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FW (Russ) Russell-Rivoallan 🇨🇦
@russinnormandy.bsky.social
Former Canadian 🇨🇦 senior UN 🇺🇳 official; Strategic Policy Advisor, Multilateralist and Royal Canadian Navy (Medical Services) Veteran.
Now happily retired and gardening in Normandy, France 🇫🇷.
“Venerable” conservative think-tank???
More like: radical, extreme right, xenophobic, misogynistic, hateful think-tank.
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Dear #FIFA Fans:

If @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social keeps 2026 World Cup games in tRump’s USA, don’t buy tickets.

Fans must not let football/soccer become propaganda for authoritarian, white supremacist politics.

Boycott is the only peaceful power we have.

Attendance is complicity.
October 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Pete Hegseth wasn’t Regular Army—he was a part-time weekend soldier in the National Guard. Yes, he deployed, but …
Let’s be clear: he doesn’t have the training, skills, or command experience of the Generals he tried to lecture today.
September 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thank you for this information!
September 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Still, an historical document that should be placed in the safekeeping of the Canadian Government, for the express purpose of such a discussion.
September 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Can’t the Government of Canada, or the Canadian Museum of History — or some similar national entity, recover this document, which is of historical importance for our country?
@markcarneyforpm.bsky.social
@stevenguilbeault.bsky.social
@canmushistory.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
So Kimmel expressed an opinion, protected by 1st Amendment & gets cancelled, while Kirk, who spewed hate, promoted violence, demeaned women & pushed racial discrimination and homo- and trans- phobia is given national honours.
Whose values are out of line? 🤔
Help me understand.
September 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
So Kimmel expressed an opinion, protected by 1st Amendment & gets cancelled, while Kirk, who spewed hate, promoted violence, demeaned women & pushed racial discrimination is given national honours.
Whose values are out of line? 🤔
Help me understand.
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
So Kimmel expressed an opinion, protected by 1st Amendment & gets cancelled, while Kirk, who spewed hate, promoted violence, demeaned women & pushed racial discrimination is given national honours.
Whose values are out of line? 🤔
Help me understand.
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
So Kimmel expressed an opinion, protected by 1st Amendment & gets cancelled, while Kirk, who spewed hate, promoted violence, demeaned women & pushed racial discrimination is given national honours.
Whose values are out of line? 🤔
Help me understand.
September 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“Genocide is occurring in Gaza. The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies w/ Israeli authorities at the highest echelons who have orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost 2 years now with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The danger of Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric is not only in the words themselves, but in the culture they create. His constant resort to fear and scapegoating deepens divisions, normalises hostility, and corrodes the democratic norms of respect and pluralism that are essential to American society.
September 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
How about this poignant quote?

“It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.”
— Charlie Kirk
September 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Agreed! The slant towards capitulation is frustrating and worrisome.
August 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Why would anyone freely choose to visit the United States these days?
July 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
People have to act now! The USA is becoming unhinged.
July 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Imagine if this image was of another religious group praying on the House floor: the backlash would be instant & vicious. This calculated display reinforces ultra-conservative Christian normativity & undermines the spirit of pluralism & secular governance. Its nauseating & deserves to be called out.
July 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM