Pierre has had a busy week - blocking a school lunch program for hungry children. Schmoozing with his donors at a $1700 per seat fundraiser. While Canadians are struggling he's sipping on fine wine and catering to the ultra-rich.

From #Yellowknife, #NorthWestTerritories we are calling on the #Canadian government for an immediate ceasefire in #Gaza. Join our cross-#Canada call and tag your ##yellowknifenwtcanada🇨🇦 neighbours!

Extremists on both sides share one tactic: to treat Israel and Jews as identical. This is where we must draw the line. We can't allow disagreement with Israeli policy to devolve into attacks on Jews. And we can't allow those who criticize Israeli policy to be called antisemitic.

Can I just put my oar in the water in support of @tinhousebrewing and their extremely good PoCo Pivo Italian Pilsner. Soooo good and soooo worth supporting. Great people, cool facility and *excellent* beer.

No schadenfreude here, small business is the Canadian lifeblood and the source of an incredible number of jobs. From the CEO of two recently-deceased tech startups I feel your pain.

Another intense evening of attacks here in Khan Younis, in #Gaza

Despite what has been assured, attacks in the south of #Gaza are every bit as vicious as what the north endured. Somehow, it's getting worse for children and mothers. Your voice matters. We must believe we can be a part of Stopping The War on Children ... Silence is complicity

GEORGE SANTOS IS NO LONGER A MEMBER OF CONGRESS!! 👏👏

The NWPD is seeking your help in locating a missing female, Eugenia GAKPETOR. She was last seen in #NewWest on November 21st. If you have any information on Eugenia's whereabouts, please call the NWPD or 9-1-1. Thank you

A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country. 1/n

In fact, Kathy, it is the first thing we expect every day in the US, and the whole thing is reality.

I HAVE THOUGHTS. I HAVE STRONG FEELINGS. This film was painful, grueling, unrelenting and unnecessarily graphic. A thread. 🧵

It was so exciting to meet long-time twitter friend @PJNewWest in real life for the 1st time & catch up with @tonyvalente_ca at a @WeAreHub fundraiser yesterday! If you'd like to support HUB's advocacy for better cycling infrastructure go to: bikehub.ca

This is a very thoughtful article, thanks @BBCWorld. bbc.com/news/world-middle-ea…

If you are in #Lebanon, know that emergencies may require you to shelter in place with robust supply of food, water and medications. You should leave while commercial options remain available.

Pregnant women in Gaza are facing unbearable circumstances, including the lack of food, water, safe delivery services & lifesaving medical supplies. @UNFPA is working with partners to continue supporting reproductive health services amid the destruction.unfpa.org/news/“race…

So when and how did I realize that we are all fully human behind these lines that separate us? I was born in Jerusalem, and raised mostly in Peru and in Mexico. When I was 15, my family moved back to Israel, and at 18 I was drafted into the Israeli army for three years of compulsory service. A year later, my unit was stationed on the Syrian border, and my job was to spend several hours each day alone on a watchtower, looking through a telescope across the barbed wire and the minefields, trying to spot any strange movements on the other side. One afternoon—I remember it was a cool, beautiful winter day—I suddenly had a thought that made me laugh out loud. I laughed because the idea was childish but also true, in that way that children have of recognizing the truth. A few months earlier, getting to know the guys in my unit, I’d realized gratefully that some of them would give me their last pair of dry socks if I ever needed them. But there were also a few who might steal mine if I wasn’t careful. That image was on my mind that afternoon, when through the telescope I saw a group of Syrian soldiers playing a game of soccer across the valley that separated us. And instantly, something about the situation—that moment of play, their running around like kids—humanized them in my eyes in a way that was entirely new and fresh and different. When you grow up in a conflict zone, or in any fragmented or polarized society, it’s natural for each side to dehumanize the other. But if that filter shatters, you can never go back. And the moment their full humanity struck me, I had that crazy thought that changed my life. "Wait a minute, wait a minute," I thought. If in my unit, and in every other unit I know, there are some guys I’d trust with my life, and others I’d rather stay away from, then in *that* unit this must also be the case. And if that’s true, then this whole border fence is running the wrong way. Instead of Syrians on one side and Israelis on the other, wouldn’t it make more sense for the sock-sharers on both sides to get together? And that’s when I laughed. I laughed, yet this idea stayed with me, and still haunts me now. Since then I’ve learned that life is more complicated, and that the line between good and bad runs within each of us. And yet… I can't undo what I felt that day, and it's shaped my life ever since.

In conflict, civilians always pay the highest price. War is not the answer. We need peace. Peace for the world. We need peace now.

ANALYSIS: I wore headphones for @NSAGov for nearly 2 decades. This @IDF Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) is a telephone voice intercept between two individuals. It is the exact conversation (called Hot Copy) any SIGINT team would have been furiously searching for b/c we know senior terrorists MUST be discussing it. But for Israel to release this raw SIGINT shows how serious the damage the explosion has done to its narrative of professionalism.

Between 1500 and 2000 Jewish activists with @IfNotNowOrg have surrounded the @WhiteHouse, blocking all entrances and exits and calling on a Gaza ceasefire. We say no to #GazaGenocide. Return of hostages. And and end to Israeli apartheid.