Stefan Baral

My Public Health Truths (a "living" thread). There are few "truths" in public health, but the following include those I have observed in quantitative & qualitative studies, community engagement, and program implementation independent of socioeconomic or geographic contexts.

@unhiddenness @Arturmaks In fact, since you seem like such a thoughtful person, my stepmom even wrote a book about it. Let me know when done reading so we can chat more :) amazon.com/NOTES-EXILE-Sa…

@unhiddenness @Arturmaks This was well documented even in '68. nytimes.com/1968/08/18/arc… Half of Swedish Jews (including my family) ended up there because of this...

I was kicked out of Poland in 1969 for being a Jew. I am told by too many in Canada to go back to Poland. I am told by antizionists I don’t belong in Israel either. They simply dont want us to exist anywhere.

@hatoka81 @HenMazzig I think that's been made clear for decades.

@sdbaral @HenMazzig Jews not welcome in Poland

“Go back to Israel. Not here. This is my country.” On Holocaust Remembrance Day, an airport employee harassed a visibly Jewish man at a Polish airport. Never mind that 6 million Jews were murdered, or that, 81 years later, the lesson still hasn’t been learned. Can we acknowledge the irony of an antisemite telling a Jewish man to leave Poland?

I will say that even for a nothing story like my own, it took me dozens of comments on the post about me to get them to delete it. I would post and then some other folks would post lies and it took about a week to get it deleted. In the end, some editor of unknown significance made the final call about my story. I will never donate to wikipedia again.

After building one of the world's biggest and most loved channels with 20 billion views, Wikipedia thinks this is how I'm received. The opinion of a nobody Palestinian matters more than 70m people from every country in the world. lol how is this allowed?

@NoahidTurk @NoaMagid It's in Israel...

This is who they are.

As someone has surely said, there is a sect called Raelism that uses this as their symbol. I was exposed to it first in the 90s in Montreal when my landlord who was married to his sister had a van with this insignia on it.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABl…) They essentially believe aliens will come soon.

Primal Scream have been reported to the police for screening antisemitic images of the Star of David merged with a Swastika for their song ‘Swastika Eyes’ at North London’s Roundhouse. A Jewish fan who was in the audience told me how sickened he felt to see the sign for Judaism merged with the sign of those who killed 6million Jews. My exclusive story below 👇🏼

@CarymaRules I like the dude at the 1:00 minute mark holding up the peace sign and then immediately raging in anything but a peaceful manner... oy vey.

Local resident walks his dog alongside pro-Palestine protesters marching on Bathurst towards Sheppard. Meanwhile, police essentially block side streets with bicycles, keeping protesters off residential sidewalks. 📸 Dec 7, 2025 #Toronto #ProtestMania Fund this work so it can continue: ProtestMania.com

I keep wondering when our elected officials or city leaders will realize that they have built no good will with these folks in having not just allowed, but facilitated, these demonstrations over the last few years. The moment they do something consistent with the law that runs counter to the will of these folks, they end up as the butt of one of these banal chants.

@brianlilley What does Toronto want to be when it grows up?

These people are insane. First off, they want a mayor to cancel events they don't like - they don't believe in free speech. Secondly, Chow has been too sympathetic to the Hamasniks like these ones, "my crazies" as she has called them. They want to defeat her now.

@calvinrobinson @visegrad24 And what was the motivation for a smaller country that had no connection to Germany to "deal" with a much larger country that was actively discussing splitting that country up with another country (Russia). What good would have come out of those talks for that country?

@visegrad24 The Germans wanted to reclaim majority German Danzig, which was separated from Germany after WWI. Britain, for some reason, gave a war guarantee to Poland, thus removing any motivation for the Poles to deal with Germany. Rhineland, Austria, & Sudetenland were ethnically German

Tucker Carlson implies that the UK shouldn’t have declared war on Germany after the German attack on the UK’s ally Poland. He seems to argue that Germany wasn’t a threat to the UK and that Hitler was focused on fighting communism. He completely ignores that Germany remilitarized the Rhineland, breaching the Locarno Treaty which the UK was a guarantor of. He also says nothing about Germany taking over Austria and breaching the Munich Agreement by occupying Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939. Finally, Germany orchestrated a false flag incident at the radio station in Gleiwitz and invaded Poland despite knowing that the UK had issued full security guarantees to Warsaw. After the German invasion, the UK sent several diplomatic cables to Hitler, telling him to withdraw his forces from Poland to avoid a full-scale war. Hitler refused to listen. Hitler always wanted Germany to become a hegemonic power and made that clear to Germany’s military elite in the Hossbach Conference in 1937.

@mapleblooded @CTVNews In fairness, CTV just paid to rerun the story originally developed by what it seems like is a camera man at Associated Press? linkedin.com/in/fadi-tawil-…

@CTVNews Hezbollah is a designated terrorist entity.

Thousands mourn Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli airstrike ctvnews.ca/world/article/…

@libsoftiktok It even says on GoFundMe that he is based in Regina...

You are in Canada

One would be hard pressed to come up with a viable scenario for a police officer pushing someone first by the arm and then on the chest and then indicating it was for his safety without giving a warning that he was being verbally or physically aggressive with the folks across the street. I know these officers are just told to do this and likely care little other than drawing time and a half on a sunny sunday...but just painful to watch all around.

@joe_warmington @CarymaRules I guess so Joe but you have to be honest, stuff like this never happened in Canada until a few short years ago...

Canadian-Italian father manhandled across the street by Toronto Police after allegedly being swarmed by masked pro-Palestine protesters. Police effectively blame him for approaching the crowd. WATCH FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/6-EyJ6zgMeQ?si… 📸 Nov 23, 2025 #Toronto #ProtestMania

@l3v1at4an @Favretto @TheBeerStoreON I used to feel bad about the inevitable demise of the Beer Store with these new rules. Thanks to Derek I am now free to never worry again as these stores systematically close across the province.

Derek Favretto @Favretto is the owner of multiple @TheBeerStoreON locations in Ontario including Barrie & Parry Sound. He is also a part time dog walker based in Parry Sound. Derek Favretto holds a strong disdain for “scum vile Israelis”, claiming they are “not Jews”, “deeply unwell people”, accuses them of “harvesting organs”, and that “their existence is predicated on killing, annexation, and marginalization.” Referring to the October 7th war crimes of rape, Derek Favretto declines that Israel women did not experience any rape while warning Israelis that the resistance (Hamas) “doesn’t lay solely in Gaza anymore” and that they are “toast”, threatening their safety with terrorism from Hamas. Derek Favretto states it was “Jewish money” that was used to help get Donald Trump elected. Derek Favretto has no issue promoting a website of Canadians that have served in the IDF, which has been used as source of threats to their safety despite no proof of any wrong doing. This is a Notice of Public Interest to the Israeli Jewish communities in Ontario regarding this individual who has a vile hatred of Israelis. We suggest them not to use their “Jewish money” to support Beer Stores any further given he is a owner of several locations. All materials provided were obtained via publicly available sources & does not contain any forms of private media.

@CarymaRules The TPS must understand that there is no goodwill built with these folks. Ie, they can bring them coffee, ignore or downplay threats, protect them from any challenge, and beyond. And it will buy the TPS exactly 0 goodwill with these folks. They get that. (right?)

Protest content creator Jagbir Ghankas confronts Inspector Bernardo, linking the Kubota tractor incident to his allegation that Bernardo himself once drove through a crowd. The Inspector scoffs, saying protesters swarmed his car while he was driving: “How about you don’t block police vehicles? How about you don’t get in people’s way?” 📸 Nov 18, 2025 #Toronto #ProtestMania

@AdinHaykin1 @susanabulhawa @VoteLewko These folks have great difficulty understanding the idea of cause and effect...

@susanabulhawa @VoteLewko The 2000 Ramallah incident is the reason there are Israeli soldiers at every entrance you moron

two undercover Israelis, disguised as Palestinians, were captured as they attempted a routine assassination or kidnapping of Palestinians in 2000. the crowd killed them. the red hands are a symbol of an indigenous people's refusal to capitulate to jewish supremacist foreign colonizers, and of our enduring commitment to resist our tormentors by any means necessary. it is the right of all colonized people to fight those who kill, rob, and oppress them.

@CarymaRules If anyone has priced the cost of TPS overtime, the opportunity cost of crimes not prevented or uninvestigated for the city. And...whether there is any end in sight.

What’s on your mind today? #ProtestMania

@uricohenisrael Nihilistic self-enricher...

How would you describe this person in two words?

@l3v1at4an I don't get the anger towards the videographer...

So much for “Bubble Laws” as radical Jew hating scum pass by a Jewish synagogue “protesting” in a residential neighborhood.

@TinashePeter_ These folks seem well.

I'm 99.9% sure that most of these "groypers" have never even met an actual Jew... They live in a fantasy land where they are being "attacked" by THE JOOS. This is no different from Liberals obsession with being "oppressed" by "The White Man!"