Don Fisher

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Two elephants once met on a crowded highway, their massive bodies navigating the narrow lanes of vehicles and human chaos. They were being led in opposite directions, pulled apart by the world around them, and yet for a fleeting moment, something extraordinary happened: their trunks reached across the divide and touched. It was a simple gesture, almost imperceptible to anyone passing by, but to them, it was everything. One last connection, a silent message of love, recognition, and shared history before separation claimed them.

To a casual observer, it might have looked ordinary, almost trivial. But elephants are far from ordinary. They are deeply social beings, creatures bound by intricate family networks, loyalty that spans decades, and memories that last a lifetime. They grieve when a member of their herd dies, they mourn losses silently, and they carry the weight of generations in the curve of their trunks, the tilt of their ears, and the gentle sway of their movements. Breaking those bonds leaves marks that are invisible to human eyes, but are painfully real to the ones left behind. That single touch was not instinct alone—it was longing, it was remembrance, it was love made tangible in the briefest of moments.

Even in captivity or the midst of chaos, elephants reach for one another. They seek comfort, they seek familiarity, they seek understanding in a world that often refuses to see them as sentient, emotional beings. That trunk reaching across the divide is a reminder of what is lost when connection is severed, and what survives when a moment of tenderness is allowed to exist. It speaks to the resilience of spirit, the depth of memory, and the quiet ways that love persists even in the harshest circumstances.

We see in that single touch a reflection of ourselves. Like elephants, humans cannot thrive without connection. Our bonds, our shared moments, and our acts of care define the contours of our lives. And the silent plea of those elephants, reaching for each other across the divide, asks us a question we cannot ignore: how do we honor connection, and what do we do when it is threatened?

It is a story of longing, of remembrance, of love unspoken but deeply felt. It is a call to witness, to recognize, and to act with empathy. Because in that brief, fleeting touch, the elephants remind us of what truly matters—our connections, our bonds, our shared humanity.

[Gord McCallum 🔥🧱 @gordmccallum]

@DavidColetto I'll save you the trouble of reading this nonsense.

We have a 71 cent dollar.

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

There seems to be a whole lot of confusion on this word “genocide”, and people using it in such a way that suggests maybe they don’t understand what it means.

Genocide is not defined based on number of deaths, or comparing one action against another. The fact that more people have died in Gaza since Oct 7 than died in Israel on Oct 7, does not make Israel’s actions a genocide.

The fact that non-militants have died in Gaza, does not make this war a genocide.

Let’s first discuss the elephant in the room – this concept of non-militant (aka “civilian”) vs. militant (aka “Hamas”). This difference of opinions between those who support Israel and those who do not, will likely never be agreed upon. During conflict, Hamas does not wear uniforms, in order to blend in. There are UNRWA employees, and people with PRESS vests who are members of Hamas, and people who participated in Oct 7 who may not be members of Hamas, but are still combatants. Some will say these are non-militants, so let’s just acknowledge that we’re not going to agree on this.

That makes determining the combatant to civilian casualty ratio extremely challenging.

But that’s not important either. We don’t know the actual number of deaths and we don’t know the actual number of civilians vs combatants and we don’t know the ratio or how it compares to other urban wars.

But even if that ratio is worse – that doesn’t define a genocide either.

The most important element – and most difficult to prove – when determining if something is a genocide, is the intent. To constitute genocide (and again, I quote the UN), “…there must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice, not does an intention to simply disperse a group”.

As people are screaming genocide, I ask you – where is the intent?

Does a country that wants to wipe out a group of people, drop leaflets to warn them before strikes?

Does a country that wants to wipe out a group of people, stop a war in order to ensure polio vaccines can be safely and properly administered to the children of their enemy?

Does a country that wants to wipe out a group of people, send in aid to ensure they have what they need?

Does a country that wants to wipe out a group of people, say over and over again that the war will stop, as soon as the hostages that were taken from them are released, and the terrorist government surrenders?

The death of every innocent person is tragic, but that also does not make it a genocide.

There’s only one thing that makes what Israel is doing a genocide, and that’s the propaganda machine. On Oct 7, after they attacked Israel, people were out on the streets, both celebrating the Hamas massacre on Israel, and condemning Israel for – wait for it – “genocide”. There were signs accusing Israel of genocide before Israel even started a response to the attack from Gaza. Hamas and the Islamist propaganda machine, decided they were going to call Israel’s response a genocide before they even attacked Israel in the first place.

The only genocide that’s occurring right now, is the one Hamas begun on Oct 7, 2023, and the one that the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Regime, and the woke left are all perpetuating – and that’s the genocide of Israel and the Jewish people.

Every single call of “Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea” and “Globalize the Intifada” is a call to wipe out Israel, and to commit genocide against Jews.

Wake up world – as you cry out against Israel and Zionists and Jews for a genocide that isn’t happening, you’re supporting and enabling an actual genocide that the Islamic Regime is hellbent on carrying out.

It’s time for the world to open their eyes, and see what’s actually happening.

Before even more innocent lives are lost.

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

Virtue signalling at its finest.

[Neil G. Oberman @NeilOberman]

In other words, Canada can coordinate sanctions abroad with some of the other worst offenders in fending off rising antisemitism at home, but still cannot convincingly explain why IRGC-linked regime figures were able to get into Canada and why removals have been so limited. A government that took long enough to list the IRGC as a terrorist organization should be acting with far more urgency at home before getting all high and mighty about elsewhere.

Sweeping rhetoric. Weak domestic enforcement. Right on Liberal brand.

[Mattjoe @Mattjoecatch]

@AntSpeaks https://t.co/gQAupVaOma

[Northern Perspective @NorthrnPrspectv]

It's like Mark Carney forgets the internet exists.

It's surprising because he probably took credit for inventing it!

Who admits publicly that he wants companies to impose BACKDOOR carbon taxes...

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Two hives went into Dave's orchard corner this spring, and Keith, who has assessed and tested and dismantled every single thing on that farm, has assessed the bees exactly once and elected, for the first time in his life, to leave a thing entirely alone.

This is genuinely without precedent. Keith tests everything. He has eaten a latch, a pocket square, a set of water heater instructions, and the better part of Dave's left wellington. He climbs what cannot be climbed and opens what cannot be opened and investigates the world with a relentless prehensile curiosity that has cost Dave three hundred and eighty-seven pounds in gates. There is no object in his domain he has not, at some point, put his lips to in the spirit of enquiry.

He walked up to the hives on the first day. Dave watched from the yard with the specific dread of a man who has seen this goat approach things before. Keith stood in front of the nearest hive. He watched the entrance, the constant stream of bees coming and going, the low working hum of forty thousand individuals about their business. He brought his nose to within a sensible distance. He held there for a while, doing whatever calculation it is that goes on behind those rectangular eyes.

And then he stepped back, turned, and walked away to the bramble, and he has not gone near the hives since.

Dave's log: "He left the bees. I don't know what passed between Keith and the bees. Whatever it was, the bees won the negotiation without appearing to negotiate, which is the only time anything on this farm has managed it. I have not added a column. I am simply relieved."

There is a kind of intelligence that tests everything to find its limit. And there is a rarer kind that meets a thing humming with quiet collective purpose and recognises, without needing to be stung, that here at last is something better left to get on with its work.

Keith has both. The bees are fine. The bees were always going to be fine. Even Keith knows where the line is, and the line, it turns out, is forty thousand of anything, all agreeing.

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

I moved to Montreal in 2008. I can tell you that the people who now occupy our downtown streets were not there until COVID. Before then, all I remember is a one-armed drunk man, and I was downtown every day. I suspect most are not from Quebec or even Canada and that many crossed at Roxham Road. I've even heard some speaking Russian. Where is the provincial data on these individuals?

[Mcgregor Mackenzie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mcgregormackenz]

Call me racist all you like

But I’m not up for getting beheaded in the street for the sake of diversity and multiculturalism.

[Francesco 🇮🇹 @SaP011]

Her name is Luana Zaratti, an Italian bus ticket inspector.

She was 26 when, during one of her shifts, she asked an illegal Egyptian immigrant for his ticket.

He had none. His answer was a violent headbutt straight to her face, so hard it shattered her nasal septum and caused severe head trauma.

Luana collapsed to the ground, blood pouring from her nose.

That single blow destroyed her life.
It left her with permanent brain damage and lifelong disability.

Years bedridden, almost vegetative.
But her willpower pulled her back to a shadow of the life she once had.

The attacker was sentenced to just 14 months in prison, but he never served a single day. He disappeared.

Luana, declared unfit to work, now survives on less than €1,000 a month.

[Lucius - The Prophet Of Decay @BaneThe76451]

@SaP011 One along thousands of forgotten stories that leftist politicians won't mention when talking about how solidary they are and how much diversity is our strength.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

Give me a break.

The Liberals opened the borders, rammed through record mass immigration with little to no vetting, then deliberately changed the laws to protect criminals — especially non-citizens — with catch-and-release bail and weak deportation rules.

They rejected common-sense Conservative bills that would have made sure foreign criminals are sentenced and removed based on their crimes, not their passports.

Now the same Liberals stand in the House and lecture everyone about “being tough on crime” while law-abiding Canadians and even newcomers are paying the price every single day.

Michelle Rempel Garner called it exactly what it is.

This didn’t happen by accident. It’s the direct result of a decade of deliberate Liberal choices that put criminals first and victims last.

Canadians see exactly what happened here.

#cdnpoli #LiberalFail #CatchAndRelease #DeportCriminals #SafeStreets

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

Number of hour-long, hard-hitting interviews Canadian media has been able to secure with this PM for Canadians = 0

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

I had the pleasure of introducing @cenovus CEO Jon McKenzie at the Global Energy Show today, and while the media has focused on his description of Pathways as "unfinanceable", his comments were more nuanced and the whole speech was a banger. My top 🔥 quotes from his speech: /1

[Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison]

Seems important to heed.
"McKenzie, who heads one of Canada's largest oil sands companies, said ... (Canada's) industrial carbon pricing ⁠system makes Canadian oil uncompetitive and inhibits the ⁠production growth required to fill the ⁠proposed pipeline". #cdnpoli #abpoli

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

The new GG's installation speech was a decent example of something that keeps bothering me. Arbour told young Canadians "don't underestimate how lucky you are to grow up here" and described a country "pretty well on the way" to being perfect. Canada is still, on the whole, a good country. But that is a very particular perspective. It is the perspective of people for whom Canada works.

And there's a growing tendency among those people who are comfortable, credentialled, institutionally secure to treat any honest reckoning with where the country is falling short as a kind of disloyalty. Mention that the economy is sclerotic, housing is broken or that the healthcare system isn't delivering or that living standards have stagnated, and you're either being unpatriotic or importing MAGA talking points.

The effect is to make criticism of real problems socially impermissible among exactly the people with the power to address them.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Turnbull says everything is working

Canadians say they can't afford groceries

Turnbull says wages are rising

Canadians say they're falling behind

Turnbull says the economy is strong

When politicians have to explain why you're doing well, you're probably not doing well

[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

Released hostages described being moved between families like property. Not Hamas tunnels. Private homes. The civilian-militant blurred line everyone hid behind isnt blurred anymore.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Wayne Long is so Pathetic

The Liberals Bash Pierre Poilievre Daily and he is not even in power.

Every single economy issue we are facing has been caused by the Liberals.

Wayne Long says our economy is BOOMING right now. The only thing BOOMING is the Foodbank