Michelle Langlois

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[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

“Fuck your fascist pancakes!”

Smith got called out hard at today’s pancake breakfast for putting AI ahead of Albertans and appearing on a separatist podcast.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

On top of everything else…It’s insane to talk about foreign election interference without focusing on Israel. Their affiliates in the us are spending millions RIGHT NOW in the Michigan Senate primary to make sure that our tax dollars continue to fund their war crimes. And Trump’s former campaign chief is running a mass paid influencer campaign on their behalf.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Every time I hear Carney doing this bit, I feel like the last sane person on Earth.

A person who is eligible for bail has not been convicted of a crime. The impetus is on the Crown to prove guilt. Judging a crime on a previous record is inadmissible “prejudice.”

This is scary.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today.

Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate.

This government is spending billions of dollars in public money to expand the very industry that’s causing climate breakdown — at a moment when renewables are cheaper and more available than ever before.

No more climate-wrecking corporate welfare. We need a government that protects the people and places we love.

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

Canadian Prime Minister @MarkJCarney pays homage to a Nazi.

Carney is so depraved that he claims that the Nazi “stood resolutely in defence of democracy and freedom”.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The presumption of the Ambassador that Americans, who fund Israel's military, must go on trips curated by Israel's government reeks of the impunity of power.

I told Israel of my travel but wanted a Palestinian led trip.

Israel's military does not have the right to detain us.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Premier Doug Ford drowned out by OPSEU protesters blowing whistles and chanting “fair wages”

#onpoli

[Stuart Benson @LeftHandStu]

So, the National Post considers the Palestinian Ambassador meeting with the museum to be Foreign Interference, but is in favour of Israeli lawfare to shut down the Museum’s exhibit?

@terrynewman I found the foreign interference you were looking for.

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

.@AnitaAnandMP has refused to meet with a single of my Canadian doctor colleagues who has been to Gaza.

When I and other health workers went to deliver a @docstopgenocide letter to her office, her staff locked the door and called the police.

Weapons made right here in our communities are going to kill our brothers and sisters in Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, and beyond.

People of conscious will not rest until this stops.

She is breaking the law and she knows it.

No justice. No peace.

#EndTheGenocides
#ArmsEmbargoNow

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

@NoahPollak Easy solution for Israel: Leave Lebanon. If Hezbollah attacks across the border, they’d be globally condemned. Just leave Lebanon. Easy. They could pack up and be gone by Monday.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

I have huge respect for people with the courage to join the Global Sumud Flotilla.

They put their bodies at risk because they do not believe their lives are more valuable than the lives of Palestinians.

It is shameful that government ministers express indignation for Canadians when they have utterly failed to show it for Palestinians, who have endured untold cruelty for the better part of a century.

But that’s the world we live in, and the bravery of the flotilla participants shows the glaring double standard, and helps build pressure to rein in the rogue state of Israel.

It’s an extreme tactic in response to extreme impunity.

And the goal is to stop the genocide and dismantle Israeli apartheid.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

It’s a relief to hear the Prime Minister express some moral outrage over Ben-Gvir’s brutish behaviour, outrage which has been missing during Israel’s attack on Iran, bombardment of Lebanon and ongoing genocide in Gaza.

But strong words must be followed by strong action. Sanctioning individual ministers is not enough when this cruelty is mirrored in Israeli state policy. Close the loophole on arms sales, cancel the free trade agreement and use every tool in Canada’s diplomatic arsenal to end Israel’s impunity.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

When critics pointed out black-and-white factual errors from the beginning to the end of the NYT’s “Screams Without Words,” one of the most consequential fabrications in the paper’s history, used to justify a genocide, the paper steadfastly refused to address them. Only when video evidence emerged directly contradicting part of it did they offer a soft “update” to the piece.

Note how differently critics of the Kristof piece are treated. Where the original article did not interview a single victim, Kristof spoke to 14, all corroborated in other ways too. The critics do not challenge a single fact, instead they argue that the behavior described is simply impossible, or dogs would never do that, and all the witnesses and victims are biased against Israel and should not be listened to. Not a single honest criticism of what he has reported has been presented that contradicts the facts he laid out.

Yet those critics — who hysterically impugn his character and even in many cases suggest he should be executed — get a polite and respectful reply from the Times. (And in their reply they double down on their old Screams piece, stridently and without evidence.)

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

I’m glad Al Jazeera is asking these questions because Canadian journalists with access to Anand never would and those of us who try have our questions ignored by comms staffers who have absolute contempt for transparency and truth.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

"This strikes me as odd only because if a Canadian citizen died in Ukraine, would you be asking Moscow to investigate?" -- Scott McLean questions Anita Anand on Israel leading the investigation into the death of a Canadian killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing.

The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs.

ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries.

Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year.

Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize.

Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now.

Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

This man is selling off our entire country's economy to the private sector and foreign multinationals before our very eyes.

[Bob Chandler @leftylabourtech]

This is wrap it in the flag corporate bullshit. He'll acquiesce to provinces gutting public healthcare. That's what he calls "working with the provinces".

[George Bell @georgebell]

Ontario closed down safe sites…what did we think would happen?

[Paula Fletcher @PaulaFletcherTO]

@sarobertsonca Hahahahahahaha
8 million new visitors would have to get into the city on Lakeshore Boulevard