Kristin Whiteley

Let's not forget the people who had to fight for years for their families and continue to fight for justice.....like Tamara Malcolm. #cdnpoli #mbpoli #Reconciliation #stolenchildren twitter.com/TamaraMStory/s…

@ActualNosferatu @cleanairtoronto They returned home before the outbreak was first identified…but, don’t worry…they’re asymptomatic and everything’s fine…🙄

New: The Ford government is refusing to say how much taxpayer money Metrolinx gave a development group that includes a close friend of the premier, over air rights the group didn't own. The transportation minister said that's "private." #onpoli thetrillium.ca/news/governmen…

The stated goal of banning social media for minors sounds noble. We are told it is to protect a vulnerable minority of children from online abuse, grooming, and exploitation. But the reality of these bans tells a very different story. Look at Australia, which recently implemented a nationwide social media ban for children under 16. Data analyzed by the Cato Institute reveals that the ban is not working as intended. In fact, 61% of kids aged 12 to 15 who had accounts before the ban still have access to them. They are bypassing the rules using VPNs, fake IDs, and by altering their appearance to fool age-estimation software. While millions of accounts were shut down, the ban actually created a new, unintended crisis. According to the data, 27% of parents reported that their children simply moved to alternative, less regulated platforms. By pushing kids off mainstream platforms that have parental controls and moderation tools, the ban is driving them into darker corners of the internet. It is creating a new minority group of users who are now subjected to the exact same dangers, abuse and grooming, but with even fewer safety nets. Furthermore, 25% of parents noted their children became less socially connected and less creative. For many kids, especially those with difficult home lives or niche interests, social media is a vital lifeline for community and support. A blanket ban strips away that connection, punishing the majority for the struggles of a few. If the ban does not actually save children from digital media, we have to ask what the real objective is. To enforce these bans, platforms are forced to implement strict age-verification systems. This means collecting sensitive data, like government-issued IDs or biometric information, from every single user, adults included. The only logical conclusion is that this is a stepping stone toward mandatory digital IDs. Once digital IDs are required to access the internet, anonymity dies. And when anonymity dies, the government gains the ultimate power to monitor, track, and censor whoever they want. We are trading our privacy and free speech for an illusion of safety that is not even protecting the kids it claims to save. #DigitalFreedom #SocialMediaBan #FreeSpeech #DigitalID #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety #CatoInstitute #Australia #InternetPrivacy #CensorshipAlert

Being against genocide isn't complex. Being against apartheid isn't complex.

Pulitzer Prize winner gets no media coverage. Total coincidence he is a Palestinian? #whatsthescam @kwingerei #gaza michaelwest.com.au/palestininan-j…

Regarding the objection that “the largest hantavirus outbreak recorded only had 34 cases, so it’s not very contagious: This is why it only had 34 cases: police enforced quarantines for 45 days, and it all happened in a 2,000 people village. Not in airports across the world.

This is Spear. He is being forced to leave his grandma's house against his will. You know who would never do this to him? Grandma. 13/10

“Neither the province nor the Toronto Port Authority have provided an estimate of the capital cost, nor the full environmental impact of extending the runway for jets. Neither have they provided a business case that there is pent-up passenger demand.”

Posing with disabled people like props when #ODSP is not even halfway to the poverty line and over half of us disabled Ontarians are unable to work. Lol. Your govt is openly attempting to genocide disabled people. Do we need to invoke a Charter challenge so you lose like NS did?

nike sent me a survey about how making a donation to trump’s ballroom would impact my view of their brand

Holly Blue, one of the ships that was boarded by the Israelis and left stranded west of Crete has been recovered by the team, and it is now sailing between all of her sister ships while someone on board plays a bag pipe. :-)

The New York Times shows the damning evidence that ICE is offloading its racial profiling onto local cops, as we predicted. Abhorrent behavior. A conspiracy against our rights.

Hasbara AI won’t make us forget seeing Palestinian parents carry their children’s body parts in garbage bags.

⚪️ Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour is facing growing calls in the UK for potential sanctions over the UAE’s role in Sudan’s devastating civil war, which aid agencies and U.S. officials say has killed at least 150,000 people since 2023. 🔹Human rights group FairSquare urged Britain’s Foreign Office to investigate Mansour, who is also the UAE’s deputy prime minister and brother of UAE ruler Mohammed bin Zayed, over allegations Abu Dhabi has supported the RSF paramilitary force accused of genocide, ethnic cleansing massacres, and sexual violence in Darfur. 🔹The UAE denies backing the RSF, but the UN, EU, Amnesty International, Reuters, and multiple UK lawmakers have all concluded there is evidence of Emirati weapons shipments, funding networks, and logistical support. 🔹Any sanctions on Mansour could force him to sell Manchester City under Premier League ownership rules, similar to Roman Abramovich’s forced Chelsea sale after Russia invaded Ukraine. 🎥 @MiddleEastEye reported from a protest outside City’s stadium in January 2026

“This is necessary following an extensive audit, during which the govt discovered numerous egregious financial decisions which lacked appropriate oversight by members of the college’s Board..." The government discovered? 😂 Ford has put Ontario half a trillion dollars in debt.

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?" Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything? Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it! And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else. Francesca Albanese is that someone. She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen." Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name. And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity. Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people. There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased. There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled." There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.” Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks. She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape". Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence. What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik. These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named. Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable. We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know." Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise. So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that. A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything. Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky. Let us stand with her. Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now. [Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

A lot of the freaking out about #hantavirus is a psychological defense mechanism against the ongoing threat of #Covid. 'Displacement' allows people to redirect valid concerns about repeat SARS2 infections toward much lower probability concerns about hanta, neutralizing anxiety.

I honestly don’t care if I lose my job or end up in prison for saying this: This is terrorism. THIS - Not the resistance to it. And every single politician in the world still defending or supporting this terror, and I am looking at the depraved ghouls in charge of the EU and, in particular, German politicians, who sit every night in one of the vomit-inducing “Stammtisch”-style talk shows deflecting or defending these atrocities, should be dragged before the ICC to answer for aiding and abetting these horrendous crimes against humanity. Go ahead, take my citizenship away and deport me if you want -if opposing your crimes is not compatible with your values. But you won’t be able to escape the consequences of your actions forever. Because what you never mention in your little talk shows for your local audiences, is the fact that the world has come to look at you as what you are: a rogue state with no regard for international or humanitarian laws -hated by virtually every country in the world for consistently being on the wrong side of history.

We were able to hire 3 journalists from Gaza. We will publish their first works soon. A Palestinian journalist (now on our team) founded, and is running, the project. He named the Gaza journalists project "Their Stories Are Not Over."

David Robinson, ED of the Canadian Association of University Teachers urges, the government to end the horrific ordeal inflicted on Hassan Diab.