War baby. ENFJ. Poorly enculturated. Pastafarian. Suited more to the hod than to the epaulet. Bleeds green. Master of The Irish Goodbye. @mjglass@mstdn.ca
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I've never seen a logically sound argument that it's anti-semitic to deny that Jews have an extra special connection to the land of Israel. It's where their religion comes from, so in that sense they have the same connection that Christians have, but beyond that the only arguments to be made are claims based on nothing but blind religious faith.
You can tell me that Israel is mentioned all the time in Jewish prayers and Jewish scriptures etc, but that's just telling me about Jewish religious beliefs. Telling me I'm an anti-semite if I don't accept those religious beliefs as true is exactly the same as telling me I'm an anti-semite if I don't stay in my house and pray on Saturday. Jews can believe whatever they want to believe, but it violates my freedom of religion to demand that *I* believe what they believe. That's the same as telling me I'm Islamophobic if I don't wear a hijab.
You can tell me that all Jews everywhere are descended from the biblical Israelites, but that's (A) another blind-faith belief based on nothing but religious assertion and (B) irrelevant since all westerners can trace their heritage back to many different countries they aren't allowed to lay claim to.
So there's really no case to be made. And yet "antisemitism" watchdog groups throughout the western world assert that it is an antisemitic offense to deny that Jews have a unique connection to the land of Israel. They have no argument. They are wrong.
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My 71-year-old father bet me $5,000 that he could live my life for 60 days. On day 19, I found him sitting in a grocery store parking lot with a calculator, and he didn't see me coming.
It started at Thanksgiving. My dad, Gene, had worked thirty-four years at the stamping plant. He was the kind of man who ironed his jeans and kept every receipt.
My cousin asked why I was still renting at 43. I said starter homes in our area were going for around $410,000.
Dad, without looking up from carving the turkey, said, "So save up. You kids don't want it bad enough."
I didn't yell. I'm a dialysis nurse, and I've learned that yelling rarely changes anyone's mind.
I went to my car, came back with a manila folder, and set it next to the stuffing.
Inside was every number in my life. Rent, $1,780. Daycare, $1,350. Car insurance, student loans, groceries, utilities, and the $212 monthly medical copay for my daughter's treatment. I also included four months of pay stubs.
"Live this," I said. "Sixty days. My income, my bills, my prices. If you can save $5,000 while paying everything I pay, I'll admit you were right. If you can't, you pay me $5,000 and stop telling me to save up."
My mother laughed.
My dad didn't.
He looked at the folder, then at me, and I saw the thing I'd been waiting forty years to see in his face. It was pride, the dangerous kind.
"Sixty days," he said. "I'll take that bet."
He moved into my spare room on December 1st with two duffel bags and a toolbox because he didn't trust my garage door.
He put his own savings and pension in a sealed envelope in my safe. He also insisted on using only my money for household expenses. No help, no shortcuts, nothing from his real life.
The first morning, he got up at 4:45 with me.
He watched me pack lunches, wake a three-year-old who screamed like a smoke alarm, and drive to daycare before heading to the nursing home where I worked.
At pickup that afternoon, the front desk handed me a sheet that said:
Late fee: $1 per minute.
I was two minutes late.
He saw the $2 charge. He didn't say a word.
But in the car, he looked at the receipt in his hand for a long time.
"They charge you for being late," he said. "To pick up your own kid."
I didn't answer.
He folded the receipt and put it in his shirt pocket….
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CANADIANS REMEMBERED
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
A SUDBURY SON, A TELEVISION TREASURE, AND THE MAN WITH ALL THE ANSWERS!
For nearly four decades, millions of viewers welcomed Alex Trebek into their living rooms. With his unmistakable voice, trademark moustache and quick wit, he made knowing the answers almost as entertaining as asking the questions.
But long before Jeopardy!, George Alexander Trebek was a young broadcaster from Sudbury, Ontario.
After graduating from the University of Ottawa, he worked in Canadian radio and television, hosting everything from the teenage music program Music Hop to the high-school quiz show Reach for the Top.
In 1984, he became host of the revived Jeopardy!, beginning an extraordinary run of more than 8,200 episodes. He earned multiple Emmy Awards and a Guinness World Record, becoming one of the most recognizable Canadians in television history.
And despite decades in Hollywood, Alex never forgot his Canadian roots. He championed geographic education, supported Canadian institutions and occasionally delighted viewers by slipping Canadian trivia into the show.
Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019, he continued working through treatment. His final day recording Jeopardy! was October 29, 2020.
Just ten days later, on November 8, Alex Trebek died at his California home, surrounded by family and friends. He was 80.
Six years later, the man who made learning a nightly television tradition remains deeply missed.
We’ll take CANADIAN LEGENDS for $1,000, Alex.
#CanadiansRemembered #AlexTrebek #CanadianTelevision
MJGlass 🇨🇦 retweeted
in 1999, my father's job was to put the hippo in this ad and make it believable. It was a really big deal in Canada.
It's cool to see people sharing this advertisement again suddenly in 2026. It holds a special place in my heart every time I see it.
R.I.P dad, I'll miss you 💚
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مجھے اپنا گھر بنانے کےلیے ایسا مستری چاہیے۔
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MJGlass 🇨🇦 retweeted
Helping a helpless being is what makes us a true creature!!! Thank you for not letting them freeze to death.
MJGlass 🇨🇦 retweeted
I know I wrote a post like this recently, but I feel like I am going to explode if I hear another Republican misuse the word "socialism."
For my Republican friends out there, let me explain what socialism actually means. Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are socially or publicly owned, including through state ownership.
Universal healthcare is not socialism. Social welfare programs designed to prevent homelessness and poverty are not socialism. Free public education is not socialism. In fact, it is entirely possible to have a highly capitalist economy alongside an extensive social welfare system. Even Milton Friedman, one of the most influential advocates of free-market capitalism, supported a negative income tax to provide a basic income floor for the poor.
So please stop with the BS accusations of socialism every time someone proposes a social welfare program.
Ironically, some of the most conspicuous examples of state intervention in private enterprise in contemporary America come from the Trump administration itself. Its increasingly dirigiste economic policies include acquiring ownership stakes in private companies, asserting government control over corporate decisions, and imposing economically damaging tariffs on American businesses and consumers.
If you are genuinely concerned about government interference in free markets, perhaps you should start there.
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🇮🇷🇺🇦 AN IRANIAN IS SAVING UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS' LIVES. BACK HOME, HE FACES THE DEATH PENALTY.
Khorso came to Kyiv as a refugee, opened a restaurant, and promised himself he would never pick up a weapon again. Then Russia launched its full-scale invasion, and he saw Russian tanks on the streets of Kyiv's Obolon district, right outside his window. That was the moment he decided to fight. “When someone breaks into my home, I defend it. Kyiv is my home.”
A former Iranian military officer, Khorso now serves as a combat medic and evacuation specialist with Ukraine's 128th Dyke Pole Brigade. He has 15 years of combat experience across Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, and Ukraine. After three years serving with Ukraine's 34th Marine Brigade, he signed a new contract and dedicated himself to rescuing wounded soldiers from the battlefield.
His work means driving through Russian artillery fire and drone attacks, knowing that every mission could be his last. The last four soldiers he evacuated had stepped on butterfly mines, suffering devastating injuries and amputations. But the hardest missions are those involving friends. “Yesterday we were drinking coffee together. Today we're evacuating them with injuries.” He says fear disappeared long ago. What remains is determination and hatred of the enemy.
Back in Iran, Khorso says he has been sentenced to death for serving in the Ukrainian military. “I'm a traitor to Iran. The law says the death penalty. There's no way back.” He misses his homeland, but he has no regrets about defending Ukraine. “I like the people in Ukraine. They have souls.” In 2014, he put down his weapon, believing he would never fight again. But when Russian tanks appeared outside his home, he made his choice.
An Iranian by birth. A Ukrainian defender by conviction. A man who risks his own life to save others. 🇺🇦
P.S. I'm moving from Twitter/X to Substack. Follow me there and subscribe to support independent reporting about Ukraine and its defenders.
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MJGlass 🇨🇦 retweeted
6 weeks ago this is how we found Bruno on the side of the street. He had been hit and dragged under a car. Nobody was stopping.
You won’t believe the ending today for lovely Bruno… (1/6)
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Israel has brainwashed you into believing that Palestine with zero fighter jets, zero helicopters, zero tanks, and zero soldiers are oppressing a nuclear superpower with 75-400 nuclear warheads, over 340 fighter jets, 130 helicopters, 1,500 tanks, and 650,000 soldiers.
Stop calling it a war. Israel is not fighting an army; it is fighting defenseless civilians—women, children, and elderly. Call it what it is: GENOCIDE
MJGlass 🇨🇦 retweeted
November 8 is Indigenous Veterans Day.
Today we honour the First Nations, Inuit and Métis veterans who have served and sacrificed for Canada, while also recognizing the unequal treatment many faced throughout their service and when they returned home.
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This was the scene over Lake Ontario today. Caught by my drone.
I looked it up and apparently this is a classic example of Great Lakes induced weather. The lakes cook their own weather systems.
If you look carefully you'll see there's rain or snow showers coming down over the lake. The warm lake water is creating this effect when it collides with cold air above.
Let me know if you know what's happening here and can explain it better!
#ONstorm – at Ajax, Ontario
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SHOCKING! Winnipeg police acknowledged that enforcement doesn't address poverty, homelessness, mental health challenges or addiction. Resources do.
You can arrest people, seize drugs and clear encampments, but you can't police away the conditions driving these crises.
Housing, treatment, harm reduction and community support are essential to lasting public safety.
We will never arrest our way out of problems that require investment in people.
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Hello.............he now controls the President. We couldn't even get one weekend to breathe
Leaked emails reveal Stephen Miller exchanged over 900 messages with Breitbart News promoting white nationalist theories.
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ALT A group of people in dark clothing and hats march in formation, holding multiple U.S. flags and Confederate flags. Some wear face coverings and brown pants. One individual carries a shield. They are outdoors near a large building on a clear day.
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French fighter jets. Western-trained Ukrainian pilots. Precision-guided European weapons. And battlefield experience that no military exercise can ever replicate.
What you are watching is more than a Ukrainian Mirage 2000 delivering guided bombs. It is a glimpse into the future of European military power. Ukraine has spent years fighting what was once considered the world's second most powerful military, developing extraordinary expertise in modern warfare, drone technology, electronic warfare, autonomous systems and battlefield innovation.
Combine that experience with Europe's industrial capacity, scientific expertise, technological infrastructure and financial resources, and the potential is extraordinary.
Together, Ukraine and the rest of Europe will become the world's leading centre of expertise in modern warfare. But the greatest transformation may happen far beyond the battlefield.
We could be witnessing the foundations of a new European industrial revolution, with Ukraine at its very heart. Physical AI, autonomous systems, advanced robotics, intelligent manufacturing and next-generation technologies developed under the extreme pressures of war could eventually transform entire civilian industries.
Imagine Ukrainian battlefield innovation combined with German engineering, French aerospace expertise, Nordic technology, British research and Europe's enormous industrial capabilities.
The result could be an explosion of innovation, new industries, technological independence and millions of potential jobs across Ukraine and the rest of Europe.
And Ukraine would not simply benefit from this revolution. It could become one of its most powerful engines, transforming hard-earned battlefield experience into industrial leadership and prosperity for generations.
The great irony of Putin's invasion may be that, in attempting to weaken Ukraine and divide Europe, he helped create the conditions for an entirely new European technological and industrial powerhouse.
Ukraine and Europe have the opportunity to shape the future together.
*For those of you who enjoy a deeper dive into the technology, economics and geopolitics behind this transformation, we explored this very subject in a comprehensive article a few weeks ago:
Europe Is Funding Ukraine's Survival. It Could Be Building Its Next Industrial Revolution.
The implications extend far beyond the war itself. And the opportunities for Ukraine and the rest of Europe could be extraordinary.
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