Talin Vartanian
@citizentalin.bsky.social
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Meticulous copy editor https://www.editortalin.com/, consumer advocate Citizen Talin, former CBC Radio producer, and creator of Canada Reads.
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Happy to accommodate, and will figure out how. It’s the first time I’ve had this request. Thanks for enlightening me.
citizentalin.bsky.social
What a difference two years make.

A revealing new @nytimes.com poll shows Israel’s attempts to whitewash genocide are failing.

#GazaGenocide
citizentalin.bsky.social
Special @breachmedia.ca event in Toronto tonight, with 200+ guests to hear @desmondcole.bsky.social invu with @pacinthe.bsky.social and Sonya Fatah about the fab book “When Genocide Wasn’t News.” breachmedia.ca/when-genocid...
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The promise—and the broken promise—of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in countries around the world, including Canada.

Tonight in Toronto, part one of the 60th annual CBC IDEAS Massey Lectures by Alex Neve of Amnesty International @alexneve.bsky.social
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Parent company Unilever reneged on its agreement to allow Ben & Gerry’s free speech. The ice cream is being subsumed into the Magnum brand. Time to boycott Magnum ice cream.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s Resigns, Saying Company Has Been ‘Silenced’
www.nytimes.com
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➡️ 2 large-capacity kitchens
➡️ 260+ cooks
➡️ 900+ pots
➡️ 50,000+ pounds of food
Here’s a look at what it takes to prepare tens of thousands of meals daily in Gaza. Behind every number are people showing resilience in the face of crisis. #ChefsForGaza
citizentalin.bsky.social
Looks like manufactured panic about anti-Israeli sentiments in Canada.

If Israeli Diaspora Affairs is serious about this, what’s the source?

@jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.bsky.social
The Israeli Diaspora Affairs ministry's claim of a "670% rise" in antisemitism in Canada produced a flurry of news reports in 2024 and 2025. But the number has no source.
@blakejlambert.bsky.social reports on the context for Canada's antisemitism panic:

jewishcurrents.org/a-canadian-a...
A Canadian Antisemitism Statistic Went Viral—But It Has No Source
The spread of a dubious antisemitism statistic reflects the anxieties of the Canadian Jewish establishment amid a changing political environment.
jewishcurrents.org
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I'm not sure 65-69% of Americans would agree the sun is hot and night is dark, but they apparently agree on this:

Americans who say Trump is "very" or "somewhat dishonest" =
69%

Americans who say Trump is "very" or "somewhat corrupt" = 65%

www.umass.edu/news/article...
citizentalin.bsky.social
Just heard the shocking news that friend and former CBC colleague Joan Leishman has died.

She was kind, generous, and talented. Joan worked in Mexico City, and opened the CBC’s first African bureau, covering the end of S. African apartheid, and the Rwandan genocide.

pencanada.ca/news/joan-le...
Joan Leishman wins the Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize
The prize recognizes a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who has provided significant help to a writer or journalist outside Canada.
pencanada.ca
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You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Rage Against The Regime in Orlando ✊
citizentalin.bsky.social
Academic article by Dr. Miles Howe: “Tracking Financial Complicity in Israeli War Crimes and Genocide: Instances of Aiding and Abetting in the Canadian Charitable Sector"
www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/academic-art...
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How the Canada Revenue Agency is complicit in funneling millions of dollars to support war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

Write to your MP to demand action and accountability.

Interview by @smohyeddin.bsky.social
#GazaGenocide

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Ep 38: CANADIAN CHARITIES SUPPORTING ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION AND GENOCIDE
YouTube video by ON THE LINE MEDIA
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charlieangus104.bsky.social
Israel is allowing some "airdrops" of food in Gaza. This is like putting a violin group at the railway station to the death camp. All show.
Meanwhile the slow mass murder continues. When will the west actually denounce Israel, impose sanctions and support the indictment of these war criminals?
citizentalin.bsky.social
Respected Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has published “Our Genocide,” a devastating, detailed report about Gaza.

What does “Never again” mean in 2025?

#GazaGenocide

www.btselem.org/publications...
www.btselem.org
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In this BBC video, a U.S. soldier bluntly describes the behaviour he witnessed by IDF forces at Gaza food distribution points. His word for it? “Criminal”

#GazaGenocide

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Former US Green Beret says Israel committed war crimes at Gaza food distribution site | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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"Can we Jews continue to use the Holocaust as the standard of 'Never Again!' against anyone, after Gaza?"

A wise question from Rabbi Shaul Magid, Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School. His Substack essay is worth your time.
shaulmagid.substack.com/p/the-nero-e...
The Nero Effect: Are We Jews Distracted by Claims of Genocide while Judaism is Burning?
Omer Bartov and Yuval Harari on Genocide and Judaism
shaulmagid.substack.com
citizentalin.bsky.social
Just received a call that appeared to be from TD Visa, claiming there may have been fraudulent activity on my card. I was immediately suspicious, even though the caller had my name.

Hung up on him and phoned Visa myself. They did not phone me and there’s nothing amiss with my card.

Be wary.