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Dec 2, 2023 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
Thread -- I've finally had a chance to fully listen and I think that Jesse does himself a disservice in doing this on his own. As far as an editorial goes, he needs someone to help him navigate his thoughts. This isn't an opinion rooted in journalism, it's just an opinion.
Now, he has every right to having an opinion. Of course. But someone like him has to decide what kind of opinion serves this moment best now -- one rooted in his reaction to the attacks he's experienced, his complicated feelings towards what's happening, etc ...
Nov 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Something that is almost always lost in discussion about hate crimes in Canadian society is: who do hate crimes benefit?
Remember: it is politically useful to have a terrorized minority population!
When a population is terrorized, they will be less politically bold. There will be forced consensus on the community because they unite against the hatred they experiene. It distracts the community; wastes time. It makes sure that they are focused on the hatred and nothing else.
Nov 6, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Let's take apart this article.
1. The lede: "Jewish members of CUPE have filed a human rights claim"
2. "alleging discrimination and antisemitism, including recent messages seen as cheering for the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel."
I don't think that a statement that has no bearing on someone's life is actually discrimination. And recent messages seen as cheering on Hamas? Rly?
Oct 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Anatomy of a free speech crisis -- here, the law school calls the student statement "antisemitic" and being contrary to "inclusivity, dignity, and respect."
In reading this statement, you are left with no other interpretation. Except ...
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If you actually read the letter, you'll find that there is nothing, nothing whatsoever and at all, antisemitic contained within the letter.
The problem is though, the students took their letter offline. So it's very hard to read what they actually wrote.
Jun 29, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🧵In the months leading up to the shooting at the Islamic Cultural Centre in Sainte-Foy, it felt like there was a train barrelling towards a crowd and no one was doing anything to stop it.
There were smaller incidents, rising hatred, hateful rhetoric and facists were *organized*
The shooter was not a member of these organized groups. He was radicalized principally online but the organized groups helped to create a culture where he decided to commit mass murder.
And while it was feeling like it could happen at any time ...
Jun 7, 2023 • 42 tweets • 12 min read
Forest fires, eh? Let's take a look at who is running Canada's biggest oil and gas companies.
CNRL board member Catherine M. Best, a health professional who has held senior leadership roles with AHS and the Calgary Health Region. She is also on the board of a children's hospital and a member of the board of the Calgary Stampeed.
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Story 1 - Evacuations ordered for everyone living in Chibougamou and Oujé-Bougoumou as wildfires engulf more than 65,000 hectares in Northern Quebec
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Story 1 - Internal emails show that Vancouver officials knew that there wouldn't be enough shelter beds for the people who were forced off of the Downtown East side last April.
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Story 1 - Five people, including 4 children, were swept by the tide into the St. Lawrence while fishing and have died.
Daily news for March 9 -- shows.acast.com/sandy-and-nora… via @acast
Story 1 - Investigation into Mi'kmaw claims of MUN's president Vianne Timmons shows that Timmons is a white woman playing fast and loose with the facts.
"I got my last online death threat yesterday. But big deal; they roll off my back. They have to because that’s the cost for women to stay in this game. This is what is heavy in the air this IWD. And there’s no solution to it. Or, there is, but we are an industry of cowards."
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Mar 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Daily news headlines for March 7. Listen up!
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Story 1 - former child residents of Hatts Off-owned group homes in Ontario launch a class action over abuse and trauma they experienced while living there.
Just a bunch of guys, standing around, lookig bored out of their minds. Not looking like anything is urgent. Cracking jokes. Their buds show up, time to maybe go to the apartment.
Do I stay awake to catch the arrest? They're all just hanging out in the lobby now. Smiling. Cracking jokes. Doing bud stuff. Leaving their cars on for no obvious reason.
Jan 25, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Daily news update for Jan. 25 is here, featuring *two* independent news sources! shows.acast.com/sandy-and-nora… via @acast
Story 1: documents reveal how unseriously the New Brunswick government took a cluster of degenerative brain diseases by @SarahLawrynuik
The thing about Martin Regg Cohn is that he suffers what many of Canada's top columnist suffer from: an absolute inability to take criticism or engage in actual, nuanced debate.
Twitter, for them, has been a disaster.
I'm blocked by a lot of these folks. Regg Cohn because I challenged some anti-Black thing he said. Susan Delacourt because I lightly criticized a total piece of shit of an article she wrote for Canada Day a hundred years ago. Chantal Hebert for no reason (she unblocked me).
Jan 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Daily news for Jan. 24! Listen because there is some good news from the neonazi world: shows.acast.com/sandy-and-nora… via @acast
Story 1: Gabriel Sohier Chaput, aka Zeiger, is convicted of hate crimes, by @PCherryReporter
Criticize the racist of certain white cultures? What in the fuck does that even mean? Why am I posting about this when I should be asleep? When did up become down in antiracist analysis?
Jan 23, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Hello! It's already Jan. 23 and check out all this news: shows.acast.com/sandy-and-nora… via @acast
Story 1: The Donkin coal mine in Nova Scotia is racking (wracking?) up health and safety violations like you might imagine a non-unionized mine with ex-politicians working for it might from @cbnewsreporter
Of the 50,248 people who have died from COVID-19 in Canada, I've linked 21,979 deaths to 2532 residential care facilities and 256 deaths to workplace COVID-19 infections.
That's 29 new deaths and 6 new facilities added since Jan. 11.
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That's right -- Canada has surpassed 50,000 official deaths. This would have happened on January 19.
Where's the fanfare? Where's the public mourning, grieving?
Forget pretending this is over -- we are collectively pretending that it never happened.
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