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Editor, writer & podcaster at @Quillette . Book author. Substacker. @fairforall_org advisor. ex-lawyer -engineer -coder. Lapsed Jew. Gamer. Problematic Canadian
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Our
@Quillette
editorial on the Cass Report lists some of the contributors who've fought this battle since the 2010s (mostly women). Now that the tide is turning toward common sense, it's worth remembering the names of those who refused to be gaslit
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We’re witnessing the end of any kind of viable Palestinian statehood movement. The fiction that slaughtering children is some kind of legitimate “resistance” is insane. No one, at least in my lifetime, will want to give independence to a gang of medieval horror movie villains.
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Ah okay. So it's for boys, and the girls will spend the whole day avoiding the bathroom.
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I love how the only white person is a bearded transmom pregnant with a seahorse
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a lot of parents are now telling me that their teenagers' social media feeds, especially TikTok, have started to shift 180 degrees on genderwang. the once-revered (bio-male) trans "influencers" & athletes are becoming figures of ridicule. pendulum seems to be swinging back hard
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the level of ghoulish pleasure that certain people are taking from this public doxing seems far more revealing than the leaked information itself
Quite the list of
#GiveSendGo
donors from Toronto. A Ford Government staffer and a bunch of
@UofT
faculty & students jump out.
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This is what intersectional feminism now means: A male sports journalist seeking to publicly humiliate a female athlete because she’s not as strong as a man.
@Riley_Gaines_
Can you just address the reality and move past it? You sucked at swimming. That's why you lost.
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I’ve worked at McDonalds, Dominos, engineering companies & law firms. I’ve seen coworkers come & go. Layoffs were sad but also part of life. Journalism is the only field I’ve seen where they’re treated as an unfathomable affront to the cosmic order, as opposed to normal economics
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Toronto Twitter has been fun today: all the people who spent late 2020 cheering on mass demonstrations in favour of abolishing the police are now going crazy because the police they failed to abolish refuse to crack down on a mass demonstration.
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Trudeau's Canada is such a joke. During the convoy, the Libs hid under their desks bcuz someone saw a Confederate flag; & media warned that truckers were set to invade parliament & create a Nazi truckocracy. So now a real Nazi waltzes in & everyone...claps
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European skating event opening ceremonies features a solo performance by Minna-Maaria Aktikainen, a middle aged man who decided he's actually a lovely "ice princess." Please watch the video to see how it turned out
Taitoluistelun EM-avajaiset, mitä ihmettä 😳
Piti varmistaa Areenasta, kyllä se aito video on.
#Espoo2023
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Wow Bernie, isn't it incredible that the picture your "friend in Ottawa at the Occupation" sent you is identical to the photo posted on Twitter two weeks ago by someone in Miami, right down to the ceramic design in the background?
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Once again, here is Laith Marouf, the guy who just got $130K from
@CdnHeritage
to go on a six-city tour and teach Canadian broadcasters about "anti-racism"
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The best part of this whole fiasco is the way Trudeau and singh both whipped the vote a couple of days ago in favor of a resolution that everyone privately knew was garbage. So now you've got both caucuses saying " You forced us to betray our principles for ... this?"
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Your daily reminder that the Canadian media went cuckoo bananas because some rando in Ottawa had a confederate flag on his car two years ago
“October 7th Proves We’re Almost Free!”. The crowd goes wild.
“Long live October 7th!”
Today, downtown Ottawa. No more euphemisms, they are openly promoting terrorism and violence towards Jews. This is intolerable and it is time for Canadians to speak up.
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For non-Canadians, here's the situation: Trudeau invoked a law designed for wartime and/or mass-casualty terror attacks, so he could solve...a parking issue. Now he needs a few months to bankrupt the truckers & fry cooks who paid gas money. Anyone who disagrees is a swastika nazi
The CBC just asked if the PM would hold on to power for "2 to 3 months in case the truckers came back,"
Trudeau: "Indeed, that is what we are thinking about."
(Translated from French).
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From listening to Canadian academics, you'd think Hamas is a Queer Indigenous bake-sale collective holding a hunger strike in a sweat lodge. Then Hamas is like, "umm no that's a common misconception. We're actually here to annihilate millions of Jews. Glad we could clear that up"
Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar says Hamas will never lay down its arms. He then vows to annihilate not only the Jews but other nations as well: "Annihilation will be the fate not only of the Jews, but also of their helpers and of the people who trusted…
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want a crazy story about woke mobs going after statues? This statue of Alexander Wood (1772-1844) was destroyed today in Toronto. The statue was only 17 years old...Erected in 2005 (with much fanfare) by the LGBT community, honouring a gay pioneer...
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My latest, for
@Quillette
, updates intl readers on the strange afterlife of Canada's 2021 unmarked-graves social panic. In two years, no graves have been found. But saying so is taboo. And those pointing this fact out are being attacked as "denialists."
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the protesters' central claim was that the Liberals are crushing freedom and acting like tyrants. At the time, those claims seemed absurd. Two weeks later, they seem prophetic. Even if the protest ends today, it will have succeeded in a way I never imagined was possible.
This is literal madness.
Canada's Deputy Prime Minister says, under the Emergencies Act, banks can immediately freeze or suspend bank accounts without a court order and be protected from civil liability.
Is this still a free country?
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CBC has now retracted not 1 but 2 bogus news stories purporting to link the freedom convoy to shadowy intl puppet-masters. But these conspiracy theories did their job… giving the government the cover it needed to pretend there was a national emergency
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Glad to see other countries recognizing how disastrous progressive social panic has been for Canada. Has torn apart a reasonably happy & united country. National case study in how quickly mainstream leftist politics can turn into a sour little shame cult
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A Danish newspaper has run a story about the unmarked-graves social panic that Canada went through in 2021. It notes that more than 2.5 years later, no graves have been found.
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Right now, the hottest story in Canadian media is that ordinary Canadians just don't appreciate the awesomeness of Canadian media. Thankfully, that'll change once we lecture them more about their ignorance.
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watching Canadian media get mad at international journalists for not getting on board with the CBC's preferred version of reality is one of the more enjoyable subplots of this whole mummers' farce
@nytimes
Hey New York Times. If you don’t want to send reporters to the scene then all you have to do is watch Canadian TV. Try a bit harder to get the story right.
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okay, so this is interesting: Ottawa city councillor
@ArielTroster
claims she saw something ... that didn’t happen
Oups,
@ArielTroster
! The code of conduct for Ottawa city councillors states that members must be “committed to performing their functions with integrity, accountability and transparency.”
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This is the *fourth* time this person has come out as a new gender identity. Each time, the CBC and Toronto Star write a new article about it. It's gotta be some kind of social-psych experiment to measure the gullibility of Canadian editors
His child and partner came out as transgender. Now
@RowanJetteKnox
writes on confronting trauma and the freedom of coming out as trans himself. His new memoir is out this September.
Until then, read his exclusive essay:
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To demonstrate its abhorrence of the African slave trade, Toronto city council erases the name of Henry Dundas, a slavery abolitionist, and replaces it with the name of an African tribe that had a prominent role in... the African slave trade.
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Joni Mitchell and Neil Young stunningly and bravely return to Spotify two years after stunningly and bravely leaving Spotify to protest something something Joe Rogan something
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this is supposed to be a women's video game league. I think there might be one actual woman
We had to ask the players:
What does LCS Game Changers mean to you?
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In 2019 I was sued for libel by a director of
@antihateca
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@BarbaraRKay
& I linked CAHN to "violent antifa.” Judgment released today: Claim dismissed. Judge: (1) CAHN *does* assist antifa; (2) CAHN director has used courts to stifle detractors (tho failed in this case)
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This is one reason I keep riding this issue. Genderwang isn't just destroying trust in educational/political elites when it comes to gender. It's destroying trust, *full stop*. If elite nutbags think waving a fairy wand turns boys into girls, what other crap do they believe?
I struggle to think of a Canadian ruling class that has ever been this disconnected. Governments are routinely branding "mainstream" opinions as hateful fascism.
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50-yr-old Nicholas Cepeda, who goes by "Melody Wisehart" when using the women's locker room in the company of 13 yr old girls, is a psych professor at...where else?...
@YorkUniversity
. His work focuses on "children and youth," according to York's website
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Wow it's almost like spending months on end denouncing your own country as a white supremacist genocide state full of "racists and sexists" with "unacceptable views" isn't a winning political formula. Crazy stuff
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@jasmith_yorku
Do you have a cameraman following you to capture how masked you are? And is he also wearing a scuba suit?
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someone I know here in Toronto, a very smart and accomplished person who's done more with their life than I ever will, just confidently asserted that trudeau was correct not to meet with the truckers because "they would have killed him." Putting aside how crazy this is....
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There's a whole sub-category of Canadian news that can only be published outside Canada. When it comes to these topics, it sometimes feels like living in Belarus or Cuba... where there are these things that everybody knows to be true, but no one is allowed to say out loud.
No human remains found 2 years after claims of ‘mass graves’ in Canada
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New template for crushing dissent in Canada
1. Find nutbag with swastika or hammer/sickle
2. Desginate him as official mascot for protest
3. Protest is now a coup
4. Refuse to negotiate with Hitler/Stalin (pick one)
5. Declare "emergency"
6. Solve *actual* problem with tow truck
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"My suspicion is that very few Canadians are aware of quite how bizarre the rest of the world now finds the country."
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So the story here is that last night, there was a mass murder plot in an Ottawa apt building, with one of the would-be killers telling a passer-by (for no apparent reason) he was a protestor. But no one calls 911, & Ottawa arson's unit finds out about it on twitter a day later.
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OK, so who had "Canadian Senate Wins Nation's Hearts as Trudeau, Singh Sell Out Civil Liberties Trying to Peddle Fake Emergency" on their convoy-outcome bingo cards?... Anyone?
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I love it when my fellow Canadian journalists get wider international recognition for their work
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You can also understand why CBC types are losing their minds when they see foreign media contradict the absurd Ottawa-besieged-by-Nazis fiction that's been crowdsourced within the canadian media silo. Foreign reporters aren't beholden to our treehouse-club rules. it's refreshing
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my fav detail about this real thing that totally happened: tenant asks arsonist—mid-arson—who he is. arsoner stops his arsoning & says "I'm a convoy protestor guy/arsoner" Then he continues arsoning, while tenant goes to bed in his soon-to-be-immolated building & doesn't call 911
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sociopaths in ottawa doxing local "collaborators." good thing there aren't any disgraced former PMO officials and journalists who condone this kind of behavior
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as soon as
@kprschools
(or anyone else) says “let”s keep our little secret from mommy and daddy,” you’re going to lose 90% of the population
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I've gotten some interesting messages from CBC insiders today, following on
@TaraRHenley
's widely circulated piece…Everyone focuses on the CBC's bizarre ideological radicalism. But the larger issue is the dysfunction and bureaucratic bloat under Catherine Tait
@PresidentCBCRC
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Three years. Zero graves found.
First Nations have located evidence of over 2300 children in suspected unmarked graves near residential schools.
Communities need support to bring their children home.
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I'd have more time for "ceasefire" enthusiasts if they were a little bit more intellectually honest about what most of them want.... which is to confer on Hamas the right to massacre Israelis and then yell "time out" when Israel hits back
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When Trudeau loses the Toronto Star…
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Oh look. While Trudeau’s cabinet was busy installing tampon dispensers in men’s bathrooms and holding drag shows in parliament, the British did an actual investigation into the disfigurement of children under cover of a ghoulish sterility cult.
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights falsely claimed that the remains of 215 people had been found. Twitter has now provided "added context" in regard to this misinformation.
It has been two years since the remains of 215 children were discovered in unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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nice story. good on
@AshleyBurkeCBC
for reporting this
CBC’s van slide off the road & got stuck in a ditch beside the protestors’ camp in Arnprior. A demonstrator named Tyson Garneau wearing a “defund the CBC” hat pulled us out knowing we were CBC journalists. He said he’d never leave anyone stuck like that.
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Please meet Justin Trudeau’s newly hired communications wizard
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I couldn't even finish reading this. This violence is in many ways even more horrible than 9/11, because it is so up close and personal. It's set back the Palestinian statehood movement by decades, and maybe even destroyed it permanently.
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Not a parody: Canada’s military now being told to take a “feminist intersectional trauma-informed approach”
every sector of CDNA public life has been taken over by this cult. Even after Trudeau is gone, it’s gonna take years to get rid of all this crap
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Actual tweet from Liberal member of Parliament seeking to back up her claim that saying "honk honk" means you are pledging allegiance to Adolf Hitler. These are the people running our country
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I spoke to Richard a few times. He was publicly denounced by an equity consultant hired by TDSB to tell white ppl how racist they are. Richard questioned her absurd claims, & the woman used him as a case study in evil "whiteness"
This is what's become of TDSB under
@TDSBDirector
We are mourning the passing of Richard Bilkszto, beloved educator, humanitarian, friend and member of SOS TDSB.
He ended his life on July 13, as a result of events which undermined his mental health and well-being.
Read our full statement here:
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This video continues to be the greatest thing ever.
Here's my 2-minute summary of last night's ridiculous woke seminar, "Journalists and Online Hate". 🤡
How can normies, like us, deal with this Woke Ideology Cult?
Laugh at them ...Mercilessly. 😂
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Wow. That's completely insane. I've interviewed a bunch of protesters, and not one of them even remotely answers to this description. It's almost like the government is literally just making crap up to scare its base into thinking we're being invaded by trumpian insurrectionists
Public safety minister says what's driving the demonstrations across Canada is a "very small, organized group driven by an ideology to overthrow the government through whatever means they may wish to use."
#cdnpoli
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This is an incredible story. A leading transgender clinic in the U.S. has now deleted its *entire* web site after evidence was discovered showing how the hospital planned to punish employees who objected to sterilizing children (patients were also "buddied" with trans activists)
BREAKING: After my report, Vanderbilt’s transgender clinic has deleted their entire website. Literally the whole thing. They’re removing everything.
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Absolute mind-boggling stupidity from
@CBCNews
and
@JuliaWongCBC
. The article provides a fawning profile of a man who wants to play *football* against women. Do men have a “competitive advantage” in football? The CBC has no idea. It’s a complete mystery.
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Justin Trudeau's Minister of Public Safety just got caught backdating documents to April 31, 2017
April has 30 days
DOCUMENTS show
@MarcoMendicino
backdated documents in an apparent bid to mislead a federal judge. No comment from Minister's office over 2020
@CitImmCanada
files: "Things are on fire here"
#cdnpoli
@DavidLametti
@PrivyCouncilCA
#cdnfoi
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great news. Unfortunately, we now have to endure three months of CBC follow-up stories about how this will make all the pretty unicorns and glitter fairies cry rainbow tears
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Teenagers aren't dumb, but they do move in herds. The genderwang stuff was fun when it felt vaguely transgressive and daring. Now that they hear their dinosaur teachers and parents mumbling pronoun checks (not to mention the Bud Light & Hershey's fiascos), it's time to move on
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Shut the whole place down
DOCUMENTS:
#CBC
approved $11,989,307 in pay hikes plus $11M in bonuses while claiming "immense pressure" in lobbying for Covid bailout.
#cdnfoi
#cdnpoli
@PresidentCBCrc
@ChuckTCBC
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are there ppl who still pretend this was some kind of real historical coup? It was dudes with trucks. They shouted how trudeau has to go, the sort of hyperbole protestors everywhere say. Denouncing dissent as treason, to justify the end of civ liberties, is what dictators do
Look, a lot of people may not have much in way of power in this country, but we all have a vote. A lot of people here wanted to remove the PM without an election, and they want to silence the media. I don't think they know what kind of a country we would be if they had their way.
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having spent years insisting that anyone who rejects Drag Queen Dildo-Time Reading Hour must be a Christian KKK Nazi-adjacent MAGA Nut, the Canadian left has no idea how to deal with *Muslims* who reject genderwang. It’s like a divide-by-zero bug that’s crashing their brain code
Justin Trudeau blames ‘American right-wing’ for Muslims opposing LGBTQ curriculum: ‘Leave our kids alone!’
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I don't know any solution to this except to ask these silo'd one percenters to get out more. Go to McDonald's. Take a seat. Listen to ppl around you talk. Play disc golf (or whatever). Take the bus instead of driving your q8 everywhere. the "yobs' aren't as scary as you think
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You see scenes like this & u realize why the rest of the world has been so scathing about Trudeau's "emergency" claim. The protest in Ottawa was a bunch of illegally parked trucks & a street party. In the real (non-Canadian) world, this isn't an emergency
As Ottawa police get closer to Wellington Street, protesters are building a snow wall (?) to slow the officers’ advance
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This is Canada's Defence Minister
Expressing yourself through Drag is one of Canada’s fundamental freedoms. It's crucial that we show up to support the 2SLGBTQI+ community in all its diversity. I enjoyed seeing Devine Darling & Vitality Black at Community Resto. Looking forward to a fantastic
#Pride2023
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I was never much of a Pierre Poilievre fan. But these lazy, embarrassing attempts by journalists to smear him as a far-right hater are so intellectually dishonest that it's making me give him the benefit of the doubt
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Is there some rule that says every cdn media host now has to go on Twitter and read out some press release about how proud he is of his super brave colleagues. These look like prepared statements that have been written by HR departments
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A “queer she/they”
@UBC
prof with a Palestinian flag announcing a Black-only recruitment drive for Black scholars to study Black forestry as part of a Black Faculty Cluster Hire is peak Canadian academia. Your tax dollars at work, British Columbia.
Reminder!
@ubcforestry
and
@ubcLFS
are hiring 2 Black scholars engaged in research related to Food, Forests, and BioFuels as part of a university-wide Black Faculty Cluster Hire Initiative. The deadline to apply is January 15th, additional details below. Please share and apply!
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This person ("they/her," naturally) is the Associate Director of the Centre for Learning & Teaching at
@DalhousieU
.... This is their/her reaction to the lifting of mask mandates at the university
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My latest for
@Quillette
tells the insane story of Laith Marouf, a vicious anti-semite who used hyper-woke gibberish as a smokescreen for hatred. Trudeau's govt has paid him more than *$600K* since 2016—including $130K for a 6-city 2022 "anti-racism" tour
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Possibly the stupidest thing she's ever said, although I realize that's a high bar.
Does anyone have an explanation for how this person has kept her job? She sounds like a college student who's just watched a bunch of bouncy head tiktok videos about the Middle East
Trudeau's Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says she believes a two-state solution is more feasible now since the deadly Hamas attack on October 7th.
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Ho hum, just a Canadian justice minister telling people he'll freeze their bank accounts if he doesn't like their politics. Totally ordinary stuff.
David Lametti, the man Trudeau appointed justice minister, has set the bar very low for seizing of bank accounts.
This should frighten all Canadians.
Read & RT
#cdnpoli
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Actually, I was thinking more about how the government responded to the convoy by turning us into Belarus. But you do you.
Vinay Menon: The misguided ‘Freedom Convoy’ has thrown Canada under the bus and turned us into America
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Toronto Star columnist complains about people reading back to him his own tweets
It's sadly perfect that Jon has decided to take the screenshot of a prominent anti-vaxxer to try to attack me over trans rights
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Wait a second. Now I'm really confused. It says you're the chair of
@antihateca
... Didnt you guys get $250K from the Liberals last year because of all your super expertise in anti-hate-ology? Please don't tell me you're getting your anti-hate news tips from Del Boca Vista...
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What real reporting looks like:
@iciradiocanada
investigative team sends a 14-yr-old actress to a Quebec clinic. She claimed she was trans & got a testosterone prescription in 10 minutes. (This is the French arm of CBC. English CBC wouldn’t dare run this)
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I appreciate that both major-party leaders have stated their positions. And I look forward to finding out which is the more compelling political message:
(1) “Protect Parents’ Rights”; or
(2) “I’ll Give You Some Rainbow Candy If U Don’t Tell Mommy & Daddy Our Little Secret”
Justin Trudeau always divides to distract from all he has broken. This time, he is demonizing concerned parents.
Parents should be the final authority on the values and lessons that are taught to children. Trudeau should butt out and let parents raise their kids.
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One of the many things that future canadian historians will be unable to explain is how we let
@pablorodriguez
, the guy who funded Laith Marouf and then got caught lying about it, decide what news canadians are allowed to read.
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I'd never thought about getting into crypto in any serious way before..But then again, I never thought I'd live in a country where the PM claims the right to freeze the bank accounts of his critics...oh sorry, I mean insurrectionists. Any advice for a crypto n00b getting started?
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Leader of G7 country makes video scrapbook of his spring break trip to Europe
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...it struck me that one symptom of this person's incredible success is that they never meet a working class person who isn't, say, a waiter or receptionist. And during covid, they havent even met those ppl. So it's easy to convince them that truckers are orcs or white walkers...
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Every landback/uninvited-settler/gender-elf arts college prof and Toronto Star columnist urging you to "contextualize" the events of October 7th... This is what they want you to contextualize
Never forget what happened on Oct 7th.
Thousands of Palestinian civilians lined the streets of Gaza to spit on the body of German-Israeli woman Shani Louk.
Civilians hit her body with wooden planks, punched and slapped her naked body as they cheered with joy.
Never forget.
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A top women's disc golf tournament in PEI was canceled due to legal harassment from a biological male who wants to compete as a woman. So the CBC went out and interviewed this local trans activist to prove that men should be allowed to be women
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