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Columnist, Equity advocate @torontostar . Indebted to Indigenous, Black, Dalit wisdom. @Unifor87M equity

Toronto, Canada
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
3 years
Health twitter: Can you recommend a therapist with anti-oppressional understanding who is offering virtual sessions? Preferably female. Asking for a friend in their 20s. Thanks in advance.
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Rex Murphy getting a platform to air opinions on racism, a subject on which he has neither study nor experience, while completely qualified, racialized people don't get jobs in newsrooms, is peak white privilege. #CdnMediaSoWhite .
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I am Hindu. I have lived in Canada for quite a few years now. I’ve sometimes felt unsafe with white supremacists. Never felt unsafe/ don’t feel unsafe because of a Sikh person. Khalistan supporter or otherwise. This tweet below is a load of bull.
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Err. This is still the same white guy who compared homosexuality to dog tails and hasn’t apologized, and legitimized a xenophobic yellow vest rally and hasn’t apologized, right?
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Scheer says he is shocked, says what Trudeau did is racist, and it was racist in 2001. Says Canadians see Trudeau is unfit to lead.
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Several Ontario doctors tell me they are being hauled up for supporting Palestinian rights including for signing a "don't bomb hospitals" petition. Higher-ups have told them there were complaints and accused them of making Jewish colleagues feel unsafe.
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Cost of the convoy to the economy is billed at what, $3 BILLION? Imagine if Canada has instead donated $3B worth of vaccines to the world, we would have been farther ahead in blocking COVID and ending mandates. #VaccineEquity
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2 years
Canada: Read the words Kyle Rittenhouse and think Gerald Stanley today. We're not better.
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@ShreeParadkar
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4 years
How a six-people Whatsapp group burgeoned into a 100 volunteer strong non-profit in 6 weeks. @wick_22 and @VancityReynolds have become the public faces of Conquer COVID-19, but it began with two other Canadians, two Muslims, to be precise. #RamadanMubarak
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Dear Canadians: May I request that for the next little while we shush & listen with humility. Now is not the time to wonder “why genocide” nor to play devil’s advocate. Amplify Indigenous voices. #MMIWG . Reconciliation is a chance we have been given to make things right. Take it.
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Canada ABSTAINED. Years later when everyone’s piously saying “Never forget,” never forget this where Canada stands on this again and again.
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United Nations
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120 in favor 14 against 45 abstentions Countries adopt resolution calling for immediate & sustained humanitarian truce in the Middle East during an Emergency Special Session of #UNGA .
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On this #InternationalWomensDay repeat after me: Trans women and cis women are women.
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After years of keeping this convo in-group, I wrote about the unbearable anti-Blackness among brown folks, here and globally. That we’d rather kiss the ring of whiteness than be associated with Blackness has turned us into white supremacists in brown skin.
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I am an immigrant. I know many immigrants. Not one came here just to “collect dough” @fordnation . What’s more - this is important - we have just as much right to be lazy and dough-collecting as any Canadian, should we chose to be. Tired of the good vs bad immigrant trope.
@ColinDMello
Colin D'Mello | Global News
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Premier Ford says he's looking for "hard working" immigrants to help fill the labour gap. "You come here like every other new Canadian, you work your tail off. If you think you're coming to collect the dough and sit around, not going to happen. Go somewhere else." #onpoli
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Oh look there are people of colour supporting this [convoy/protest/political party/corporation] therefore it’s not white nationalism is the shallowest analysis of white supremacy and the most cynical appropriation of the politics of identity.
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@ShreeParadkar
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@andraydomise Trouble is we turn leaders into saints then build statues, and pull them down. Gandhi was hugely flawed esp around celibacy. He changed his early anti-Black views as his anti-caste views (still in a reformer way). He's also hated by Hindu supremacists for his views on plurality.
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John Tory committed other transgressions but it’s interesting to me that a sexual one is what he resigns for. It tells me “crosses the line” is understood when it means “offends (white) middle class sensibilities”.
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4 years
To people who don’t usually pay attention to race issues: anti-Black racism isn’t just a trending topic. When the news cycle moves on, the racism will continue, colonialism will continue to enact violence. That’s when these issues needs your attention.
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As a journalist, I am crushed by my industry’s silence on our Gaza colleagues. Those killed could have been any of us journalists of colour, which is why I say: I am Wael Dahdouh. Say it with me in Arabic: #AnaWael
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Many western media orgs didn’t cover South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. So actors stepped in to read out from it. If you didn’t have time to follow the proceedings for three hours, take 10 mins to watch this.
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In Context
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Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ
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@ShreeParadkar
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Wait a sec. “Call for a ceasefire” doesn’t mean just utter the words. It means you stop arms exports, restart UNRWA funding, push US to do the same.
@melaniejoly
Mélanie Joly
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The civilians in Rafah are people— they are mothers, children. They have names, stories— and they exist. Asking them to move again is unacceptable. They have nowhere to go. We need a hostage deal, for more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza and we need a sustainable ceasefire.
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@ShreeParadkar
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I obtained a recording of 2 sessions in an anti-racism training that’s been wrongly linked to an ex-Principal’s suicide. It reveals a fuller picture of a disagreement that has been cherry-picked, shorn off context, nuance by anti anti-racists. Pls read:
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Having whined for years about my critiques of racism and other oppressions, my winning the Atkinson Fellowship, my ombud’s role, Jon Kay is now going after my actual job. For the sin of speaking up for a people being slaughtered.
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Can you imagine the outrage if this happened to a white woman?
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Truly mask-off moment. CBC’s PERSONAL USE policy now forbids staff, who have spent years building trust on social media and expanding CBC audience, from RT-ing or liking anything CBC isn’t covering … which is A LOTTA things. Can no longer RT credible sources on Israel Palestine.
@Pacinthe
بسنت عماد الدين عبدالمنعم محمود مطر
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On Friday CBC News sent out a note reminding staff to not post/share anything on social "that CBC has not — or would not — put on air or online." Significant given the outsize role that Gaza-based social media reporting has played in showing what rarely makes it in legacy media.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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Some good news to share. Same job, more protection. Full details below 👇🏾 Always thankful and grateful for the massive amounts of support I get internally and externally. I’d be nowhere without community. Truly you all. 🤗
@TorontoStarUnit
Star Union
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We have some news to share: The creation of a Racial Justice & Equity Advocate, a fully unionized position that will assume the work of Internal Ombud, which was a part-time management role.
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Ontario doctor Ben Thomson, who has been volunteering in Gaza and WB since 2013, was suspended him after tweets on Israel-Palestine. Now he’s suing Mackenzie Health for >$1.5M. The hospital intends to defend itself in court.
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At 22, Amanda Gorman is the youngest poet to read at an inauguration
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Basically, folks, as my inbox makes clear, white people don’t like to be called white. #Fragility . (Happy to see notes of support, too, though!)
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U of O doctor ⁦ @yipengGe ⁩ suspended for pro-Palestine posts says he's been reinstated, won't go back. "The attacks are meant to discredit, call into question someone's character and integrity” to silence and scare people from speaking about Palestine
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4 years
One of these days Jagmeet Singh is going to snap and say something rude and people are gonna go “how aggressive!” That’s how the peaceful-protests-only people roll.
@_llebrun
Luke LeBrun
4 years
Jagmeet Singh was followed down Wellington Street today by that guy who tried to do a "citizen's arrest" on a Radio-Canada journalist. "Want me to arrest you?" he asks the NDP leader. The video ends with him telling Singh: "Next time I see you, we're gonna have a dance."
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To be clear: what Doug Ford insists on calling "absenteeism" - he means people whom his government said should isolate if they have symptoms, whether or not they have COVID-19 because they can't get tested.
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I'm #hereforCelina because it's time we centred discussions on racism around the oppressions Black women name and not around how they make white men feel.
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So tired of being attacked as a racist b/c I question racism or speak up against it. The label that does not belong to me. I will not sit & let others say what they wish, because they feel they can get away with it, or others are too cowardice to object. I will speak up #NotToday
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New from me: History needs to know we saw this happening, we understood what it was and we did nothing to prevent it. We need to know that to be on the right side of history requires that we grow a backbone in the present. #Gazagenocide
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3 years
Maybe Indians and diaspora celebrating this moment of Kamala Harris being sworn in could use it as a reflection moment on how they would respond today if their child brought home a Black partner, like Harris' mom did back in the day. #InaugurationDay
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This brilliant photo by @krushowy perfectly captures this moment in Ontario’s political, racial, sociological history. Who’s being ousted, for what reason, how alone she is, who is looking resolutely ahead or away and what, as @njaved astutely noted, the kids are seeing.
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Kristin Rushowy
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MPP Sarah Jama being asked to leave to legislature for wearing keffiyeh #onpoli
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“The government of Canada did not see any evidence backing up Israel's claim that staff employed by the UNRWA colluded with Hamas before suspending funding”: CBC News. Note, the Israeli government itself signs off on every employee hired by UNRWA.
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In a press conference just now, Richard Falk, ex UN rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine talked about the “transparent spectacle of genocide” by Israel and denounced double standard that no liberal democracy of the west has supported South Africa at ICJ. 🔥🔥
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. @RanaAyyub is the bravest journalist in India. That’s the tweet.
@AJUpFront
UpFront
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India is now the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. As Indians scramble for oxygen, medicines, and hospital beds, @RanaAyyub tells @marclamonthill she believes the country’s political leadership is morally “dead” and “depraved.” Full interview 1930 GMT.
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Release @photobracken but also release the elders, observers and other land defenders. #wetsuweten
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
2 years
Never have I felt the chasm with my industry more deeply than with the coverage of queen Elizabeth. For orgs that claim such emphasis on “balance” to offer such one-sided coverage, bits of critique appearing coz we insist… phew. I did my bit. Pls read:
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The previous secretary of defence, Jason Kenney, didn’t serve any tour, went to private high school and failed to get a university degree. Now that could be called affirmative action.
@braedencaley
Braeden Caley
5 years
Harjit Sajjan served 3 separate tours in Afghanistan, earned the Meritorious Service Metal & Order of Military Merit, was the 1st Sikh-Canadian to command a Canadian Army Regiment, & an 11-year veteran of the Vancouver Police. This kind of politics has no place in 2018. #cdnpoli
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Dear Lilly Singh and wannabes: am not the age group you target but take this as advice that will stand the test of time. South Asians are anti-Black AF. Your brown skin does not give you a pass to appropriate Black culture. Just 👏🏾don’t 👏🏾do👏🏾it.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 years
Some professional news 👇🏾. With (fake) apologies to those hoping this was a kick upstairs, I’ll still also be writing my column.
@caj
Canadian Association of Journalists
4 years
Shree Paradkar ( @ShreeParadkar ) has been named Toronto Star's "first internal ombud," a role that is being described as "a safe place for BIPOC journalists and all journalists to express editorial-related discrimination and bias concern."
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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Only an unprecedented and historic moment in global politics unfolding at The Hague but western media is studiously ignoring because… “objectivity”
@muhammadshehad2
Muhammad Shehada
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I can NOT find the International Court of Justice hearing on CNN, BBC, Channel 4, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, CBS, NBC, I24, DW, Sky News, or any mainstream US/EU TV channel... Only Aljazeera English, so far! What explains this unprecedented campaign of disinformation by omission?
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“Does your blood not move?” While this is a note written to one minister by his family, it could be equally asked of our entire establishment.
@ELDV4Palestine
Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine
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Open letter to @HonAhmedHussen from his family
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Journalists must be able to work safely… just not in Gaza.
@JustinTrudeau
Justin Trudeau
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Putin’s decision to expel Canadian media from Moscow is an attempt to silence them from reporting the facts, and it is unacceptable. Journalists must be able to work safely – free from censorship, intimidation, and interference. That is something Canada will always stand up for.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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I feel so done with white fragility, done with people who can’t see the bigger picture for their own racial insecurities, done with reverse racism bullshit. I got two columns to share here then taking a short break. Those doing the work, don’t forget self-care.
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“Black feminists have not only the right, but the duty, to take the stand against genocide, militarism, and occupation, and to challenge the Canadian government’s complicity in it” by ⁦ @policingblack ⁩, Nisrin Elamin, Alissa Trotz #sarahjama
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What I find telling is how quickly we’ve slid from “Canada has no racism” to “a few bad apples” to “it’s ONLY less than 5 %” of voters” who actively stepped out of their homes to vote for open white supremacists. For those not threatened, it’s never a big deal.
@SaveWildBees
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16k votes for this Islamophobe + 25k votes in Toronto for a nazi. When will we acknowledge we have a serious problem here?
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Canada is buying $43 million of an Israeli-made missile that has been flagged by human rights groups for its use in Israel’s bombing campaigns on the Gaza Strip, renewing the urgency of imposing a 2-way embargo on all military trade with Israel: The Maple
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When I think of the wall to wall coverage the Charlie Hebdo shooting. The outrage in our newsrooms about the attack on press freedom, wall to wall coverage on the tragedy, editorials, cartoons, and now, radio silence. Way to show what this is all really about.
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NEW: Why Sarah Jama’s libel notice to Doug Ford is an act of courage that serves break the silence around criticizing Israel and stands as a de facto defence of dissent
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I’ve called out my employer publicly 3 times (diversity, reining Desmond Cole, hosting Bermier). Each a lonely experience despite support of a tiny no. of journos. At least I had a platform. Far, far tougher for JOCs tackling power without visibility. This is for you.✊🏽 #CdnMedia
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2 years
To celebrate how rattled white man babies get when WOC break barriers, I’ve decided to share my Atkinson Fellowship series on Education without Oppression every time I spot Jon Kay still whining about it. Also I did 9 stories not 4. Basic fact check fail.
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It’s been pretty annoying seeing all the hand-wringing around this news development and to see our media decide that *this* is the point the election becomes about racism. My first column after a year away. #blackface #trudeau
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If you ever want an example of why people see Israel as a colonial settlement, listen to this video.
@seanorr
SEAN ORR
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NDP minister @selinarobinson justifying genocide by calling Palestine “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it”. Hateful, bigoted remarks that should result in her immediate resignation @Dave_Eby
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Simply horrifying. “Civilians sheltering inside a Gaza school killed execution-style” Al-Jazeera says. We can’t stop talking about this. Everything else - the blah blah blah di blah - is an attempt to distract.
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Would love to hear from Canadians who go around the world training journalism practices of a free press denounce this transparent assault on journalistic freedom.
@AJEnglish
Al Jazeera English
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Al Jazeera: Netanyahu's statements are lies that incite against the safety of our journalists around the world.
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Carding? As a response to the pandemic? Watch how white supremacy works to pathologize and keep in check the very communities it needs to build its wealth. So tired. #onpoli
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It took 18,000 Palestinian deaths that include 7,000 children, 7,000 people to go missing, 48,000 to be injured and 1.7 million to be displaced. Among a host of other atrocities.
@CJPME
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
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Breaking: Canada votes for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution was adopted 153-23.
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I don’t understand why these kits can’t be mailed to every resident and the rest given the option of pick up. If it’s one kit per person, how are seniors, people with disabilities supposed to line up for hours? And what about those who can’t take time off work to do this?
@jyangstar
Jennifer Yang
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Before I left Yorkdale Mall, I decided to walk the entire length of the line for #COVID rapid tests. It took three minutes to walk from the back to the front (at a very brisk pace). Here’s a sped-up video:
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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Meanwhile in real news, > 55 scholars of the Holocaust, genocide, and mass violence raise questions of genocide in Gaza given the starvation, mass killing, and forced displacement of Palestinian civilians + intentions expressed by Israeli leaders.
@jonkay
Jonathan Kay
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It's adorable that @TorontoStar is maintaining the fiction that @ShreeParadkar hasn't already disgraced herself on this issue over the last two months. Notable that the Star hasn't tweeted it from their main account, & Shree blocks comments. She's become a sad joke.
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@ShreeParadkar
Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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Am on bereavement leave for a close relative who fought hard and is now at peace. These are difficult times. Hold your loved ones close, friends.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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That the #USelections are so close, when one of the candidates is an outright lying, racist, misogynistic, anti-science, climate-change denying, anti-democratic despot... is dispiriting.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 years
Of late, getting a lot of emails from older white men grappling with/ coming to terms with racism. Hoping to see people entering decision making years do the same.
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So proud of the students exercising their democratic rights and standing for safety and respect. #ontariowalkout2018 #wethestudentsdonotconsent
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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I just want incrementalists or even folks who genuinely work hard to bring about anti-racist change in orgs to acknowledge none of it is possible without the threat of radicalism. It's radicals who take the heat, the ire and contempt and make others more palatable.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
6 years
I’ve never written a Jordan Peterson piece. Was it another POC, perhaps? I know we all look kind of exactly the same. Interchangeable.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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“Let me say it again (and again): Hamas is bad…Hamas does not represent me or any other Muslim I know. Hamas committed war crimes…My heart aches for my Jewish colleagues and friends. Now, may I please weep and mourn the lost lives of Palestinians?”
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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Investors, not immigrants responsible for housing crisis: “The real issue is that investors and builders are building fewer homes to keep prices high,” write Syed Hussan and Mary Gellatly:
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
6 years
Waking up to hundreds of tweets today after a white supremacists said talking about racism makes me an ingrate. As an immigrant, I'm not grateful after being "given" healthcare and a job. A few words about immigrants and gratitude. Thread.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
5 years
The thoughtful piece I’ve been waiting for. ”If we’re making Jurassic Park an example of interracial unity..., the next step isn’t to shame U.S. cities... it’s working to make the rest of the city more like Jurassic Park.” @MorganPCampbell
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
10 months
NEW from me: Muslims opposing LGBTQ2+ rights are part of a knotty issue of religious beliefs, political expediency and flirtation with outright hate, raising questions about whether freedom of religious expression is > than freedom from discrimination.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 years
How did someone at CBC news see the clip of the police cars mowing down folks and decide the point of it was “protestors threw things at cop cars”? Rhetorical. I know how.
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Luke LeBrun
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Here's a side-by-side comparison of what CBC News Network aired this afternoon and the original video clip. I'll let you be the judge about whether the final 5 seconds that @CBCNews omitted from its broadcast showed events that had public interest value.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 years
We like the pretty words that accompany reconciliation, but we don’t have the guts for the difficult negotiations it entails. When push comes to the gentlest of shoves, Canadians show exactly who we are: colonials through and through. My latest #Tyendinaga
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
3 months
You’d expect Canadian pediatric, medical associations + hospitals to be aghast at the plight of Gaza’s children, pushing the govt to at least demand a ceasefire. Instead they are silent or as good as silent. SicKids has even suspended staff on this issue:
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
5 years
Don’t normally cuss, but: Fuck Oakland cops, fuck Oakland, fuck California, fuck their wine, fuck their tech. Cancel California. Make carding Masai Ujiri a diplomatic offence. Fuckers.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 months
Here is Dr Ben Thomson, one of the first people in Canada to get penalized (doxed, suspended) for saying Israel was committing war crimes, talking about horrific conditions in health care in Gaza
@AJEnglish
Al Jazeera English
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“My physician friends in Gaza have been screaming that the international community needs to make this stop.” Canadian doctor Ben Thomson was suspended from his hospital and targeted online after speaking up for Palestine, yet he remains committed to demanding a ceasefire.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
5 years
It’s only when I came to Canada that I heard of “strategic voting.” I assumed it was some sophisticated 1st world idea until I saw it as sophistry. You can’t be strategic when you can’t know how others vote. Go with your conscience! Vote for the country you want. #ElectionDay
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
3 years
Never forget that Munk Debates platformed Steve Bannon and #Cdnmedia defended it because apparently you can just debate people out of hate.
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Jon Favreau
3 years
I’m not going to share the video, but Steve Bannon called for the beheading of Dr. Fauci and FBI Director Chris Wray. Political reporters who still interview him and go to him for quotes like he’s a legitimate public figure: maybe stop doing that?
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 years
Just read what happened at Joliette hospital - this is Canada. Then I read Legault’s denial of systemic racism. This is Canada, too. (Don’t @ me about other countries. Fix us first)
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
3 months
When will Canada ever say CEASE FIRE NOW? Didn’t do it when Israel killed 5,000 Gazans. Or 10,000. Or 25,000. Or after the ICJ - a court the West created - said Israel would stand trial for genocide. Or after the massacres continued. Now with this forcible transfer? “Concern”
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Mélanie Joly
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We are deeply concerned by reports of an Israeli military operation in Rafah. It would have devastating impact, putting the lives of Palestinians and foreign nationals,including 🇨🇦s, seeking refuge in grave danger and making the vital delivery of humanitarian aid dangerous. 1/2
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
6 months
“CTV National News has featured 62 per cent more Israeli than Palestinian voices, aired racist stereotypes about Arabs, and allowed Israeli military officials to make false claims without pushback” in coverage since Oct. 7, an analysis by The Breach found.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
3 months
An A+ lesson on Critical Issues in Journalism has been unfolding on Twitter today, with people in serious positions of leadership showing the citizenry what not to do. No wonder public trust is low.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 years
Can you imagine the outrage if these anti-flatten the curve folks were Black and/or Muslim or heaven forbid, East Asian, instead of merely ones flashing white power signals? #covidiots ? I call them #covacists
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
1 year
This week, the Vancouver city council adopted a definition of antisemitism that’s drawn criticism worldwide, including from progressive Jewish communities. I go into how it undermines both the Palestinian struggle + struggle against antisemitism.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 years
You know, when people leave off “white” when they say women in a context like this, like it’s the default for womanhood, and then say it’s worth celebrating, that’s establishing a hierarchy. Let’s celebrate this now and you all await your turn. Change will trickle down. #Bull
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Rosemary Barton
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@LenardMonkman1 Agree, but an all woman political panel is also worth celebrating.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
5 months
Dr. Yipeng Ge, a staunch advocate for health equity and social justice, a public health graduate from Harvard with work experience with the WHO and in the West Bank, was indefinitely suspended from his University of Ottawa residency after social media posts critical of Israel.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
6 years
If death is an acceptable outcome for trespassing and attempting to steal, then it should follow that Indigenous people be allowed a free hand with settlers who have grabbed their land and stolen its resources by hook and crook. #justiceforcolten :
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
3 years
Is it “unprofessional” for journalists to respond to racist hate mail with a “kindly fuck off”? 🤡
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 years
Dr.Ngola overcame hardships to live the immigrant dream in NB. Then Canadian racism hit: he’s labeled Patient zero for COVID, premier threatens prosecution, he is doxxed, lives in fear - all for doing what other doctors did. By ⁦⁦ @AmiraElghawaby
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
2 months
For those in power now calling Gaza a “humanitarian” crisis, if you aren’t able to bring yourself to denounce or even name the perpetrator of the violence that led to this crisis, your talk of (much-needed) aid is just convenient, conscience-absolving, self-serving saviourism.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
5 months
Along with air and ground assaults in Gaza, Israel has also launched verbal volleys of dehumanizing language against civilians. Gazans are terrorists, sympathizers, or human shields - anything but innocent. I get into how this rhetoric is so deadly
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 months
There's a clear concern about scholasticide + the denial of it, Abdel Razzaq Takriti tells me. "As scholars, we cannot fathom how it is possible that we're supposed to stay silent while our colleagues are being bombed with bombs supplied by our countries."
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@ShreeParadkar
Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
9 months
If you can’t understand how Upholding white supremacy ≠ You’re a white supremacist Or I experienced worse racism in Canada than in US ≠ Canada is worse than the US You need anti-racism training. Err…may I suggest the KOJO Institute?
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@ShreeParadkar
Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
1 year
Tory was drowned out by chants of “house the homeless, feed the poor. Kick John Tory out the door.” I’d say Toronto knows exactly what’s going on here. Follow live via @dmrider @alysanmati
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
5 months
Are doctors who support Ukrainians not offering fair care to patients of Russian origin? Is this how health care institutions are going to go about tackling established medical racism? Based on geopolitical opinions of the day?
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@ShreeParadkar
Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
3 years
So honoured to receive this year’s Racial Justice in Media Award from @UARRToronto . Dedicating it to all who trusted me to share their stories and to all who have been deliberately silenced. #cdnmedia ✊🏽
@CMaclin4HR
Christine Maclin
3 years
Congratulations @ShreeParadkar on your @UARRToronto Racial Justice Award 2020 for all the work you do. Dedicating this award to all the Black, indigenous and people of colour who are invisible in their organizations, workplaces and in society due to racism. Time for change
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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“Palestine is so often…the rock on which the moral and ethical underpinnings of liberalism are dashed. While Western liberals constantly speak in the language of human rights…they fall silent when allied nations carry out similar barbaric actions.”
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
4 years
You mean to say its one-day training session didn’t eradicate anti-Black racism at woke Starbucks? Shocking, I tell you.
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