Merna Schmidt 🇨🇦

Transformational Coach/Consultant/Speaker
Humanitarian. Social Justice Activist. Global Citizen.
Mental Health and Wellness Advocate. Changemaker. Vegetarian.

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

CJPME is deeply concerned about the widespread racism that has ensued following Prime Minister Carney's announcement of a new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality, and Inclusion. We condemn the attacks on former Minister Omar Alghabra, who is facing smears from extremist pro-Israel voices, including Israeli news outlets, who are attacking his Muslim faith and Arab background, and demonizing his support for Palestinian rights. These attacks demonstrate the intertwined use of Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism, and anti-Palestinian racism, and are attempts to exclude Arab and Muslim voices from national conversations on racism and hate. These attacks must be firmly rejected by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Miller.

[Kristiana Bruneau @GumptionAndCo]

Funny. All I hear about is antisemitism, antisemitism is everywhere... and all I SEE every day is a deep and institutional hatred of Muslims, and wanton hate and neglect of Black, Brown and Indigenous communities in Canada.
Isn't that funny?
What did that famous book say, "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"

[Kim-Bo @kim_gaetz]

Pierre Poilievre is a complete fake and fraud,
He uses the HOC to showboat and fundraise,
Goes before the media crying about Canadians suffering yet he and his party voted against every single affordability measure to help Canadians.
He spent 22 years leeching off of taxpayers !

[Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonNDP]

Alberta belongs in Canada.
Danielle Smith is playing a dangerous game, giving oxygen and credibility to far right separatists.
Albertans deserve better.

[CJ Werleman @cjwerleman]

🚨 New study shows the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, CNN, Politico, USA Today and Axios collectively used the term "savage" 16 times for the killing of Israelis, but never for the killing of Palestinians.

Likewise, "slaughter" appeared 120 times in relation to the killing of Israelis, but only once for Palestinians.

"Massacre" was used 344 times in relation to Palestinians killing Israelis, but never for Israelis killing Palestinians.

"Barbaric" was used 14 times to describe the killing of Israelis, but zero times in relation to the deaths of Palestinians.

The cable coverage displayed a similar pattern.

MSNBC, presenters and guests used
"massacre" 177 times, "barbaric" 46 times, "savage" 23 times and "slaughter" 102 times in relation to Israeli deaths.

They never called the killing of Palestinians "barbaric" or "savage". In relation to Palestinians, they only used “massacre" eight times and "slaughter" four times.

References to "savagery" and "barbarism" echo the logic of settler colonialism, identifying the uncivilised natives as a problem to be solved.

Credit: ‘How to Sell a Genocide: Media’s Complicity in Genocide’ by Adam Johnson.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy:

"Now that [Gaza] has been destroyed almost completely, Israel is advancing confidently toward the next phase: making the entire population permanently disabled, injured, sick, hungry, homeless and unemployed."

It's the prelude, says Levy, to mass expulsion.

"No society can function without teachers, doctors, social workers, engineers and clerks. And without a functioning society, it's easy to expel Gaza's residents to the four corners of the earth."

Source: https://t.co/NYY16nu06c

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel planted explosives in a school for disabled children at dawn today in South Lebanon and blew it up.

Not a military target.

A school for disabled children — perhaps the only one in the country.

In what universe is this considered “self-defense”?

[Kim ♥️🇺🇦🇨🇦 @kimmydee_26]

@PfParks @sherlockeditor She’s got $ for referendums
She’s got $ for signage and slogans
She’s got $ for licence plates
She’s got $ for rebranding EMS

People are DYING in ED waiting rooms.

No $ for that.

Priorities I guess.

[Palestina En Español 🎒 @PalestinaVence]

🇬🇧🇵🇸🇮🇱 Un cirujano británico que trabajó en Gaza relató.

“Después de los bombardeos aéreos israelíes, llegaban los drones de las FDI… Apuntaban y disparaban deliberadamente a los heridos que yacían en el suelo. Incluso a niños. Los remataban en el sitio.”

No contentos con masacrar desde el aire, los soldados israelíes usan drones para cazar y ejecutar a los sobrevivientes heridos.

Una política sistemática de rematar civiles.Esto no es guerra.

Esto es caza de seres humanos, asesinato a sangre fría de heridos y niños.

El mundo entero debe escuchar este testimonio. No hay justificación posible.

Testimonio estremecedor ante el Parlamento Británico

[Parksy @PfParks]

Hey Calgary... Looks like the plan to improve EMS response times is to create formal HALLWAY MEDICINE in your newest built hospital! 🧵

No plan to improve ED flow and admissions... just expand its Waiting Areas!
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[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

This is extremely shameful.

🇦🇺Australian filmmaker Juliet said:

"I was raped by an Israeli soldier inside a darkened shipping container while handcuffed and shackled on a Gaza aid flotilla.

They also used water torture and beatings."

The matter is even more shameful when the whole world is silent and toothless on this 😭

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Dutch friends.
"If you tolerate this, then your children will be next" (cit)

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Horrifying testimony of Australian woman raped by the IOF:

'They wrenched my trousers and underwear down and it felt like I was inserted with a hand..it wasn't a gun...other people had guns inserted inside them.'

- Juliet Lamont, documentary filmmaker.

[Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonNDP]

Will the federal government enforce the Canada Health Act and stop Danielle Smith from privatizing healthcare in Alberta? The answer is apparently NO!
Public healthcare is threatened across Canada. If Smith gets her way, other Conservative Premiers will follow.

[Parksy @PfParks]

Hey AB, going into summer our ED pressures often decrease somewhat (while traumas increase, so be careful out there while enjoying the lakes and the mountains!)... but a couple days ago the wait times at the MIS ED were over 15hrs and EMS was being asked to divert.
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[Merna Schmidt 🇨🇦 @actionsforgood]

I wish @WabKinew could be premier of Alberta too. He's amazing and then we could get rid of Smith who is taking us down the drain hole.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

☕️☕️ Two-coffee morning and 100% worth it to get our budget passed. Starting July 1 🇨🇦

🛒 No PST on grocery foods

🚌 Free transit for youth

🏥 Investments in health care

🏫 Investments in schools

📉 Lowest deficit in Canada

A lot done. A lot more to do. #OneManitoba

[Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonNDP]

Israeli forces abused Canadian citizens last week and continue to abuse and torture Palestinian citizens. When will this government impose sanctions on Israel?

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

BREAKING: Canada exported $14.6 million of military goods to Israel in 2025, according to data released today by Global Affairs Canada.
https://t.co/6EgTXDyRT4

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

A UN report finds that Israeli forces committed rape and other sexual violence against Palestinian detainees in custody and during interrogations.

The report identified 31 victims from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank: 14 men, seven women, nine children and one girl.
The perpetrators include the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Prison Service and the border police Counter Terrorism Unit.

"Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted shooting of the genitals, touching of breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity and threats of rape," the report said.

Canada must hold Israel accountable.
https://t.co/U0UgYE7jyM

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

“They kept kicking until I had no breath.”

Arno recounts the brutal assault he endured after israeli forces illegally intercepted their boats in international waters. Beaten so severely that he suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung, his testimony is one of many describing the extreme violence participants faced during the interception.