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Writer, director, recovering conjurer, bag of mostly water.

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@514charles
Charles Anderson
11 days
@acoyne It's worth considering the Harjit Sajjan story in light of Jagmeet Singh's shocking interview with Terry Milewski about the Air India bombing. It's long overdue that we give serious consideration to the real-world implications of playing diaspora politics.
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@OliLondonTV He made the comments on a call to university administrators some time ago. The administration is only acting now because they got caught.
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2 months
@acoyne 30 churches destroyed by fire. Jewish schools shot at. Synagogues defaced. And Coyne is focused on a phone call. From somebody nobody has ever heard of. If you're wondering why the legacy media has fallen into disrepute, look no further.
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9 months
@TorontoStar An "apology" two weeks after the fact – That’s not contrition, that’s damage control.
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2 months
@Toronto4P @occupyuoft "UofT administration has failed its duties and their students." Got that right. Failed utterly. There's no better evidence of that than this video.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@lincolnmjay @RebelNewsOnline It would appear that “Special Constable” is the official designation for people who wear police uniforms, stand around, and do precisely nothing.
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2 months
@JustinTrudeau It's been church burning season here for several years now, are you going to blame that on climate change as well?
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Charles Anderson
8 months
@democracynow This post, and the interview, are both patently dishonest. The issue was not Workman, “expressing solidarity” with Palestinians. It was that she stated, “Israel bears full responsibility’ for the Oct. 7 massacres. These are entirely different things. @democracynow and Amy Goodman
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Charles Anderson
10 days
@hatpinwoman The tagline is worth consideration: “The Unsaid Says A lot”. Not content with aggressively policing your speech, government now wants to police your silence.
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Charles Anderson
12 days
@VWLegal The University of Waterloo has just introduced a new summer course: "Intro to FAFO 101".
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Charles Anderson
12 days
@ContrarianTribe Vassy Kapelos is consistently one of the very best television interviewers this country has. Direct, precise and cogent, she may not always get past “the fact of the matter” red herrings, but she’s a far more penetrating interviewer than her peers.
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Charles Anderson
8 months
@nspector4 Quebecers weren’t even allowed to leave their homes between 8:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. It was an obscene exercise in government overreach, with no epidemiological justification, and it was, most assuredly, a “lockdown”. And now, instead of having public inquiry into how our rights
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Charles Anderson
3 months
@dreahouston Allow me to introduce you to Canada’s Head of State, His Majesty King Charles III. I hope that clears things up.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@DahliaKurtz Jewish schools shot at, churches burned in record numbers, synagogues attacked, and maddening passivity from all the quadrants that should be making this a priority. The silence is deafening.
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Charles Anderson
7 months
@ibramxk If, as you suggest, people assume that, “white and male leaders earn their positions through merit, and Black and woman leaders receive their positions due to identity,” that it is due to precisely the sort of policies you explicitly promote. Remove those policies, and that
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Charles Anderson
20 days
@JustinTrudeau You're not "asking".
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Charles Anderson
9 months
@AliAbunimah "The resistance." What precisely was being "resisted" when they raped the girls amidst their dead and dying friends?
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Charles Anderson
11 days
@OilyRon @acoyne That this interview did not end his political career right then and there reveals something very wrong at the heart of our politics.
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Charles Anderson
9 months
@aaronjmate I’m reluctant to interfere in such a virtuoso display of spin, obfuscation and laboured self-delusion, but it might be worth noting that “From the river to the sea” might actually mean “From the river to the sea.” Not everything is 3D chess. Listen to what they are telling you.
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Charles Anderson
11 days
@nspector4 Consider this story in light of Jagmeet Singh's astonishing interview with Terry Milewski about the Air India bombing, and you might reluctantly come to the conclusion that some of our public officials have divided loyalties.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
Few people in the West have earned the right to be heard in the way that Salman Rushdie has earned the right to be heard. And there is no better time than now to hear what he has to say...
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Charles Anderson
3 months
@RobynUrback The wheels are coming off our much-vaunted healthcare system at the same time that government-provided euthanasia is working at peak efficiency. Related or not, it’s not a good look.
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Charles Anderson
6 months
@JimChuong Look at a wall of Toronto condos on a summer day and you will see that virtually nobody is on their balconies. But you can’t deduce from this that are a waste of "time, space, etc." An accessible outdoor space has huge psychological value, even if it’s just leaving the door open
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Charles Anderson
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@annie_sparrow "The population and been almost entirely dispossessed of shelter..." Gaza has more than 300 miles of tunnels. Yet the population can't access them when there's an attack (unlike Israel, or London during the Blitz). Not even the children are given shelter - they are left outside.
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Charles Anderson
17 days
@la_louve_rouge_ Memorializing an actor for his political opinions is like honouring a doctor for his golf handicap – it doesn’t reflect well on either area of human endeavor, and it is almost certainly belittling to the individual in question.
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Charles Anderson
7 months
@YaariCohen Who the hell put music under this?
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Charles Anderson
7 months
@JustinTrudeau This was not “gender-based violence”, whatever that means. This was the murder of women. Because they were women. You do little to reduce the burden of misogyny when you confuse this ancient evil with the latest gender woo.
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Charles Anderson
8 months
@democracynow Why are you reposting this interview? As has been pointed out earlier, it's utterly dishonest. The issue is not Workman, “expressing solidarity” with Palestinians. It's her statement that, “Israel bears full responsibility’ for the Oct. 7 massacres. These are entirely different
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Charles Anderson
20 days
@kopopoulous @FFS_WhatNow There is a clear distinction to be drawn. “Antisemitism” is primarily antipathy towards Jews – the people - and rarely, if ever, concerns itself with texts or scripture. With Islamophobia, the inverse is true. The chief area of contention are Islam's retrograde texts and ideas.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@mtlgazette Without double standards they would have no standards.
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Charles Anderson
16 days
@CBCTerry Terry Milewski has done all Canadians a great service by covering this story with the diligence and professionalism it demands. In a serious country his interview with Jagmeet Singh would have ended Singh’s political career. #canpoli #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics #CanadaNews
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Charles Anderson
7 months
@AhmarSKhan Why is it that we need a Freedom of Information Request to find out how much money people make at a public broadcaster?
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Charles Anderson
1 month
@libsoftiktok Drag has always had a rich vein of misogyny running through it. This is a particularly grotesque example, but it’s always lurking beneath the surface.
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Charles Anderson
1 year
@scoopercooper “Trudeau has always claimed that a wall separates his office from the foundation…” Brings new meaning to the term, “Chinese Wall”.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@MrAndyNgo @EmersonCollege Inscribed on the wall outside the library at McGill University is this quote from Milton: "Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." The universities have lost their way. Some balance needs to be restored.
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Charles Anderson
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@godblesstoto Note the tagline: “The Unsaid Says A lot”. Not content with aggressively policing our speech, government now wants to police our silence.
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Charles Anderson
1 year
@BevJacksonAuth With all due respect to the Guardian, the “consensus” they are mistakenly reporting as “new”, is as old as humanity itself. The best that can be said is there is now a modicum of pushback against an incoherent worldview that is manifestly unfair, irrational and dangerous.
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Charles Anderson
23 days
@CBCNews The bizarre assertion here is that "likes" are a tool of the powerful. In reality the exact opposite is true.
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Charles Anderson
11 days
@faisalkutty @UWaterloo The University of Waterloo has just introduced a new summer course: "Intro to FAFO 101".
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Charles Anderson
7 months
@michaelharriot Charles Anderson @514charles The "myth" of the diversity hire would be addressed most effectively by no longer using diversity as a criteria when hiring.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
I initially thought comparisons to the 1930s persecution of Jews in Germany were hyperbolic. I'm not so sure anymore.
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Hen Mazzig
2 months
This is currently the situation outside of Eden Golan's hotel room. Because of her nationality, hundreds of people who hate her are screaming outside of her room. What happens if she goes outside? You hurt her so she quits? You kill her so she can't perform? If you are this
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@JoeyMannarinoUS If they can get two seats, why can't I? Am I too thin to qualify? That seems discriminatory.
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Charles Anderson
1 year
@DrIbram Looks like a huge win for Asian students who have been racially profiled and discriminated against for far too long.
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Charles Anderson
1 month
@TrueNorthCentre Jagmeet will be all over this as long as they don't start start asking which Canadian elected officials cooperated with Khalistani terrorists.
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Charles Anderson
16 days
You have to laugh at someone from the legacy media, tweeting about how the legacy media "must be critiqued", yet who blocks any commentary on her tweets. This attitude - an insistence on preaching not listening - is going to kill the legacy media.
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Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
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What makes the Islamophobic truck situation worse, I think, is the role of politicians seemingly on the verge of power like Poilievre who are legitimizing far-right info outlets while delegitimizing actual news media (tho the latter must be critiqued)
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Charles Anderson
25 days
It never should have gotten this far. But now that it has, it’s beholden upon all of us to call it out as the dangerous idiocy it is. Norwegian actress faces 3 years in prison for saying men cannot be lesbians
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Charles Anderson
9 months
@acoyne Politicians have no business micromanaging news coverage. (But then again, they have no business paying for it either…) The nomenclature regarding “terrorism” is worth consideration. I have real sympathy for the people having to navigate that terminology. The BBC is getting no
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Charles Anderson
5 months
@RitaPanahi Characteristically measured, lucid and logical. Would that we had more people of his intellectual calibre involved in the public discourse.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@GrahamAllen_1 A terrific portrait. right down to the monarch butterfly on his shoulder. In keeping with tradition, yet casting it aside. Bravo to Jonathan Yeo!
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Charles Anderson
14 days
@JustinTrudeau Without Singh, Trudeau would lose his grip on power. So he ignores Singh's true views on terrorism, specifically regarding the Air India bombing. This clip with Terry Milewski will tell you all you need to know about Jagmeet Singh, our PM, and the gross hypocrisy they share.
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Charles Anderson
11 days
@QuintusSlora @acoyne You're quite right. I had neglected to include the fiasco with the India delegation, or the recent moment of silence in the parliament. Pretty hard not to discern something of a pattern here.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@FaeJohnstone @queermomentum And above all, let's protect those kids. Follow the science! Latest NIH study: kids have a 12x HIGHER rate of suicide after surgical transition.
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Charles Anderson
3 months
@Babygravy9 Don Cherry called. He wants his jacket back.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
The Australian PM seems intent on beclowning himself further.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@EnglerYves A boatload of sophomoric hubris on display here. A gaggle of undergrads who imagine themselves in charge of the financial decisions for a 200-year-old institution. Perhaps some kindly person could remind them that their job is to show up to class and get their papers in on time.
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Charles Anderson
1 month
“The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you” Christopher Hitchens McGill University, Roddick Gates, May 27,
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@TorontoStar “I would make an effort to level the playing field." What a remarkable statement. So filled with self-deception. She is not, “levelling the playing field”. She is doing precisely the opposite. But this is the underlying logic of DEI - that giving unfair advantage is laudable.
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Charles Anderson
1 month
No greater insight into Jagmeet Singh can be found than in this extraordinary interview where he runs cover for the terrorists who killed 329 people. In a serious country this would have ended his political career. #canpoli #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics #CanadaNews
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Charles Anderson
20 days
@FaeJohnstone @PremierScottMoe Indeed, it's vital we protect young people who are the most vulnerable.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@DahliaKurtz A lot of people who need to be held to account here. University administrators, the wretched masked individuals themselves, but right at the top of the list are these impotent policemen. The head of Toronto Police Services should he hauled on the carpet to explain this.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@RLerand @MakingSenseHQ Ben Affleck, is that you?
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Charles Anderson
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"If he were not running for president that case would never have been brought." Andrew Cuomo, Former (Democratic) Governor of New York
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Charles Anderson
9 months
@ChrisLynnHedges Thank you for posting this. It is one of the most breathtaking examples of deceitful writing I have ever encountered. Well worth taking a moment to marvel at the sheer audacity of its dishonesty: “Many of the resistance fighters who infiltrated into Israel undoubtedly knew they
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@CrimeInNYC - He made the comments on a call to university administrators some time ago. The administration is only acting now because they got caught.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
Who am I to question the wisdom of the comms people at BC health, but when the hospitals are crawling with roaches, perhaps, “Hey, at least they don’t bite!” might not be the communications win they think it is.
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Charles Anderson
6 months
@aaronjmate @coldxman @briebriejoy "I have no idea how those nails got there..." Is this a parody account?
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Charles Anderson
6 months
@kinsellawarren Happily, you don't get to decide.
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Charles Anderson
7 months
In the highly competitive realm of race hustlers, identity-politics grifters, and old-school snake oil salesmen, Ibram Henry Rogers (aka Ibram X. Kendi) is the Sam Bankman-Fried of grievance entrepreneurs.
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Charles Anderson
9 months
Trudeau has said there is “no core identity in Canada.” It would appear these folks in Toronto disagree… #canpoli #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics #CanadaNews #Isreal #Hamas #Gaza #Palestine
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Charles Anderson
2 years
@zei_squirrel Am I the only person who detects some irony in Chomsky making this argument in front of a background emblazoned, “Democracy Now!”?
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Charles Anderson
8 months
@OliLondonTV "The poppy is a symbol to remember fallen British service members since WW1." Not just British. And a reminder that the poem was written by a Canadian.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@SMohyeddin @occupyuoft @UofT I keep getting hung up on the word “demand”. What makes them think they can “demand” anything? Does donning a keffiyeh imbue them with special powers that allow them to boss everyone around? The narcissism and the delusion on display here is breathtaking.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@mtlgazette “An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” Not Sun Tzu
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Charles Anderson
10 months
Looking at the marches across the country today, two things were readily apparent: One side was composed of people who, for the most part, had never been to a demonstration before. The other side were people for whom this is habitual. #LeaveOurKidsAlone #1MillionMarch4Children
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Charles Anderson
6 months
@Blklivesmatter She blithely dismissed the seriousness of calling out for genocide against Jews on her campus. Her own academic work was sloppy, forcing Harvard to try to bully The New York Post into burying the plagiarism story…The cost of this fiasco to the Harvard brand is incalculable. She
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Charles Anderson
5 months
@ibramxk One can well understand Mr. Kendi's opposition to colourblindness. For him, it constitutes an existential threat. In a colourblind world we wouldn't know his name.
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Charles Anderson
15 days
@theJagmeetSingh If you're interested in Jagmeet Singh's actual views on terrorism, specifically the slaughter of Canadians by Sikh terrorists, you owe it to yourself to watch the following segment with Terry Milewski. In a serious country, this would have ended Mr. Singh's political career.
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Charles Anderson
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@darrengrimes_ She doesn't "believe". She understands. She recognizes. She knows. This is precisely not a matter of "belief".
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@bindureddy @BobbyAllyn The voice on my version changed overnight. When I asked why, it denied anything had changed. When I pressed, it said "there may have been a setting change ”. In essence, I am being gaslit by the world's foremost AI. This does not augur well for the future.
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Charles Anderson
9 months
@Cernovich As far as I know there is no evidence of torture at the Bataclan theatre. If you have some evidence, post it. If not, please amend your post accordingly. The event was atrocious enough without making things up.
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Charles Anderson
1 month
@jason_kint “Forces me to suspend my long standing attempt at neutrality…” Who does he think he's kidding? From wiki: “Burns is a long-time financial supporter of the Democrats, and made a video for Ted Kennedy described by Politico as "casting Kennedy as the modern Ulysses.” This is the
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Charles Anderson
6 months
@incontextmedia Actors coming together to read a text of pure fiction. Precisely the right people for the job.
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Charles Anderson
9 months
@picardonhealth @PierrePoilievre @sproudfoot @GlobeDebate You want to know what is telling? It's the reporter's quasi-literate and fanciful description of the encounter. This is what should concern you: "When asked why Canadians should trust him with their votes given his demonstrable track record of flip-flopping on key
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@tkostroske I was being coy with my post. I know what the word means. It means pretty much the opposite of how i's used here. Wikipedia’s definition reflects the standard usage: Identitarians are opposed to cultural mixing and promote the preservation of homogeneous ethno-cultural entities,
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Charles Anderson
3 months
@CollinRugg Concerned that classes may interfere with the protests, Columbia University administration have made the difficult decision to cancel classes.
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Charles Anderson
3 months
So much #AI art has a malevolent vibe. Part of this stems for its proclivity to do unnatural things to the human form. But that aside, much of it remains dystopian. Is this proclivity of the artists, or is there something sinister lurking in the code itself? @katsukokoisoai
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Charles Anderson
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@cafreeland You're not "asking".
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Charles Anderson
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A warm day in Montreal. Maybe even a hot one. We used to call it summer. But Environment Canada ("in association with Climate Change Canada") has decided it's a "significant threat to life..." I'm not a meteorologist, but I think they could have settled for "don't wear tweed".
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Charles Anderson
2 years
@jonkay UCC is a school for boys. Do boys who identify as girls meet the admission criteria? Are girls who identify as boys now eligible?
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Charles Anderson
9 months
@FredvanBert @acoyne I wrote that Hamas is, “supported by much of the population”. I stand by that assertion. The latest poll I can find is 2021, which found that 53% of Palestinians thought Hamas the, “most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people.” That was less than 4 year
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Charles Anderson
10 months
@CUPEOntario @OFLabour It’s hard not to notice the dynamics at work here. We have CUPE, out in force to oppose Wednesday’s march in support of parent’s rights in education, and in support of the current Gender Woo™. Once again, we see powerful alliances, backed by state-enforced worker contributions,
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@CTVNews You can burn upwards of 100 churches in Canada and the official reaction is a great big shrug, but burn a flag and the police and the media are all over it.
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Charles Anderson
1 month
@KatKanada_TM Note the reverse onus here, and the attendant shirking of all responsibility. Not our job to keep Jewish kids from getting shot. Best stock up on bulletproof glass.
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Charles Anderson
1 month
@DrJacobsRad @MayorOliviaChow Note the reverse onus here, and the attendant shirking of all responsibility. Not our job to keep Jewish kids from getting shot. Best stock up on bulletproof glass.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@nowoolovreyz @globeandmail An openly gay man with a picture of a notorious homophobe on his wall is not a man whose political views warrant serious consideration.
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Charles Anderson
3 months
Looking at what modern architects create, versus what AI programs are envisioning, we should seriously consider firing the former to replace them with the latter.
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Charles Anderson
2 months
@FilomenaTassi @fsorbara @rubysahotalib @MSidhuLiberal @shafqatalimp @RodPower7_8 @gurpartapstoor I strongly object to the current government’s Orwellian bastardization of the term “investment”.
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Charles Anderson
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@__Average_Joe__ @ContrarianTribe Truth is she just recently came to my attention. I don't watch a lot of TV news, all I see is what ends up on X. But she could teach a clinic for her colleagues, here and south of the border, on how to properly conduct an interview.
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