Robin V Sears

Literally crying in the Target parking lot right now. 🧵 I was struggling with unloading my toddler, my bags and wrangling an unruly cart (seriously — why do some lack power-steering?) A fire truck from Redondo Beach (E61) had just parked nearby and four firefighters got out.

@BrianaCap Wow! Eloquent! Powerful. Thank you You just made this grumpy old man cry…

@MacLeodLisa Lisa: I thought you had grown out of that divisive, adolescent insult era for which you were once famous. Give your head a shake! Truly gratuitous and stupid

thestar.com/opinion/contri… This is going to get worse. Robin

@MercedesGlobal That’s disgusting Mercedes. Perhaps a group of your friends might have a ‘chat’ with him. Happy to volunteer .

Guess who is out and reoffending and breaching his probation again? Yes, that would be the guy who sends me sick messages. About 18 months now. OPS will charge him with additional offences & breach him. However bc he lives in a town in Ontario outside Ottawa… nothing happens.

@DuwaLashiLa @StateDept He looks good!

I and leading members of Myanmar's democracy movement & resistance orgs met @StateDept Counselor Tom Sullivan & USAID Asst. Admin Schiffer; appreciated the US for commitment to expand direct support and assistance to improve the provision of public services and humanitarian aid.

@pdrobertson Oh, don’t be silly. They don’t teach any literature, because we don’t care..and out of ignorance. I had to explain the Japanese expulsion to my grade 12 history teacher! (my CCF grandfather fought it vigorously.) You occasionally slide into simplisticisms these days, old friend.

Because the people doing the teaching are Marxists.

@joe_cressy Warm Congrats! They need a little nudge from someone with political bones!

Some news. I’m thrilled to share that I have accepted a new job as Chief of Staff at Waterfront Toronto. Values driven, community-based, and in partnership with all three orders of government and the non-profit and private sectors – it's city building at its best. I can’t wait.

@davidfrum Dear David, So sad to hear of your loss. They seem to come weekly these days. Lost Ed Broadbent and two other friends in the same week. Please take the time to grieve with family and friends.

I've been away from work because of a bereavement. I will remain away for some time yet. But I had to interrupt my own grieving to offer a first-hand point of view on the injustice of a silly line of attack on President Biden. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@foxgw @hydroquebec Fascinating gig at a fascinating time! Congrats. Please keep us posted!

After three incredible years at Navigator, the time has come for me to open the next chapter in my career. Pleased to announce that, next month, I will be joining the executive team at @hydroquebec as vice president, public affairs, external relations and communications.

Working-Class Hero, International Statesman: Ed Broadbent, 1936-2024 - Policy Magazine policymagazine.ca/working-class-…

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@sunlorrie Oh, please shut up. Your constant spewing of generalizations helps inflame a dangerous time. As a progressive, I despair at the rise in anti-semitism and Islamophobia people like you make a living fuelling. What will you say to your grandchildren about the lives you endangered?

Irony: Today's 'progressives' are running interference for the Islamofascism of Hamas.

@mellissafung Listen to Melissa. She’s been there. Robin

I don't know who needs to hear this but please respect the hostages' privacy after their release. No one will know the trauma they've suffered. Give them the space they will definitely need. 🙏

@AliVelshi Uh, Ali did you look up who that jerk is before posting him so uncritically?

@dmrider Uh,no, David. Haaretz is as left wing as the Toronto Star. Imagine the Star’s coverage of a racist, corrupt, and incompetent PM who had led Canada into an ongoing conflict with the US. Haaretz was very hard on Labour governments that I suppose you are too young to remember.

(Haaretz is a big, credible and left-leaning Israeli news organization. Much of their critical reporting on this conflict would be considered controversial in North America)

@TimothyDSnyder Re-reading your book w Tony Judt. Each of you had a sunny view of the decline in anti-Semitism at turn of the century. Any idea about its staggering surge into a new plague now. Gaza hasn’t helped but here in Canada it’s been on a slow and steady rise for years. Thoughts? Robin

1/20. Democracy is precious and exceptional.