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telecom/tech business reporter / . Brown & always hungry. (RT≠endorsements) DMs open ✉️shruti.shekar@verizonmedia.com

Toronto, Ottawa
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Born 1989
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 6

    ⚠️Personal news ⚠️ 👋🏼 👋🏼 Hi, wanted to let you know that I want to be called by how my name really is pronounced. Shroo-thee Shay-ker It’s taken me over 20 years to get to this point, but my name is beautiful and I want the world to hear it right and say it right. ❤️ thx

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  2. 11 hours ago

    Oh ok

    Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man's death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom
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  3. Retweeted
    13 hours ago
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    I’ve heard that story too, which is why I argued for accountability measures in a recent interview with :

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  4. 11 hours ago

    Everything in this tweet and the comments.

    It's *interesting* that this is a problem now. When other high-profile people got on TV in the recent past and denied systemic (or however you want to spell it) racism because "something something schools" ...apparently it was no big deal.
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  5. 13 hours ago

    Pretty certain James and I got the SAME email. Thankfully the PR person remembered to change the name.

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  6. 13 hours ago

    This. Is. What. I. Needed. To. Hear.

    News: All food and ice cream trucks can resume operations as of today, Mayor says, but must follow physical distancing rules.
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  7. 13 hours ago

    Yes. Please. Take. This. Garb. Down.

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  8. 14 hours ago

    24 hours later and he steps down from ' board

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  9. Retweeted
    Jun 2

    Anyone who defends men like Dilpreet Dhillon are justifying another generation of women who are victims of domestic violence. If your stance on this is "keep your problems private" you are part of the problem.

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  10. 19 hours ago

    CES has announced plans that its next conference is going to be in-person in Vegas and that truly makes me so nervous for everyone going. The organizers have listed what they're doing to ensure safety for the health of conference-goers.

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  11. 20 hours ago

    lmao, my ME and I were talking about doing this EXACT STORY yesterday, but beat me to it and honestly, did a freaking amazing job with it. Nice work , this story is very well done. Go read it.

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  12. Retweeted
    Jun 2

    CBC local management told me in a meeting that higher ups wanted me fired for my since deleted tweet calling Don Cherry xenophobic.

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    Catherine Tait, the President & CEO of CBC/RadioCanada, shared this message internally with her staff today.  It is not going over well. We will now share some employee responses from the CBC's internal website in this thread, with names redacted.
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  13. 22 hours ago

    I can’t wait for someone to tell me “racism doesn’t exist in Canada” so I can show this. 🙃 Thanks 🙏🏽

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    I'm not too bothered the hate mail that's been pouring in re: Rex rebuttal, because there are an equal number of people who have been so inspired and feel mobilized by the piece, but to prove my point that racism is rife in Canada, this is some of the nonsense I'm getting:
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  14. Retweeted
    Jun 2

    I'm tired of writing about why my son's life matters. Over and over we give perpetrators the benefit of the doubt & the lives of victims are dismissed. If talking about racism makes you uncomfortable, ask yourself why? I wrote about it

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  15. Jun 2

    Thinking about ’ column tonight, which I read to my father who is still stuck in India. he teared up because of the truth in the column and of how well it was written. In the end he said I’m proud of people like her. I’m sharing it again.

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  16. Retweeted
    Jun 2

    I wrote this three years ago and brown people, WE'RE STILL DOING IT

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  17. Jun 2

    Good evening to ⁦⁩ and Vanmala only. Vanmala Subramaniam: Before you declare Canada is not a racist country, do your homework – National Post

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  18. Jun 2

    I made a vegan pesto feta panini for dinner using ’s recipe for pesto and it truly made me feel a little better about today.

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  19. Jun 2

    I don’t know about you guys, but tonight, I’m drinking a very very LARGE glass of wine (or 3) and watching probably Mean Girls or Bad Teacher and shutting the world off. I advise you do the same too.

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  20. Jun 2

    TO BE CLEAR, neither nor has confirmed they will NOT be using , the releases have not indicated this and there is no indication that they have completely ruled the idea out.

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  21. Jun 2

    someone sent me a DM the other day asking how i was doing (nice of them) and then asking what i was up to these days. hmm, what...i...am...up..to.... good question.

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