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[Stephen Tustin @stustin]

"Homelessness researchers and front-line workers around the country are flagging a stark reality that desperately needs more public attention: Canada’s fastest-growing population of unhoused people isn’t “the mentally ill,” but older adults and retirees" https://t.co/34nyZ0IzX6

[Terrill Tailfeathers @Terrilltf]

I just requested a community note. There are no “Indigenous leaders” involved in this. I suggest others do the same.

[Jelly Froglegs @JellyFroglegs]

@HMcPhersonNDP @chrisglover @NoJetsTO @OntarioNDP I doubt that @stevenmackinnon would’ve spoken to a male colleague with that level of condescension. Yes, the MP from Edmonton who happens to be the NDP transportation critic has something to say about the proposed expansion of an airport. He’s so disgustingly smug.

[Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonNDP]

Doug Ford is pushing an expansion of Billy Bishop airport against Torontonians wishes while Liberal MPs remain silent. Instead of answering why, the Minister mocked me for asking!
(I am the NDP critic for Transport & the Minister knows this). @NoJetsTO @OntarioNDP

[Terrill Tailfeathers @Terrilltf]

Canada is propped up by anti-Indigenous hate. People still don’t pay attention.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

You sold Israel $14 million worth of weapons last year

[Ahni @indigenous_news]

Canada’s new hate crime law leaves out Indigenous https://t.co/5pzKPFWlGJ

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Big sellers

[PRCS @PalestineRCS]

Press Release Issued by the Palestine Red Crescent Society

[Dexter the Dog @dexter_doggie]

I've just completed Transport Canada's survey about the expansion of Billy Bishop Airport. It's embarrassing. They ask repeatedly about what mitigations would help with noise, disruption, etc. My only response was "Pearson." That's the mitigation. It's already there.

[European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal]

2/4
The Fourth Geneva Convention (Art 49), explicitly prohibits the transfer of the occupying Power’s civilian population into occupied territory

The ICJ's July 2024 Advisory Opinion says states must NOT render aid or assistance to Israel's unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Hosting this event? That's aid or assistance.

[European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal]

URGENT: On 14 June, a "Great Israeli Real Estate" event in London will market properties in illegal Israeli settlements — including Gush Etzion, Ma'ale Adumim, Negohot.

@ICJP, @PILC and @ELSC have just written to the Met Police War Crimes Team & the Home Secretary and Business and Trade Secretary.

This event needs to be cancelled immediately.

Here's why it matters 🧵

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: "Greater Israel" is now marketed in London. Like in Montreal and in New York.
Apartheid without borders.

P.S. This explains why criticism of Israel is being restricted (and "anti-antisemitism" laws keep appearing). Apartheid is not only a crime. It is a business model.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

The U.S. World Cup in one horrible photo:

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Netanyahu asks Lebanese if they remember the days when Lebanon was called the “Pearl of the Middle East.”

We do.

We also remember who invaded Lebanon in 1982, besieged Beirut, occupied the south for nearly two decades, bombed our cities, carried out massacres, assassinations & repeated wars.

Interesting how Hezbollah is blamed for everything, including Lebanon’s decline, while the Israeli invasion, occupation & destruction that predated Hezbollah’s very existence are simply erased from the story.

Hezbollah did not invade Lebanon. Israel did.

Hezbollah did not create the occupation. Hezbollah emerged because of it.

You also speak as though Hezbollah is not Lebanese. Whether one supports it or opposes it, Hezbollah represents a significant segment of Lebanese society. It has MPs in parliament, ministers in government, & a constituency that cannot simply be wished out of existence. Millions of Lebanese cannot be erased because that makes for a more convenient Israeli political narrative.

The arrogance of telling Lebanese to “free themselves” from other Lebanese while Israeli forces occupy Lebanese territory & Israeli aircraft violate Lebanese airspace daily is difficult to miss.

You speak as though Lebanon’s problems began with Hezbollah & Iran. That is historically illiterate at best & deliberately dishonest at worst.

Lebanon has suffered from corruption, sectarianism, foreign intervention & political failure. But it has also endured repeated Israeli invasions, occupations, bombardments, assassinations & wars long before Hezbollah became a major force.

And now the man whose military has spent months bombing Lebanese towns, flattening homes, killing civilians, displacing entire communities & threatening the country with “another Gaza” wants to present himself as a concerned friend of the Lebanese people.

The audacity is staggering. It would be impressive were it not so grotesque. The historical revisionism is even worse.

You must be getting desperate if this is the story you are trying to sell.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

That word "suspected" is carrying a heavy load in that first sentence, Idit.
As a career propagandist for a foreign government, you know all about that.
You are committing foreign interference in Canadian domestic politics.
You should be expelled.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Canadian Jew here, Titania.
If my relatives commit mass murder and crimes against humanity, I wouldn't defend their behaviour.
The Talmud itself teaches that if we don't try to stop our friends, relatives and community members from committing sins, we are guilty too.

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

Defund the police. Fund health and social services.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Twenty-two states, all allies of Canada, express their “profound concern regarding the catastrophic humanitarian situation that persists in Gaza" & condemn moves to thwart the work of humanitarian orgs.

Canada has declined to sign on. Why @AnitaAnandMP?

https://t.co/4lpnPSvYDP

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

Federal Liberals and Ford Conservatives clearly tried to slip this by until they ran into a wall of public opposition. Both like giveaways of public resources to corporate interests and are willing to violate citizens’ interests and the environment to do so. NDP is stopping them!