Richie Assaly

Majid points out that Toronto Outdoor Picture Show has been hosting screenings at Christie Pits every Sunday this summer without issue.

Only TPFF has had their noise permit challenged.

Toronto Palestine Film Festival organizer Dania Majid says that Toronto Councillor Diane Saxe attempted to deny a permit for its annual outdoor film screening just ten days before tonight’s event.

TPFF has hosted this event every summer since 2010.

Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision The Carney government is repeating the mistakes of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.

"The Liberal practice of campaigning on the left then governing from the right is, by now, a hallowed Canadian tradition worthy of its own Heritage Minute." -- @lukewsavage.bsky.social

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A Canadian Antisemitism Statistic Went Viral—But It Has No Source The spread of a dubious antisemitism statistic reflects the anxieties of the Canadian Jewish establishment amid a changing political environment.

The Israeli Diaspora Affairs ministry's claim of a "670% rise" in antisemitism in Canada produced a flurry of news reports in 2024 and 2025. But the number has no source.
@blakejlambert.bsky.social reports on the context for Canada's antisemitism panic:

jewishcurrents.org/a-canadian-a...

Globe editorial: Israel must stop helping Hamas to win The government needs to focus on getting aid to Gazans in order to avoid handing a victory to its enemy

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

The editorial —which flicks at multiple Israeli claims that have been debunked (Hamas stealing aid, misleading death tolls) — concludes that Israel should allow aid into Gaza as a means to ease suffering "of course," but also to "safeguard Israel's own interests."

The editorial does not mention the near-daily mass casualty incidents taking place GHF and other aid sites (Since May, nearly 1,400 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.)

Nor does it mention the ongoing bombardment of Gaza that has killed 60,000+

A new Globe & Mail editorial suggests that forced starvation in Gaza is bad optics — and therefore a tactical misstep — for Israel.

It blames "civilian casualties" on Hamas, and argues that images of hungry children are being used as a weapon to "undermine Israel's legitimacy."

Who Are You Close To? | Hazlitt I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

Loved this new piece of short fiction by Cassidy McFadzean

On chat bots, loneliness and grief.

hazlitt.net/longreads/wh...

Israeli fire again kills Gaza aid-seekers as US envoy meets with hostages’ families DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians again sought food,

Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites, killing at least 10 Palestinians — a day after U.S. officials visited a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site and called it an "incredible feat."

www.thestar.com/news/world/m...

🚨 PAGING ALL ELDER MILLENNIALS 🚨

Tickets for tonight's TV On The Radio show at History are now selling for twenty (20) dollars

With ‘a broken heart,’ Israeli literary giant David Grossman labels Gaza war a ‘genocide’ * * *

Israeli literary giant David Grossman says Israel is committing genocide.

Grossman has won many international awards, including Israel’s top literary prize in 2018.

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

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

The RCMP says it’s been looking into potential war crimes in the Israel-Hamas conflict for a year. Why has it seemed so quiet? The agency has offered few details in the probe and scant indication the police have begun to seek information about possible crimes.

The RCMP remains tight-lipped about its investigation into potential war crimes in Israel-Gaza.

“The fact that no one seems to have the slightest indication that something genuine and active is underway is concerning.” one expert said.

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

YouTube video by Toronto Sun WATCH: Sydney Sweeney has great jeans" doesn't stir up protesters

Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun weighs in on the Sydney Sweeney controversy, I cannot get enough of this man’s reportage

youtu.be/_Q8AGyKl5J0

Ford government’s attempt to remove Toronto bike lanes is unconstitutional, judge rules The provincial government had argued that road space dedicated to cyclists was adding to congestion. A Superior Court judge said the government’s decision would risk the lives of cyclsits.

Doug Ford government's attempt to remove Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional, judge rules

www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...

Canada’s hockey case exposed a toxic culture – yet the accuser ended up on trial Judge seemed to scrutinize female accuser more harshly than the five hockey players who were charged with sexual assault but ultimately walked free

'Canada’s hockey case exposed a toxic culture – yet the accuser ended up on trial'

Important analysis from Olivia Bowden in the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials | CBC News The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping ...

Canada continues to exports military weapon parts and ammunition to Israel, according to documents uncovered by four NGOs and verified by CBC.

This contradicts the Canadian gov't, which claims it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since Jan. 2024

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

Yes

If you're an #Oasis super-fan with tickets to the show at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, please shoot me a DM

#OasisReunion #OasisTour

Today's 📰

Debby Friday sounds like the future. Two years after winning Canada’s top music prize, the Toronto electronic artist has reinvented herself again The experimental singer and electronic producer is set to release a luminous, genre-blurring album titled “The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life."

Had a great chat with electronic shapeshifter Debby Friday, whose first record since winning the @polarismusicprize.bsky.social drops next week.

www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Exclusive: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid The internal U.S. government analysis challenges the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

An internal US gov't analysis found no evidence of systematic theft of aid by Hamas, contradicting Israel/US's main justification for its disastrous humanitarian aid rollout

(Once again, report backs up what Palestinians have been saying for months)

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The AI Revolution Is a Heist | The Walrus Behind the promises of progress lies a simple play: take what others built, offer nothing back, and call it innovation

Brilliant analysis, as usual, from @lukewsavage.bsky.social on the rise of AI.

“Behind the promises of progress lies a simple play: take what others built, offer nothing back, and call it innovation”

thewalrus.ca/the-ai-revol...

We are starving My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

"My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. Gaza's children are dying in front of our eyes, and we are powerless to help them."
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...

Holding vigil for Ozzy tonight 🙏🏼

Brian Wilson, Sly and Ozzy all gone within a month in a half. Three absolute giants

Paranoid, Master of Reality and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath forever altered my brain chemistry.

Thanks for everything, Ozzy

Bizarre and brilliant. Didn’t want this one to end