Lucas Meyer✅

YOU DONT HAVE TO APOLOGIZE.
Fingers crossed this all works out!

When Capital Pride in Ottawa put out an anti-Israel statement last year, the City of Ottawa, provincial and federal Liberal parties, the mayor and several hospitals all withdrew from participating.

We'll see what the response is in Montreal now that a group was actually banned.

Astronomer’s team after the release:

Like ⏰ work, Astronomer’s statement comes out on a Friday afternoon.

I want this soooooo badly to be true, but sadly it appears to not be legit. How else can you explain the poor grammar, Coldplay blame and the unconscionable quoting of Fix You?

How dare people not trust The Beaverton 🦫

Twitter gods rn:

The midnight Trump diss thread is going to be an all-timer.

Sooooo Trump jokes/thinks Merz was a Nazi?

I'll tell you it takes a lot for him to shock me nowadays. This is pretty shocking. This is up there with McCain wasn't a war hero and publicly siding with Putin in Helsinki over his own intelligence services.

Smith: Dramatic improvement.
Ford: Best meeting in 10 years.
Moe: Encouraged.
Legault: We've never talked so much about the economy with a PM.
Holt: United like never before.

Carney's team post-premiers meeting:

Solid dragged performance by Francis Scarpaleggia, as he’s elected PSpeaker.

Scheer giving a solid push and Carney with one of biggest grins I’ve ever seen. Only thing missing is “NO NO” facial expressions.

Not near my Top 5 though:
-Milliken (twice)
-Jerome
-Scheer
-no.1 Geoff Regan’s Oscar 🎭

And then spontaneously, Nate just came up, embraced them and gave a prayer before singing Hatikvah.
In a week of dubious reporting, the horrific murder of Sarah and Yaron and anxiety over Toronto's upcoming Walk With Israel, it's a moment to cling to and draw inspiration from.

They spoke of being regular parents, Hersh's herosim, how hope is mandatory, of being proudly Jewish, freeing the rest of the hostages and never losing our humanity in recognizing the suffering of all people. If you need an example, they're it.

The moment came after Rachel and Jon spoke to a full house in a Q&A at Beth Tzedec about Hersh, their journey, their advocacy, their story and how they've persevered through absolute hell. Their grace, humility and example came at a most critical time.

Trying to find light on a horrendous week for Jews:

This is Nate Leipciger, a Holocaust survivor, hugging Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin in Toronto, who came via Wednesday to talk about their beloved Hersh who was killed in Hamas captivity.

🕯️

Man some post-election takes... Some of them put together would look like:

"PC premiers not helping led the Conservatives to lose, combined with Elections Canada being fishy and now Carney will put NDP in cabinet and jail/deport content creators he doesn't like."

“Look at the girth of this thing.”

- CBC NEWS’ David Cochrane *direct quote* as he holds up the Carleton ballot that has 91 names on it.

🗳️ 🇨🇦

Only Atlantic polls coming vs. All the polls coming on Election Night :

If you think Atlantic poll results are interesting, just wait...

Elections Canada looking at us like :

🇨🇦 🗳️

The actual Nova site has turned into a pilgrimage.
Here, you get a window into the reality of the worst terror in the world. It’s not activism, nor a referendum on whatever political leanings you may have.
So go with your Jewish friends and peers. For your and their sake.

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For Jews, it's a demoralizing, but inspiring, personal and communal catharsis. But for the non-Jews who accompany them, it’s an invaluable look into their condition. For a moment, it takes your hands off the smartphones and onto the grounds.

Officials Condemn Protest Outside Exhibit Memorializing Oct. 7 Victims Anti-Israel demonstrators gathered outside the exhibition in New York that honors people at a music festival in Israel who were killed in the Hamas attack.

Hamas simply stumbled upon it. The open field under a blue sky became a killing spree. Its nature are what made the protests in New York City when the exhibit came there so unconscionable. And yet if they happen here, no one will be surprised.

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/a...

The sound is what stuck out to me the most, followed by the portable toilets with bullet holes and the wall of remembrance. Terror you can touch.

The Nova attack was so devastating because it wasn't a military post, it wasn't a city centre, it wasn't even an original target.

On the exhibit itself, this is not the kind of memorial that creates space, at first at least. There's no glass wall. When you walk in the main door, the sound overwhelms you. It's meant to put you there. To give you the slighest semblance of what it was like that day.

🧵On the Nova Exhibition opening in Toronto today, a suggestion for Jews ... and non-Jews.

For Jews: Ready Yourself ... and bring a non-Jewish friend.
For non-Jews: You'll likely gain more than you think.

I went late last year in Miami. Some thoughts:

Tally for scrums of first Canada Leaders debate -
1 Q, 1 follow (most of the time):

Juno, CP, True North, CBC, La Converse, Franco-Presse, Rover, Radio CKUT, The Hub, Global: all got 1 reporter/2qs

Radio-Canada: 3 reporters for 6 Qs

Rebel: 4 reporters for 8 Qs

Don’t 👏 confirm 👏 something 👏 to 👏 a 👏 journalist 👏 and 👏 then 👏 try 👏 takebackies 👏

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

That’s a hell of an If.
If doing WORK in this sentence.

Oh.