Obeid Ur Rehman

Economist, Asst Prof @TorontoMet

[Yaqeen Institute @yaqeeninstitute]

Canadian doctors who have gone to serve in Gaza — Dr. Abdel-Rahman Lawendy, Dr. Fozia Alvi, Dr. Ben Thomson, and Dr. Aliya Khan — share their difficult experiences with Dr. @omarsuleiman504 #wavesofchange

See our Gaza Diaries series for more: https://t.co/uxJebTimVF

[The Olympic Games™ @Olympics]

Pride of Pakistan. 🇵🇰

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Precision.

[jennine @jennineak]

The flour massacre, the tents massacre, the hospital massacre, the refugee camp massacre, the ‘safe corridor’ massacre, the endless massacres, in homes, on the streets, in tents, on foot— eight months of massacre after massacre after massacre.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

There are videos coming out of Rafah today of beheaded babies.

Actual beheaded babies that you can see for yourselves - not the beheaded babies that the Israeli authorities invented to justify their genocidal assault, or the ones that Biden falsely claimed to have seen pix of.

[Laila AA🇵🇸 @PalLaila]

The death sentence is sent through the sky on paper. Leave or you will die. We all know that whether they left or not, the occupation will chase and kill them. The death sentence has already been taken decades ago and the only crime is being a Palestinian.

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

Checkout Oyyeharry’s videos, he’s making some of the best youtube content coming out of Pakistan

https://t.co/cFTYDIFvU8

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

Occupation and its support.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Civil disobedience is a lot more legible when the law you are breaking is itself the policy that you are protesting against.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel lies pathologically!
A🧵of dozens of conclusively debunked Israeli gov lies since Oct 7, off the top of my head

1- The IDF blatantly claimed this underground WATER TANK was a "Hamas tunnel" their ground troops discovered at the Qatari hospital in Gaza on Nov 5 2023

Mainstream media put it in headlines immediately despite experts challenging this lie with detailed maps of the room

In February, local journalists were finally able to access the area & debunk the lie

The IDF knew exactly what this shaft was back in Nov b/c their troops inspected it on the ground, but they lied deliberately to pave the way for raiding, besieging, bombing, & destroying almost every single hospital in Gaza

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

Alhumdulillah, this did seem to be just a tragic accident but it’s disturbing how the police chose to pursue the case

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

#BREAKING: Umar Zameer has been acquitted of all charges in death of Toronto police Const. Jeffrey Northrup https://t.co/CkiSP2EGq6

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

Check out that horizontal equity

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

@TheHubCanada TL;DR: The change aligns the tax treatment of various sources of income. Good tax systems are neutral. This change does that.

Want lower taxes? That's fair enough. Could lower the statutory rates and keep the uniformity.

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

The kids are alright..

The world would be a far worse place if privileged, smart, young ppl witnessed the last 6 months and did nothing

The admins though are in over their heads

[sebas @cybersebb]

🚨UPDATE🚨 THOUSANDS of students at Columbia University are on the plaza with 100s of students occupying the West Lawn

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

Jokes aside, the capital gains tax suppressing other productive investments is a legit concern… but I suspect a lot of the pushback is about real estate

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

Twitter feed really upset that the new 🇨🇦 budget is suppressing the traditional engines of economic growth: investment properties and lakeside cottages

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

@mikalskuterud Is there work on the labor market entry barriers for immigrants created by regulatory bodies? It seems addressing the skill level of immigrants may not be enough if regulators don’t allow them to work

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

And if @UMich leadership actually wanted to constructively engage with community members they could start right here.. instead they resort to suppression and intimidation

[Basit Zafar @basit_ak_zafar]

Today, we are releasing a subset of the findings from the (unofficial) 2024 U-M Community Survey on Anti-Palestinian Bias and Islamophobia. Full report here: https://t.co/QGYIhPa9ME

A🧵on the survey, some highlights, and what the findings mean
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[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

@UMich leadership is an absolute disgrace. Constantly fighting their own to suppress dissent.

They want to produce graduates who do not think or speak against injustice.

I didn’t get a ceremony because of the pandemic and I would gladly take no ceremony over this farce

[Basit Zafar @basit_ak_zafar]

U-M Pres: I am considering banning all forms of active student protest

U-M Nursing School Dean: I can one-up you. I will do that and restrict speech of student speakers

This is happening at a leading public university in a democracy. Unbelievable!

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

🇨🇦’s population, international student and NPR growth has peaked and will be back at normal levels soon - but housing, healthcare, univ finances will still be a hot mess because why fix anything if you can keep blaming foreigners for breaking it

[Alex (xelan) @xelan_gta]

Annual population growth in 🇨🇦 should drop from 1.2M to about 240,000 for 2025-2027.

I did more accurate modelling regarding the recent non-permanent residents'(NPR) reduction announcement, and here are the results. Estimate of cumulative outflows increased to about 800,000.
1/5

[Alex (xelan) @xelan_gta]

Annual population growth in 🇨🇦 should drop from 1.2M to about 240,000 for 2025-2027.

I did more accurate modelling regarding the recent non-permanent residents'(NPR) reduction announcement, and here are the results. Estimate of cumulative outflows increased to about 800,000.
1/5

[Obeid Ur Rehman @obeidrehman]

@Tablesalt13 These are profiles of the motives, the accused column just shows number of accused for each motive