Mark Gold 🟩

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

McMaster University: Ontario’s higher [110kph] speed limits will lead to more road fatalities "I can say with 100 per cent confidence that increasing the speed limit will increase the number of fatal collisions on the road." https://t.co/m3jhPkpIwA

[Steve Munro @SwanBoatSteve]

The waterfront east transit line has funding from three levels of government, but what that will buy continues to dwindle. Is it time for an open, honest discussion about development and transit options here? https://t.co/JLLFCsRymX

[🏭🏘🏢Sean Galbraith🗻❄️🥏 @PlannerSean]

This is amazing.

https://t.co/oekS6iyZQl

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

Since 10/7, Israel’s defenders have tried deplatforming critics, arresting protesters, criminalizing boycotts, flooding primaries with dark money, blackmailing universities, literally buying CBS and turning it into a propaganda channel. It’s only made their position less popular.

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

The guy's great-grandfather was a Yiddish-speaking peddler who arrived at Ellis Island in 1903, and somehow New York endured his presence. No one kidnapped him off the street or sent him to a concentration camp in El Salvador.

[Paul McLeod @pdmcleod]

Strange that putting out a wildly manipulative reading of the Montreal shooter's manifesto like this (he was almost certainly targeting the PornHub headquarters) in order to instill fear in the Jewish community is not seen as harmful to Canada's Jewish communities.

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Israel’s ‘deliberate targeting’ of children part of ongoing Gaza ‘genocide’: UN probe https://t.co/z5TrKewOP5

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

Seconds after I hit publish on this, my thesis that there will be people who have access to national platforms, who will try and obscure what Seth Hatfield's manifesto said. Stephanie Carvin just claimed that it's anti police (it isn't).

Take a read...

https://t.co/GxRBw8tLqg

[Ismail (Ish) Aderonmu @LegalishCA]

Here is what actually happened in Montreal: A gunman opened fire on police outside a hotel in Côte-des-Neiges. He killed Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, seriously wounded another officer and was then shot dead by police.

Michel Mizrahi, a 68-year-old civilian, was caught in the crossfire. The investigation into whose bullet killed him remains ongoing.

Authorities concluded that this was not a terrorist attack. Police indicated that Montreal’s Jewish community and Chabad were not deliberately targeted. The gunman reportedly left behind a manifesto steeped in incel grievance, misogyny and hostility toward police.

You would know none of that from these posts.

@LizzySavetsky announced that a Jewish man had been “murdered by a terrorist.” @RabbiPoupko declared that “terror struck” a Jewish neighbourhood. @Saul_Sadka went further and simply invented that Chabad had been targeted, then blamed “IRGC propagandists.”

They straight lied.

They took the fact that Mizrahi was Jewish and died near Jewish institutions, then manufactured the rest: the target, the motive and the political enemy.

They wanted an 'Islamist' terror story. They wanted a Muslim, Palestinian or Iranian villain they could blame before anyone even knew what had happened.

Why are these people so thirsty to portray their own community as the target of murderous violence?

Because the imagined attack gives them political ammunition. It allows them to inflame Jewish fear, demonize Muslims and Palestinians, and smear their ideological enemies—all while pretending to speak in the language of grief

Diabolical.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

We tend to think of conspiracy thinking as "irrational" or "illogical," but in fact it is actually overly rationalistic: it plugs in every empirical detail into a simple logical structure, "the theory can explain all."

[Dan @DanFmTo]

This is an amazing and unexpected turn of events, but actually I see the sense of it now. If Trump is going to actually bring Israel to heel in Lebanon, he may as well do it for Gaza too. Why risk that Israel will do some new atrocity to disrupt the talks again?

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a crime so dark it is difficult to comprehend

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

So if you apply this logic to the 4,000 citizens of Lebanon that Israel has killed in their invasion, you’d have to ask how the US would react to an invading force killing 235,000 Americans, many of them women and children.

You really don’t want to do this calculation for Gaza.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I was walking alone in the streets of Gaza City a short while ago, late at night. I did not expect this brief walk to become one of the most difficult moments I have experienced since the beginning of the war.

The city is completely engulfed in darkness. There are no streetlights, no lit homes, and no signs of normal life. Among the tents spread everywhere, rats were moving in large numbers, as if they had become part of the daily scene people have grown used to seeing.

I saw people lying on the sidewalks and sleeping on the roads because they had nowhere else to go. I saw a man searching through garbage bags in the dark of night for something to ease his hunger or meet his family’s needs. Along the roadside, dozens of people sat outside, escaping the suffocating heat inside the tents, which have turned into ovens with the arrival of summer.

I also heard the sound of a severe, continuous cough coming from inside a tent an elderly woman coughing in a way that reflected deep exhaustion, as if her body could no longer endure, with no medicine or ability to help in that moment.

In the midst of this darkness, I heard babies crying because there was no milk available, and a young girl screaming from inside a tent, crying to her mother because insects had bitten her feet again for the second or third time that night.

I returned wishing I had not gone out that night. I realized more than ever that this city no longer resembles the life we once knew. What is happening here cannot be understood through images or numbers alone. Anyone who wants to see the true scale of the suffering must see Gaza after sunset, when everything disappears except pain.

[Mona Abuamara منى أبو عمارة StandWith🇵🇸 @MonaAbuamara]

I must admit I was completely unaware that I was participating in a “secret meeting.” Had I known, I certainly would not have publicly posted about my visit to Winnipeg, the more than twenty meetings I held over four days, or thanked the people I met, including Mrs. Isha Khan.
How careless of me.

But then again, creating an anti-Palestinian controversy where none exists seems to be a familiar practice of the National Post.

The irony of this entire story is that the supposedly "leaked" emails reveal absolutely nothing. They are not controversial, or even remotely surprising. They show exactly what one would expect. An ambassador proud to honour the extraordinary of her community. Meeting with members of the Palestinian Canadian community and the Canadian institutions to witness the progress of their efforts (spanning years before the “leaked secret meeting” even took place) and how close they are to seeing their history represented in the country they call theirs.

That is not foreign interference nor is it a political agenda. This is community engagement. It is precisely what cultural institutions, elected officials, diplomats, and community leaders do every day.

In other words, there is no story in the emails. The story had to be manufactured around them.

I agree that the museum's role is to serve Canadians and uphold the highest standards of historical integrity, inclusion, and public education. What is difficult to understand, however, is why Palestinian Canadians are suddenly portrayed as outsiders to that mission.

Nakba is not a foreign story to Canada. Tens of thousands of Palestinian Canadians carry this history as part of their family experience. They are Canadian citizens, taxpayers, educators, artists, professionals, and community leaders. Their history is part of the diverse fabric of Canadian society, just as the histories of countless other communities represented in Canadian institutions are part of Canada's collective story.

When Indigenous Canadians speak about residential schools, when Holocaust survivors share their experiences, when Rwandan Canadians speak of the Genocide of the Tutsis, or when other communities preserve memories of displacement, persecution, and injustice, no one suggests that these are examples of foreign interference. They are recognized as Canadians contributing their histories and experiences to the national conversation.

Palestinian Canadians deserve the same respect.
What appears to trouble some critics is not the involvement of an ambassador, nor the existence of community consultations. It is the fact that Palestinians are asserting their right to tell their own story.
That right should not be controversial in Canada or anywhere. It should be protected.

Human rights are not controversial. Historical facts are not controversial. Nakba is "controversial" only for those who seek to erase, deny, or marginalize the Palestinian narrative.

What these recurring attacks seek to accomplish is not the protection of neutrality, transparency, or historical integrity. Rather, they appear aimed at creating enough controversy and political pressure to undermine or derail the opening of an exhibition altogether and deny Palestinian Canadians the same space afforded to others. The right to tell their story in their own words, to commemorate their collective experience, and to participate in public discussions about their own history. The timing of these accusations makes that objective difficult to ignore.

The real question now is not why Palestinians speak about the Nakba. The real question is why some are so determined to prevent them from doing so.

If acknowledging the suffering, forcible displacement, and dispossession of Palestinians is considered political, then perhaps the problem is not the story being told, but the discomfort it creates for those who would prefer that story remain untold.

Enough normalizing the dehumanization of an entire nation!

أعترف بأنني لم أكن على علم إطلاقاً بأنني أشارك في «اجتماع سري». ولو كنت أعلم ذلك، لما قمت بالتأكيد بنشر تفاصيل زيارتي إلى وينيبيغ على الملأ، ولا الحديث عن أكثر من عشرين اجتماعاً عقدتها خلال أربعة أيام، ولا توجيه الشكر للأشخاص الذين التقيتهم، بمن فيهم السيدة عائشة خان.
يا له من إهمال مني.

لكن، مرة أخرى، يبدو أن اختلاق جدل معادٍ للفلسطينيين حيث لا يوجد أي جدل بات ممارسة مألوفة لدى صحيفة ناشيونال بوست.

المفارقة في هذه القصة أن رسائل البريد الإلكتروني التي قيل إنها «مسرّبة» لا تكشف أي شيء على الإطلاق. فهي ليست مثيرة للجدل، ولا تحمل أي مفاجأة من أي نوع. إنها تُظهر ببساطة ما يمكن لأي شخص أن يتوقعه: سفيرة فخورة بمجتمعها الاستثنائي، وتلتقي بأبناء الجالية الفلسطينية الكندية وبمؤسسات كندية للاطلاع على التقدم الذي حققوه عبر سنوات طويلة من العمل (وقبل وقت طويل من انعقاد «الاجتماع السري المسرّب»)، لبحث مدى اقترابهم من تحقيق حلم تمثيل تاريخهم في البلد الذي يعتبرونه وطنهم.

هذا ليس تدخلاً أجنبياً، ولا أجندة سياسية. هذا هو الانخراط المجتمعي. وهذا بالضبط ما تقوم به المؤسسات الثقافية والمسؤولون المنتخبون والدبلوماسيون ورؤساء الجاليات المحلية كل يوم.

وبعبارة أخرى، لا توجد قصة في تلك الرسائل الإلكترونية. لذلك كان لا بد من اختراع قصة حولها.

وأنا أتفق تماماً مع أن دور المتحف هو خدمة الكنديين والحفاظ على أعلى معايير النزاهة التاريخية والشمولية والتثقيف العام. لكن ما يصعب فهمه هو لماذا يُصوَّر الفلسطينيون الكنديون فجأة وكأنهم غرباء عن هذه الرسالة.

فالنكبة ليست قصة أجنبية بالنسبة إلى كندا. عشرات الآلاف من الفلسطينيين الكنديين يحملون هذه الذاكرة كجزء من تاريخ عائلاتهم وتجربتهم الشخصية. إنهم مواطنون كنديون، ودافعو ضرائب، وأكاديميون، وفنانون، ومهنيون، وقادة مجتمعيون. وتاريخهم جزء من النسيج المتنوع للمجتمع الكندي، تماماً كما أن تاريخ وتجارب العديد من المجتمعات الأخرى الممثلة في المؤسسات الكندية تشكل جزءاً من القصة الكندية الجامعة.

فعندما يتحدث السكان الأصليون في كندا عن المدارس الداخلية القسرية، أو يروي الناجون من الهولوكوست تجاربهم، أو يتحدث الكنديون من أصول رواندية عن الإبادة الجماعية ضد التوتسي، أو تحافظ مجتمعات أخرى على ذاكرة التهجير والاضطهاد والظلم، لا يدّعي أحد أن ذلك يشكل تدخلاً أجنبياً. بل يُنظر إليه باعتباره مساهمة كنديين يشاركون تجاربهم وتاريخهم في النقاش الوطني.
والفلسطينيون الكنديون يستحقون الاحترام نفسه.

ما يبدو أنه يزعج بعض المنتقدين ليس مشاركة سفيرة، ولا وجود مشاورات مجتمعية. ما يزعجهم هو أن الفلسطينيين يصرّون على حقهم في رواية قصتهم بأنفسهم.

وهذا حق لا ينبغي أن يكون موضع جدل في كندا أو في أي مكان آخر. بل يجب أن يكون حقاً مصاناً ومحميّاً.

حقوق الإنسان ليست موضع جدل. والحقائق التاريخية ليست موضع جدل. أما النكبة فلا تصبح «مثيرة للجدل» إلا بالنسبة لأولئك الذين يسعون إلى محو الرواية الفلسطينية أو إنكارها أو تهميشها.
إن ما تسعى إليه هذه الهجمات المتكررة ليس حماية الحياد أو الشفافية أو النزاهة التاريخية. بل يبدو أنها تهدف إلى خلق ما يكفي من الجدل والضغط السياسي لتقويض أو تعطيل افتتاح المعرض من الأساس، وحرمان الفلسطينيين الكنديين من المساحة نفسها التي تُمنح لغيرهم؛ أي الحق في سرد قصتهم بكلماتهم الخاصة، وإحياء ذكرى تجربتهم الجماعية، والمشاركة في النقاشات العامة حول تاريخهم. والتوقيت الذي تُثار فيه هذه الاتهامات يجعل من الصعب تجاهل هذا الهدف.

إن السؤال الحقيقي اليوم ليس: لماذا يتحدث الفلسطينيون عن النكبة؟ بل لماذا يصرّ البعض إلى هذا الحد على منعهم من الحديث عنها؟

فإذا كان الاعتراف بمعاناة الفلسطينيين وتهجيرهم وتجريدهم من ارضهم وممتلكاتهم يُعدّ موقفاً سياسياً، فربما لا تكمن المشكلة في القصة التي تُروى، بل في الانزعاج الذي تسببه لأولئك الذين يفضلون أن تبقى هذه القصة غير مروية.

كفى تطبيعا لنزع الإنسانية عن شعبٍ بأكمله.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I have never heard of a country invading a neighbor and then calling it unfair that their soldiers died in that invasion. I don’t think any other country ever even thought to make that complaint.

On top of that, Israel now wants to retaliate for its soldiers being killed while invading their neighbor.

This is pure madness. Just leave Lebanon.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

Remember: the big Israeli lie is that there is a difference in principle between the zionist left and the zionist right. There is no such difference. Never has this consensus been so visible as it is now, when Israel faces Trump's truth bomb barrage.

The left so firmly supports a forever war that it flanks Netanyahu from the right. Netanyahu wasn't strong enough. He allowed this deal that leaves Iran free to arm itself and thus left the holes on Israel's defenses gaping! Let's conscript the ultraorthodox and feel liberal in the name of equality as we do the most liberal thing of all - build a failsafe genocide machine.

The right sees Trump's "capitulation" as validation of the eternal Jewish narrative - we will always be hated. The Jews around Trump, just last week described as a vanguard, are now being called the Hebrew equivalent of "kikes". Of we must stand alone, we will!

The result is the same. Jewish blood is worth more than any other blood. Israel can and should be allowed to do whatever it wants (our FM, for example, has just announced that he will boycott the EU high commissioner for foreign affairs, the infamous Kaja Kallas who took so much flak for her support of Israel, until she retracts her "blood libel", whatever it is this morning), whenever it wants and for as long as it wants. This is the big lie. Don't be bamboozled.

[Ian Welsh @iwelsh]

What's most amusing about Iran's victory is that it conclusively disproved the idea that assassination as a strategy works against strong governments and movements.

They killed practically everyone in the old senior leadership.

Mistake.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

World Cup 2026 goals:

🇨🇦 Cyle Larin: 2

🇨🇦 Jonathan David: 2

🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo: 0