Founder https://xitter.cf/t.co/6o7itfCqrU @OnCanadaProject; BHSc/MHIS @westernu | 90s millennial, accidental entrepreneur, future ancestor & reluctant optimist

Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2010
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Number one in the American League. American League Pennant.
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"Israel’s slaughter of the two million-plus people of Gaza is the first stage-managed genocide in history. It is a Holocaust rewritten as public theatre" ✍️ Opinion by Jonathan Cook pulse.ly/lrv2pfeoaq
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"So, I want to thank you, Danielle Smith. Why? Because today we stand united, we're not going anywhere... if you have problems with first nations, you can leave." Piikani First Nation Chief Troy Knowlton does not mince words on Bill 54 and a lack of Indigenous consulation.
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Correct ✅
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One of the common ways to greet someone in Chinese culture is to ask if they have eaten, and if not, then you offer to feed them. This is how my relatives treat me, and this was how Palestinians treated me when I was in Gaza last year—with a deep sense of respect and dignity for our shared humanity. Despite how little food and water they had, they insisted on sharing meals together. Although there was scarcity in material resources, they expressed generosity from a place of abundance in humanity. The same Palestinian healthcare workers who shared their bread and food with me are struggling to feed their families and children right now. Their children are hungry. Their families are hungry. The Palestinian people in Gaza are facing horrendous conditions of forced starvation and severe malnutrition right now because of the over 2-month Israeli siege and blockade on food, water, fuel, medical supplies, and so much more for the entire population of Gaza. People are starving, and the elderly, children, and babies are dying from severe malnutrition. Hunger is being used as a weapon of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and collective punishment. As I was growing up, my father would tell me stories of how he would be hungry and not have enough to eat when he was a child, and I never had to experience this suffering and this pain because of his ability to provide for our family. I have no sufficient words of comfort to send to my colleagues in Gaza who are struggling to feed their families and their children. I can only imagine the immense suffering and pain they endure from this genocide because of the colonial and capitalist interests of Israel and its allies. This is unbearable. My soul weeps for the people of Palestine. Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people. Never stop organizing and building people power to change our communities and societies to be apartheid-free, to end complicity in genocide, and to provide the necessary mutual aid and support that Palestinians deserve to live with dignity.
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The U.S. government encouraged people to report on doctors in Canada who provide gender-affirming care to children—signaling a chilling new cross-border reach in its anti-trans agenda breachmedia.ca/trump-admin-a…
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NEWS: Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, has lost his seat in the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton Numerous reports had suggested Poilievre was in danger of losing his seat, which he's held since he was first elected in 2004
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As an Atheist I pray the "Economy" smotes the ruins of the slumlords and the over-leveraged flippers on the mountainside
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It’s a little frustrating to see so many Canadian “progressive” organizations engaging with @GoAngelo’s viral thread on the Media Matters study. Some of these are the same orgs, and the PMO’s office, over the past five years—where I’ve directly named these issues and presented solutions. Solutions grounded in my graduate studies, rooted in knowledge translation, and informed by the experience of building one of (if not thee) largest 🇨🇦independent progressive edu-media platforms on Instagram*. *a platform journalism is not allowed on anymore btw — #cdnpoli #canadavotes #cdnmedia
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Hey Canada! We’re hosting Bernie Sanders like community town halls virtually on every other Tuesday! RSVP at ocpevents.ca #madeincanada #cdnpoli #peoplepower
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Zionists are willing to sacrifice every institution and every civil liberty in US society to protect their exterminationist state. Turns out, America can’t be free until Palestine is free.
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When the Ontario procurement minister knocked on Lisa Crompton’s front door, he might not have realized he was being recorded. But he was, and Crompton shared the footage with me — footage that appears to show the MPP lying about the Greenbelt scandal. Here’s what happened:
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If we give Doug Ford four more years, we’ll regret it long after he’s gone. If you want real change, go and vote — because I promise you, if you sit this election out, we’ll all pay for it for years to come. #Opinion trib.al/dXaD8xn
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voting NDP for now, but will be on their ass everyday about: 1) Rent Control and Affordable Housing 2) Healthcare Access 3) Roads and Transit Trudeau's resignation should be a wake up call - party leaders can be sent back to the bench. #probonopublico #OntarioVotes2025 #ONpoli
I’m really stuck between Bonnie Crombie & Marit Stiles. Who y’all choosing?
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You can't make rent in Ontario on $390 a month Yet this is the expectation for Ontario's welfare recipients, a poverty trap posing as a housing allowance Does any party in this election have a plan for real change? My latest with @TheBreachMedia breachmedia.ca/ontarios-rent…
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Hello and welcome to my thread on the second and final Liberal leadership debate (English edition).
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// In Dr Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," he critiques white moderates for their complicity in upholding systemic injustice, despite their professed good intentions. Here's a key excerpt: “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection”
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Because what I’ll always remember of Justin Trudeau is, he’s the reason why I fully understand to my bones what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s warning about white moderates was all about. And that, Mr. Prime Minister, can’t be blamed on anyone else but you. #cdnpoli #justintrudeau
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On CNN, Justin Trudeau blames "right wing attacks" and social media for "misinformation" creating feelings that his government has been bad for Canada.
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