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When our children ask what we did as Gaza was systematically destroyed and its children killed, what will we say?
It is our generation’s moral test. Canada is failing it. #Opinion
It is our generation’s moral test. Canada is failing it. #Opinion
It is our generation’s moral test. Canada is failing it
As Canadian novelist Omar El Akkad wrote, when the dust settles, everyone will claim they were always against the atrocities in Gaza. But history remembers actions.
www.thestar.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
When our children ask what we did as Gaza was systematically destroyed and its children killed, what will we say?
It is our generation’s moral test. Canada is failing it. #Opinion
It is our generation’s moral test. Canada is failing it. #Opinion
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“No fat soldiers." That’s one unit-level message that was sent out as the 82nd Airborne Division worked to tightly control who was permitted to attend Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg, reports Military.com
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.military.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“No fat soldiers." That’s one unit-level message that was sent out as the 82nd Airborne Division worked to tightly control who was permitted to attend Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg, reports Military.com
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
If you haven't read this gorgeous piece yet, you're in for a treat
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/405f791...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/405f791...
Robert Macfarlane’s new book asks a question he couldn’t ignore: Is a river alive?
The author and naturalist visited three rivers (including one in Canada) to explore what it means to give the waterways the same rights as people
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you haven't read this gorgeous piece yet, you're in for a treat
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/405f791...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/405f791...
As a firm believer in unscheduled summers for my own kids (and a Gen Xer who didn't know there was any other way of spending those glorious two months), I love this piece
Sure, you could sign your children up for the usual however many weeks of camp — “baby jail” as parenting columnist Amil Niazi’s son calls it — but imagine if you didn’t. Here, Niazi shares her own plans for a ‘wild’ summer with her three kids.
Why Not Let Your Kids Have a ‘Wild’ Summer?
Sure, you could sign your children up for the usual however many weeks of camp — “baby jail” as parenting columnist Amil Niazi’s son calls it — but imagine if you didn’t. Here, Niazi shares her own plans for a ‘wild’ summer with her three kids.
www.thecut.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
As a firm believer in unscheduled summers for my own kids (and a Gen Xer who didn't know there was any other way of spending those glorious two months), I love this piece
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It is not clear why Trump repeatedly claims the US subsidizes Canada by $200 billion a year.
A trade deficit isn’t a subsidy — but in any event, the US trade deficit in goods and services with Canada last year was about $36 billion.
Here’s the data (source: US govt)
A trade deficit isn’t a subsidy — but in any event, the US trade deficit in goods and services with Canada last year was about $36 billion.
Here’s the data (source: US govt)
May 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It is not clear why Trump repeatedly claims the US subsidizes Canada by $200 billion a year.
A trade deficit isn’t a subsidy — but in any event, the US trade deficit in goods and services with Canada last year was about $36 billion.
Here’s the data (source: US govt)
A trade deficit isn’t a subsidy — but in any event, the US trade deficit in goods and services with Canada last year was about $36 billion.
Here’s the data (source: US govt)
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Carney to Trump: "There are some places that are never for sale ... having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign, it's not for sale. It won't be for sale ever."
May 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Carney to Trump: "There are some places that are never for sale ... having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign, it's not for sale. It won't be for sale ever."
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One of Pope Francis’ “popemobiles” is being transformed into a mobile healthcare unit for children and sent to the Gaza Strip, the Vatican’s official media outlet said on Sunday. cnn.it/3GG2TnN
May 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
One of Pope Francis’ “popemobiles” is being transformed into a mobile healthcare unit for children and sent to the Gaza Strip, the Vatican’s official media outlet said on Sunday. cnn.it/3GG2TnN
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The front page of the Globe and Mail for Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025:
April 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The front page of the Globe and Mail for Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025:
It's been 25 years since Nortel's peak. For ROB mag's May issue, @christaylornyc.bsky.social talked to seven employees who lived through the wild ride. You're definitely gonna want to read this
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob...
April 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It's been 25 years since Nortel's peak. For ROB mag's May issue, @christaylornyc.bsky.social talked to seven employees who lived through the wild ride. You're definitely gonna want to read this
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob...
April 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Doug Ford’s Spa of Cards is international news. This dive-in-the-making, if it ever gets made, is costing the province Ontario Place, The Ontario Science Centre and untold (in fact undisclosed) millions.
The NY Times has published an investigation into the Therme development at Ontario Place. It found that while the company told the province it had a proven track record of operating six spas around the world, at the time it had only ever operated one. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada
A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Doug Ford’s Spa of Cards is international news. This dive-in-the-making, if it ever gets made, is costing the province Ontario Place, The Ontario Science Centre and untold (in fact undisclosed) millions.
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Just clarifying, though this is not difficult to grasp: Anyone working on an industry project with a notorious transphobic bigot is OK with transphobic bigotry.
The end.
The end.
April 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Just clarifying, though this is not difficult to grasp: Anyone working on an industry project with a notorious transphobic bigot is OK with transphobic bigotry.
The end.
The end.
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On this day in 1979, British troops & the Royal Navy left Malta (Malta gained independence in 1964).
March 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
On this day in 1979, British troops & the Royal Navy left Malta (Malta gained independence in 1964).
"On Canary Mission’s website, Ozturk’s profile included a photo of her as well as a description of the region where she lives. The page also featured screenshots of the op-ed and her LinkedIn page as well as descriptions of college courses that she was slated to teach this year."
Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization accused of doxxing, appears to have put Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk on the Trump administration’s list of activists to deport.
The Pro-Israel Group That Led to Rumeysa Ozturk’s Arrest
Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization accused of doxxing, appears to have put Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk on the Trump administration’s list of activists to deport.
nymag.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"On Canary Mission’s website, Ozturk’s profile included a photo of her as well as a description of the region where she lives. The page also featured screenshots of the op-ed and her LinkedIn page as well as descriptions of college courses that she was slated to teach this year."
For our April issue, @trevorcole.bsky.social sat down with AGT Foods CEO Murad Al-Katib, who stares down tariffs and trade restrictions on the regular, for an insightful conversation on how Canada can turn the trade war into an opportunity. I promise it'll give you hope
Lentil King of Saskatchewan has plenty of ideas on how to fix Canada’s trade woes
Murad Al-Katib, founder of giant AGT Foods, has seen U.S. protectionism before, and he’ll keep calm and carry on
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For our April issue, @trevorcole.bsky.social sat down with AGT Foods CEO Murad Al-Katib, who stares down tariffs and trade restrictions on the regular, for an insightful conversation on how Canada can turn the trade war into an opportunity. I promise it'll give you hope
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I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
March 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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‘I thought I was going to die’: director Hamdan Ballal recounts attack by settlers and soldiers in West Bank
‘I thought I was going to die’: director Hamdan Ballal recounts attack by settlers and soldiers in West Bank
Exclusive: Filmmaker who won an Oscar earlier this month says Israeli settlers were aided by IDF soldiers who beat him with their rifles
During an attack on Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal on Monday, Israeli settlers were aided by two Israel Defense Forces soldiers who beat him with the butt of their rifles outside his home and threatened to kill him, the film-maker has said.
In an interview with the Guardian, Ballal, one of the four directors of the film No Other Land, which documented the destruction of villages in the West Bank and won best documentary at this year’s Academy Awards, recounted how two Israeli soldiers first encircled him while a settler was assaulting him, before violently striking him on the head and threatening to shoot him. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
‘I thought I was going to die’: director Hamdan Ballal recounts attack by settlers and soldiers in West Bank
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Save the Children says more than 270 Palestinian children have been killed in the week since Israel resumed its war on Gaza, marking some of “the deadliest days for children since the war began”.
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March 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Save the Children says more than 270 Palestinian children have been killed in the week since Israel resumed its war on Gaza, marking some of “the deadliest days for children since the war began”.
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They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say
Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.
apnews.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"It is a powerful and deeply disturbing book. With his core message – to ignore inhumanity is to corrode the soul – Omar El Akkad demands that his readers look with him at the horror." www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/r... #gaza #books #reading @theglobeandmail.com @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Review: Omar El Akkad’s book about Gaza asks us to not look away from the horror
In the former foreign correspondent’s first work of nonfiction, he argues that ignoring the genocide of Palestinians amounts to a corrosion of the soul
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"It is a powerful and deeply disturbing book. With his core message – to ignore inhumanity is to corrode the soul – Omar El Akkad demands that his readers look with him at the horror." www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/r... #gaza #books #reading @theglobeandmail.com @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social