Reminder for those looking for a way to help or a place to donate: we’ve set up a central hub for
#Ukraine
humanitarian relief. Joint project of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and Canada Ukraine Foundation. Please give today.
This is bad communication. We have a *major announcement* on the one thing you’re all freaked about. .........But you’re gonna have to wait ‘til tomorrow.
Do I have this right? Canada sanctioned 62 people today and cancelled export permits. Where is the sanction shock-and-awe that was promised over the last two months, should Putin invade? This is embarrassing and dispiriting.
Gross. The Liberals buying 4 months of no Parliamentary oversight with some sick days during the worst financial and health crisis in decades.
You can be forgiven for thinking we're not a serious country.
Best part of the Trudeau scrum
Journalist: What was that costume you were wearing when you were in
#blackface
?
Trudeau: I have been honest with Canadians
Journalist: Great! So what was that costume, then?
Trudeau: I have been honest with Canadians...
🤔
#cdnpoli
#elxn43
The Prime Minister of Canada just said in
#QP
in the House of Commons that
@AndrewScheer
will eliminate the
@CBC
and
@CBCRadioCanada
. Just made it up. Poof. There you go.
Is that what Parliament has become? Rather sad. Quite sad.
#cdnpoli
Bizarre day on Canada-China trade front. Basically,
China: “We strongly believe in free trade, & welcome negotiations.”
Canada: “We think any negotiations must include gender equality, environmental and labour protection measures.”
China: “Good for you.”
[awkward silence]
A tremendous morning with
@SecBlinken
,
@cafreeland
and
@melaniejoly
, but this was the tear-jerker moment for me: 🇨🇦’s Foreign Minister spontaneously giving Yaryna a hug after hearing her story of coming to Canada - and the community she found here - after the war started
#Ukraine
Wernick: “He is gonna find a way to get it done, one way or another.”
#JWR
: “This is a constitutional principle of prosecutorial independence...& this is political interference...and I am issuing my stern warning...I am uncomfortable having this conversation”
#SNCLavalin
#cdnpoli
Brutalism? Is this for real? I am going to chain myself to the site if anything remotely close to this is approved. Here’s an idea - how about something with architectural value, that complements its architectural surroundings?
Sad irony about this Harper takedown/scapegoating of Dustin: in 2001, the Harper leadership campaign was literally only a dozen of us. A tiny tiny group. Dustin was there from the beginning working his butt off to get Harper back into politics. What a nasty business.
#cdnpoli
Thank you to
#Ukraine
’s top human rights experts for speaking to Canadian press today about the horrors of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel, and advising what Canada can do against
#Russia
’s war crimes. Watch presser here👇🏽
So, the PM just hijacked the public airways to give his Address In Reply to the
#ThroneSpeech
— something he was scheduled to do in the House of Commons around 11:00am tomorrow.
#cdnpoli
Quite the pattern:
China targeting Our MPs? “Didn’t get briefed.”
Bernardo being moved? “My staff didn’t brief me.”
Afghan evacuees misled about visas? “Didn’t get the email.”
🇨🇦 diplomats schmoozing the Russian embassy? “Didn’t get the memo.”
In another chilling moment on Russian state TV, professor Sergey Luzyanin compares Russia's ongoing slaughter of Ukrainians to "a giant furnace," which burns them up and in that fire, the "strong and pure steel of a Russian nation is being forged."
Remembering Baba. What a life: Resistance courier, genocide survivor, cultural refugee, immigrant, community builder. And a lifelong f-you to chauvinism, Bolshevism, fascism & BS of any kind. Toughest lady I ever met. A true Great from the Greatest Generation. Спочивай, бабуня ♥️
I suspect this will end up being one of those “the candidate can still run if they apologize for their past mistakes” moments. Oh, wait, the
@liberal_party
dismissed that as an unacceptable policy
#cdnpoli
#elxn43
A continued move toward a presidential “state of the union” political culture, and a real departure from our 🇨🇦 parliamentary traditions and the sanctity of Parliament as the locus for public policy discourse. Maybe I’m just a dinosaur, but the whole thing makes me wince.
@VoteandMask
In the meadow, the guelder rose (or wild cranberry, or “Kalyna” in Ukrainian) has wilted. For some reason, our Ukraine has become troubled. But we will lift up the guelder rose, and we will reinvigorate and cheer up our Ukraine. WWI song of resistance against the Russians.
Don’t know what motivated the
#MarylandShooting
, but each time populist politicians, politicos & trolls vilify “mainstream
#media
”/“
#MSM
” & portray journalists as enemies, makes it easier for what happened today to happen. Demonization of
#press
for cheap political gain must stop
Watching
#QuestionPeriod
, am reminded what a solid MP
@MichaelChongMP
is. Shaping up to be a phenomenal foreign affairs critic and an articulate leading voice for human rights and civil liberties.
#cdnpoli
Next level of absurd propaganda
Occupation authorities in parts of Donetsk region claim that they’ve killed two members of saboteur group of Ukrainian army attempting to blow up cylinders with chlorine in Horlivka. Saboteurs were speaking Polish language
Humbled to have been elected chairman of the board of the Parliamentary Centre — Canada’s foremost democratic development NGO. A big 🙏🏼 to retiring chair Maureen Boyd and departing board members
@shuvmajumdar
& Elisabeth Chatillon.
#DemocracyMatters
#cdnpoli
@parlcent
Here’s a brief explainer on what’s going down in the
#cdnpoli
House of Commons today. Because the special order passed by the Liberals and NDP, the House of Commons is formally shut down. Anything that is happening currently is happening in Committee, even if it is in chamber.
Is it just me, or has Erin O’Toole become totally, unhealthily, obsessed with
@PeterMacKay
? A bit funny to watch, but also a little disconcerting....
#cpcldr
#cdnpoli
@gmbutts
Have faith, my friend. The international community will pull together to avert the looming global food crisis, Ukraine will win this war, and Putin will face his Nuremberg trial.
This person is either willfully ignorant or deliberately shilling for Moscow. Negotiate what? Give territory away for a temporary truce until Putin renews his invasion characterized by mass rape, mass abduction of children, execution of civilians & pulverization of entire cities?
This is the 60th anniversary of my mother’s family coming to Canada for a brighter future. So grateful to this land for the opportunities it has provided my family and to so many others’ across generations. Let’s cherish this land of hope, freedom & tolerance.
#HappyCanadaDay
In the Stalin era, people would bury their
#Vyshyvanka
in the floor of their barn or hide it in the woods, lest they be arrested or shot. So powerful are these embroidered threads a symbol of resistance and national resilience. Слава Україні.
#VyshyvankaCanada2023
This is a clear offence against international law. The forced naturalization of occupied civilians is yet another grievous offence linked to cultural ethnic cleansing that will see Putin and his cronies to The Hague.
Putin issues order granting Russian citizenship to Ukrainian children
Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets warns that there is a possibility that no Ukrainian child will remain in Russia, as they could all become Russian citizens within the next 3 months.
Moreover, I suspect the next time he goes to the networks and demands primetime airtime because he needs to deliver an emergency public message, there might be some “boy who cried wolf” hesitation to grant it.
A general caution to those analyzing the
@CPC_HQ
leadership race and committing math: just because any given camp *claims it sold X# of memberships, doesn’t mean it *has sold X# of memberships. So caution not to take all claims as gospel. General application caution.
#cpcldr
And the more they try to label us all as a bunch of climate-hating racists (yes, really), the more this lead will widen. Canadians reject the kind of divisive smear politics being push out out of the LPC these days
We need to do something about fake news sources. People need to know that the Buffalo Chronicle is a disinfo rag. Problem is most “print” articles are now disseminated online; simultaneously, a proliferation of e-news sources. Many people don’t know what’s legit. A real problem.
Major rescue operation this evening. Canoed out, got this little guy to shore, then freed a lure from his beak and foot. Oy. He’s exhausted from the ordeal, but I think he’s going to be okay.
Trump says he's bringing "a little gift" for Putin. What do you think it is? MAGA hat? Sanctions relief? Recognition of Crimea? Autographed magazine? Taxidermy mount of a bald eagle? 🤔
@NTenzer
@nytimes
A long tradition. Wasn’t this Walter Duranty’s newspaper? Stalin’s propagandist who scammed a Pulitzer Prize for his coverups of Russian atrocities.
Ironically, Ukrainians now taking shelter in bomb shelters built by Soviets in the Cold War to protect against attacks from the West. Now sheltering in them to survive bombs from Russia.
#RussiaInvadesUkraine
#StopRussianAggression
@den2volk
The Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal launched a public GoFundMe Campaign to raise $1.5 million for the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. This is a project of the Canada-Ukraine Foundation in partnership with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.
Make a donation here:
@anitavandenbeld
With the greatest of respect Anita, the Conservatives have no more plans to do so than the Liberals do. This is just fear mongering. Let’s all please try to keep it civil and factual. Please. This year will be ugly enough as it is.
Russian propaganda channel Sputnik taking swipes at
@kolga
- one of Canada’s foremost authorities on disinformation - for questioning why a
@uManitoba
prof was consorting w Putin at a forum under 🇨🇦 sanctions.
@althiaraj
There is nothing about the the word “redeem” that intrinsically or by default has a soteriological connotation. It’s used far more when talking about coupons or rehabilitation. I think you’ve been spun a bit.
Ukrainian MP
@lesiavasylenko
on prohibited weaponry being used against civilians. Crimes against humanity being perpetrated by
#Russia
. Records this video in a basement, putting her kids to sleep and hoping to survive 'til morning.
#Ukraine
Do *not* listen to this podcast. We will rot your brain with procedural and constitutional wonkery, and you will become a weirdo like the three of us!
#cdnpoli
A Russian paratrooper serving in the regiment which perpetrated the Bucha Massacre (400+ civilians murdered) has “adopted” the 7-y-old Ukrainian boy Oleg.
He was kidnapped by Russian soldiers from an orphanage in the Donetsk region
All Russian war criminals will be prosecuted
Today we remember the seven million victims of the
#Holodomor
— Josef Stalin’s
#genocide
against the Ukrainian people through artificial famine. May we never forget this Soviet act of Bolshevik imperialism and assault on
#HumanRights
. Вічная пам‘ять. #Голодомор
Really too bad there’s only one of these. Everyone is so tense because the stakes are so high, that it’s making for very stilted exchange. Why don’t we do six or seven of these, like the elections on Borgen?
#Debate2021
#Elxn44
Phenomenal moment -
#Pulitzer
prize winner
@anneapplebaum
in Toronto, presented with a 🇨🇦 flag signed by Canadian soldiers training Ukrainian troops. As we speak. Congratulations, Anne, for your recognition tonight by the Peterson Fund. Thank you for chronicling truth.
@ServiceSsu
@UKRINFORM
Please add subtitles! Most of us reading Eng language platforms don’t understand Russian (навіть якщо володіємо українською! - особливо в Діяспорі)
Flag of the Special Ops Border Patrol Detachment, flown at the front in Kharkiv
#Ukraine
. To be silent-auctioned at Parliamentary Centre’s “Democracy Matters” fundraiser Sep 20 at Earnscliffe Manor. Donated by the 🇺🇦Embassy.
Do It For Democracy! On Sept. 20th the Parliamentary Centre will present the winner of the inaugural ‘Because Democracy Matters’ award to an inspiring Canadian🇨🇦 who's vital contributions helped build
#democracy
worldwide. Join us!
⏩
#Di4D2022
#cdnpoli
It's time we move past the idea that Ukrainian membership in NATO is an act of collective charity. Let's see it for what it is — enlightened self-interest that would benefit all of NATO. 🇨🇦 Read
@yaroslavb
here:➡️
#NATO
#Ukraine
#Cdnpoli
⏬
80 years ago today, 6,086 brave soldiers — most of them Canadian — stormed these cliffs from the sea, in a heroic effort to pierce the fascist wall that had descended upon Europe. More than half were killed, wounded or captured. May we never forget their sacrifice.
#Dieppe
Max, you are disgracing yourself. Suggest you get your news from sources other than Tucker Carlson and RT. You allege Zelensky is peddling “pro-war propaganda”? Really? I ask *you* who launched this invasion, unleashing war crime, rape and murder on a mass scale?
#UsefulIdiots
Bans opposition parties and takes over all TV channels…
Putin is clearly a despot, but why is pro-war propaganda portraying this comic as a hero and champion of democracy and freedom? Gimme a break. We have no business there.