It takes 15 LAPD officers making an average of $100k a year to kill a fucking Golden Doodle.
That’s $1.5 million dollars a year standing around watching a woman cry over her dead dog they just killed. But sure, police departments need more money.
I am a single issue voter anymore. If you support Israel in literally any way shape or form I will not vote for you. I do not care about literally anything else anymore. How can anyone see this and ignore it.
My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal).
When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the regularity of open, vitriolic antisemitism in the cocktail parties and ambassadorial receptions that surround that crucial but flawed institution.
For this reason (among others) he’s always been the one in our family with the deepest atavistic fear of antisemitism. He was sympathetic to the idea of Israel as a refuge longer than the rest of us.
This is no longer the case. Like so many Jews who for decades adopted the dominant narratives of Zionism, he can no longer defend the current actions of the state of Israel.
He now regards Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal.
To return to the personal, seven years ago my Dad was diagnosed with a vicious cancer and was given as little as 3 months to live. It’s a sublime understatement to say that he’s a fighter - but he has persevered in life with a tenacity familiar from his political, diplomatic and humanitarian pursuits.
Which brings us to this morning, when at 87 years old, he spent an hour standing at the side of the road in his old riding of Scarborough West. Standing up as a Jew against genocide. Standing up for justice for Palestine. Standing up on the right side of history, where the vast majority of humanity currently stands.
I’ve never been prouder, never more humble before the stubborn principle and insistent moral clarity of the guy I’m so lucky to call Dad.
People of Canada: don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Starvation as collective punishment can never be forgiven.
Burning and burying children alive can never be defended.
Stand up against genocide until we make it stop!
Thanks Dad.
And special thanks to @CharlieAngusNDP for shining his spotlight on Ted Schmidt and the other excellent folks who gather every Thursday at 8 am at the corner of Victoria Park and Kingston Road in Scarborough.
@standinginhope@_Anunnery@Nestle Definitely many reasons to double down on the boycott. Flipped our house off of the coffee pods onto reusable ones and beans from local roasters.
@Dock_Currie@NDP@avilewis Whether or not you want Yves as leader, excluding his viewpoints and policy positions from the debates is weakening the party so badly. I don’t understand how party insiders are this bad at politics and not understanding this.
JUST IN: RAFAH EXPLOSION WAS DONE BY ISRAEL NOT HAMAS TO BREAK CEASEFIRE
An Israel owned bulldozer clearing rubble in Rafah ran over unexploded bomb that caused the blast.
The White House and Pentagon were aware of this immediately and knew that Netanyahu was lying that Hamas emerged from tunnels.
Israeli media imposed a gag order
Source: @ryangrim@ytirawi
I was horrified when I saw the videos from October 7th. The way those Israeli choppers launched hellfires at their own clearly terrified civilians in order to justify an ongoing genocide will haunt me forever
@BagdMilkSoWhat @whatdoesntkillu@seanfeucht@rcmpgrcpolice A moose chased down a road by a car will run until it dies from exhaustion. It is only capable of leaving the road after you leave it alone and let it slow down safely.
@RollerRexRider@COPEVancouver Good thing that well funded libraries make for safer communities! Glad to see you’re clearly in full support of this motion.