Debora Smith

Running, cycling, enjoying life to its fullest and
being a great wife (to a great husband)

[Brittlestar @brittlestar]

Nobody out passive-aggressives Canada

[max seddon @maxseddon]

Fiona Hill actually tried to get Arnold made the US ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, thinking he was one of the few people who could talk sense into Putin.

Judging by this, he’d have done a hell of a job.

[Bob Rae @BobRae48]

Some say I should be more “diplomatic”, but this equates diplomacy with denying, running away, looking at your shoes and speaking words with, as Orwell said “the force of pure wind”. Speaking plainly in public and private is always a good idea. I shall continue to do so.

[Norman Hardie Winery @normhardie]

When Warren Buffet talks finance, we all listen. We should all listen to when https://t.co/Wgr6twYp1v talks wine... we have something very special here in Ontario

#PECwine #DrinkLocal #PrinceEdwardCounty #VisitPEC #CountyUp #VQA #VQAwines #VQAWinesof… https://t.co/OqzmOcXchC

[Bob Rae @BobRae48]

A baby dies of starvation in Tigray; a mother dies in childbirth in Eastern Congo; parents grieve at the loss of a daughter in Myanmar; no death is less than the other. We have to keep all in our hearts and souls and our commitment to action.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Poland's Deputy PM proposes international peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.

[Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll]

In new message, Zelensky appeals to Russian soldiers: “You won’t take anything fm Ukraine. You will take lives. But we will take your lives too. We offer you choice: if you surrender, we will treat you as people should be treated. With dignity. Not like your army has treated you"

[Anders Östlund @andersostlund]

Kyiv's Mayor furious. Listen to him.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Between 20,000 and 30,000 people rally in support of Ukraine in Berlin.

The column of protesters demanding that Russia stops the war walked through the center of the German capital on March 13.

[Myroslava Petsa @myroslavapetsa]

This beautiful family doesn’t exist any more. Mykhailo Soloshenko, his wife Inna and son Yefrem were killed when a Russian tank fired on their car. Mykhailo was a Sumy University graduate - they confirmed his passing and released this photo.

[Alec Luhn @AlecLuhn]

Ukraine has held out 4x as many days as Russia thought it would take & has "already achieved a strategic breakthrough," @ZelenskyyUa says. "We are heading towards victory."
Meanwhile Putin is clearly doubling down on his invasion...

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

VIDEO: Orchestra plays for peace on main Kyiv square.

Musicians from the Kyiv Classic Orchestra perform a concert on the capital's Maidan Square led by conductor Herman Makarenko

[Bob Rae @BobRae48]

A lie is not trueAn invasion is not a liberation/Killing children is not a special military operation/ Cluster and vacuum bombs are crimes against humanity and not instruments of peace/1984 is not a “how to”book, it is a warning of tyranny / up is not down/ a lie is not true

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

Because refugees are human beings. Because no human should be illegal. Because the only difference between us & a refugee is luck...Support refugees. Welcome refugees. Stand with refugees. And stop the wars that make refugees. 🙏🏾

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has affected Ukrainians and non-citizens in many devastating ways. Africans seeking evacuation are our friends and need to have equal opportunities to return to their home countries safely. Ukraine’s government spares no effort to solve the problem.

[Canada Mission UN @CanadaUN]

Ambassador @bobrae48 at the #UNGA emergency special session on Ukraine

#WeStandWithUkraine
#StopWar

[Peter M Boehm @SenBoehm]

A magnificent speech on the Ukraine crisis by @BobRae48,🇨🇦’s ambassador to the UN, made all the more poignant by his holding & citing his father Saul Rae’s copy of the UN Charter. Saul Rae was our ambassador to the UN in the mid 1970’s. He would have been proud of his son today.

[Sarah Hunter 🍁 @SarahHunterCan]

“We don’t go to war. We go to the negotiating table. We go to court. We go to mediators. That is how we resolve disputes. The other way lies madness.” - @BobRae48 at the 11th Emergency Special Session of the #UNGA on #Ukraine 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

One thing’s for sure: Every refugee deserves compassion, regardless of whether or not they have the same skin colour as you.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

anti-war protest in moscow
surely getting bigger when the russian economy implodes tomorrow