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Pat Boucher @patboucher.bsky.social · Nov 16
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In memory of the 68,229 Palestinian dead & the thousands more lying under the rubble, men, women, children, babies, all innocent victims murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state.

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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October 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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What if 200, 000 tonnes of explosives were dropped on your city?
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October 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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patboucher.bsky.social Pat Boucher @patboucher.bsky.social · Aug 24
In memory of the 62,600 Palestinian dead & the thousands more lying under the rubble, men, women, children, babies, all innocent victims murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state.

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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VOICES FOR GAZA 🌍 | An Epic Song for Freedom (EN/ES/AR/FR)
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August 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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patboucher.bsky.social Pat Boucher @patboucher.bsky.social · Jul 25
In memory of the 59,676 Palestinian dead & the thousands more lying under the rubble, men, women, children, babies, all innocent victims murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state.

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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July 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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patboucher.bsky.social Pat Boucher @patboucher.bsky.social · May 11
In memory of the 53,253 Palestinian dead & the thousands more lying under the rubble, men, women, children, babies, all innocent victims, murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state.

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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In Memoriam
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May 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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In memory of Fatma Hassona & all of the journalists, medics & support personnel, all innocent victims murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state. 1/2

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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Billie Holiday - I'll be seeing you (with lyrics)
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April 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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@mark-carney.bsky.social @melaniejolycan.bsky.social @jagmeetsingh.ca @jpedneault.bsky.social

From Independent Jewish Voices Canada: www.ijvcanada.org/zionism-is-m...
Zionism is Mitzrayim
Every Passover, we tell the story of liberation from Mitzrayim, the “narrow place” — a place of confinement, enslavement, and oppression. This year, we confront a brutal truth: Zionism is Mitzrayim...
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April 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism.

Zionist ideology is that of terrorists.

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Israeli filmmaker and activist Eyal Sivan advocates for the Palestinian cause
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April 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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@mark-carney.bsky.social

Mr. Kaufman is left with having to choose between the lessor of two evils, which increasingly seems to be the position all of us are in, unless we choose not to vote at all. 1/3

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I used to know Anthony Housefather. Not well, but he was a frequent guest on my radio shows on CJAD and then during the pandemic, we started to go for walks, talking off the record about politics and journalism. After Oct. 7, we went for a walk and realized that our views on the war on Gaza were very different. The only time I reached out to him after that was when he was rumoured to cross the floor. I texted him and implored him not to. It seems that our budding friendship didn’t stand a chance with opposing views on such a delicate issue. Housefather has had every opportunity to speak out. When a hospital was bombed, and then another one bombed, and another, he did not speak out. When videos were released of people being burned alive in tents, he didn’t speak out. When a Canadian aid worker with the World Soup Kitchen was targeted and killed by Israeli missiles, Anthony Housefather said nothing. So much silence in the face of so many atrocities. I received another email from my building; Housefather would be coming to the building and canvassing. I was home, but alas, he never knocked. Photograph of Naftali Bennett & Anthony Housefather, both smiling broadly, taken in Israel, 22 November 2023, 46 short days after the October attack by Hamas. The photo is captioned by Housefather, "Before leaving Israel tonight it was a pleasure to meet with former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, followed by the same in French.
April 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The signatories' voices, which acknowledge the genocide, represent those of Montreal's Jewish community, that are most concerned about all of us. Please be guided by them.

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Une expression de solidarité En tant que professeurs juives et juifs, nous sommes persuadés que les étudiants juives et juifs ne sont pas menacés par la lecture d’auteurs palestiniens. Leur sécurité n’est pas non plus mise en danger par une quelconque expression de solidarité avec la Palestine, alors même que les principales organisations de défense des droits de la personne, telles qu’Amnistie internationale et Human Rights Watch, qualifient les actions d’Israël à Gaza de génocide. *Cosignataires : Michael Blum, UQAM ; Noah Brender, cégep Dawson ; Yakov Rabkin, Université de Montréal ; Itay Sapir, UQAM ; Katherine Zien, Université McGill ; Meir Amor, Université Concordia (retraité) ; Jessica Andrews, cégep Vanier ; Shira Avni, Université Concordia ; Stephen Block, cégep Vanier ; Danielle Bobker, Université Concordia ; Lara Braitstein, Université McGill ; Rachel Deutsch, cégep Dawson ; Robyn Diner, cégep Vanier ; Maryann Farkas, cégep Dawson (retraitée) ; Aurora Flewwelling-Skup, cégep Vanier ; Katherine Frohlich, Université de Montréal ; Jeffrey Gandell, cégep Dawson ; Avi Goldberg, cégep Vanier ; Kevin A. Gould, Université Concordia ; Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, cégep Dawson (retraitée) ; Sara Louise Kendall, cégep Dawson ; Natalie Kouri-Towe, Université Concordia ; Alyssa Kuzmarov, cégep Dawson ; Alissa Levine, Université McGill ; Eric Lewis, Université McGill ; Simone Lucas, Université Concordia ; David Mandel, UQAM (retraité) ; Alexander Manshel, Université McGill ; Nadia Moss, cégep Dawson ; Magdalena Olszanowski, cégep Dawson ; Ara Osterweil, Université McGill ; Joseph Rosen, cégep Dawson ; Aron Lee Rosenberg, Université McGill ; Steven Schnoor, Université Concordia ; Daniel Schwartz, Université McGill ; Eric Shragge, Université Concordia (retraité) ; Daniel Skup, Université de Montréal (retraité) ; Marc Steinberg, Université Concordia ; Jeremy Stolow, Université Concordia ; Mark Sussman, Université Concordia ; Yves Winter, Université McGill ; Anya Zilberstein, Université Concordia
April 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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@mark-carney.bsky.social @dleblancnb.bsky.social @melaniejolycan.bsky.social @Jonathan Wilkinson Minister of Energy and Natural Resources

Significant hit to the information you're going to need; time to request suggestions for new contacts from within.

www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/04...
More than 100 employees leave U.S. EIA, putting crucial energy data at risk
The U.S. government's energy statistics arm is set to lose > 100 employees after the Trump administration's latest round of resignation offers, putting at risk some of the most closely watched energy reports globally.
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April 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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@mark-carney.bsky.social @melaniejolycan.bsky.social @Bill Blair

NB last para: They recognize Israel's genocide of Palestinians, while fully supporting it, but do not want to commit their own troops to doing the same, helplessly watching the guardrails disappear.

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The Army also recently announced it will make law of war training — which covers basic battlefield ethics, prohibited acts, and rules of engagement — optional, in an effort to remove “unnecessary distractions” and increase focus on “decisive action in combat.” This comes as Hegseth trumpets an overwhelming emphasis on “lethality” and cuts to programs that run afoul of Trump administration priorities. Hegseth also reportedly plans to overhaul the entire JAG Corps, which is essential to ensuring adherence to the rule of law and upholding the Uniform Code of Military Justice, after firing the judge advocates general of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Trump has also rolled back constraints on American commanders to authorize airstrikes and Special Operations raids outside conventional battlefields, broadening the range of people who can be targeted. After Trump relaxed targeting principles during his first term, attacks and reports of civilian casualties in war zones like Somalia and Yemen spiked. “There is an overt and ongoing effort to completely shut the Center down and to remove CHMR across all the commands,” said Wes Bryant, who until recently served as the chief of civilian harm assessments and senior analyst and adviser on precision warfare, targeting, and civilian harm mitigation at the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence. “Basically, they are wiping DoD of anything related to Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response.” As a Fox News personality, Hegseth — a former Army National Guard officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq — cast troops charged with war crimes as “heroes.” During Trump’s first term in office, Hegseth lobbied for pardons of Army Lt. Clint Lorance and Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, and championed Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, each of whom was charged or convicted of war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump granted pardons to Lorance and Golsteyn, and reversed a demotion of Gallagher, tagging Hegseth in a tweet announcing the review of one of the cases. Hegseth takes a dim view of the Geneva Conventions, which form the foundation of the law of armed conflict, or LOAC, and remain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war by protecting civilians, wounded combatants, and prisoners of war, among others. In his 2024 book, “The War on Warriors,” Hegseth asked, “Should we follow the Geneva conventions? … Aren’t we just better off in winning our wars according to our own rules?” Bryant voiced similar concerns about where the potential demise of CHMR efforts would ultimately lead. “I do worry about the direction that Hegseth and the Trump administration are going after this first step of dissolving the CHMR enterprise. Is this administration now going to try to change the warfighting culture and doctrinal standards of the U.S. military, and have us executing our next conflict more like Israel has carried out in Gaza?” he asked. “If we do get into a large-scale conflict — whether in Europe or China or elsewhere — will we not care one way or another about the civilian populace? Will our current low tolerance for civilian casualties and historically conservative application of ‘proportionality’ under international law be completely reversed?”
April 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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@mark-carney.bsky.social @melaniejolycan.bsky.social

Canadians are shocked to see this happening in the US, but it happens regularly to equally innocent people in Israel, another, "democratic country".

Both countries have criminals as presidents, the difference is, one is a wanted war criminal.
pbsnews.org PBS News @pbsnews.org · Apr 17
“I walked over to the car and I see the busted window, the glass all over the back seat, and I was shocked,” a lawyer for the family said. “I’ve been doing immigration work for 27 years and this was the first time that I saw such violent drastic measures being taken.”
ICE agents smashed car window in seizing Guatemalan man who's seeking asylum, family says
A lawyer for the family says agents weren't looking for Juan Francisco Mendez when they grabbed him Monday in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as he drove to a dental appointment.
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April 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Americans will be taking to the streets again tomorrow. Wishing them great weather, peace & success in moving the needle back towards democracy.

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April 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The answer to @theguardian.com question, ‘Who is going to face Mr Trump’...? is accurately framed in the photo accompanying the article.

Poilievre is at home viciously attacking from across the aisle, but face to face, is another matter altogether.

He'd be putty in Trump's hands, tiny at that.
Headline: ‘Who is going to face Mr Trump’: Canada leaders’ debate dominated by US crisis Subtitle: Mark Carney’s Liberals have surged in the polls since Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada, scuppering Conservative calls for change after Trudeau era Byline: Leyland Cecco and agencies - Thu 17 Apr 2025 02.23 BST Text: The prime minister, Mark Carney, said Canadians are looking to elect the person best suited to deal with Donald Trump as he faced his Conservative rival in the first of two highly anticipated leaders’ debates. Image: Mark Carney, left, shakes hands with Pierre Poilievre, with Yves-François Blanchet in the background, after the debate. Photograph: Christopher Katsarov/Reuters
April 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I prefer Carney's plans dealing with climate change, which acknowledge science based predictions if nothing is done, over Poilievre's plan to live for today & let others worry about the future.

Like Trump, he's willing to wreck Canada's environment to fund his promises.
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The CBC recently estimated that “environment” is the top concern of just 3.8 per cent of voters, while U.S.-Canada relations are top of mind for 28.5 per cent, followed by economy/finance at 23.5 per cent. So Carney’s Liberals have every reason to emphasize a “Canada Strong” policy against Trump, and no reason at all to soft-pedal economic drivers like oil, gas and critical minerals. Emissions are a problem for vague future dates like 2050; dinner on the table is a problem for this evening. If Carney’s energy policy is inadequate, Pierre Poilievre’s policy is just an echo of Trump’s “drill, baby, drill.” Poilievre offers the frantic exploitation of fossil fuels and no mention of climate change — just the evils of the carbon tax. The two candidates do offer something different. With Poilievre, we reach 2 C or 3 C as quickly as possible. With Carney, we buy some time to alert Canadians to a climate disaster before it actually hits us. Carney also offers us a government that might be open to evidence-based arguments, and a prime minister who might be able to minimize the economic damage.
April 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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4 men & 1 woman, all in street clothes, no visible IDs, appear unannounced at a home, to do a "welfare check" on a 19 year old woman.

If she was home & had opened the door, what are the chances she'd still be there today?

The US needs James Rivera a million times over.

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Lawyer confronts Homeland Security agent outside migrant client’s house
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April 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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@mark-carney.bsky.social @melaniejolycan.bsky.social @jagmeetsingh.ca @jpedneault.bsky.social

I'm trusting you to guarantee that in Canada, regardless of faith, we'll always be free to protest against crimes against humanity, without fear of repression, driven by powerful Zionist entities.
jvp.bsky.social Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · Apr 16
The Trump administration is attacking free speech on campuses across the country, invoking fear with the promise of arrests, jail time, and deportations of students and faculty who stand with Palestine.
April 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Their worlds are being ripped apart, Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine. Please, amid all of the chaos impacting Canada right now, remember them too.
So now, here we are again. Canada is facing threats to its very existence, incredibly from people we thought were our friends. They want our resources, they want our land, they want our fisheries, they want our water, they want our Arctic, maybe they want our souls. I know the US president could use a soul. It takes more than bravado to fight this kind of a threat. It takes brains, deep economic knowledge of how the world works, it takes strong, intelligent strategies, and the ability to recognize and seize opportunities both at home and on the world stage, opportunities that can bring a new level of prosperity and safety to people…..people who right now may be paralyzed with fear as they look to the future of Canada and the world.
April 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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This article is of particular interest given the ongoing investigation by the US Senate Judiciary Committee, into Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's involvement, his willful cooperation with China, to jeopardize US national security.

In effect, rendering all democracies at risk. 1/2
April 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Regardless of nationality, gender ID etc., no one should travel to the US unless it's absolutely necessary, certainly not at all as a member of a visible minority & / or with tattoos no matter how innocent.

CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
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April 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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@mark-carney.bsky.social

Please end the Safe Third Country Agreement with the US. It's not a safe third country for refugees.

Please amend our travel advisory to the US, as it's unsafe for anyone in opposition to the genocide or Trump, regardless of nationality.

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Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
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April 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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When I first saw this image, it had no citation. It's such a weird way for any man to stand leaning in to a stranger, let alone a politician who knows most women despise him.

I thought it had to be a fake, that he couldn't be that stupidly pompous.

I was wrong. He's as creepy & arrogant as ever.
Pierre Poilievre wearing a suit, jacket opened wide, chest puffed out, wrinkled shirt buttons straining, hands on hips, looking down at & leaning in towards, a female employee wearing protective work gear, helmet, vest. They are standing about a foot & a half apart. He is smiling in a combination of a smug, grimacing way at the woman, invading her space, while she is looking at him straight in the eye, totally serious, clearly not at all impressed.
April 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, ret. telling it like it is, "They are some kind of valiant fighters."

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The Houthis Have Cojones
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April 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Netanyahu's homicidal regime elevated their bloodthirsty Palestinian genocide, effectively superseding the Holocaust, desecrating the memory of all of its victims, endangering innocent Jewish & Palestinian lives everywhere.

It was never about the hostages, all for land.

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US-Israeli soldier held in Gaza says Trump is being misled by Netanyahu
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April 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM