Of the 52,247 people who have died from COVID-19 in Canada, I've linked 22,137 deaths to 2544 residential care facilities and 256 deaths to workplace COVID-19 infections. That's 2 new deaths and no new facilities added since April 2.
Remember how a decade ago we all stole music from the Internet and the only problem with it was that artists weren't being paid?
And then somehow, a decade later, we all pay for our music now but artists still aren't being paid?
The pilot wore Palestinian colours and denounced Israel. That's all it takes to lose a job in this country. Hopefully he's picked up by another carrier soon.
The conspiracy theorists have discovered that DELTA OMICRON is an anagram for MEDIA CONTROL.
Just wait what they discover that it is also an anagram for CILANTRO MODE.
Canada is such a joke country. Reuters is reporting that Israeli snipers are targeting the Nasser Hopsital complex in Gaza and Canadian politicians are freaking out that a protest walked by a Jewish hospital in Toronto.
The synagogue where we have celebrated Passover since moving to Qc is having their first seder since the pandemic.
And my family is has been told that because of our position on Israel's genocide, we are not invited.
The "I have been so careful but I still got covid" posts are a symptom of a society that was told that staying safe was within their control.
Except it never was. These are systems-level problems!
Canada would have never called for a ceasefire of it weren't for the relentless actions that Canadians have taken in support of Palestine for more than a month. Remember that.
Is this going to get any news today? Anyone in the mainstream care about Canadian groups promoting illegal settlement? Could you imagine a Russian group encouraging the Russian settlement of the Donbas at a stripmall in Etobicoke?
My kid was asking me why when Calvin and Hobbes grew up they stopped having adventures and their life was boring.
It took a couple of minutes to realize he was talking about Jon and Garfield.
I'm surprised at how many journos are surprised that Toronto police didn't shoot the van murder suspect. You know that police are specifically not supposed to act as judge, jury and executioner, right? We need to normalize non-violent police intervention.
The long history of discrimination against First Nations children Learn more about how Canada repeatedly chose to not act on solutions to stop the harm to, and deaths, of children and why it is still a problem.
Abortion isn't "legal" in the Canada the same way that heart surgery isn't "legal" they are both medical procedures that you can either get or not get, based on access, space, capacity, etc.
Thinking about this through American frameworks is going to lead us to a dead end.
Do these guys live in a memory hole where nothing has happened between Oct. 8 and Feb. 6? At this point, this kind of reaction is straight-up genocide denial.
If the Ontario teachers' unions announced that they are going on wildcat until April 19, that would be the most significant citizen action of the pandemic yet.
It would save lives.
Canada paid $2.4 million to search for the little tiny bits of the people who had gone down on the Titanic excursion.
$2.4 million.
For nothing. For absolutely nothing.
Neo-nazis are emboldened right now across the Western world because they know that media will blame Muslims for antisemitic attacks while ignoring Islamophobic attacks.
#LATEST
: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was scheduled to host a reception for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the Art Gallery of Ontario, but the event was cancelled after pro-Palestinian protesters arrived
The Toronto Star paywalling their study into how COVID hit racialized and poor communities most means that those communities are least likely to be able to read it.
There's no other way to read this than a more senior, white doctor using his power to ruin the career of a younger, racialized doctor. It's racist harassment.
More people have been killed on picket lines in our history than people dying for your right to vote.
That's because only one of these acts actually challenges power.
The Jewish people are indigenous to the land of Israel. We are from here, and everyone feels it as soon as they get here.
#DebraMessing
and I have been in Israel meeting with some of the most extraordinary people in the world. People whose lives have been destroyed following the…
There is absolutely no justification or explanation for any news platform in Canada to give time to forced birth advocates. There is no scientific justification and, even if there was a state religion, there isn't any Christian doctrine that justifies an anti-abortion position.
Guys -- Wet'suwet'en is unceded land. AKA it isn't Canada. We are literally overseeing a military occupation right now and some of our leaders are cheering this on.
It's .... not a great look, Canada.
Canada -- where life expectancy for Indigenous people is 20 years less than for non-Indigenous people; where Indigenous people are murdered at rates far higher; where sentences are lower for murderers of Indigenous people -- of course we stand with Israel.
To honour those whose lives have been cut short by Hamas’ terror attacks against Israel, we’re lighting the Peace Tower in blue and white – and we’ve lowered the flags on the Peace Tower, at the Prime Minister’s Office, and across Parliament Hill. Canada stands with Israel.
30K dead and CBC is still reporting the news like this
"The real estate events have been held amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, which killed some 1,200 Israelis and foreigners ...
I genuinely worry about anyone who sees the rallies calling for an end to the occupation of Palestine and who think they're calling for a Jewish genocide. I don't know how far down a hole of propaganda your brain needs to be to come to that conclusion.
Feels like a good moment to remind all Canadians that police in Ontario literally shot and killed a baby this past year and the guy who did it is likely working right this minute.
Folks: the government isn't mailing you masks and rapid tests for thr same reason it never mailed you rice and flour to stay home and isolate: it doesn't care if you live or die.
People need to get their heads around the fact that the convoy is a movement that is lead by commited white supremacists but that is also attracting folks who would otherwise say they are disgusted by white supremacy.
Canada has sanctioned more Russians over the death of Navalny but I don't think has sanctioned a singled Israeli over the death of more than 30,000 Gazan. Qwhite interesting.
Canada surpassed 24,000 deaths tonight; a milestone that I know many people didn't think we'd reach back in January -- things were getting better! What a colossal failure. We are witnessing what life is worth under capitalism, white supremacy and colonialism.
Union leadership in Ontario need to be calling emergency meetings -- especially the teachers' unions -- to get mandates from their members to walk off the job if Ford does impose the notwithstanding clause.
Let him come after everyone.
It's a pretty good allegory for the Internet -- we're all just observing something that was free, wild and good become something that turns massive profits for the few off our backs.
What in the fuck? Our national minister of foreign affairs is now an agent for a global PR campaign for a nation engaged in genocide? Are the Liberals trying to lose the next election?
We believe Israeli women. And we stand with them in their fight for justice.
Today, I sat down with the First Lady of Israel, Michal Herzog, to discuss the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th and our support of survivors.
Jean Chrétien saying that he never knew about the violence within residential school when he was Indian Affairs minister is impossible to believe. Fully impossible to believe.
"When one guy says it's raining and one guy says it's sunny, your job isn't to report both comments -- it's to go outside and see who is right"
I guess CBC never got the news of this classic journalism addage.
Gazans are being pounded right now and the difference in how Canada is treating them versus Ukrainians makes it very clear that these decisions are all driven by white supremacy.
Canada now says the cap of 1000 temporary visas for Palestinian relatives of Canadians trapped in Gaza is “flexible”.
Compare that to Ukraine where more than 900,000 temporary visas have been issued and more than 200,000 Ukrainians have arrived to escape Russia’s bombing. Watch:
I went to mass tonight for the first time in years. They were fundraising for Gaza through the Red Cross. Standing room only in a Cathedral. Was something to see.
It really is unbelievable that the Liberals are paying Amazon to ship and not Canada Post. They're using this crisis to stick a knife into our own Crown corporation.
The thing that makes me most enraged watching Sarah Jama is knowing that the ONDP dropped her, leaving her alone and exposed in this den of snakes to take the morally just position all by herself.
You can't honestly expect that generations that had individualism grinded into their souls from the moment of their birth, through neoliberal economic policies and pop culture meant to normalize it, to suddenly get collectivity.
I know these people are stupid and evil but it's always something to see it again and again and again. Mass graves have been found his past week and she's still talking about 200 days ago. She's the Minister of Foreign Affairs, not some rando.
It has been 200 days since hostages were taken by Hamas terrorists, & remain in captivity. Families and loved ones continue to face unspeakable pain, awaiting their return.
Today, we reiterate our call on Hamas to release all hostages immediately & for a sustainable ceasefire.
No we don't. If we opposed the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza we would --
1. ban arms exports to Israel
2. not cut funding to UNRWA
3. actually ... do something ... to try and stop Israel from their continued campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Let us be clear.
Canada rejects any proposal that calls for the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and the establishment of additional settlements. Such inflammatory rhetoric undermines prospects for lasting peace.
Israel has killed 1% of all children in Gaza and this is how our Foreign Minister starts her statement: "Canada continues to strongly and unequivocally condemn Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel."
Good morning! Reminder that we are going to enter a period of crushing austerity to pay for the pandemic but wouldn't need to if we seized the assets of the 1%, which we absolutely could do.
What is the point of this? Canada paid for people to go right up to the Rafah border crossing to ... what ... explain to locals why we won't contribute more to UNRWA? Why we're supplying Israel with weapons?
What a grotestque display!
Canada is gravely concerned by the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I went to the border to hear first hand the unacceptable challenges aid organizations are facing getting in even the most basic amounts of aid.
Canadian families don't need Ottawa-knows-best childcare - they should have access to flexibility in childcare.
Conservatives will continue to fight for freedom and to allow families to choose what is best for their children.
Polls like these need to be accompanied by an explanation about why we do not make human rights decisions about the minority based on the opinions of the majority. This is basic civics and journalists need to be smarter than playing culture wars games.
A strong majority of Canadians believe parents should be informed if their child wants to change their gender identity or pronouns, while views on parental consent are more divided, according to an Angus Reid poll released.
If anyone is wondering how strong the campaign is to force us all to submit and accept that Israel's war against Gaza is good, today I found out that my friends were confronted about knowing me at a party.
Today, in addition to surpassing 35,000 deaths from COVID-19, Canada also surpassed 20,000 deaths within residential care. That is 20,000 people who died from a COVID-19 infection in a facility where they had no/nearly no control over their surroundings.
This is Canada's shame
A group of Canadian MPs have arrived in Jerusalem for a quietly planned visit meant to show solidarity with Israel.
The five MPs — two Liberals and three Conservatives — are part of a larger delegation that also includes Canadian Jewish leaders. .
"Can Canada afford all the pandemic relief spending? Can YOU?"
Wow fuck right off with this bullshit CBC. Remind me how we are supposed to survive the pandemic and also afford to live if we have lost our jobs?
Wow -- about 20% of housing stock in Canada is owned by large corporate holdings (like REITs). 20% of Canadians' landlords are a corporation. God that is such a crisis.
Folks, here is a very important thread about COVID-19 measures and why they will not slow the spread of COVID enough.
It's simple -- the most aggressive public health measures are missing the biggest driver of the pandemic: large industrial workplaces.
Not one Canadian outlet has asked me to write something.
Not one Canadian outlet had defended me and broken down the abuse I've gotten for 1.5 years.
Not one Canadian outlet has asked me for comment.
Not one editor, not one person with any power, has expressed regret.
Every Canadian columnist making their bones this week writing about hockey’s unseemly cultural aspects finally coming to the fore owes Nora Loreto (
@NoLore
) an apology.
🇨🇦 Deputy PM Freeland gets asked to give an example that illustrates that she understands the pain and the pinch that Canadians are feeling at the grocery store or doing their budgets. 👇🏽