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Shoutout to Jewish voices who are anti-genocide. You all are taking A LOT. I see you!

Is Avi Lewis too extreme for the electorate, or just too extreme for mainstream commentators? Ordinary Cdns support a wealth tax & would benefit from public alternatives to grocery & banking monopolies. #canlab thestar.com/opinion/contri…

@thomasjuneau As long as Israel is involved in precision executions of possible Iranian interlocutors, it appears there will be no peace and no ceasefire. Trump is now simply a distraction.

If there is a ceasefire soon - a BIG if - we are not back to the pre-war status quo (Iran will be weakened but vengeful & will have set the precedent of blocking Hormuz). But nothing will have been resolved - and the cycle of violence will seriously risk repeating itself.

@Joyce_Karam Was it an Israeli strike? Their version of "peace" is to tear Iran apart.

“While we were engaged in negotiations, they struck us,” #Iran’s Kamal Kharazi told CNN on Mar. 9. Today his home was struck, wife killed, he sustained serious injuries. NYT reports Kharazi was discussing w Pakistan possible US-Iran negotiations w VP Vance

“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.” - - A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré

“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.” A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).

@NoLore Good #1 question (lots of land as it's in a sprawling Ottawa suburb). #2: something to do with suburban low density neighbourhoods and related lack of transit. Could be corrected, but Ottawa is already having trouble with completed transit. OTH Ottawa taxis are great.

An 81 year old woman was run over by her own car as she tried to pay for hospital parking today. Which begs the question: 1. why do we charge for hospital parking? 2. why are people older than 80 being forced to drive everywhere?

In his last year, Stephen Lewis - a paragon of decency and humanity - protested the genocide in Gaza. All of us and especially our political leaders should take a page out of his book and learn from his unrelenting insistence for compassion and love of humanity.

These are the people who are always forgotten: the seafarers from India, the Philippines and other countries who we rely on to take goods around the world, but are underpaid and frequently abandoned at sea.

I’ll say it again: The destruction being wreaked on Lebanon by the Israeli invasion is not getting anywhere near the attention it deserves…

Charlie Angus gets choked up recalling hearing Stephen Lewis speak about mining widows as a boy: “That was the moment that I realized politics has to be about serving people who have no voice. And that was Stephen Lewis.”

CBC News honours the life and legacy of Stephen Lewis.

@AlexCrawfordSky Criminal Israel.

Israel’s ‘buffer zone will extend 30 km inside Lebanon, Israeli defence minister says and the more than 600,000 Lebanese residents who’ve been evacuated will be barred from returning ​south of ​the Litani ‘until the safety of residents in northern Israel is guaranteed’, he says

Former GTAA planner: Why is @Transport_gc mum on the airport debate? @NoJetsTO

Rising concern over Israel’s plan to expand its invasion of Lebanon and seize territory. The Israeli PM has stated the plan is to ensure safety of its northern borders from Hez rockets which continue to be fired from Leb. The war has led to more than a million people being displaced - one of the highest per capita in the world

Standing room only! Doug Ford seems desperate to take over our waterfront, at massive expense to the taxpayer and to the environment. Ontarians must fight back together!

Govt also proposing to allow privately owned public spaces to be used as parkland dedication requirements, meaning cities could lose publicly owned land.

@stphnmaher @DanMcCOtt And likely his staff. True "leadership".

@DanMcCOtt He pissed off his customers.

I find these complaints all ignore the fact that it was not smart of him to alienate customers in the second largest province. Not good businessing.

@LucianoNocente @MarkBourrie @DougSaunders Yes, and what percent staff?

@MarkBourrie @DougSaunders If you reach the point where you need the PR people to tell you that you need to communicate with 25% of your customers in another language, then maybe you're in the wrong job.

Two things worth knowing about this: 1) Air Canada is a private company, so it is the board’s perception of market forces that provoked this; 2) Mr. Rousseau’s appointment as the unilingual CEO of a Quebec-based corporation with a francophone HQ has been controversial for years

@DougSaunders Maybe his communications department did him in (out of frustration?). Or else he ignored their advice. If the board is primarily anglophone and/or non-Canadian this is a wake up call about requirements for their next hiring.