Daniel Williams

[Daniel Williams @DanWilliamsfoto]

@Simi_2210_ Skin

[⟡˙⋆⚾︎amanda⚾︎⋆˙⟡ @bellibrini]

carter hart and brett howden are being given a chance to compete for the stanley cup and alexander zverev just won his first grand slam title at roland garros but I'm supposed to believe that allegations of assault against women ruins the careers/lives of men

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wab Kinew: I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy.

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

During a broadcast, @CBCNews claimed that Jerusalem Day—an Israeli holiday celebrating illegal occupation and notorious for violence against Palestinians—simply marked the "reunification of Israel." CBC effectively repeated Israeli talking points supporting a war crime. Following a CJPME complaint, CBC aired a correction clarifying that the Old City and East Jerusalem are occupied.

[Daniel Williams @DanWilliamsfoto]

@HabsChronicle I guess we will never know 🤷‍♂️

[Daniel Williams @DanWilliamsfoto]

@HabsLaughs

[WeBelieve @WeBelieveEM]

Carter Hart is about to play in the Stanley Cup Final. He was acquitted of sexual assault charges this past summer, but there is a lot more to the story. With the brightest lights now shining on him, it is important to understand the nuance of the controversial case.

“We Believe E.M” does not mean we believe every detail of her testimony. It does not mean we believe she did not make any mistakes that night. It simply means we believe she was sexually assaulted. And the evidence supports that belief.

I will leave you with some facts. This is all available if you research (tw // sa):

- There is ZERO evidence or testimony that EM ever asked Michael McLeod to invite additional men to that hotel room. McLeod never testified, and all we have is a video interview with police where he never made that claim, meanwhile LYING when he denied sending a text invite to ALL his teammates. On the otherhand, there is text evidence the following day of EM telling McLeod she did not expect more partners, and it was not disputed by McLeod.

- There is ZERO evidence or testimony that EM ever asked (or was asked) for Cal Foote to do the splits over her. Even if you believe the men’s story that she was saying “have sex with me”, she never said “teabag me”. The judge actually agreed in her report there was no consent, instead she dismissed it saying it was non-sexual based on Carter Hart’s testimony that Foote was not naked.

- In 2022, Alex Formenton & Dillon Dube BOTH CONFESSED to Hockey Canada that Cal Foote was naked during the splits. This was ruled inadmissible on a technicality. Other than Hart, no other witness dared to say Foote was clothed; they all pretended to not remember.

With this information, at the very least, McLeod and Foote are guilty:

- Foote performed a sexual act without consent. It does not make him a rapist, but it is a crime

- McLeod is an accessory to that sexual assault

If these two men were given the guilty verdict I strongly believe they deserved (even if it was a proverbial slap on the wrist; i.e. a 6-month house arrest), it would have been an amazing teaching moment for our nation while setting a modern standard for consent.

The conduct of the others, including Hart, may not have been illegal. There was certainly not enough evidence to prove it was. But that does not mean what they did wasn’t morally reprehensible. The NHL and Hockey Canada both agreed.

The NHL kept the players out of the league for months PAST the ruling, citing their own private investigation. Hockey Canada stood in the House of Commons and said “harm was caused” after paying out a civil settlement.

But what Hart did was more than morally wrong. He lied under oath to protect his teammates. This is actually perjury. The judge by law is not privy to those 2022 confessions, but we as a public are. We are allowed to pass judgement in the court of public opinion.

Hart is not a conquering hero who overcame adversity. He is a liar who abused his privilege and legal protection to obstruct justice. He is allowed to continue his career, and we are allowed to remind him of his abhorrent behaviour.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Steven Guilbeault: "If you look at our campaign platform during the last election, commitments that we made to Canadians, mentioned climate change 28x. It did not mention pipelines once. So I think rightfully so, some people are wondering what is happening."

[Jim Stanford @JimboStanford]

Timely and thoughtful from @JustinWolfers on why a gas tax holiday is not a good response to the ‘Iran Tax’ caused by Trump’s insane war: https://t.co/qsgqL8GHNp. Lessons for Canada here, too: it misdiagnoses the problem, discourages adaptation, and further enriches the oil ind’y

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵

[Daniel Williams @DanWilliamsfoto]

@JeffMarek

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

STACE AND POU 🥹 #PWHL

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Marie-Philip Poulin. Walter Cup Champion. #PWHL

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

It’s a relief to hear the Prime Minister express some moral outrage over Ben-Gvir’s brutish behaviour, outrage which has been missing during Israel’s attack on Iran, bombardment of Lebanon and ongoing genocide in Gaza.

But strong words must be followed by strong action. Sanctioning individual ministers is not enough when this cruelty is mirrored in Israeli state policy. Close the loophole on arms sales, cancel the free trade agreement and use every tool in Canada’s diplomatic arsenal to end Israel’s impunity.

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

The Carney government’s rush toward extraction and deregulation reveals a key assumption embedded in neoliberal capitalism: that environmental destruction, worker harm, and cuts to social programs are acceptable costs of growth, writes Harry Glasbeek. https://t.co/dSC0R5zMYr

[theselongwars @theselongwars_]

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

1/ This announcement marks the Carney government’s official surrender to the oil and gas lobby.


By gutting carbon pricing to the point of irrelevance, it has dismantled the last federal climate measure standing. We now have a federal government that no longer even pretends to rein in big corporate polluters.

https://t.co/8m3Dvf18pn

[Budrino Politics @BudrinoPolitics]

Carney is more Conservative than Harper

-Larger public sector cuts
-Larger environmental law cuts

[Tom Parkin @TomPark1n]

I don’t remember Mark Carney saying anything about privatization when he was asking for your vote

[Rankandfile.ca @rankandfileca]

Carney's capitalist carnage: corporate plunder of working-class incomes and tax dollars; privatizing vital public assets; 10s of 1000s of job losses; inflation & price fixing; environmental wreckage; medicare cuts; killing phrarmacare; slaves to Big Oil & US-led NATO arms cartel.