Adam Hill

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

🔴UPDATE🔴

@TheVarsity reports this Israeli professor who seemingly condoned violence against @UofT students and staff is teaching a year long economics class starting in the coming days.

Notably, they compare his treatment to that of Prof. Ruth Marshall who was immediately removed from campus by the University over a tweet about Charlie Kirk's murder.

When an Israeli professor could be seen to be condoning violence directly against UofT's students/staff, the university is just "aware", but when a professor who has consistently advocated for Palestinian human rights makes a comment about Charlie Kirk, the university takes "immediate action" to put her on leave and shut down the building where she works for "safety".

Ludicrous double standards.

Excellent reporting by Celesta Maniatogianni.

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

This right here is reason enough to cancel the F-35s.

No money to grown ass men who troll Instagram feeds filled with pictures of children between the ages of 12 and 18.

I don't care how drunk they are.

[Keith Boag @KeithBoag]

CBC’s capitulation in the face of criticism of its carefully considered policy on whether journalists should make judgements about contentious issues is cowardly pandering. It’s an embarrassment to journalism. It ‘s weak when we need strength. Snap out of it. Please.

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

What I think our American...friends need to understand about this CBC thing it's the work of a risk averse journalist/bureaucrat who was concerned about a 20-year-old on the web desk prematurely declaring a random shooting in a European capital an act of terrorism.

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

“Please disregard this post. It was sent in error by a junior staff member before the latest GDP figures, which show annualized 3.3 percent growth, were released this morning. Thank you for your attention in this matter.”

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

“…yet ultimately worth it to preserve tariff-free access for the vast majority of Canadian exports.”

What is the evidence that it would preserve tariff-free access to anything? Even at the negotiating table, the US side explicitly reserved the right to set tariffs later at any level they please, including the tariffs it was proposed they reduce as part of the deal.

And this was only the prelude. The full blown CUSMA talks promise more of the same: more threats of tariffs, backing demands for more concessions. Suppose we made those concessions, as we did in 2018, as we did in 2025 and (if you had your way) 2026. And suppose this time Trump promised that was the end of it: no more tariffs, no more demands. Then he’d just renege. As he did to us in the past. As he has done to others.

Your whole argument is premised on a situation that does not exist, as if this were a normal negotiation with a negotiating partner. It isn’t. Grasping that key fact isn’t “losing our heads” or inflaming passions. It’s understanding reality.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Two years ago, an Israeli supporter in Toronto shot a nail gun while yelling “every fucking Palestinian will die.” He paid $100 fine for that.

Yesterday, in Montreal, a self-proclaimed Zionist said he’s killed a lot of Palestinians & is going to “go back” & kill a lot more.

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

Again, guess which Canadian federal leader has been saying the same thing about the Nazis for literally years now

[David Williams @MrDaveyWilliams]

A British citizen in their 20s heads over to #Israel, takes part in killing children and other civilians. Comes back and nothing is done.

An elderly lady says that she is opposed to this activity and the police arrest her as a terrorist.

Is this some sort of Kafka novel?

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

"In my view, Mamdani’s and Netanyahu’s extreme views are just flip sides of the same coin"

yeah who can forget when Zohran killed at least tens of thousands of people, likely over 100,000, gave out free weapons to his most violent supporters, and oversaw an apartheid state

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Absolutely bat shit stuff here. Democratic lawmakers being forced to vaguely listen to their constituents on a 80/20 issue is being framed as “fear”. I cannot stress enough how morally depraved and cynical and hostile to democracy this nonstop torrent of Israeli propaganda is.

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Wait, so ALBERTA IS BOOMING … under the oppressive federal yoke? Under the Nine Bad Laws? You mean the richest province in Canada is getting even richer? Clearly there’s no alternative but to bust up the country.

I’d respond directly but the premier’s chief of staff blocked me.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Graham Thomson: "Smith is saying 700k Albertans signed different petitions to get this referendum going. No, the Forever Canadian petition, in other words, let's stay in Canada, got more than 400k people, but they wanted a vote in the legislature. Not a referendum."

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

Alberta Separatist Group’s Controversial Voter ID App Has Links to US Ambassador, MAGA Influencers and Wealthy Michigan Republicans. Hoekstra says he was ‘not aware’ American-made app he previously promoted was used to help Alberta separatist group, @_llebrun reports https://t.co/S67trOcIc4
Find out more at https://t.co/CNaIVM4SSj

[Mickey Djuric @MickeyDjuric]

This comes weeks after his party had a clear chance to kill it

At the House finance committee Conservative MPs accidentally voted w/ the BQ to strip the project from the budget implementation bill, only to quickly reverse course & restore the project, calling the move a mistake

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Professor Stephanie Carvin on Chinese 'spy cars': "Even if you don't have a Chinese EV, if you're using a lot of apps, your data is being collected, harvested, and could easily be purchased by China ... China doesn't need EVs to spy on us."

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Why, production is up more than 40 per cent since 2015, when, help me out here, something happened. Something really bad. Something we usually claim destroyed Alberta oil production.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

Scheer ran at least twice under platforms that proposed industrial carbon pricing. Since we're talking about flexible principles and all...

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Bannon constantly links Ukraine and Canada in the same breath, which gives a clue as to the game plan:
1. Promote Alberta separatist movement and referendum.
2. When Alberta separatists defeated in referendum, claim election fraud, "stop the steal."
3. Use election fraud as pretext for sending in troops to restore order, protect northern interests etc.
4. Annex Alberta and perhaps rest of Canada.
Not saying this will happen, but it's something percolating in Bannon's rancid mind.