Maple Opinion

The opinion section of @readthemaple, formerly known as Passage. Edited by @DavideMastracci.

[Maple Opinion @mapleopinion]

Please read this important message about the future of Passage, from managing editor @DavideMastracci.

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEWS: Passage (@readpassage) is merging with The Maple (@readthemaple) to become one publication. Passage will effectively become the opinion section of the new publication while The Maple will become the news section. I will continue as managing editor of the opinion section.

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: I ranked Canada’s provinces based on their disclosure-report systems, which I’ve become familiar with after years of publishing databases on elected officials who are landlords.

Spoiler alert: some are inexplicably awful.

https://t.co/927xOR1pIj

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: Find out if your provincial rep (MHA, MLA, MNA, MPP) is a landlord using the latest version of The Maple’s database.

https://t.co/888fftWoYW

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

67 per cent of Canadians with an opinion on the question agree with banning citizens from serving in the Israeli military, according to a new Pollara survey.

This is a greater percentage than those who support banning foreign military service in general.
https://t.co/yX39ULERu2

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: A majority of Canadians agree with banning citizens from serving in the Israeli military.

54% agree compared to 27% who disagree, meaning Canadians are twice as likely to agree.

Of those with an opinion, 67% agree with banning IDF service.

https://t.co/yX39ULERu2

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: 54% of Canadians agree with banning citizens from serving in the Israeli military, according to a poll commissioned by The Maple.

https://t.co/PLU3WJvPCu

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

Yesterday, @TheAtlantic published an article falsely claiming The Maple listed two specific synagogues in Toronto as being complicit in Israel’s genocide.

The author did this by citing a quote from a September 2024 article I wrote about complicity in Israel’s crimes that did not even mention either of these synagogues, and then not telling readers where the quote was from or when it was published.

This was seemingly intended to give readers the impression that it came from a December 2025 database of mine the author mentioned that did include public information about those two synagogues. It did not.

Moreover, that database did not claim the synagogues are complicit in anything, nor did it even use the word “complicit” anywhere.

The author of the piece was almost definitely aware of these facts when they stitched together the paragraph. The Atlantic editors/fact checkers should have caught it and edited it properly.

I alerted them to this serious error yesterday, but they have yet to respond or make a correction.

The article also didn’t link to or name either piece, so readers weren’t able to check the sources themselves.

Here’s the September 2024 article: https://t.co/S77B55h4cU

And here’s the December 2025 database: https://t.co/JF78VulecZ

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: “Canadian unions and workers have nothing to gain from war in the Middle East or anywhere else. Their interests lie with workers in Iran and across the world,” writes @AdamDKKing1 in this call for unions to mobilize against the war in Iran.

https://t.co/92e9t1V7XX

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: Canada’s richest 1 per cent have nearly as much wealth as its poorest 80 per cent combined.

https://t.co/21IOdaIOhW

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: HonestReporting Canada continues employing a guy charged with allegedly spray-painting “FUCK GAZA” (charges were dropped). That hasn’t stopped media from giving in to their demands. And it didn’t stop Parliament from inviting them to speak this week.
https://t.co/Q7vVmuvKJO

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: Canadian editorial boards watched U.S.-Israeli forces slaughter Iranian school children, and then endorsed the war anyways.

https://t.co/wsZiOlpwWh

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

Editorial boards have supported Canada’s war and regime change efforts since the First World War 98 per cent of the time.

https://t.co/jKiEvagNe1

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: Canadian media has been warning Iran is weeks, months or years away from nukes for at least 25 years, often in articles calling for war and sanctions.

I’ve gone through the archives and pulled examples from each year.

https://t.co/RsL97FtDnF

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: Canadian media has quoted proponents of the fighter jet deal between the government and Lockheed Martin 41 per cent more often than critics, writes @emmapaling.

The analysis is based on articles in CBC, Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, & National Post.
https://t.co/idPpwJGnGq

[Maple Opinion @mapleopinion]

NEW: The Liberals are to blame for CUPE’s subpar Air Canada settlement, writes @AdamDKKing1.

https://t.co/xLzLREKLIN

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: A Mossad-linked Israeli lawfare organization is trying to shut down The Maple and get criminal charges laid against me.

Read, share and let Israelis know that they don’t get to decide what Canadian journalism looks like.

https://t.co/3gaq4Jlh4M

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: Canada’s top-paid CEOs made more in the first 33 hours of 2026 than the average worker will all year, writes @AdamDKKing1.

https://t.co/ugohMWdaax

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

I broke this story 9 months ago. https://t.co/08K4KneVUe

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

In 2024, CIJA stated it was “deeply troubled” by the government deciding to grant visas to 5,000 Gazans, claiming it could harm Canadians, particularly Jewish ones.

Just 860 or so Gazans have come to Canada since, compared to 300,000+ Ukrainians.
https://t.co/2HAiukKTib

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

The most-common topics discussed were “national security/security,” “justice and law enforcement,” “taxation and finance” and “immigration.”

An October session included 37 MPs, and they discussed increased police funding and rebates for security costs.
https://t.co/2HAiukKTib

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

NEW: CIJA has lobbied at least 20 per cent of MPs since the 2025 federal election. One MP has already been lobbied 8 times.

https://t.co/2HAiukLr7J