Richie Assaly

Sunday Scaries

Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.

A 70-year-old woman and her son were hunted down and killed by an Israeli quadcopter drone for crossing the unmarked “yellow line” in Gaza City.

They were “left to bleed to death” as the drone hovered overhead, preventing anyone from reaching them.

Thousands of leaked photos show new evidence of mass torture and murder under Syria’s Assad regime There are over 10,200 bodies in the chilling trove of images. For Canadian families of the disappeared, the grim records offer a chance of closure.

Thousands of leaked photos show new evidence of mass torture and murder under Syria’s Assad regime.

Important story from @ghadaa.bsky.social and @shree-paradkar.bsky.social

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Lawyers Urge RCMP to Arrest Former Israeli Politicians Ahead of Munk Debates International lawyers are calling on Canadian police to investigate and arrest former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel Tzipi Livni for their alleged…

In a 23-page legal communication, lawyers compiled evidence showing there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Olmert and Livni are responsible for war crimes committed during the First Gaza War.

Lawyers Urge RCMP to Arrest Former Israeli Politicians Ahead of Munk Debates International lawyers are calling on Canadian police to investigate and arrest former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel Tzipi Livni for their alleged…

Human rights lawyers are urging the RCMP to investigate and arrest Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes ahead of tonight's Munk Debates in Toronto.

“Canada cannot become known as a safe haven for suspected war criminals," a lawyer told me.

For @thegrindto.bsky.social

YouTube video by Kelela - Topic Furry Sings the Blues (unplugged)

Wow, hadn't heard this Kelela cover of Joni Mitchell. Stunning

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb2W...

Only one Canadian album on Pitchfork’s top 50 list this year (Rochelle Jordan at #25) 🤷

There were just two last year, but Cindy Lee landed at #1

The Best Albums of 2025 Crate-digging, dadcore, and a love letter to Puerto Rico.

ayyyy my albums list is live www.vulture.com/article/best...

The best indie rock album of the year was 'Caveman Wakes up' by Friendship

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Featuring Rosalía, Dijon, Cameron Winter, Erika de Casier, Addison Rae, MIKE, and more.

people are not going to like this. good stuff!

After slow divestment, Canada’s Scotiabank quietly reinvests in Israel’s genocide For almost two years, activists across Canada have been demanding that Scotiabank divest from Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Despite an ‘incremental divestment’, the bank has slowly been ...

$83M is way down from early 2023, when Scotiabank's stake was close to $400M.

Still, the company did up its stake in Elbit earlier this year after several quarters of divestment.

Scotiabank profit rises in fourth quarter despite trade war pressures and restructuring charge The bank said the increase was primarily driven by higher net interest income and non-interest income.

Something not mentioned in the reporting: Under pressure from protesters, Scotiabank's asset management subsidiary slashed its stake in Elbit Systems (Israel's largest weapons manufacturer) *by $231M* last quarter.

Still sits at a whopping $83M.

Scariest character on television

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THE CHAIR COMPANY finale

Bari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring The “contrarian” journalist’s new vision for CBS News appears to just mean reinventing Crossfire.

I wrote about Bari Weiss newrepublic.com/article/2037...

Beautiful album

Umm @rdassaly.bsky.social we need to get the band back together. Make sure to tell everyone to bring ice skates just in case.

h/t @marjorienichol.bsky.social @markster3000.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social #OneBigIdea
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As controversies pile up, is Spotify losing the streaming wars? | CBC News The popular listening platform Spotify has dominated the streaming industry for years. But there have been recent calls to boycott the platform over controversies surrounding issues like artist compen...

Finally getting rid of Spotify, gonna try out Qobuz.

Shared a few words about the enshittification of the former with @ameliaeqbal.bsky.social for CBC News.

www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Astonishing stuff

Samira Mohyeddin awarded 2025 Ken Filkow Prize - PEN Canada The Latest

Samira Mohyeddin has won the 2025 Ken Filkow Prize, which recognizes those whose work has advanced freedom of expression in Canada.

Mohyeddin will receive the prize in Toronto on Friday, November 28, 2025 at the annual PEN Canada Awards Night.

Funding Cuts Plunging Public Health in Ontario into Crisis, Experts Warn Frontline public health workers are sounding the alarm about the state of sexually transmitted infections, waterborne illnesses and measles…

It's not just measles. Ontario has also seen a rapid spread of syphilis, gonorrhoea, and chlamydia in recent years.

This morning, frontline workers warned that provincial funding cuts are plunging Ontario's public health into crisis. For @thegrindto.bsky.social

What We’re Listening To (and Gifting) The New Feeling music writers share the albums they’re giving as gifts this year — from homegrown lyricists to crowd-pleasing Levantine pop. For a gift you can tie a bow on, snag a vinyl or cassette…

Looking for some new music to get you through the final stretch of 2025?

@newfeelingcoop.bsky.social has you covered with fresh picks from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Dambe, Shad and more.

Contractor who drove plow through Palestinian protesters posted Islamophobic, anti-protest content on social media The company the driver works for said it issued a one-day suspension over the incident.

The woman who drove the snowplow through a crowd of Palestine supporters was Athena Niggenaber, The Star confirms.

As folks pointed out last week, her social media is filled with anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia and other hateful rhetoric.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...

Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.

“Political prescription isn’t the point; teasing out the humanity of these people is.”

An incredible critique by @angelicabastien.bsky.social’s via @vulture.com that looks at the faults of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER without negating the agency of its Black actresses.

1,000 killed in the West Bank. This is on top of the tens of thousands of people displaced from their home.

Earlier this year, Israel emptied 32,000 people from three refugee camps in what @hrw.org called the largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967.

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.