Iโm almost finished with Sakinaโs Kiss, a suspenseful literary novel by Vivek Shanbhag translated by Srinath Perur and published last year by McNally Editions. This is the time Iโve read a book translated from Kannada.
Happy Pride ๐ณ๏ธโ๐! Itโs great to see support for the ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ community in Israel, and a recent survey shows increasing support there for our community.
Scenes from the Jerusalem Pride Parade. Israel stands out as a place where LGBTQ+ people can live openly, proudly, and authentically. ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Martha Argerich is 85! Unbelievable - 85 going on 25; as she says 'I just don't feel old.' A very happy birthday to a musical/ human dynamo - passionately warm-hearted, fiercely loyal, perennially self-doubting ('forgive my sins' she mutters before going onstage); and adorable!
@rwrandall Well kudos to the Victoria Chamber for not granting him an award. In all fairness, I donโt think the accusations against him stretch back to 2007 as he started his own company sometime after that.
Greg Martel is accused of defrauding investors of millions of dollars. Iโm glad he has been arrested and I hope he is extradited quickly. He needs to face justice in a ๐จ๐ฆ court where his guilt (or innocence) can be proven.
Greg Martel, a Victoria man who ran a Ponzi scheme, has been arrested in the country of Georgia, multiple sources tell CHEK News.
https://t.co/IOYMOqshwH
@BriannaWu Is an ETA required for all non-Israeli citizens who wish to visit? Iโve never been there but maybe Iโll get the chance to go in the future.
This candidate is running for CA governor as a conservative Republican, but her proposal eerily echoes the (now-defeated) Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo. Antisemitism & antizionism exist on the left & right and should be called out by all ppl of conscience.
RIP Marianne Satrapi, the Persian-French feminist and cartoonist who created Persepolis and spoke out against the brutality of Iranโs regime. I saw the animated version in a theatre several years ago.
https://t.co/02OiAgeKEk
There all kinds of reasons ppl have the surnames they have; Mona was being rude/prejudiced last week. Despite my surname, I have no German ancestry; my grandfather changed his surname as an adult to honour his stepdad. Otherwise, my surname would be an (uncommon) English one.
@SelinaMRobinson@chaat_papri Mona, Selinaโs memoir will tell you about her surname. Also: some of my Jewish classmates had surnames like Phillips, Johnson etc; โก๏ธ status traditionally comes from the mother. Conversely, ๐ฌ๐ง rugby star Ben Cohen isnโt Jewish, but his great-grandpa was. Stop your bigotry.
I agree with Mark: it shouldnโt be illegal to build early 20th century housing forms, including multiunit apartments with minimal setbacks or parking, on most residential streets in North American cities.
@HenMazzig@SelinaMRobinson โJews eating kidsโ is made-up shit from the Middle Ages, you can trace this back to incidents in Blois, France (1171) and Lincoln, UK some years later. Itโs sad that someone in the 21st century would use this to spread hate on the subway. ๐
Antisemitism in the ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ community is always 100% *wrong*. I call on all of us who are ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ to welcome Jewish ppl into our spaces and events, and I will try to be an ally to โก๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ppl by avoiding spaces/events that discriminate.
@Fleischmarket I was hoping the PM would have also said: โIโm a Zionist.โ I am almost certain the PM *is* a Zionist, Iโve never heard him say ๐ฎ๐ฑ shouldnโt exist. But we need to get to the point where the word is no longer acceptable as a slur/insult.
Today, AG @NikiSharma2 launched the province's Anti-Racism Action Plan. I want to express my gratitude for the inclusion of antisemitism in the plan, including in spaces such as the K-12 education sector. #bcpoli 1/2 https://t.co/phFgKyaAPkโฆ