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Pitching completly unworkable and ridulous ideas is more fun with its other people that would need to make it happen.
.@amyot_65 We, @JimWatsonOttawa, tried for #Canada150 in 2017. The Feds said no. When centre block construction is done, before everyone moves back in (reducing any security risks) this should 100% get done! #ottcity @MarkJCarney @mflalonde @vankayak @ctvottawa @NHL @Senators
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Very happy birthday to former long time employee - right hand man - and friend Danny Singh. Once rented a Spider-Man suit to please my grandkids. Was not comfortable with dogs but took my Bulldog Teddy to an emergency vet visit in the rain. Teddy wouldn’t budge out of the car!
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Super Star Danny Singh, Ward 5 EA, also cooks. Bestest assistant ever. Also a very good cook. LuCky me! Lucky Ward 5
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Position statement.
If Zionism were simply about establishing the right of Jews to live safely wherever they are, including in their ancestral homeland, I would be a Zionist.
But this isn't what Zionism is about. It is, and always has been, about creating a Jewish-majority state in a land where the majority of people are not Jewish. This necessarily means either removing most non-Jews or denying them citizenship. Zionists have done, and are still doing, both.
I believe in the right of ALL people to live safely wherever they are. I oppose every means used to drive people out of their homes and lands: mass murder, ethnic cleansing, systematic violence, denial of citizenship, violation of basic human rights.
Zionism uses all these means to create and maintain its Jewish state.
Therefore I am an anti-Zionist.
Have been busy outside of Toronto today, but apparently the Toronto Star did not endorse Brad Bradford and people are in a tizzy.
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A day after far right Israeli Rabbi Dov Lior issued a religious ruling permitting settlers to steal olives from Palestinian orchards in the occupied West Bank, masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters and a visiting delegation of diplomats from Belgium, France, and Poland.
While the attack on European diplomats has drawn international attention, Palestinians have faced this violence for decades. Every olive harvest season, settlers attack farmers, destroy trees, and terrorize Palestinian communities in an ongoing campaign of land theft and dispossession.
It is long past time for governments, including Canada, to move beyond empty words and impose meaningful sanctions on Israel, including its settlement enterprise that permits these attacks to take place.
🚨BREAKING: A diplomatic delegation comprising representatives from France, Belgium, and Poland came under attack by Israeli settlers while attending the olive harvest in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, in the occupied West Bank.
Footage appears to show Bernard Baudoux, mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries in northern France, on the ground following the assault.
Masked Israeli settlers also smashed the windows of a Belgian consular vehicle and demanded identification documents.
Sutcliffe retorted he asked Leiper for ideas and he contributed nothing.
So, an uninspiring group of white men, three wearing ties and one open collar.
Sutcliffe will win re-election easily.
🧵There was an Ottawa Mayoral debate last night in Centretown, so I went. None of them made me exactly excited to go vote this morning.
Sutcliffe was the most polished. He's the incumbent and a former journalist (as am I, so bias) so that's not surprised. But he's...
Certainly, Leiper and Sutcliffe can't stand one another. Leiper did have a few good lines.
Asked what person you met made you change your mind on a policy, Sutcliffe mentioned a meeting that made him commit to ending child poverty.
I left after an hour (the debate was two), got a doner kebab and walked home. Flipping on Rogers, Sutcliffe was still arguing with the moderator.
I walked away not liking any of them. I get the sense they have all debated enough that they all are tired of and hate each other.
applause line, saying it absolutely is their job to fight for the people of Ottawa. People liked it, but it's crap. It's the city's job to run the city, including functioning transit. If you want to be the federal HR person run for MP.
infrastructure like transit is able to get people where they need to go. (The transit system is not up to the job, but otherwise this is right.)
IIRC Saravanamuttoo wants the feds to run a shuttle bus system...dude, just fund OC Transpo FFS.
Leiper went for the cheap...
at "Sutcliiffe." Which is fair. But do it respectfully. Don't say his name like a slur, you come off sounding like a jerk.
Also, on RTO, Sutcliffe gave a reasonable answer -- our job isn't to go after the feds on decisions they won't change, it's to ensure city...
...anti-Sutcliffe vote should unite behind him. No other poll has shown this, and it turns out its Sutcliffe's internal poll with questionable methodology and it puts him 1% ahead of Leiper, so buyer beware.
Leiper was aggressive to the point of off-putting. Kept taking shots...
voters are in the suburbs, not in Centertown. He also couldn't answer the one French question in language, unlike the other three.
Saravanamuttoo was OK but a little too left for me, and turned me off in his intro claiming a new poll says he is the clear 2nd and the...