Anthony 🏳️‍🌈

🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 #gaydad of twins looking to make this city/province/country a better place for their future. Centrist. Find me over at 🦋 same handle

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

BRUTAL indictment of @bariweiss by Scott Pelley:
"For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified." Then it gets worse...

[Anthony 🏳️‍🌈 @eastsidedads]

whistler-by-the-sea

[WanderLens @naturebeauty760]

Can you guess the location?

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

“As a natural-born Canadian citizen, my loyalty is to the United States.”

This is where the cheapening of Canadian citizenship has taken us.

Someone who holds Canadian citizenship, but openly declares loyalty to a foreign state, and advocates for the destruction of Canadian sovereignty.

This is absurd.

If @arjunswritings had a shred of honour, he would renounce his Canadian citizenship.

And if Canada believes citizenship has any meaning, Parliament should amend the Citizenship Act to allow for the revocation of citizenship from those who have renounced their loyalty to Canada.

[Anthony 🏳️‍🌈 @eastsidedads]

Just watched a teen on an e-scooter speeding in and out of traffic across 3 lanes on East Broadway at Renfrew. A motorbike would have gotten a ticket. #eastvan.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

“He was a German oil executive in occupied Poland. She was his wife, hiding Jewish children in their home. They didn’t start as heroes. They started as parents who saw other parents’ children being dragged into trucks—and decided that witnessing evil was not enough.”

In August 1942, Berthold Beitz, a 28‑year‑old German businessman, stood outside a Jewish orphanage in Boryslaw, Poland, and watched SS soldiers empty the building. Children were torn from their beds, crying for parents who had already disappeared. That night, Berthold went home to his wife Else and their young daughter. He told her what he had seen. Then he said two simple words: “We have to do something.” Nothing in his background—a banker, an oil executive, a former member of Nazi youth organizations—had prepared him for resistance. But once he saw the faces of children who reminded him of his own, he could not look away.

Berthold managed an oil field deemed critical to Germany’s war effort. He used his position to grant “essential worker” status to Jews who had no connection to oil—a tailor, a hairdresser, a scholar. A signature on a piece of paper could mean the difference between life and death. He signed again and again. When deportation trains arrived, he walked directly to the platform, argued with SS officers, and demanded the release of entire families. Sometimes he succeeded. Meanwhile, Else turned their home into a refuge, hiding Jewish children in closets and basements, feeding them, protecting them. The penalty was death. They did it anyway.

The danger escalated. In 1943, forged documents traced back to Berthold, and he faced investigation. He denied involvement and managed to avoid arrest, but the risk never faded. Every knock on the door could be the Gestapo. Yet the Beitz family continued for the rest of the war. By 1945, they had helped save approximately 800 Jewish lives—men, women, and children who would have perished. Most of the survivors never forgot the German couple who chose compassion over complicity. After the war, Berthold became one of Germany’s most influential industrialists, advising presidents and prime ministers. But he rarely spoke of his wartime actions. When pressed, he simply said: “When you see innocent people being killed, and you have children of your own, your response becomes impossible to ignore.”

In 1973, Yad Vashem recognized Berthold and Else Beitz as Righteous Among the Nations. The survivors they saved have multiplied into thousands of descendants—entire generations who exist because two people refused to turn away. Else died in 2014, Berthold in 2013, just weeks before his 100th birthday. They did not seek fame or medals. They sought something simpler: to look at themselves in the mirror and know they had done what was right.

The Beitz family’s story is a quiet thunderclap. It teaches us that heroism is not about grand plans or powerful weapons. It is about a husband and wife who, in the middle of the darkest regime in history, said “we have to do something”—and then did it, one signature, one hidden child, one pulled‑off‑the‑train at a time. As Berthold himself once reflected: “You don’t have to save the whole world. You just have to save the person in front of you. And if enough people do that, the world gets saved anyway.” Share this if you believe that the courage to act begins with the refusal to look away.

#drthehistories

[Killarney CC @KillarneyCC]

“In Killarney, a smile is more than a moment — it’s a reminder that we’re surrounded by people who care. Thank you for filling this community with warmth, kindness, and connection. Happy National Smile Day.”

[Anthony 🏳️‍🌈 @eastsidedads]

we've been buying Chapmans since our kids nut allergy diagnosis love the brand.

[MaggieK 🇨🇦 @MaggieKeresteci]

Chapman's Ice Cream is amazing. They used to source fruits & nuts from US suppliers. Then Trump slapped on 25% tariff. So what did Chapman's do? They called Italy. They called Spain. They signed contracts with European suppliers. This is a family-run business of good Canadians!

[Sandy James Planner @sandyjamesplanner.bluesky @sandyjamesplan]

I’ve been in Vancouver City Council Chambers for decades, and I’ve seen some pretty colourful behaviour and speeches. But I’ve never seen a Mayor of Vancouver or a Vancouver city councillor from the Mayor’s party harass another councillor like this. Ever. And it is continuing.

[Carol Reardon @caroltreardon]

We noticed this immediately upon receipt of our property taxes invoice. It’s inappropriate for ABC city correspondence to tell people that ABC “froze” their taxes - especially since it’s just BS. Our taxes increased by 26% since ABC was elected. #VanPoli https://t.co/r6Xcs0gAb6

[Bill Tieleman @BillTieleman]

Thank you BC Conservative Party for granting the #BCNDP its wildest dream! 💭The most conservative, hard-right, dubious, divisive candidate - is now the leader of the Official Opposition!😈 #bcpoli #cdnpoli #vanpoli

[Brad West @BradWestPoCo]

British Columbians are practical people. They don’t expect government to solve every problem, but to focus on the things that matter: safe communities, reliable public services, and an economy that creates opportunity and a rising standard of living that lifts all boats.

Political leadership that is consumed by ideology, partisanship, and narrow appeals to issues that make not a lick of difference to quality of life, but are intend to distract and enrage do a disservice to the people and won’t make it very far. In fact, it’s part of the reason we are plagued by the same challenges year over year, decade over decade.

We need to firmly turn the page on this era, and leave it behind.

[Dr. Hedy Fry @HedyFry]

We have unchecked short memories! Either that are we are blissfully unaware of our own history. I recall during the run up to the 1990s Quebec referendum, when banks ,international companies and residents left in droves. In fact u could get a multi million dollar home in tony Mount Royal for a few hundred thousand dollars.

[Anthony 🏳️‍🌈 @eastsidedads]

thx for ensuring the NDP win the next election. #bcpoli

[CDNpolling @cdnpolling]

BREAKING: Former BC Conservative MP and Minister of Revenue Kerry-Lynne Findlay has been elected as leader of the BC Conservative Party.

Findlay won on the final ballot with 51% of the vote over Elliott.

#cdnpoli #bcpoli

[Anthony 🏳️‍🌈 @eastsidedads]

well hello there!

[Laura Christensen @l_christe]

Council and ABC have no authority to construct a pool within Sunset Park. It is designated as a permanent park and therefore requires Park Board approval. Several other aquatic facilities have been planned ahead of this. Disappointing electioneering. #stayinyourlane #vanpoli

[Mary Tataryn 🇨🇦 @TatarynMary]

Basically we need a lot more Funding for the Park Board to build our community centres and pools across the city! We are in a big deficit! It will take years to catch up!

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Yeah.

[Anthony 🏳️‍🌈 @eastsidedads]

Happy Friday. #eastvan

[VaughnPalmer @VaughnPalmer]

Supreme Court of Canada lets stand NB court decision that said “a declaration of Aboriginal title over privately owned lands would sound the death knell of reconciliation with the interests of non-Aboriginal Canadians.” Eby gov’t welcomes, re Cowichan case.