Alana 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦BLM

Permanently on vacation. Life is about family, friends, travel, sports and adventure. Avid reader.

[Alana 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦BLM @aladon66]

Women in Translation Month. One of my all time favourite authors @Elif_Safak https://t.co/w4682nU2td #bookcommunity #mustreadbooks #SummerReading #booklovers #readingnook

[Alana 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦BLM @aladon66]

Just did my pre-order for ⁦@TanyaTalaga⁩ new book The Knowing. I can’t wait to read it. Her work is so powerful.

You can pre-order at ⁦@chaptersindigo⁩ for 25% off. #newbooks #canadianauthors #indigeneousauthors #bookrecommendations https://t.co/did6AO1g3e

[Alana 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦BLM @aladon66]

Book Review of #mansionsofthemoon. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟I highly recommend it. Check out the review. https://t.co/KFi3Nslqob

[Alana 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦BLM @aladon66]

Mid Year Reading Update. 59 books! #booksbooksbooks #fortheloveofbooks #ilovebooks https://t.co/fdfGrJ05oJ

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Anne Hathaway just gave the clearest reasons why Donald Trump’s overturning Roe v. Wade is devastating to millions of Americans. The only way to end this is by electing President Biden & a democratic Congress. Retweet so all Americans see this

[Murat Ates @WPGMurat]

A longtime Winnipeg Jet, to me, when asked what playing in front of the whiteout crowd means to him personally:

"If I could swear, I would."

Go on, swear if you really want.

"It feels pretty f—ing amazing. They're in the fight with us."

[Dave Minuk @ICdave]

Puck goes over the glass and this Jets fan catches it. Fans around him celebrate.

He then gives it away to a young Jets fan who jumps for joy. Fans around him celebrate some more.

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Winnipeg native Ryan Galloway gets handshakes from all Kings/Jets players and staff after reffing his final game tonight 👏

[Waubgeshig Rice @waub]

For us Rez kids in the '90s, it was absolutely massive to see a long-haired Nish guy play in the NHL, win the Stanley Cup, and still come home to hang out at the Little NHL tournament. RIP Chris Simon. My sincerest condolences to his loved ones.

[Winnipeg Jets @NHLJets]

These dedicated Jets fans have cheered us on at 17 different @NHL arenas (and counting) across the league 👏🤯

[Rick Westhead @rwesthead]

Former Chicoutimi Saguenéens player Carl Latulippe is in a Quebec City courtroom this morning asking a judge to approve his $15.7M lawsuit against the CHL, the QMJHL and its teams as a class action.
Latulippe alleges he and other rookie players were beaten with bars of soap in towels and were forced to watch pornography and masturbate on a team bus in the presence of adult coaches.
Latulippe was Chicoutimi's first-round draft pick in 1994. He quit the QMJHL team weeks into the 1994-95 season. Media at the time reported he was homesick and missed his girlfriend.
Latulippe's allegations have been corroborated by a teammate, acc to a media report.
(The QMJHL has said it hired a lawyer to investigate Latulippe's allegations, but has not committed to making the investigation findings public.)

[Dave Minuk @ICdave]

Fun facts:

Last night Connor Hellebuyck picked up his 36th career shutout for the Jets 2.0.

That equals the COMBINED shutouts by all Jets 1.0 goalies. ALL OF THEM!

He did it in his 492nd game.
They did it in a combined 1,192 games.

#NHLJets

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Holy cow. Seth Meyers spent 90 seconds on his show last night reminding his viewers everything that Donald Trump has said I done & it is absolutely perfect. This is how it’s done & we need so much more of it. Watch & share this.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

[Alana 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦BLM @aladon66]

In case you were wondering what my dreams are made of, here’s my Fluevog Wishlist… https://t.co/G1PTadHwkm

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow.

Here’s Robert De Niro’s full statement about how Donald Trump should NEVER be president again:

“I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty.

Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong. 

Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world.

We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.

The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.

So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House. 

They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it. 

Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity. 

Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world. 

Safety for our families. 

Decency. 

Let’s welcome them back. 

We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[North End Rick @NorthEndRick]

I'm quite excited to see what #LawAndOrder Toronto is like.

Of course, I say that now - but I'm not going to be the least bit surprised if it's just 60 minutes of lawyers and cops discussing how the NHL treats the Leafs so poorly.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Indigenous-owned breweries challenge stereotypes (and make good beer) https://t.co/qVJiAlL4E9

[Illegal Curve Hockey @IllegalCurve]

From Savannah, Georgia to Winnipeg, Manitoba to see a Jets game and experience some Canadian hospitality

https://t.co/M9N5kvROfQ

[Alex D'Addese @alex_daddese]

Tough night for the “Nobody cares about women’s hockey” crowd