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Roommates with a quirky cockapoo puppy. Raisins in bread or butter tarts = wrong. Love music and travel. Can’t resist an independent bookstore. Progressive not partisan. Against fascism. Personal account. (She/her) #HamOnt Canada
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10 June 1925 | A Polish girl, Stanisława Lazar, was born in Sączów. In #Auschwitz from 25 January 1943. No. 31343 She perished in the camp on 12 April 1943.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

PLEASE help feed a family tonight🙏Still Nothing in for anyone😭 🚨$450 needed for groceries 9 people $50 each DM & I’ll connect u directly or PayPal/etransfer [email protected] 🚨A mom needs help with bills $1,400 total, behind on rent, Hydro, Internet & needs groceries

Northern Ontario First Nation leaders are vowing 'Idle No More 2.0' if Doug Ford moves ahead with Bill 5. "They’re just making things up on the fly... it's too late in the process to fix this." NEW from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/i... #onpoli #indigenous #IdleNoMore

Canadian feminist royalty among the hundreds who showed up today to protest against the genocide in Gaza. Kudos to Michele Landsberg for rallying everyone. #GazaGenocide #WomenInBlack

Trump wants to create violence in California as a distraction while his agents round up families, farm workers and students for detention and deportation.

It's dubbed the "None is to many" law. Canada sends asylum seekers back to the United States under a treaty that's supposed to protect their rights. We know it's not happening. Canada has legal obligations here. My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...

Canada stands with the EU & a host of nations that respects the ICC & abides by its rulings. All war criminals and those who commit crimes against humanity - BE THEY HAMAS OR ISREALI LEADERS - must be called out and face justice. Nationality doesn't confer immunity. Religion doesn't infer morality.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canada's Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States is endangering the lives of countless people. It's immoral and probably unconstitutional. Mr. Carney, tear down that wall. My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe.

Wow! A MASSIVE crowd at Gore Park Line for people suffering in hunger and homelessness! We gave out hot meals/produce, pantry, SPCA pet food and vet care. I met working families who can’t make ends meet, seniors who said it’s a lifesaver, and guests who are homeless. #Onpoli #CanadaSky #Hamont 🥹

Canada is sending refugees back to the US -- a regime that violates their rights and deports women and children. We have obligations to those people. It's time we honoured them. Mr. Carney, tear down that wall. My latest substack. open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...

Canada Post wants to create a new class of flexible, part-time worker that will better compete with Amazon and implement “dynamic routing” so delivery routes can be changed on the fly. It’s a good example of how Amazon degrades workers’ rights even beyond its walls. Workers are right to push back.

Another brilliant piece by @caroloff.bsky.social It explains why the "Strong Borders Act" or Bill C-2 is a regressive bill being put forward by the Liberal government. Instead of this bill, let's strengthen our asylum claims processing system and scrap the STCA. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Inside an all-Canadian voyage to Antarctica www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Interesting article detailing how Loblaws our Canadian Retailer is charging more for less. www.samsung-news.com/articles/mhA...

Doug Ford is a Trumpist. He has always been a Trumpist. He will always be a Trumpist. He fooled people briefly about all that during the Ontario election this year.

On the six-year anniversary of the national inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, only two of the 231 actions have been realized.

Casey Eberl, a Canadian nurse, recently returned from #Gaza after two assignments with Doctors Without Borders from Aug. to Oct. 2024 and Feb. to Mar. 2025. Watch her firsthand account of the challenges medical teams face during mass casualty incidents with limited resources.

@resistrebelrevolt.net 毋忘六四, 遍地開花 Never forget 8964

This scene is apocalyptic. Some Sask. evacuees forced to find far-flung rooms on their own as wildfires put pressure on hotels #Saskatchewan #Canada About 8,000 wildfire evacuees in province: SPSA www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres. Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...

ME SHOUTING AND CLAPPING AND PUNCHING THE AIR AND CRYING. Fuck yeah. These are the Americans I've been waiting to see. Yeah! Back the fuck up, Nazis!

I will never not see Covid vaccines in 2021 as a miracle. As a moonshot. "A new analysis published late last week in Vaccine concludes that COVID-19 vaccination averted 12,806 COVID-19 deaths among Belgians aged 65 years and older from 2021 through 2023."

Horrific www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Yesterday, at 87, my dad & former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis, stood for an hour by the road in his old riding. As a Jewish elder, he stood against genocide embodying the values he has always championed. I am so proud to see him on the right side of history – as always. ❤️

Article: Gen Z Canadians Make Push For End to Hyperpartisanship www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canadian doctors who served in Gaza call for arms embargo, sanctions against Israel

This.

King Charles III Speech from the Throne: "I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation." #cdnpoli

Colin D'Mello | Global News #cdnpoli Premier Doug Ford, who’s set to grow Ontario’s debt to $500B by 2027, accuses the Liberals of “bankrupting” the province.

26 May 1907 | Austrian Jewish woman, Paula Strauss, was born in Vienna. She emigrated to France. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 12 August 1942. She did not survive.

I’ll keep howling it until more of you get it: The AHS contract procurement scandal is the only thing we should be focussed on. Separation is a distraction. It’s all about THIS. You are not dogs, #ableg. Stop reacting to every UCP “squirrel”. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

💥 NEWS: McDonald's shareholders voted Tues. to reject an anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent. McDonald's Board said the proposal "unduly interferes" with the company's "flexibility and judgment." MCD: "Our success in the future builds on our history of embracing diversity as a competitive advantage."

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates

Another great piece by @petersmith.bsky.social. If you want to see more of the work of folks like Peter, might I suggest supporting @antihate.ca? Full disclosure that I’m a board member, but the folks at CAHN do better work than I ever did on ARC. 🙂 www.antihate.ca/man_facing_h...

I actually want to say this really loudly because I am not seeing other non-Jews say it enough. The Israeli diplomat shooting was an antisemitic hate crime. Yes, most allegations of antisemitism within the anti-genocide movement are bullshit. THIS was antisemitism parading as anti-genocide.

A week after they walked off the job, unionized #HamOnt water and wastewater workers say they worry the city won't be able to properly manage the system without them. They point to a smell outside the main treatment plant as an example of a problem. The city says it's not concerned.

Unbelievably angry that this is a real headline I woke up to and nobody with an ounce of power is doing anything to stop this.

Around 14,000 babies face severe malnutrition if a lot more aid trucks don’t reach the Palestinian enclave soon, a U.N. aid group said. www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

Just signed up to donate to Islamic Relief Canada's Gaza campaign. Back when I worked for that podcast, I donated to UNRWA in Gaza (2.5%). Wrote my MPs. BDS. Spoke publicly. Went to protests. Nothing is enough until we can break the stigma for politicians. www.islamicreliefcanada.org/emergencies/...