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@zandertoo @canada_spends Stop trying to privatize everything you weirdo freaks. Maybe you can disclose who funds your astroturfing operation.

@canada_spends inb4 "but the military never turned a profit"

Canada Post was once profitable – turning a profit nearly every year from 1995 to 2017, and even paying dividends to Ottawa in 2004 and 2005. That's changed. Since 2018, Canada Post has lost ~$5.4B, depleted its cash reserves, and now depends on ~$2B in federal loans to stay afloat. Its inability to adapt to a changing market raises a hard question for taxpayers: is it time to consider a pivot for Canada Post?

@Aaron_Derfel @harleyf @Modern_Hostess A tax write off for a billionaire. How noble.

1) Just days after The Gazette published a story about an innovative project by The Jewish General Hospital involving digital health records, Shopify president Harley Finkelstein (@harleyf) and his wife, Lindsay Taub, (@Modern_Hostess) donated $500,000 to the JGH Foundation.

@NoLore Twitter

I'm covering the NDP convention this upcoming weekend. If my goal is maximum reach for real people, where should I primarily post, Bluesky or Twitter? I'll throw a few posts up at Gander too, and maybe remind people at LinkedIn that I'm there ... reply with your thoughts!

@JesseBrown Ya man. Normal people just care about men, women, children being subjected to the whims of a brutal apartheid state then subsequently getting genocides for two plus years. Imagine that, being a human being.

Another common lie is that antizionists in Canada are "Palestinian activists". I never use the term because I know that Palestinians are a small minority in the Canadian antizionist hate movement. Most people involved have no direct link to Israel/Palestine.

@build_canada Who funds you?

Canada can be a superpower. This month, we'll look at seven reforms that can help us get there. buildcanada.com/memos/canada-s… 📰

@BryanPassifiume No, you're just unworthy of respect. You're not worth a dignified response or being taken seriously.

@BrianCinnamon Love how the far left always resorts to insults when their arguments run out lol

It’s so amusing how the far- left keep pushing the “famine” and “genocide” narratives when social media posts by Palestinians themselves easily disprove both

@BryanPassifiume Your bald dome has already sullied any reputation you had.

@BrianCinnamon Stop committing genocide against my good name lol

@WillSloanEsq His character in Andor literally has a speech about the inhumanity of needing to use the tools of your oppressor, too.

He's right and he should say it!!! x.com/vulture/status…

@TomCzitron @atRachelGilmore @YorkParamedics Being a psycho won’t bring your hair back, egghead.

@atRachelGilmore @YorkParamedics Rachel, do you hate Jews because you genuinely are antisemitic or is it because it's leftist policy and you're a semi-sentient robot with a weak mind? Or did the Jewish boys in high school ignore you?

If this is true, it’s a disgusting act of cowardice from @YorkParamedics. Just horrible to campaign for a person to lose their job because they had the audacity to opposes genocide and, as a healthcare worker, specifically condemn Israel’s attacks on healthcare workers. My god.

@robgillezeau This is who the United States has been in the world, just turned inward.

This is absolutely vile. The Untied States seems intent on finding the most abhorrent thing it can do in any situation, particularly with respect to the Ukrainian people. Canadians will welcome our Ukrainian friends with open arms as the United States turns its back on them.

@fagstein So you don’t think quote tweeting a local story to your 15K followers, most of whom are probably from Montreal, about doxxing a university student to the world has any impact on this persons potential safety?

@BrianCinnamon This one copy of this video has a million views already, I don't think it would have disappeared into obscurity if it wasn't for my amplification.

For the record, the student in this video denies using that word and says she called the woman a cunt. Does that matter? Not really. Will people on the internet yell at each other over what she said anyway? Of course they will. montrealgazette.com/news/local-new…

@alondiamant @melnickjeffrey1 It’s not up to Palestinians to pay the price for centuries of European antisemitism.

I read the letter. So basically these students are calling for the end of Israel as a Jewish country (1-state solution, right of return, non-Jewish majority), or even as a country at all (dissolution of Israel, some other solution found for the Jews). We all know very well what happened in 1938, with the Évian Conference and the refusal of any country to accept Jewish refugees from Europe. We all know what happened to these European Jews. This is why it is not only moral but imperative for Jews to have their own country. So what happened in 1938 never happens again, so that Jews have where to escape to should the need arise, the capability to defend themselves. Moreover, like all groups, Jews have a right for self-determination. Self-determination denotes the legal right of people to decide their own destiny in the international order. Self-determination is a core principle of international law, arising from customary international law, but also recognized as a general principle of law, and enshrined in a number of international treaties. These students might not like the current implementation, which is fine - Israel can certainly be criticized and should be, but they are saying the Jews do not have this right and that the entire concept of Zionism should be questioned. This seems extreme, and dangerous. Lastly, Israel's existence was mandated by the U.N. and it is recognised by most of the countries in the world today. It did not form "out of a vacuum" to paraphrase Mr. Guterres. Now, these students might not feel in danger in their campus, but that 6-7x rise in levels of anti-Semitism all over the U.S. has caused many Jews to feel unsafe. Only yesterday a Jew was killed for demonstrating on a street. One day, these students or their descendants might unfortunately need a Jewish state to take them in, when invariably the world again chooses to reject them. I think the solution is basically what the students say - Israel does not speak for them, and they do not speak for Israel. Or rather, Zionistic Jews and anti-Zionistic Jews. Taking it a step further, it might even basically be two self-determined and separate groups. It is fine for such splits to happen in groups. It is natural over time. Let this message not suggest that I support all Israel does. I do not, especially not it's presence in the West Bank. I support a 2-state solution and want Palestinians to have their own self-determination and an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict. But I am a proud Zionist - and as I wrote above, I believe Israel's existence to not only be morally correct, it is also a sad necessity of this world we live in.

This open letter from Jewish students just arrested at Brown made me actually cry. These are my Jews. So many of us. I'm so proud of them for standing up and sitting in. browndailyherald.com/article/2023/1…