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🇨🇦🏳️🌈 Columnist at @NationalPost . Founder/Director: @the_crdp + @breakingneedles Sanctioned by 🇷🇺 Forgive the typos.
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Russian troops tried to kill me on Saturday. I was accompanying humanitarian aid workers delivering medicine to villages north of Kharkiv, near the front line. We stopped briefly at a destroyed bridge, and then the Russians targeted us with artillery.
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FYI: According to a 2018 Pew Poll, Ukraine is the least anti-Semitic country in central and eastern Europe.
Reference:
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Earlier this year, an editor at a progressive publication pressured me to misrepresent interviews I'd conducted with black queer refugees in Ukraine because he refused to believe that they didn't consider racism or Nazism a huge issue in the country.
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Went to Odesa’s opera house to celebrate Christmas Eve. The programming was incredible, despite the war — breathtaking contemporary dance and ballet.
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Ukraine unanimously passes new law banning discrimination against LGBTQ people 🌈👏🏼🌈
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It’s funny that Poilievre won on a platform that included “build more housing,” “make life affordable,” and “let immigrants get jobs that match their education” and people are deluding themselves into thinking this is fascism.
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Today I interviewed Avraham Wolff, the Chief rabbi of Odesa. When I told him that some foreigners still think that Ukraine is infested with Nazis, he was shocked. He said that, before the war, he thought this propaganda was "a joke" but now the joke "isn't funny."
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Can’t wait for queer tankies to explain how Ukraine unanimously voting in favour of banning anti-LGBTQ discrimination is actually Nazism.
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"Ukraine is not full of Nazis. Jews who are living here know the truth. We feel anger because of this propaganda – before the war, we didn't even realize how strong it was."
- Ihor Shatkhin, assistant to Rabbi Avraham Wolf, Chief Rabbi of Odesa
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It was a powerful reminder of how, for some western journalists and editors, Eastern Europe can only be seen as a backwards and brutish place that is statically stuck in the past. The chauvanism and prejudice is exasperating.
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Far-left: “We must stop all manifestations of rape culture.”
[Hamas executes 260 people at a music festival; gang rapes women near the dead bodies of their friends before killing them]
Far-left: “That’s just 🌈✨ decolonization ✨🌈 Those women were asking for it 🤭”
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He rewrote my article opening to make racism in Ukraine seem harsher, and then asked that I remove sections where the refugees mentioned that Ukraine had evolved over the past 10 years and that racism and Nazism weren't major issues for them anymore.
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Missile strikes? That won’t stop Kyiv’s drag queens from putting on a hell of a show. Happy New Year ❤️🇺🇦
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This happened months ago, but it popped up in my head today as I've been interviewing representatives from the Jewish Ukrainian community and pondering why so few international media outlets have platformed local Jewish voices when discussing the myth of rampant Nazism.
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If you feel like gaslighting people about food shortages by posting photos of full stocked grocery stores, go the extra mile and send photos of your clean tap water to Indigenous communities so they know their problems don’t exist either. Same principle.
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I’ve been learning Ukrainian for the past six months and it feels so gratifying to be able to have basic conversations with people in the language.
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For anyone interested, here is the article in question – I ended up getting it published in
@INMagazineCA
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The editor claimed that it was not the publication's job to rebut negative claims about Ukraine, but to just give snapshots of the refugees' experiences – except he seemingly only wanted to use snapshots of their lives if they portrayed Ukraine as racist. It was so disingenuous.
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He ignored the screenshots I'd taken of conversations with other racialized refugees, such as
@mariamposts
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I've heard rumours that pro-Ukrainian content has been de-boosted on Twitter for the past two weeks, and, conversely, that pro-Russian content has been given more prominence. If you've noticed this on your feed, send me a DM.
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If Pollievre keeps his populism strictly focussed on economic justice, I could see him winning over tons of young voters who are currently disaffected by housing unaffordability and inflation.
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A year ago, I impulsively flew to Poland to cover the Ukrainian refugee crisis. It was a life-changing decision that led me to quit my job and move to Odesa, where I now live with my boyfriend. I've fallen in love with not just him, but with Ukraine as a whole.
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There’s clear evidence that pediatric gender identity services can amount to conversion therapy. LGB youth, particularly effeminate boys and masculine girls, are being pressured into falsely identifying as transgender, thereby “transing away the gay.”
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When I pushed back, he became rude and unprofessional, to the point where I decided to withdraw my article from the publication.
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It got so bad that he asked me why I was preoccupied with discussing racism and Nazism in the story – as if those weren't vitally important topics to touch upon when discussing gay black refugees in Ukraine (it was also only <20% of the total word count)
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If you're confused about whether Nazism is a problem in Ukraine, consider listening to Ukraine's Jews. They angrily denounce the narrative as propaganda that offensively erases Ukraine's vibrant Jewish community.
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When my ancestors tried to free themselves from Ottoman rule, they were slaughtered and a tower was made with their skulls.
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My new 10,000 word investigative report shows that Canada's safer supply programs have been a disaster. A significant portion of the opioids being distributed by the government are being sold ("diverted") to the black market to purchase illicit fentanyl.
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Keep digging yourself into a bigger hole, Taleeb. My reporting here is just beginning.
Every reasonable minded Conservative should be mortified by this absolutely vile, disgusting misrepresentation of the truth.
Poilievre should be ashamed of himself, but he doesn’t know better.
The facts are clear: safe supply saves lives; trading on misinformation does not.
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When I first came to Ukraine I was apprehensive about experiencing homophobia — but, instead, I found a vibrant LGBTQ community and this guy 🌈
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When I first came to Ukraine this spring, I expected to experience a lot of homophobia. My expectations were quickly proven wrong. It’s been wonderful to see so much open-mindedness, especially among younger and urban Ukrainians.
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I'll be sharing some content about Odesa's Jewish community over the next few days. They seem happy in Ukraine and pissed off at Russia – I guess the Jews must be Nazis or something like that.
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Look at all these cis gay men hiding.
It’s quite ironic that the LGBs claiming that trans people are the outliers are actually the outliers within the
#LGBTQIA
+ community.
They also forget that while cis gays hid when LGB was illegal, trans people, butch women & camp men fought for their rights
#GWithTheT
#Always
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The toilet in my boyfriend’s apartment stopped working tonight. I let him know that, if the problem persists, we can just fly to Canada and apply for MAID.
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"We know that, before the war, most radical groups in Ukraine were financed by Russia. They attacked the LGBTQ community again and again. Russia financed them and used them to say Ukraine is a Nazi state."
- Borys Khmilevskiy, Paralegals UA
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A concerned community member sent me photos of a sex-ed brochure that is being distributed in high schools in Nanaimo. The brochure normalizes use of hard drugs while having sex, and discusses BDSM, scat, fisting, and piss play.
This brochure is being given to kids as young as…
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In what constitutes a clear trampling of parental rights, British Columbia recently authorized the provision of “safer supply” fentanyl to youth across the province, regardless if parents are informed of, or agree to, this measure.
Read more:
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- learn cyrillic
- go to buy groceries
- handwriting everywhere
- ?????????
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As a writer, I came to Ukraine because it seemed like a moral duty to do so. But I stayed out of love – love for the culture and people and cities, and love for the man with whom I live in Odesa. Whatever power outages may happen, my heart is illuminated here.
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Western queer people can be so coddled that they simply can’t fathom the level of homophobic violence that occurs in other parts of the world. Worse yet, these people exaggerate the dangers of their own communities to satisfy an unhealthy persecution complex.
And to those ignorant fools who have the nerve to tell me I would be decapitated in a heartbeat in Gaza: what about Glasgow? What about Moscow? What about Medford, Malden or Marlborough Massachusetts? As a gay person who can’t pass, as a cross-dresser, as a sissy—they have, they…
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"I feel very bad because the war has broken has all of our institutions. It has broken our whole world, which we built for 30 years. It has broken our schools, our kindergartens, our newspapers, and everything. The whole community is broken now because of the war."
- Rabbi Wolff
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Some LGB youth falsely identify as transgender to cope with bullying and shame, putting them on a path towards medicalized transition that effectively “transes away the gay.”
Want to fix this? Fight homophobia and destigmatize gender nonconformity.
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Canada’s post-nationalism is failing. People yearn to belong to a community – without a strong national identity, they retreat into smaller, niche communities that Balkanize society. Nationalism can, and should, act as a positive force for inclusive social cohesion.
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I was recently made aware of the fact that Dr. Andrea Sereda (
@andreasereda
), founder of Canada’s first so-called “safer supply” program, will be giving testimony to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Health today.
In light of this, I must publicly announce that I have been…
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"LGBTQ Ukrainians don't want to be 'tenderly' guarded. No, we are the same as everyone else – ready to defend more than just our community. We must be visible in this war, because the world must know that we are accepted."
- Maxim Potapovych, KyivPride (
@KyivPride
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The missile attacks today were meant to plunge Ukrainians into darkness and ruin their New Years celebrations. Judging by how lively the city is, that didn’t work 🇺🇦✨
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Holy crap. The RCMP just confiscated 3,500 hydromorphone pills in a single BC raid.
I wonder where the pills came from 🤔
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Went back to Odesa’s main gay club for the first time since December. Now that the city’s electricity is stable, and military curfew has been pushed back an hour (to midnight), the dance floor is so much fuller.
Nature is healing ❤️🏳️🌈
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Why are Canadian public health officials are so preoccupied with “destigmatizing” hard drugs when one of the greatest public health victories of our generation was the collapse of tobacco smoking – a change that was brought about by stigmatizing the practice.
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At an Odesan bakery, the shopkeeper takes my order while speaking a mix of Russian and Ukrainian. She asks where I’m from.
I tell her that I’m Canadian and apologize for my poor Ukrainian. “I’m learning it right now and I only speak it poorly.”
She smiles and says, “Me too.”
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Fun trivia: so my boyfriend remembers how, when the Soviet Union was collapsing, the television stations would only play Swan Lake. As a child, he knew that, whenever Swan Lake was on television something bad was happening.
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When
@ArzuJaeed
's family was ethnically cleansed from Karabakh 30 years ago, they thought they'd only be gone for a week. When they visited their city after Azerbaijan de-occupied the area, everything had been destroyed. They found a single tile from their old home.
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When one of Canada’s leading experts in addiction produced research critical of British Columbia’s “safe supply” strategy, the provincial government allegedly retaliated by ordering him to erase his data and froze him out of future policy consultation.
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Ukraine's victory is integral to the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in Eastern Europe. Should Ukraine fall under Russian occupation, local queer activists will be hunted and executed, and all of Ukraine's legal protections for LGBTQ people will be undone.
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Amid the Hunka scandal, it should be stressed that Ukraine’s Jewish community does not believe that contemporary Ukraine has a significant problem with Nazism or anti-Semitism.
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Ukraine is not stuck in the 90s. The Ukraine of today yearns to have European values and acts accordingly. The perception of Ukrainian backwardsness is just typical western chauvinism towards Eastern Europeans.
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An Azerbaijani grave in Aghdam. The city's pre-war population was 28,000. During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in the 1990s, Armenian forces razed every building to the ground and looted local graveyards.
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In this article, I tell the story of Madison, a teenage girl in the Vancouver region who became addicted to hydromorphone diverted from “safer supply” programs.
Thank you,
@scoopercooper
, for providing a platform for Madison’s story.
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I went to Odesa at the end of a 10-week reporting tour throughout Ukraine last spring. I couldn’t get permission to go to Mykolaiv, a nearby city that was on the frontlines at that time, because I only had a bulletproof vest and no helmet. Faced with extra free time, I opened…
Couples… don’t all speak at once but… how did you meet your other half?
Indulge me I’m a romantic!
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It’s easy to say that you’re comfortable with open drug use in public parks when you have a big house with a private backyard at your disposal. Limitless compassion is cheap when other people pay the costs for it.
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.
@SarahAshtonLV
was the only openly trans war correspondent in Ukraine before she gave that up to enlist in the military last week. Not only does she break stereotypes, she's also legendary for her bravery. Learn more in my
@dcexaminer
profile on her.
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This week, a mob of protestors stopped Professor Robert Wintemute, a veteran gay activist and human rights lawyer, from hosting an event on behalf of
@ALLIANCELGB
. My article explains why that was an unacceptable violation of free expression rights.
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When we arrived in Karabakh, we heard an explosion. It was a mine being neutralized. Minefields are everywhere here — making the area exceptionally dangerous for returning IDPs. The world should support Azerbaijan’s de-mining efforts by sending personnel to train local sappers.
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The future is uncertain. I have no clue how I'll split time between here and Canada, but that will sort itself out. I am simply here, in this country, sharing its stories when possible. I hope that one day you can come see Ukraine, too.
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"If Russia wins, human rights will absolutely be erased in Ukraine. LGBTQ+ activists will be tortured. We know that our names are on a list held by Russian security forces. We know that they will come for us and literally kill us."
- Lenny Emson, KyivPride (
@KyivPride
)
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When I got back to the hotel last night, I spotted some guests with signage supporting Pierre Poilievre. It turned out that, through an incredible coincidence, he was having a rally in my hotel in Vancouver. So I waited around and got to say hello. 🙂
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The lower Karabakh region is eerie. After the Armenians ethnically cleansed the Azerbaijanis living here, they destroyed every building and settlement. The ubiquity and totality of the destruction was unlike anything I’d ever witnessed before.
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British Columbia has lost the plot entirely.
NEW - A leaked memo from
@Northern_Health
instructs staff in hospitals to allow patients to use drugs in their hotel rooms, not seize their drugs, not seize any weapons with blades under 4" long and not restrict visitors even if they are bringing drugs into the hospital.
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Marxist grad students fuming about Vancouver’s election should consider listening to low-income communities, not lecturing them. They might realize that “the working class” is composed of actual human beings who can disagree with them.
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Carolyn Bennett, the Minister for Mental Health and Addiction, won’t be running in the next election. Good. Her incompetent management of the opioid crisis is leading to countless, unnecessary deaths.
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A landmark 400-page report published in the U.K. earlier this week has confirmed that, in most cases, gender-diverse youth should not be given puberty blockers, hormones or sex-change surgeries.
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Wanting to feel safe in your neighbourhood, and to not have children stumble across syringes and feces, is not a “bourgeoise” value – it’s basic self-respect.
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The ruins of Aghdam, sometimes referred to as the “Hiroshima of the Caucasus.” The Armenians destroyed almost every building in this town to discourage the return of displaced Azerbaijanis, then mined the land. I’d never seen such total destruction in my life before.
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"Nobody knows about Jewish life in Ukraine before the war. There is a huge number of Jewish people here. We have the full aspects of Jewish life – synagogues, kindergartens. You can be born Jewish and die Jewish."
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🚨 SCOOP: Another group of doctors have come out against safer supply. The signatories of this new letter include several of B.C.'s leading physicians, as well as doctors working in pediatrics 🚨
EXCLUSIVE: 72 doctors in B.C., including several of the province’s leading physicians, have signed a letter criticizing Canada’s “safer supply” programs. They argue that these unscientific programs are being widely defrauded and harming youth.
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“I’d like help installing a wheelchair ramp.”
“Sorry, no can do. Have you considered killing yourself?”
What a lovely country we live in.
Paralympian trying to get wheelchair ramp says Veterans Affairs employee offered her assisted dying
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Trudeau has said that concerns about Beijing’s influence campaigns are rooted in racism. I’m sure many Taiwanese, Uighurs, Hongkongers, and mainland dissidents would disagree.
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Supervised consumption sites are often managed by organizations that condone, and even encourage, criminal behaviour.
It is imperative that these sites be handed over to new service providers that respect the law and maintain stricter codes of conduct.
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The graves of Azerbaijanis in Aghdam were dug up and robbed during Armenian occupation. When the lands were de-occupied in 2020, Azerbaijanis found empty holes. They filled these holes and placed portraits and synthetic flowers in honour of those who were once buried there.
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During my master's program, my university brought in an Indigenous lawyer who believed that political power should be appropriated based on ethnicity. After class I asked her whether this was anti-democratic and she told me that democracy is “colonial.”
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If you are a well-known activist and you choose to downplay crime in a neighbourhood, then whether or not you actually live in that neighbourhood obviously becomes a matter of public interest – especially if your testimony contradicts that of locals who live in that…
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Earlier this year, I wrote an op-ed for the
@dcexaminer
about British Columbia's grossly irresponsible approach to drug decriminalization.
Decriminalization can be helpful if done right – but what is being done in B.C. is not that.
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During my undergrad a Turkish leftist lectured me, a Serb, on how I shouldn't talk about colonialism since I don't belong to an ethnic group that has experienced historical oppression.
The decolonization movement is filled with charlatans.
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Earlier this week, I reported in great detail how Canada’s “safer supply” strategy is a failure and is making the opioid crisis worse. Unfortunately, safer supply advocates have doubled-down and are continuing to falsely claim that everything is fine.
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.
@YaaraSaks
spent months ignoring leading addiction experts who had serious concerns about safer supply. After they finally met her, and gave her a carefully-researched presentation backing their views, she ignored them.
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We live in a society where it’s considered “oppressive” to say that children shouldn’t have to deal with needles and fentanyl in their play areas.
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@ADioumaev
@mariamposts
I'd rather not. The publication itself usually does good work and is run by a reasonable EiC who is aware of my complaint. I'd rather avoid flinging mud at them because one of their auxiliary editors has poor ethics.
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@aleksvujo
Some 14 year olds have sex — but they aren’t fisting and defacating on each other. I think including this material may be alienating to youth who aren’t as sexually open (people who, incidentally, need gentle sex ed the most). Imagine a young Muslim girl reading this.
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, western socialists had an opportunity to prove that their commitments to “anti-imperialism” were authentic and principled. Instead, they spotlighted their own moral bankruptcy and disdain for eastern European lives.
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In late 2020, I wrote an essay arguing that the LGBTQ community's tone-deaf militancy was creating a reservoir of resentment that, absent a course correction, would eventually erupt and harm us.
It's been three years. The problem has only gotten worse.
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In a speech last month, British Columbia's chief coroner Lisa Lapointe acknowledged that diverted "safer supply" opioids may be killing youth, but argued that these deaths would be an acceptable cost for the program.
Hear it for yourself. It's deplorable.
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Does homophobia exist in Ukraine? Yes, but it’s been grossly exaggerated in the foreign press, which can’t understand that Ukraine is not a socially static country and has radically transformed over the past 10 years.
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Statue of an Azerbaijani princess and poetess from a few centuries ago. Like many statues in Susha, the statue was vandalized by Armenian fighters — but there were fewer bullet holes than the adjacent male statues.
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The UCP’s re-election this past week guarantees that Alberta’s responsible addiction policies will survive for another four years, providing a credible alternative to the federal government’s well-intentioned, but disastrous, drug strategies.
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