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@sarobertsonca Retarded failed theatre kid.

Wab Kinew: "Let's just call it what it is. They started this war as a distraction from the Epstein files. There is no reason for this war ... they started this war as a distraction from a domestic political problem."

@piran_peyman @Reuters Blocked of course lol Militarising a city is a natural response to threats and these threats turn city into citadel for a practical purpose. To protect its citizens. You can chose to look at this through the lens of race all you want. It won’t save your legs from being blown off.

@piran_peyman @Reuters Oh fuck all the way off with this drivel. Brussels was BOMBED by islamists not that long ago and the locals welcomed the military presence. No one is buying your “colonial oppression” framing.

Belgium deploys soldiers to city streets to provide extra security to the Jewish community following what officials said were antisemitic attacks in Belgium and the Netherlands reut.rs/41olOKM

@LeadingReport BREAKING: retardation is seeing a resurgence.

BREAKING: The ‘r-word’ is seeing a resurgence, per Toronto Star.

@jeremy_gans @MichaelPlaxton This is terrible.

New Canadian ‘National Requirement’ for LLBs/JDs to enter a bar admission programme: flsc.ca/wp-content/upl… This is the *whole* substantive law requirement:

@HiddenYorkshire Fascinating discourse and thread 🫡

There's a very specific online Anglo-trad aesthetic: tweed, home counties, Brideshead Revisited, Chesterton, pipe-smoking, a deliberately upper-middle class Edwardian refined affect which is totally inscrutable to anyone outside of it. It's meaningless to me, from a scruffy council estate Up Norf. I relate far more to a 19th century chapel aesthetic: William Booth's early Sally Army, Wesleyan Methodism, inner-city missions.

@BasilTheGreat @GBNEWS Why hasn’t The Spectator written or commented on Restore? Its beginning to annoy me. @michaelgove @spectator

Why is Rupert Lowe banned from appearing on @GBNEWS ?

@Canucks Wtf just play hockey

Eid Mubarak to those who are celebrating! 🌙

@VancouverPD Later today probably

#VPDNews: Thanks to the assistance of a witness, a suspect of an alleged purse-snatching has been arrested and charged. A 59-year-old woman using a walker was at West 8th Avenue and Spruce Street on Wednesday, shortly before 4 p.m., when a man reportedly grabbed her purse. She subsequently fell to the ground and suffered minor injuries. A witness driving by saw what happened, stopped his vehicle, and chased the 41-year-old suspect. When he caught up, the suspect allegedly threatened the witness with a knife, and dropped the purse before fleeing. The witness returned to the scene with the purse and provided a detailed description to police. “Thanks to this description, our officers located the suspect moments later near the seawall,” say Constable Megan Lui. “We commend this Good Samaritan for assisting the victim, and are thankful there were no further injuries.” Brandon Cormack, 41, has been charged with one count of possessing weapon for dangerous purpose, and is being held in custody. Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to contact investigators at 604-717-3321.

@VancouverPD Deport him back to Scotland

#VPDNews: A violent offender who was arrested by the VPD earlier this month has been released back into the community. Jordan McIntosh was previously released into the community last September. He was serving a conditional sentence order related to two counts of assault and one count of breach release order from a 2024 incident. McIntosh was bound by several conditions which included wearing an ankle monitor. After cutting off his ankle monitor and going on the run on December 4, investigators with the VPD’s Intimate Partner Violence and Risk Assessment Unit became involved due to McIntosh’s history of violence against women. Detectives and District Five officers received information on March 2, and tracked McIntosh to a rooming house on Water Street. “McIntosh tried to escape by jumping out of a window,” said VPD Sergeant Adam Donaldson. “Fortunately, our officers planned for that scenario, and he was taken into custody with the help of a police dog.” McIntosh was held in custody for a breach of conditional sentence order hearing that took place yesterday. The court ultimately decided to release him back into the community to serve his sentence with another ankle monitor, rather than keep him in custody. McIntosh has 49 criminal convictions, including 11 for violence or weapons.

@CTVVancouver I guess she can’t rely on Jimi Pattison donating any funds.

All aboard the train to Whistler or Campbell River? B.C. Green leader proposes province-wide rail network ctvnews.ca/vancouver/arti…

@caitoz How is the projected situation here much different than the rationing Allied populations undertook during WW2?

Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact the whole world. Israel has bombed the world’s largest natural gas field in southwestern Iran, reportedly in coordination with the United States. Now that a major red line for Tehran has been crossed, retaliatory strikes have already begun pummeling the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region, with Qatar reporting that its primary gas facility has sustained “significant damage” from an attack after Iran issued evacuation warnings for energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Fuel prices are already surging. If middle eastern energy infrastructure starts taking extensive damage on top of the already hugely significant Iranian blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, this war could end up affecting virtually every corner of human civilization in one way or another. Westerners are largely apathetic about US military explosives landing on populations on other continents. But once it starts having a direct impact on their personal bank accounts, you can expect them to get a lot more interested in US foreign policy. This war has been a bit odd for me because as an anti-imperialist peacemonger I’m not yet entirely sure what my role is in my commentary here. Normally I’d be begging westerners to care about another horrific act by the US war machine, but as things stand it looks like westerners are going to be forced to care about this one whether they want to or not. Normally I’d be writing furiously about how people should not support this war, but the war has exceptionally low public support already. Normally I’d be trying to help everyone open their eyes and recognize the US warmongers for the psychopaths that they are, but the Trumpanyahu administration is openly waging an unprovoked war of aggression while constantly thumping its chest and boasting about how it’s showing the Iranians “no quarter, no mercy” and saying it can kill whoever it wants with impunity. Normally I’d be writing about how the mass media are churning out war propaganda to manufacture consent for more US military butchery, but the mass media keep putting out stories about how the US government is lying about a war that should never have happened while Trump administration figures have public tantrums about how the media isn’t churning out war propaganda for them. President Trump is on social media babbling about how news outlets “should be brought up on Charges for TREASON” for not reporting on an embarrassing story about a US aircraft carrier fire the way he wants, while Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave one of his fire-and-brimstone podium sermons bitching about how “an actual patriotic press” would be framing this war in a more positive light. Do you see what I mean? What am I supposed to do with this? Where does that leave dissident fringesters like myself? All I can do is clear my throat and sheepishly go “Uh, yeah, I uh… agree with CNN.” With Ukraine the mass media fell all over themselves to hide the west’s role in provoking the conflict, framing Putin as an evil maniacal Hitler figure who just spontaneously flipped out and invaded a country on Russia’s border because he hates freedom. With Gaza the western press gave nonstop narrative cover to Israel’s genocidal atrocities, constantly dragging public attention into an endless conversation about antisemitism and Jewish feelings whenever opposition to the slaughter got too hot. That’s just not happening with Iran. It’s the first US war I’ve ever seen where a big chunk of the empire just refused to get on board. The media’s not playing along, US allies are telling Trump to get stuffed when he asks for military assistance with the Strait of Hormuz, and the public’s not buying the lies. This is a frightening time to be alive — but you can’t say we’re in a period of stasis. Things are moving faster and faster. They might get a whole lot worse. They might get a whole lot better. They might get a whole lot worse and then get a whole lot better. But it seems a safe bet that the situation won’t remain the same.

@GermanyDiplo @scoopercooper @AussenMinDE “With every passing day…” 🤦🏻‍♂️ it’s been 47 years of posing a threat to neighbours and the wider region.

With every passing day of the war, it becomes clearer that the Iranian regime poses a serious threat — to its neighbors and the wider region, to freedom of navigation, and to the global economy. This threat cannot be allowed to persist. — @AussenMinDE #FAC 1/5

@BryonyClareD @PortTheatre Had a cursory look on Facebook at Ben Bollich and his drum circle of wet, boomer, yoga victims and wow they really are something else. The whole situation shows we need more private venues and less funding for culture until things change.

The same crowd cancelled me in 2023 — @PortTheatre told me I needed a chaperone inside the venue because I was “unsafe” for sharing a Guardian article on Facebook! — and I mentioned Bankas’ earlier Edmonton Fringe cancellation in my piece for Quillette! quillette.com/2023/10/24/bet…

Nanaimo’s authoritarian Arts crowd once again exposed on the international stage. @PortTheatre @triggerpod

@Nick_Decap @TristinHopper many such cases

I used to be pretty left wing. Around 2009 was the first time I remember it becoming really clear the left was moving away from me. I was a student at UVic, and i went to a talk by an Iranian dissident. She was an atheist, and went beyond critiquing the regime and critiqued Islam itself. Being a defender of diversity, I raised my hand and objected, saying something about it being unfair to tarnish the whole religion because of a few extremists. The speaker didn't back down at all, and defended her views and pushed back hard on several Muslims in the crowd he objected. She didn't change my mind, but I'd appreciated hearing from someone with direct experience of the regime, and the open exchange of ideas on a difficult topic. The day after the talk I ran into a Muslim woman who had also pushed back on the speaker. She had started a petition to the university demanding an apology and action to prevent speakers saying similar things in the future. I was shocked. I took it for granted that we all supported free speech, and the way to resolve differences was to debate them. I refused to sign and told her why, but she was unapologetic and used language that is now very familiar, about words causing harm to marginalized communities etc etc. I talked to other people who had been to the talk about this, and most of them had signed the petition and didn't share my objections. They saw no problem censoring opposing opinions if the people being criticized cried hard enough and appeared sufficiently marginalized. This didn't turn me around overnight, but I become very conscious that a large portion of the left was moving in a direction I wouldn't follow, and I started thinking alot harder about the left wing positions I supported.

@vanliberals Phobia meaning fear? It’s not fear just scrutiny.

Islamophobia has no place in our society, in our schools, or in our politics.

@LeftHandStu “…chattering class…third party advertisers” 🫵

It’s honestly wild that the CEO of one of Canada’s largest corporations is this openly and explicitly anti-Indigenous. Like he’s upset at calling Canada “Turtle Island.” You’d at least hope someone this wealthy would be less of a wet blanket.

@preta_6 :((((

My city’s new “artist in residence” - presented without comment…

@amboultbee Tara Armstrong, while maybe a bit clumsy in her wording is doing the right thing. There needs to be pushback. Progressive policy has brought us some wonderful things historically but it’s reaching its late decadent phase and angering a lot of people.

Recall Tara Armstrong.

@ThePostManAways What are you talking about?

Hoorah!!! 🥳🎉🥳No doubt, the cabal of evil creeps behind this count will be back under another account, but today I will celebrate!! #VanPoli