@TTCnotices Reminder/request: pls update the Next Vehicle results at stop 2419 (Eglinton/Weston) to include buses that now pass it coming from the new Mount Dennis station 🙏
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Michelle MacAleese
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Michelle MacAleese
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“Be strong, be gentle, be beautiful in mind, body & spirit” — Keiko Fukuda
Toronto เข้าร่วม Ekim 2008
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Michelle MacAleese รีทวีตแล้ว
Oh, be careful, Merriam-Webster, lest we suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights of our lexical ground.
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Michelle MacAleese รีทวีตแล้ว
Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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#personalnews: You might notice a Toronto location tag when I’m on TV starting next week. I’m staying in the same job at CNN, so this post is boring even by the standards of these posts, but I wanted to tell you I moved back to my hometown yesterday to live near family.
Longer version: It’s really not the best raising a kid with no family within a nine-hour drive, and my wife and I decided a few years ago that we’d take our baby to Toronto in 2025. I told CNN early last year, and I was very grateful they said I could keep doing the work from there.
I loved my decade living in the US and beautiful DC in particular. Thought I was coming for a quick couple years when I arrived in 2015 as a Toronto Star correspondent…ended up meeting America’s best lady, producing the sweetest little dual citizen, acquiring rural Virginia’s roundest dog, spending every Christmas in Kentucky. Life is confusing and fun.
I’ll be back in studio in DC on various occasions. Thanks so much for following all this time.
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Well, this is a first/ Someone just contacted me to say they’ve named a rescue cat after someone I wrote about in ‘Surrender’ — the indomitable Finisia Medrano who is sadly no longer with us. I miss her. But, she does live on.
#nonfiction #finisiamedrano #surrender #rewilders
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Michelle MacAleese รีทวีตแล้ว
My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal).
When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the regularity of open, vitriolic antisemitism in the cocktail parties and ambassadorial receptions that surround that crucial but flawed institution.
For this reason (among others) he’s always been the one in our family with the deepest atavistic fear of antisemitism. He was sympathetic to the idea of Israel as a refuge longer than the rest of us.
This is no longer the case. Like so many Jews who for decades adopted the dominant narratives of Zionism, he can no longer defend the current actions of the state of Israel.
He now regards Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal.
To return to the personal, seven years ago my Dad was diagnosed with a vicious cancer and was given as little as 3 months to live. It’s a sublime understatement to say that he’s a fighter - but he has persevered in life with a tenacity familiar from his political, diplomatic and humanitarian pursuits.
Which brings us to this morning, when at 87 years old, he spent an hour standing at the side of the road in his old riding of Scarborough West. Standing up as a Jew against genocide. Standing up for justice for Palestine. Standing up on the right side of history, where the vast majority of humanity currently stands.
I’ve never been prouder, never more humble before the stubborn principle and insistent moral clarity of the guy I’m so lucky to call Dad.
People of Canada: don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Starvation as collective punishment can never be forgiven.
Burning and burying children alive can never be defended.
Stand up against genocide until we make it stop!
Thanks Dad.
And special thanks to @CharlieAngusNDP for shining his spotlight on Ted Schmidt and the other excellent folks who gather every Thursday at 8 am at the corner of Victoria Park and Kingston Road in Scarborough.
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@cafreeland @HfxStanfield Did you learn anything about the rebranding of the Tartan Team? I find that so interesting and am excited about what follows next at one of Canada's friendliest airports.
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Today, I met with Joyce Carter to discuss the key role @HfxStanfield plays in strengthening Canada’s economy. Together, we’re committed to investing in trade corridors and advancing free trade across Canada to support a strong Canadian economy in the face of U.S. tariffs.
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INCREDIBLE!! I am nominated for three awards with the National Media Awards Foundation, @MagAwards
Digital Publishing Awards for my work in Grassy Narrows- 60 Year Legacy of Poison (featuring photos by Geordie Day @nightschool_films); My feature of police raids on Indigenous homeless encampment (and my arrest); as well as @nightschool_films and I’s documentary Apache Stronghold, the Fight to Save Oak Flat with @ricochet_en
Sometimes this work is difficult and you wonder if it’s making a difference- this helps a lot 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 So grateful to all the communities who open their hearts and share their storieses with us.
These are prestigious awards dedicated to promoting excellence in journalism and visual creation. NMAF honors outstanding journalists, writers, storytellers, photographers, designers and other media professionals, inspiring both seasoned and emerging talent.
Congratulations to all my fellow nominees and thank you for doing what you do!
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Michelle MacAleese รีทวีตแล้ว
I agree. We do ourselves a disservice when we use AI. It may produce results, but we skip the opportunity to use our thinking and writing skills.
Adam Grant@AdamMGrant
It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI. Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas. Writing is where we do our best thinking.
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Blue blossom (ceanothus) as seen on my street this morning.
Laden with blossom.
#ceanothus #blueblossom #blossoms #spring #Leytonstone
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Michelle MacAleese รีทวีตแล้ว
Lots written about Poilievre's restrictions on the press, but I'm not sure the public knows that local Conservative candidates across the board are refusing interviews. I wrote about why that's a problem. thelocal.to/conservative-p…
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Get in loser, we’re entering the space of overlap between the consequences of bad driving and the proper practice of scholarship!
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Michelle MacAleese รีทวีตแล้ว
“For generations, our trade agreements w the United States have recognized the exceptional cultural & educational value of literature by keeping books tariff-free…Books are not mere commodities but essential vehicles of knowledge, culture &understanding.” thespec.com/business/impen…
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Michelle MacAleese รีทวีตแล้ว
At work, men can be disliked but still respected. Women don't have that luxury.
Adam Grant@AdamMGrant
A sign of maturity is caring more about being respected than being liked. Liking is shallow affection. It comes from being pleasant—you bend over backwards to accommodate others. Respect is deep regard. It's earned by being principled—you consistently stand up for your values.
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Michelle MacAleese รีทวีตแล้ว
Our front page today. Happy 181st birthday to Canada's national newspaper.
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