After some words from Canada’s High Commissioner in London, the Duke and Duchess will now receive a gift. A hat and mitts from Hudson’s Bay, a onesie with the Maple Leaf and mini Manitoba Mukluks for baby Sussex. 🇨🇦

Maple taffy making with kids. #CommonwealthDay

#DukeandDuchessofSussex saying their goodbyes. #CommonwealthDay

Here's our CBC News: The National dispatch from the EU leaders' summit in Brussels, including Theresa May's 3 a.m. press conference. The Brexit cliff edge has been moved to Oct. 31. Lily Martin youtube.com/watch?v=rIgx5b…

“We had no battle experience but we got it in a hurry.” Art Boon of Stratford, Ontario was 15 when he enlisted and 18 when he crossed the Channel as a tank gunner during the D-Day Landings in Normandy 75 years ago. #DDay75 #CanadaRemembers #CBC

Midsummer madness in the UK. cbc.ca/news/world/dar… #CBC

A visit to the British coastal town both the Conservatives and the Brexit party hope to wrest from the Labour Party which has held it for half a century. Split vote anyone? With photos from Lily Martin #UKVotes cbc.ca/news/world/har…

If you're looking for an example of powerful storytelling, or the value of foreign reporting, or the importance of being on the ground as a journalist, or how characters bring stories to life, point to this: youtu.be/jKTwn4j9Y-8 by Margaret Evans Steph Jenzer JF

Back in London after our #CBCNews team (Lily Martin JF) was deported from Uganda despite holding official press credentials. Bad sign for outside scrutiny of January Presidential election. Violence by strongman Yoweri Museveni against opposition already in play. #CBC

#Ugandan gov't avoiding outside scrutiny of Jan elections already. We were deported Friday even though we had official media credentials. Here Lily Martin & JF 10 hours into detention before being put on a plane. @fcauganda #CBCNews #JournalismIsNotACrime RSF

Yesterday an FCAU member was deliberately targeted & shot at close range with a rubber bullet by a police officer while working, clearly identifed & accredited. Such attacks are unjustified and extremely dangerous. #Uganda|n authorities must call a halt to attacks on journalists

COVID-19 is threatening to undermine the careful conservation efforts that brought mountain gorillas back from the brink of extinction. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/ugand… Lily Martin

With some 30,000 Covid 19 patients in hospital, #UK health workers say their government's failure to learn lessons from the first wave in the spring leave them feeling taken for granted. As for the public, they say: don't clap, follow the rules. CBC News cbc.ca/news/world/uk-…

So pleased to see our story for World At Six about the threat Covid 19 poses to the world's mountain gorillas honoured for radio Feature News by RTDNA_Canada. With Lily Martin (photo credit!) & JF & thanks to Uganda's Gladys K Zikusoka for letting us tag along.

Afghan interpreter risks his life to help Canadian troops in 2007, finds himself destitute in Athens. What happens to those who fled Taliban death threats long before this past summer? They’re let down. For CBC News: The National Lily Martin Adrian de Virgilio cbc.ca/player/play/19…

A coroner and a mufti: 2 men along the migrant trail in northern Greece trying to restore the names & dignity of those who dared to imagine a different future, but didn't make it in the end. For CBC News: The National with Lily Martin & Adrian Di Virgilio youtube.com/watch?v=pvdbvt…

ICYMI: How the people of Sri Lanka, a country in financial ruin, are coping with the effects of the crisis… many are struggling to eat proper meals. Here’s our piece for CBC News: The National, with Lily Martin and Glen Kugelstadt Watch: youtu.be/Viw2uy144UQ

We also took a look at how Sri Lanka got into the financial mess, with protesters furious at the ruling class… especially the former president and his reckless economic policies. Our story from Colombo, with Lily Martin and Glen Kugelstadt WATCH here: youtu.be/HV6utuOoL_w

.Margaret Evans’s 8-minute obituary of the Queen is comprehensive, poetic and worth watching. “The sheer longevity of Elizabeth II’s reign is partly what embedded her so deeply in the fabric of the nation.” With Lily Martin and Richard Devey. youtu.be/zH1_ypy6qc0

Somalia on the brink of another brutal famine, with children bearing the brunt | CBC News cbc.ca/news/world/som…