George F

#CanadaSoccer #WeTheNorth 🇨🇦

[George F @probablyGF]

@LanceTeren Can't take them seriously if they don't mention @XanaduAI

[Financial Post @financialpost]

How Canada’s first commercial spaceport is taking shape in Nova Scotia.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

This is far longer than my typical post, but it tells an important story of what appears to be an attempt by leadership at Massey College to censor a major conference on antisemitism, leading to the resignation of one of its senior fellows.

The disappointment that greeted Mark Carney’s antisemitism speech this week is partly a function of a Jewish community that has been facing real threats for months, with fears that our governments and institutions have been unwilling to confront them directly and honestly. Hours before the Carney speech, I received a note from Peter Biro, a Toronto lawyer and longtime senior fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, that provided a tangible example of the harm. Biro, facing what appears to have been an attempt by Massey College leadership to censor a major antisemitism conference planned for this fall, resigned his fellowship rather than succumb to it.

Biro proposed, organized, and committed to personally fund a one-day conference, “Antisemitism in Our ‘Free and Democratic Society’: A Canary’s Song,” co-presented with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and featuring Deborah Lipstadt, Deborah Lyons, and Irwin Cotler, among others. According to his resignation letter, which I am sharing here with his permission, the College told him it had never approved the event and insisted on appointing an advisory committee to review, curate, and approve a version of the program that fit the College’s “mission and approach.” When he asked who had raised concerns and whether such a committee had any precedent, he says he received no answer.

Biro calls the stated objection false and a pretext. The real concern, he argues, is the substance: how antisemitism would be examined, by whom, and whether a human rights centre founded by a Jewish and Zionist lawyer was an acceptable partner. That objection makes little sense, since the College itself partnered with the very same centre only months ago. In Biro’s words, the committee “looks and feels less like prudent corporate governance and more like antisemitism.” Read the letter and judge for yourself.

Here is the part that should worry everyone. An academic institution responded to a conference on antisemitism, organized by one of its own fellows and featuring some of the world’s most notable antisemitism scholars, by insisting that an oversight committee was needed to decide whether the subject was being handled appropriately. I’ve organized many conferences and never had university leadership intervene in this manner. Massey College, much like Mark Carney, had a chance to lead, but both failed to meet the moment. The conference will go on in Toronto on September 15. The stain on Massey College will not come off as easily.

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

Canada is literally the only economy in the G20 in recession.

The other 19 are not.

[George F @probablyGF]

@saxena_puru Your chart says the average is +14% for the year.

It also shows the % drop from each stock's *alltime high price*, not the drop from its original IPO price.

Palantir more than doubled in its first year and you make it look like a bad buy.

Pretty dishonest.

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

TRUMP ASKED ELON… 🇺🇸
ABOUT CANADA 🇨🇦

[George F @probablyGF]

This video is 🔥 and the song at the end is especially 🔥 ����

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

TRUMP ASKED ELON… 🇺🇸
ABOUT CANADA 🇨🇦

[George F @probablyGF]

@SatireSquadHQ The song at the end of this is amazing. You putting it up in full somewhere?

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) has over 2,000 employees.

Top 5 managers, make more than $5 million per year.

They have never beaten the market.

Nevada has 1 guy. Who invests in ETFs.

Does nothing. All day.

And he outperforms the CPP.

Consistently.

For further context, if CPP invested in QQQ, for the last 10 years, instead of $800 billion in assets, we would have $2.4 Trillion.

VOO would put it at $1.6 trillion.

Lesson: The government will never outperform the market.

So don’t think the Sovereign Debt Fund will be any different.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Carney had nothing new to announce about stopping antizionist hate.

So why did he even bother?

What I'm hearing: because he heard Trump is planning to humiliate him by announcing a refugee program for Canadian Jews, like he did for Afrikaners.

Carney was getting ahead of it.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

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[George F @probablyGF]

@ZachSellinger Make it a Russian cosmonaut

[George F @probablyGF]

@dan_tmt It actually started at 1.5 and went to 1.75.

[George F @probablyGF]

@ClydeDoSomethin We're alreeady there buddy, and even a deal with the USA won't matter.

[George F @probablyGF]

@david_parker Well, the governments are welfare bums. They just take Alberta's money and refuse to build anything or do anything themselves.

[David Parker @david_parker]

Alberta Independence will save Canada, because it will force Canada to face its problems instead of pretending that everything is okay. The only reason Canada is not already bankrupt is the money it keeps stealing from Alberta every year. It is a nation of welfare bums.

[Toronto Sun @TheTorontoSun]

Exclusive: Chief heart surgeon at Jewish General Hospital quits province amid rising antisemitism in Montreal https://t.co/pHcpC9E99t

[Anti-Boomer @mapleblooded]

How does the former governor of the Bank of England define a recession?

Let’s check the tape.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Pierre Poilievre "I remember Mr. Alghabra lobbying me before he was in politics to keep Hezbollah legal, so I'm not sure that he's the right guy to combat anti Semitism." @PierrePoilievre