Ian Barr

Lifelong student of human behaviour and communications.

Baseball, music and news junkie. Views are my own.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@MACNational Simply put, Canadians see through the ideological hate invited to speak here.

Their record speaks for itself. We see through the deception.

[Daniel Schatz @drdanielschatz]

It’s time to stand with the people of Iran who are fighting for their freedom✌🏻

So where is Greta?
Where are the flotilla activists?
Where are the self-righteous liberals who have spent the past two years condemning Israel on the streets of London, Stockholm, and New York?
Where are the loud, ever-present humanitarians and social justice warriors?

They are nowhere to be seen.

Because the truth is simple: they never cared about human rights. Their outrage was never about freedom, dignity, or universal values. It was selective political theater masquerading as moral conviction.

When the cause is not about spreading chaos in the streets, demonizing Israel, or posing with Palestinian scarves, the sense of urgency suddenly disappears. When women in Iran are beaten, imprisoned, and killed by an Islamist regime, there are no marches. No symbols. No moral sermons.

This silence exposes the entire project. For these activists, human rights are not universal principles but props in an ideological performance. They show up where it brings status, visibility, and the “right” enemy—and vanish when the struggle demands courage, consistency, and intellectual honesty.

Iran exposes them.
And the silence speaks volumes.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

#bluejays #WANTITALL

[Boston Pizza @bostonpizza]

Ready for spills and glory. #NapkinJersey

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@SeanFraserMP I struggle with this comment and the lack of accountability within the governing body that you're part of. CDNs have been demanding tougher laws, tougher sentencing and eliminating the ridiculous way that sentences are evaluated. Your team has ignored it. What's going to change?

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

A disgusting and cowardly act — Canada’s National Holocaust Monument was defaced overnight.

Parliament is just steps away — that’s where dissent belongs. Defacing sacred ground in honour of the millions of victims of the Holocaust in the middle of the night with spray paint isn’t protest, it’s vandalism.

Someone this pathetic deserves to be identified and held accountable.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@JustinTrudeau You've been "condemning" things far too long. It's a pathetic deflection to avoid action, to make hard choices that go against preserving a specific voter base in order to do what's right for Western democratic values. We need leadership. We need moral clarity. We need a new PM.

[Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 @KevinVuongxMP]

Our so-called “leaders” continue to embarrass #Toronto with their feckless #cowardice.

Tolerating intolerance does not make you a martyr for diversity, it makes you cowards who have betrayed the people who elected you to uphold our laws & keep us safe, all of us—including Jews.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@MACCMuslims Riiight....and telling children to wear blue because they're "colonizers" while shouting antisemtic comments is educational. This is unacceptable and not tolerated here. If you want to be taken seriously you need to be willing to stand against immoral acts. This is/was wrong.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@CIJAinfo @CTVLondon @lpsmediaoffice @CityofLdnOnt Here's some of his rhetoric https://t.co/JQwGndebTA

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@CIJAinfo @CTVLondon @lpsmediaoffice @CityofLdnOnt he's in your city on the 24th https://t.co/Pp7WHDM3u2

[Mayor Jeremy Levi @jerlevi]

I don't know which is more appalling: a terrorist sympathizer shouting to a large crowd that anyone supporting Israel should be annihilated and urging people to sacrifice their lives for this cause, or the fact that in Canada today, such blatant incitement to hatred and encouragement of terrorism is permitted. Canada has now become a nation where learning to be a terrorist and thriving on hate is tolerated. This is an outrage, and we must not stand for it. We must reclaim our values and ensure that our country does not become a breeding ground for such vile ideologies.

[Rick Peterson @RickPetersonYEG]

Check out this thread from @DominicCardy.
This is what leadership looks like. There is a significant shortage of it today. He's clearly and with courage stepped into the breach.

Stay tuned. You'll be hearing more from him shortly. A lot more.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@thehazelmae Bo is out.
Manoah is out. Tiedemann can't be called up because he's out.
Martinez just got in, but is now out.
Springer has been in, but playing like he's on out.
Kiermier's has been basically out.
Vogelbach is out.
Votto was never in, but is out.

Atkins should be....out.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@whocare40080374 @josephdzita @BlueJays Your right, but he also inherited a WS-contending team that had generationally impactful talent on it. He walked into a dream scenario but I think the difference is he executed and put his stamp on the team to push it over the top. He's grown a lot since the Jays. Atkins hasn't.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@BlueJays You're on your third manager since Atkins took over and the story is consistently worse. Schneider may be a scapegoat, but the track record is the same. The management's 'process' dictates most of the manager's decisions and the culture that flows organisationally.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@BlueJays 2 for 13 with runners in scoring position. Same story, different year. Refusal to acknowledge or act different. The 'process' only works if it can be executed. This management struggles to pivot when things don't work.

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@FarheenMahmood2 @juliedabrusin Fact: Hamas is a terrorist organization that kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered Jews on October 7, 2023. You can oppose the bombing of Palestine AND oppose Hamas. Showing up at his house is not protest, it's intimidation.

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

Remind everyone — which embassy, consulate, government office, legislative building is at this specific intersection in Toronto?

Seems like the target is a Jewish neighbourhood, because it is.

Gutless politicians say the words to your boss — not to Twitter.

If you break the law you should be punished.

Apply the law to everyone who breaks it equally.

Stop emboldening the antisemitism you’ve ignored for 3 months.

Start there. #cdnpoli

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@BeisbolCardBlog @beckettcollect I had high hopes when I opened a Todd Van Poppel rookie card when I was a kid. We know how that panned out!

[Ian Barr @ibarr]

@JGoldberg12 Something in the works for a trade? Assuming another team with financial limitations but trade capital would see value in Espinal or Biggio.