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[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Nobody is above the law, and this includes police. And in the wake of an outrageous scandal, where a network of police both abused their positions of power and broke the law, the public deserves full transparency and accountability. https://t.co/AORcoMmaWR

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

The Premier who thinks hospitals and school boards can't manage their finances and that post-secondary students should be indebted for life ... is also the Premier who wants to spend public money on an artificial island.

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

Police are going to fix police corruption? Lol

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

If $25m is transformational, it tells you everything you need to know about how governments refuse to fund fixes, and how the rich aren't taxed enough.

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

CBC aired a news broadcast on the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran where host Rosemary Barton allowed Israeli politician Yair Lapid to advocate for foreign-imposed regime change in Iran without meaningful journalistic challenge.

Lapid argued that Iran’s slain Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, was not a legitimate head of state, using this claim to suggest that Iran is not entitled to the protections normally afforded to sovereign states under international law. Such reasoning misrepresents international law and directly conflicts with Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which prohibits the threat or use of force against the political independence of any state.

CBC undermines its own journalistic credibility by failing to challenge this reasoning and allowing a foreign political leader to advocate for the selective application of the rules-based international order.

He followed this argument by stating that continued airstrikes on Iran as a means of facilitating regime change, arguing that military action could weaken the Iranian state and enable a civilian uprising that would bring about democracy and that “freedom” in Iran could result from Israeli and U.S. airstrikes.

At no point did the host reference reports from UNESCO and the Red Crescent indicating that a coordinated U.S.-Israeli airstrike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' primary school in Minab killed approximately 150 civilians, most of them children.

Lapid argued that military action was necessary to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, suggesting that without foreign intervention Iran will obtain an atomic bomb and potentially use it against Israel. However, there is no verified evidence that Iran currently possesses nuclear weapons.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, stated Monday that while Iran’s nuclear program is “ambitious,” there is currently no evidence of an active nuclear weapons program. Further, Iran offered the day before the US and Israel attacks that they would agree to “never” stockpile enriched uranium as part of negotiations.

Ms. Barton doesn’t challenge the longstanding U.S. and Israeli narrative that Iran is perpetually on the brink of developing nuclear weapons, a claim that has been invoked for decades to manufacture consent for further military aggression.

Public broadcasters such as CBC have a professional obligation to challenge unsubstantiated claims—particularly when a foreign political figure is advocating for expanded military operations against another sovereign state. By failing to provide humanitarian context or legal scrutiny, CBC is normalizing civilian harm as an acceptable by-product of western imperialism.

Please click on this link to launch an email in which you can draft a response to this media coverage: https://t.co/d8HKRU1sXu

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

It's been almost one year since @fordnation mandated that most supervised consumption sites close down. Since then, he's also quietly shut down overdose prevention sites inside of shelters.

People are dying because of this government's ideologically-driven approach.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

@_MegaPolitics Meanwhile Canada upholds an illegal airstrike. I'm so ashamed.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Supervised consumptions sites are closing. Harm reduction is under attack.

But also people can't afford rent. They can't find work. They can't find healthcare to manage pain and illness. They're treated like pariahs.

They go where they can: transit, libraries, coffee shops.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

It's already illegal to openly use drugs on public transit. What @fordnation is proposing has nothing to do with this; he wants to give powers reserved for police to untrained transit constables to profile, detain, arrest, and fine you if you "look like someone who uses drugs."

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

In 2023, @fordnation seized realty control of the Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre and other entities, including the ROM and the Algonquin Forestry Authority.

Ford is a realtor pouring money into projects the public never asked for while slashing healthcare and education.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Do you know why this is dangerous? Because this law states that you can be jailed for six months, fined $10K, or both if you are merely *suspected* of having or using drugs. People will absolutely be profiled — and not just homeless people. https://t.co/o0Z1Yu3Znm

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

Canada’s own crown corporation has been alerting the government for over a year about military sales to the U.S. being delivered to the Israeli military. When asked, @AnitaAnandMP didn’t give any explanation. Canada is knowingly arming genocide and still pretending otherwise.

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

The "deluxe benefits" in question under the program Poilievre is talking about are such luxuries as dental care, vision care, urgent doctor visits and hospital services.

This is just another veiled attempt to privatize our healthcare system and attack those seeking asylum.

[Matthew Cooke @thematthewcooke]

X (Twitter) is now being investigaed for complicity in the possession and organised distribution of child abuse images, violation of image rights through sexualised deepfakes and denial of crimes against humanity.

https://t.co/S8gvxOoSWk

[Matthew Cooke @thematthewcooke]

This website should be publicly controlled. Users should own their "followers" and algorithm the same as we own all the information for contacts in our phones and decide who to call. Social networks should be compatible with other platforms. What we have now is an economic crime.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

The public never realized that supervised consumption sites have quietly operated inside Toronto shelters since 2020. However, as of last December, all of these sites — which collectively saved 750 lives — are now gone because of @fordnation's harmful legislation.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

I cannot stress enough that homelessness is caused by policy levers primarily at the provincial level.

And @AMOPolicy's new report shows it: homelessness in Ontario rose 8% last year, with 85,000 people becoming homeless. 20,000 were youth and children.

https://t.co/xuM7vjFvCk

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

This is vitally important. In 2023, a legal precedent was set in Waterloo that an encampment cannot be evicted without offering appropriate and truly accessible shelter to an encampment resident. The City of Barrie is violating the law, and this eviction notice is illegal.

[deBeauxOs @deBeauxOs1]

This is such a clear, well-articulated, trenchant thread in support of providing unhoused people with HOMES, not merely a "roof over their heads" or dangerous, violent shelters.

[Randy @Randy__Now]

@TheCurrentCBC You should have had both Keenan Aylwin and Alex Nuttall on the show - live. That would have been the reasonable and fair thing to do. The unhoused deserve more from the people in power. You have a lot of power Matt!