Vancouver, BC-based journalist.
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Canadian taxpayers paid two firms for work in a military challenge to detect submarines. An Israeli arms maker already owned one. Now it has bought the other. 🇨🇦🇮🇱
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In a Coastal Front exclusive, @Dave_Eby set a goal to balance BC’s books this term. He’s ending it early with the deficit forecast at $13.8 billion and debt projected near $181 billion.
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A BC non-profit society received millions in public funds. Then came unpaid bills, vendor complaints, and an arrest warrant.
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⚠️The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza had been organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for displaced families across the Strip. About an hour before today’s Egypt-Argentina match, Israel killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike on his vehicle. Two others, including a child, were also killed.
🚨 BREAKING: Israel has killed Mohamed Fawaz al-Wahidi, director of public relations for the Egyptian Committee in Gaza, Tuesday evening in a strike on a civilian vehicle near the governorate building in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighborhood, per the Palestinian Information Center.
Two other Palestinians, including a child, were killed alongside him and others wounded, per Arabi Post, bringing the day’s death toll from Israeli attacks across Gaza to six, amid ongoing violations of the ceasefire.
The Egyptian Committee, established by President Sisi, is Cairo’s official relief arm in Gaza, distributing food, housing displaced families in camps it built at Netzarim, and clearing rubble.
Israel has killed its personnel before: in January, an Israeli drone struck a vehicle carrying committee workers filming a new displacement camp near Netzarim, killing five people including three journalists working for the committee. Israeli media reported Cairo sent an angry protest demanding explanations for that attack.
The targeted strike and killing of an official of Egypt’s own relief operation comes as Cairo hosts negotiations on the ceasefire’s second phase, with a Hamas delegation in its sixth day of talks there. Reports suggest the strike took place just before the Egypt-Argentina soccer World Cup match.
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Enjoyed this talk with @ReidSmall on the OPCW cover-up, challenging pro-war propaganda, and more:
Coastal Front’s @reidsmall sat down with author and journalist @aaronjmate at Web Summit Vancouver to discuss Canada, Ukraine, Syria, media narratives, and more.
Reid Small retweeted
Ah yes, “Canadians for Bush” Stockwell Day. The guy who condemned Canada’s unwillingness to participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and later stated that “Israel is the only true democracy in the entire Middle East” and that “Iranians hate democracy as much as they hate Jews.”
Reid Small retweeted
British Columbia's overseas trade offices cost taxpayers millions each year, but the province is unable or unwilling to fully account for how that money is spent.
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How much do these offices actually cost, and what do British Columbians, who are footing the bill, get in return?
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How much do these offices actually cost, and what do British Columbians, who are footing the bill, get in return?
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Speaking of foreign powers and genocide, your leadership campaign co-chair, John Baird, served on the board of directors of an organization that lobbies Canadian policymakers on behalf of a foreign government that is committing genocide.
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By US and Israeli logic, it would now be permissible to flatten the neighbourhood.
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And then-Superintendent of the RCMP's Security Service, Ron Yaworski, oversaw the destruction of additional sensitive files related to these illegal activities.
His son, Jeffrey Yaworski, went on to become the second-in-command at CSIS. In 2015, Jeffrey travelled to Ankara, Turkey, to persuade Turkish authorities not to disclose CSIS’s recruitment of a Syrian human smuggler who had trafficked three British teenage girls to Islamic State militants.
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Six years after Iran shot down a commercial airliner, killing 176 people, key questions remain unanswered, and Canadian officials continue to promise accountability while invoking the tragedy to advance political objectives.
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Notice how these monarchists love profanities if you don't agree with them. They are vile traitors to their country and cheerleading the bombing of their countrymen. That woman said she cries for the invisible 40,000 dead but didn't care when 170 little girls were murdered!
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Lmao. Says the guy (likely a bot) with Pahlavi’s name as his username calling him the “king”. Stop with these childish black and white claims as if all Iranians feel just as you do and as if his father wasn’t carrying out human rights abuses with his secret police as well.
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That’s a false binary. Opposing a Western-aligned monarchist managing Iran’s “transition” is not the same as opposing free elections. We’ve seen this script before: the West sells intervention as democracy, then leaves people with chaos, repression, or dependency.
The “is he lying?” line is a strange question. It assumes the only possibilities are truth or deliberate deception. He could be wrong, overpromising, self-interested, or simply saying what people want to hear. He could even believe it and still be unable to deliver it.
Asking “is he lying?” is like asking, “If you don’t believe a politician’s promise, do you think they’re lying?” No, I just don’t think the promise means anything.
Back to your comment about Iranians voting in a “fair election for the first time in 47 years,” I’m not sure what you’re basing that on. Even a basic look at the historical record shows that elections under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi were tightly controlled after the 1953 Western-backed coup. Years later, he had literally decreed Iran a one-party state.
I’m happy to keep engaging, but you need to do some basic homework first and drop the loaded questions.