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The Ontario Autism Program continues to leave families and service providers in destitution. Need a refresher? Take a listen to the @ontarioloud podcast with @chris_martin_n @JaimeBCBA @brucemcintosh and yours truly #onpoli #autismdoesntendatford
NEW EP: Chris sits down with @brucemcintosh, @LKocmarek and @JaimeBCBA to talk about how the Ford autism policy is going. The PCs have backtracked a bit, but families are still waiting for real answers and a real plan.
#onpoli #autismdoesntendatford ontarioloud.libsyn.com/the-h…
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It is disheartening to see today that the strength of international law and humanitarian law no longer seems binding, replaced by the presumed right to overpower others. This is unworthy and shameful for humanity and for the leaders of nations.
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Tattooed numbers were used only in one German Nazi camp — Auschwitz. These tattoos were assigned exclusively to prisoners who were registered in the camp. Out of approximately 1.3 million people deported to Auschwitz, only about 400,000 were registered as prisoners and given numbers.
The vast majority of Jews murdered in Auschwitz — around one million people — were never registered; they were murdered in gas chambers right upon arrival and received no tattooed number.
Moreover, tattoos were not exclusive to Jewish prisoners. Others — including Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs, and others — were also registered and tattooed at Auschwitz. Other concentration camps had entirely different systems for identifying prisoners and did not use tattoos at all.
To suggest that every Jewish victim of the Holocaust received a tattooed number — and to use the limited length of those numbers to cast doubt on the scale of the genocide — is not only factually false. This kind of distortion is a deliberate tactic used by Holocaust deniers to insult the memory of victims.
In the world of deniers, the suffering of real human beings is reduced to cynical wordplay and harassment. Denying is an assault on memory, truth, and human dignity.
Learn about strategies employed by Holocaust deniers to spread misinformation and falsehoods.
Online lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/negacjo…
Podcast: auschwitz.org/en/education/e…
Leah retweeted
Do you know who is actually 'coming hat in hand' for government handouts from @fordnation?
Therme. Shoppers Drug Mart. 7-11. Staples. The De Gasperis family. Greenbelt developers. PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Uhh. Excuse me @Microsoft365 how on earth does it cost $40 more to run a software program on my computer than it did last year? Unreal. #moneygrab #Office365
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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Sound familiar?
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“Didn’t identify himself”? It’s the FIRST THING out of his mouth in the video.
You’ve detained a mayor. A judge. A union leader. Now a U.S. Senator.
You’ve deployed Marines on U.S. soil.
If a President did this abroad, we'd have a word for it: Dictator.
Senator Padilla chose disrespectful political theatre and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged toward Secretary Noem.
Mr. Padilla was told repeatedly to back away and did not comply with officers’ repeated commands. @SecretService thought he was an attacker and officers acted appropriately.
Secretary Noem met with Senator Padilla after and held a 15 minute meeting.
Leah retweeted
If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.
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I will never get over the fact that Harris tried to run on "Trump will actually do the things he says he will do" and was called a liar by the media.
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I grew up near Walkerton and will never forget the day we learned the water was making people sick. Then people died.
These rules, standards, and laws exist to protect lives. To protect you.
No project is worth risking lives, wherever the govt pleases.
#KillBill5 #onpoli
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Happy #PrideMonth! If you told me in the 90s I’d one day stand at Queen’s Park as a gay man & elected official during a Pride flag raising, I wouldn’t have believed you.
Hate has no place in Canada. Let’s celebrate how far we’ve come - and keep fighting for equity for all. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Leah retweeted
While 2,000 trucks with food and medical supplies idle at its blockaded Egyptian border, children are starving in Gaza, having limbs amputated without anaesthesia and being slaughtered. It's time for the sanctions that the Canadian government raised last week.
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Doug Ford froze minimum wage for years.
He froze wages for female-dominated professions for years.
He’s failed to boost ODSP for years.
He’s made cuts to education.
He’s grossly underfunded public healthcare.
Today, he gives MPPs a 35% raise & turns his back on the rest of us.
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My colleagues and I stopped the Ford government from ramming through #Bill5 tonight. They are now forced to delay until Monday with the chance to fix it or scrap it.
@fordnation it is time to listen to Ontarians. #onpoli #Nepean
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Canadian doctors who served in Gaza call for arms embargo, sanctions against Israel ctvnews.ca/canada/article/ca…
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From #Gaza, the cries of parents rise to heaven ever more intensely as they clutch the lifeless bodies of their children, searching for food and shelter from bombs. I renew my appeal to leaders: cease fire, release all hostages, and fully respect international humanitarian law!
