit from a treaty banning landmines. My column, The Telegram, reported from Lithuania, where officials say they are securing the frontier between the liberal world and Vladimir Putin’s blood-soaked empire
economist.com/internationa...
economist.com/internationa...
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Canada: Where we reschedule our politics around a late-season hockey game with major playoff implications.
Time changed for French-language debate due to Montreal Canadiens game | CBC News
The New Democratic Party is requesting that Wednesday evening's French-language debate be postponed rather than held on the same night the Habs are making what could be their last chance to clinch a p...
www.cbc.ca
April 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Canada: Where we reschedule our politics around a late-season hockey game with major playoff implications.
Britain’s prison system is crumbling under the strain. Crowded, decrepit, understaffed and full of vermin. Recidivism rates that show this is likely to continue in perpetuity.
And yet — there is a bright spot. A prison that could offer lessons of how to do better 🎧 www.economist.com/twi-the-pris...
And yet — there is a bright spot. A prison that could offer lessons of how to do better 🎧 www.economist.com/twi-the-pris...
The prison that works
A little-known, sixty-year experiment in treating hardened criminals through therapy
www.economist.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Britain’s prison system is crumbling under the strain. Crowded, decrepit, understaffed and full of vermin. Recidivism rates that show this is likely to continue in perpetuity.
And yet — there is a bright spot. A prison that could offer lessons of how to do better 🎧 www.economist.com/twi-the-pris...
And yet — there is a bright spot. A prison that could offer lessons of how to do better 🎧 www.economist.com/twi-the-pris...
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It is a routine Soviet and now Russian practice to accept an agreement and immediately violate it, in a small way, to see what the enforcement boundary is. If you don’t respond, they’ll push it further to check. Not sure they even see this as dishonest, it’s an assumed part of relations.
"Today, the energy infrastructure in the city of Kherson was damaged by Russian artillery. This is how it works with Russians. U.S. believes that the 'ceasefire regime is working.'" – Zelenskyy.
March 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It is a routine Soviet and now Russian practice to accept an agreement and immediately violate it, in a small way, to see what the enforcement boundary is. If you don’t respond, they’ll push it further to check. Not sure they even see this as dishonest, it’s an assumed part of relations.
Let's goooooo, Canada! 👀 🗳️
In the words of my unnamed (but numerous) international office mates, "Canadian politics is finally getting interesting."
In the words of my unnamed (but numerous) international office mates, "Canadian politics is finally getting interesting."
March 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Let's goooooo, Canada! 👀 🗳️
In the words of my unnamed (but numerous) international office mates, "Canadian politics is finally getting interesting."
In the words of my unnamed (but numerous) international office mates, "Canadian politics is finally getting interesting."
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“Turkey is nearing a point of no return. Only last week, its government was still what political scientists call a competitive authoritarian regime…But on March 19th police detained Mr Imamoglu, who has emerged as Mr Erdogan’s strongest rival. What remains is close to naked autocracy.”
President Erdogan jails his rival, and endangers Turkey’s democracy
Ekrem Imamoglu’s supporters have chosen him to run anyway
economist.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“Turkey is nearing a point of no return. Only last week, its government was still what political scientists call a competitive authoritarian regime…But on March 19th police detained Mr Imamoglu, who has emerged as Mr Erdogan’s strongest rival. What remains is close to naked autocracy.”
When the rumours circulated that Mark Carney wanted to take a run at being Canadian PM, I thought it would come with forward-looking climate policy. Not… the symbolic first-move roll back of Canada’s tax on pollution. How disappointing.
My latest for @theglobeandmail.com:
My latest for @theglobeandmail.com:
Opinion: The deeply demoralizing betrayal by Carney, climate finance wonk
Mark Carney, one of the world’s most reputable climate finance wonks, has become Prime Minister of Canada. He immediately killed the carbon tax
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
When the rumours circulated that Mark Carney wanted to take a run at being Canadian PM, I thought it would come with forward-looking climate policy. Not… the symbolic first-move roll back of Canada’s tax on pollution. How disappointing.
My latest for @theglobeandmail.com:
My latest for @theglobeandmail.com:
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“The Trump administration has terminated a US-funded initiative that documents alleged Russian war crimes, including a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, according to officials familiar with the directive and documents obtained by The Washington Post.”
Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children
Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
“The Trump administration has terminated a US-funded initiative that documents alleged Russian war crimes, including a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, according to officials familiar with the directive and documents obtained by The Washington Post.”
It just doesn’t *feel* like Russia is interested in a ceasefire…
March 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It just doesn’t *feel* like Russia is interested in a ceasefire…
Who had this bromance on their dystopian bingo card?
March 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Who had this bromance on their dystopian bingo card?
The air raid blares in Kyiv… let’s see what Moscow has in store the night a prospective ceasefire deal has been tabled.
(But also the night after Kyiv struck Moscow with ~300 drones…)
(But also the night after Kyiv struck Moscow with ~300 drones…)
March 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The air raid blares in Kyiv… let’s see what Moscow has in store the night a prospective ceasefire deal has been tabled.
(But also the night after Kyiv struck Moscow with ~300 drones…)
(But also the night after Kyiv struck Moscow with ~300 drones…)