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🧵 Let’s talk about the kind of account that manufactures hate for clout. You know the ones.
Noah Sinclair retweeted
McKelvie was kept on as Deputy Mayor as a way to maintain the peace following Tory's shameful departure from council. McKelvie and Bradford were being lobbied by
PortsToronto and Nieuport Aviation (the airport operator & terminal owner) re the Toronto Island Airport.
#TOpoli
Noah Sinclair retweeted
If this person had taken a moment to read the memorial, she'd have known that Karolina Huebner-Makurat's name does not appear it. This is a memorial by people who use drugs, for people who use drugs. rabble.ca/human-rights/drug-… There is a local parkette named for Ms Huebner-Makurat
On my way home I walked past the memorial for
Karolina Huebner-Makurat a mother of two young children who was shot and killed by a stray bullet on July 7, 2023, outside the South Riverdale Community Health Centre.
She was killed by gunfire during an altercation involving drug dealers outside a supervised consumption site.
At the Ward 14 candidate debate tonight to discuss the drug and homeless crisis, candidate
SUSAN CHAPPELLE said she thought it was too bad the
Safe Injection Sites were closed because of one death.
Susan is not a person who should be sitting on City Council.
Brian, Jennifer McKelvie was appointed deputy mayor by John Tory in 2022, and she endorsed Ana Bailão against Chow in 2023.
She's now endorsing Bradford, a colleague she's worked with since 2018.
You're right. It tells us something.
Just perhaps not what you were hoping.
Noah Sinclair retweeted
Noah. I think we should both take the win here: because I agree with every word in this one specific tweet. 😉
I do want also to thank you: this has been spirited and respectful, two things that are in short supply often on this platform.
Ben, your right to free speech protects your ability to make a land acknowledgement.
My right to free speech protects my ability to criticize it.
You're now criticizing my criticism.
Congratulations. We've successfully demonstrated how free speech works. 😆
Ben, your father led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Surely we can survive one progressive expressing an opinion without declaring a national crisis over free speech.
Ben, a land acknowledgement recognizes the Indigenous peoples of the land you're standing on.
You acknowledged somewhere else.
The difference isn't ethnicity. It's geography. Why is this so difficult?
Noah, let's keep this simple. In Toronto, land acknowledgements open City Council meetings, school days, sporting events and concerts, over and over, every week. Nobody argues they diminish anyone else's ties to their place. I offered probably the first one ever for the Jewish people's connection to the Land of Israel. It took nothing from First Nations. You say ancestral connection to land matters. So what is the one difference here that bothers you?
Every people, Ben. Including Jews, Palestinians, & Indigenous peoples whose land you're standing on
That's been my point from the beginning
You've now written 2 lengthy replies explaining why ancestral connections matter, without acknowledging the people right beneath your feet
Noah, a land acknowledgement says a people's ancestral bond to a place survives displacement. Judaism was born in the Land of Israel. In 135 CE Rome renamed Judea "Syria Palaestina" to erase that bond. Jews have lived there ever since.
"Halfway around the world" is where an empire scattered them.
So, does the logic apply to every people, or every people except one? Pick.
You found Indigenous people expressing support for Israel. Okay?
Indigenous peoples aren't a hive mind, and a photograph of a demonstration doesn't answer my point.
But I do appreciate you invoking Indigenous voices while making their cultural expression the punchline.
Religion is explicitly protected under Canada's hate crime laws.
But thank you for responding to a post about religious harassment with an insult and a misunderstanding of the Criminal Code.
Very educational.
So walking with another man is gay if he has a child and wears skinny pants?
Tom, I asked a question about walking down the street. You've invented an entire sexual orientation based on childcare arrangements and trousers.
Noah Sinclair retweeted
I don't want to give Kouvalis too much credit, but I've kinda picked up about the guy is; he's someone who does actually believe in something. The people rooting for a Brad win don't believe in anything except Chow needing to lose.
Noah Sinclair retweeted
I don't believe the people cheering for Bradford winning today will be even talking about the city in a months time. Do you think Tate or S'ad or Brooks or Levant or Warmington will be focused on the unhoused in a Mayor Bradford City? Well, not as a city failure, certainly.
Okay @bluebottle931, You do realize Doug Ford's provincial government controls rent increases, right?
The same government that exempted newer units from rent control in 2018.
You've somehow managed to blame Olivia Chow for Ontario's rent regulations.
