Ps, @KevinVuongxMP lots of cultural groups deservedly have heritage months, where students have the opportunity to learn about various cultures. tdsb.on.ca/Community/Heri…
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Deepa Subramaniam
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Deepa Subramaniam
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“My job is to speak truth to power and baby, imma do it ‘til the day I die” - Niecy Nash stan. Justice. Dogs. Palliative care. Pop tarts. Views my own 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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It’s October, which is @tdsb’s Islamic Heritage Month. Disgraced former MP @KevinVuongxMP demonstrates how deeply pervasive anti-Muslim hate is. Thank you for the timely reminder on why these heritage months are so important for our children
Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦@KevinVuongxMP
Someone at Earl Haig Secondary School thought today, #Oct7th, was the day to play our 🇨🇦 national anthem in Arabic. This was, at best, insensitive, and more than likely intentionally meant to cause distress & harm to their Jewish @TDSB students. That person should be fired.
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Remarks beyond parody, from Canada's lawyer for Israel at the UN.
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Canada has hundreds of IOF soldiers coming into the country. This violates our own immigration laws, which prohibits people who have committed war crimes from entering
Instead of focusing on this, the government has banned Kneecap from entering because or “terrorism”
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@mohamadfakih8 With you 100%! Much respect to you and with you in solidarity
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A coordinated, well-funded pro-Israel campaign is trying to come after my reputation, my Order of Canada, my business, and my staff — with threats, smears, even physical attacks. All because I speak the truth about the genocide in Gaza.
This isn’t about one tweet.
It’s about silencing anyone who dares to speak up. I won’t be intimidated.
Watch my video #cdnpoli #Canada
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These killings were not the result of a passive failure to protect. They were intentional. This framing is shameful.
Anita Anand@AnitaAnandMP
Canada is horrified by the Israeli military’s bombing of the Nasser hospital in Gaza. The government of Israel has a duty to protect civilians, healthcare workers and journalists. The violence must stop and civilian lives must be protected.
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Solidarity with Air Canada flight attendants — armed with a 99.7% strike mandate. End poverty wages. The airline failed to raise wages to match industry standards, inflation, or even the federal minimum. Since 2000, entry wages increased by $3 per hour while inflation climbed 69%
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This is a teacher @TeachMiron at @afpsyr who dresses up as a literal war criminal at an education event. This is a despicable act of violence and racism. @YRDSB your job is to ensure students are safe at school. How can Palestinian students feel safe among genocide glorifiers?
Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا@SMohyeddin
📍NEW: A @YRDSB elementary school teacher is wearing his Israeli army uniform to the @ETFOeducators annual meeting — Golani Brigade patch is on it. His name is Ellie Morin. This is outrageous. How can Palestinian families feel safe sending their kids to his classroom? #ONpoli
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Did you know that Canadian flight attendants work an average of 35 hours per month for free? They are only paid for in-flight hours even though their labour extends well before and after flight. This has to change. Read more from @AdamDKKing1 in 2023.
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I stand firmly with @cupenat and the right to a fair wage and work that is compensated
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CUPE, Air Canada’s flight attendants’ union, rejects agreement to fly Canadians home. As a result, 25 000 additional passengers are going to be stranded abroad.
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Handing out bandaids to the victims while you supply the perpetrators with weapons won’t absolve you of your crimes.
Anita Anand@AnitaAnandMP
Canadian aid continues to enter Gaza. We are doing everything possible to ensure that essential aid is being delivered to Palestinians who so desperately need it. We continue to call on the Government of Israel to unblock land access completely so that aid can flow uninhibited. Thank you to the Kingdom of Jordan and @AymanHsafadi for continued support in facilitating the flow of Canadian humanitarian aid, including 9 tons today.
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“Everything possible” includes a full arms embargo, @AnitaAnandMP. You will be remembered in history books for your role in whitewashing this genocide. History books tell us that your grandfather was a freedom fighter against the British occupation of India. You are shameful
Anita Anand@AnitaAnandMP
Canadian aid continues to enter Gaza. We are doing everything possible to ensure that essential aid is being delivered to Palestinians who so desperately need it. We continue to call on the Government of Israel to unblock land access completely so that aid can flow uninhibited. Thank you to the Kingdom of Jordan and @AymanHsafadi for continued support in facilitating the flow of Canadian humanitarian aid, including 9 tons today.
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Congratulations @ETFOeducators and Ontario’s teachers - you did it. The simple act of providing support for Palestinian students who are experiencing the unimaginable. Imagine how amoral and monstrous you’d need to be to be against this
Jamie Mitchell@realJ_Mitchell
The motion that passed. This is not discriminatory in any way shape or form.
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“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”
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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.
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“Keep going, @yipengGe, you are our voice” - signed every physician of conscience everywhere 💔
Yipeng Ge 葛义朋@yipengGe
What do you do when it’s too much. The grief and pain of it all. Grief for many lifetimes over.
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But for the foreign economic, military, and diplomatic support Israel receives — including from Canada — these atrocities would not be possible.
No amount of hollow statements or airdrops from Israel's aiders and abettors will absolve them of their complicity in this genocide.
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The fact that journalists in Gaza all have pre-written posthumous messages to be published upon news of their death tells you all you need to know about their existence & how we’ve failed them. Anas Al-Sharif faced death twice: writing this and when killed by the Israeli military
أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif@AnasAlSharif0
هذه وصيّتي، ورسالتي الأخيرة. إن وصلَتكم كلماتي هذه، فاعلموا أن إسرائيل قد نجحت في قتلي وإسكات صوتي. بداية السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته يعلم الله أنني بذلت كل ما أملك من جهدٍ وقوة، لأكون سندًا وصوتًا لأبناء شعبي، مذ فتحت عيني على الحياة في أزقّة وحارات مخيّم جباليا للاجئين، وكان أملي أن يمدّ الله في عمري حتى أعود مع أهلي وأحبّتي إلى بلدتنا الأصلية عسقلان المحتلة "المجدل" لكن مشيئة الله كانت أسبق، وحكمه نافذ. عشتُ الألم بكل تفاصيله، وذُقت الوجع والفقد مرارًا، ورغم ذلك لم أتوانَ يومًا عن نقل الحقيقة كما هي، بلا تزوير أو تحريف، عسى أن يكون الله شاهدًا على من سكتوا ومن قبلوا بقتلنا، ومن حاصروا أنفاسنا ولم تُحرّك أشلاء أطفالنا ونسائنا في قلوبهم ساكنًا ولم يُوقِفوا المذبحة التي يتعرّض لها شعبنا منذ أكثر من عام ونصف. أوصيكم بفلسطين، درةَ تاجِ المسلمين، ونبضَ قلبِ كلِّ حرٍّ في هذا العالم. أوصيكم بأهلها، وبأطفالها المظلومين الصغار، الذين لم يُمهلهم العُمرُ ليحلموا ويعيشوا في أمانٍ وسلام، فقد سُحِقَت أجسادهم الطاهرة بآلاف الأطنان من القنابل والصواريخ الإسرائيلية، فتمزّقت، وتبعثرت أشلاؤهم على الجدران. أوصيكم ألّا تُسكتكم القيود، ولا تُقعِدكم الحدود، وكونوا جسورًا نحو تحرير البلاد والعباد، حتى تشرق شمسُ الكرامة والحرية على بلادنا السليبة. أُوصيكم بأهلي خيرًا، أوصيكم بقُرّة عيني، ابنتي الحبيبة شام، التي لم تسعفني الأيّام لأراها تكبر كما كنتُ أحلم. وأوصيكم بابني الغالي صلاح، الذي تمنيت أن أكون له عونًا ورفيق دربٍ حتى يشتدّ عوده، فيحمل عني الهمّ، ويُكمل الرسالة. أوصيكم بوالدتي الحبيبة، التي ببركة دعائها وصلتُ لما وصلت إليه، وكانت دعواتها حصني، ونورها طريقي. أدعو الله أن يُربط على قلبها، ويجزيها عنّي خير الجزاء. وأوصيكم كذلك برفيقة العمر، زوجتي الحبيبة أم صلاح بيان، التي فرّقتنا الحرب لأيامٍ وشهورٍ طويلة، لكنها بقيت على العهد، ثابتة كجذع زيتونة لا ينحني، صابرة محتسبة، حملت الأمانة في غيابي بكلّ قوّة وإيمان. أوصيكم أن تلتفوا حولهم، وأن تكونوا لهم سندًا بعد الله عز وجل. إن متُّ، فإنني أموت ثابتًا على المبدأ، وأُشهد الله أني راضٍ بقضائه، مؤمنٌ بلقائه، ومتيقّن أن ما عند الله خيرٌ وأبقى. اللهم تقبّلني في الشهداء، واغفر لي ما تقدّم من ذنبي وما تأخّر، واجعل دمي نورًا يُضيء درب الحرية لشعبي وأهلي. سامحوني إن قصّرت، وادعوا لي بالرحمة، فإني مضيتُ على العهد، ولم أُغيّر ولم أُبدّل. لا تنسوا غزة… ولا تنسوني من صالح دعائكم بالمغفرة والقبول. أنس جمال الشريف 06.04.2025 هذا ما أوصى بنشره الحبيب الغالي أنس عند استشهاده. إدارة الصفحة
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