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Canadian/Canadien, Ontarian/Ontarien &/et Torontonian/Torontois 🇨🇦

Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2009
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“The Return To Mons,” by Inglis H. J. Sheldon-Williams. Canadian soldiers captured the Belgian town of Mons on the morning of Nov. 11th, 1918. They were the first allied soldiers to enter the town since August, 1914.
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Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻 retweeted
Canada is opposed to Iran’s election to the Committee for Programme and Coordination. The Iranian regime’s grave human rights violations and threats to international peace and stability are inconsistent with the responsibilities of a UN oversight body.
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Alexander Ovechkin is a keen advocate of Moscow’s fascist aggression & — as is the case for all known war criminals — should be inadmissible to Canada.
Alexander Ovechkin says fans want Russia at world juniors despite Canada's ban torontosun.com/ottawa-senato…
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I've been raising this issue for years: xitter.twitterapi.xyz/calxandr/status/164192…
Ovechkin should be banned from the #NHL for supporting Russian fascism & genocide. Right now! He's not an innocent Russian athlete-'emigré'. He's an active enabler of Putin's death cult. Action this day, @NHL Gary Bettman! #StandWithUkraine
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For Ukrainians, danger is there at every moment of an ordinary day. Russia strikes them at home, at school, at a playground, in a hospital, or at a theater. This is Russian terror against civilians. You can help protect Ukrainians. Join Sky Defense: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?utm_s…
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Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻 retweeted
Democrat @DarializaforNY wins New York's 13th Congressional District [NY-13].
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Good job everyone
North Carolina Democrats will have an 11-3 D congressional delegation next year for a map that was drawn to elect 11 Republicans and 3 Democrats.
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Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻 retweeted
#OTD, in 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. The Great War was over. After four bloody years, peace returned to the old continent. Only it did not. While the fighting in the West ended, the East was in turmoil with dozens little wars breaking out in the graveyard of fallen empires. The "war to end all wars" failed. In fact, World War I was only the opening act to the cataclysm of the Second World War. #ArmisticeDay
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Verdun, Le 18 mars 1916, Ma chérie, Je t’écris pour te dire que je ne reviendrai pas de la guerre. S’il te plaît, ne pleure pas, sois forte. Le dernier assaut m’a coûté mon pied gauche et ma blessure s’est infectée. Les médecins disent qu’il ne me reste que quelques jours à vivre. Quand cette lettre te parviendra, je serai peut-être déjà mort. Je vais te raconter comment j’ai été blessé. Il y a trois jours, nos généraux nous ont ordonné d’attaquer. Ce fut une boucherie absolument inutile. Au début, nous étions vingt mille. Après avoir passé les barbelés, nous n’étions plus que quinze mille environ. C’est à ce moment-là que je fus touché. Un obus tomba pas très loin de moi et un morceau m’arracha le pied gauche. Je perdis connaissance et je ne me réveillai qu’un jour plus tard, dans une tente d’infirmerie. Plus tard, j’appris que parmi les vingt mille soldats qui étaient partis à l’assaut, seuls cinq mille avaient pu survivre grâce à un repli demandé par le Général Pétain. Dans ta dernière lettre, tu m’as dit que tu étais enceinte depuis ma permission d’il y a deux mois. Quand notre enfant naîtra, tu lui diras que son père est mort en héros pour la France. Et surtout, fais en sorte à ce qu’il n’aille jamais dans l’armée pour qu’il ne meure pas bêtement comme moi. Je t’aime, j’espère qu’on se reverra dans un autre monde, je te remercie pour tous les merveilleux moments que tu m’as fait passer, je t’aimerai toujours. Adieu. Soldat Charles Guinant.
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Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻 retweeted
Republicans have shielded Elon Musk from facing accountability for the past 2 years, but now that the balance of power has shifted, Democrats are poised to open up more than 150 (!!) lines of inquiry & investigations into Musk. My latest for @BylineTimes: bylinetimes.com/2026/11/09/t…
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Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻 retweeted
Simplified Map and Y-DNA of the Nordic Dagger Period (Dolktid or Senneolithikum), 2350-1700bc. This culture/period defines the transition between the Late Single Grave and Jutish Beaker group to the Nordic Bronze Age. The Culture formed out of an Autochtonous Single Grave tradition based on Imported French flint daggers, which the Dutch Beaker Culture innovated on using Copper to make Daggers, which was back-exported into Jutland where instead of Metal, the weapon-grade flint deposits of Lolland and the Limfjord were used to produce Lanceate Flint Daggers. In the Late Dagger Period (SNII), bronze from the Unetice Culture was imported on a large scale, leading to the development of the Nordic Bronze Age around 1800-1700bc.
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40,000 Canadians 🇨🇦 served in Afghanistan over 13 years, this was the largest deployment of troops since WW2. Canada was the first NATO country to sign on after 911. We lost 158 soldiers. When push comes to shove, Canada stepped up. 🙏
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The addresses of Torontonians killed during WWI & WWII. credit: Patrick Cain / Canadian Great War Project
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The G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Paris concluded with a joint declaration addressing key priorities, including stronger air defence, energy security ahead of winter, and financial support to meet Ukraine’s needs in 2027. 💬 "I appreciate the unity and strength of the G7's collective position on peace efforts and de-escalation steps. I felt it at the table yesterday, and I see it reflected in the joint statement," Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has commented. Ukraine welcomes the G7’s readiness to increase pressure on Russia and its commitment to facilitating greater Ukrainian defence production. Measures targeting Russia’s shadow fleet, energy revenues and war budget remain crucial to weakening its ability to wage war. The G7 also condemned military support for Russia from North Korea and Iran, as well as China's provision of weapons, military training and dual-use components. The statement highlighted the need to protect civilian shipping and global food supply chains in the Black Sea, repair the Chornobyl New Safe Confinement, and strengthen Ukraine's civilian cyber resilience. Ukraine is ready to further strengthen its partnership with the G7.
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Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻 retweeted
Happy national day, Poland! 🇵🇱 Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji Święta Niepodległości! On 11 November, Poland marks the restoration of its independence in 1918 after 123 years of partition. The white & red of the 🇵🇱 flag reflect history and identity.👇 link.europa.eu/4fyFFk
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BREAKING: Democrat Scott Colom has won a hard-fought U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, ousting one of the state’s sitting senators for the first time since the 1940s and becoming the state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction. ow.ly/KR2Q5105Wck
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Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻 retweeted
People are insufficiently prepared for the fact that Russia and China are coming HARD to take control of the American "left." They will use those efforts to build a left-right alliance and aim to take strategic control of the United States and NATO. Discount this at our peril.
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Congratulations to Senator-elect Scott Colom and the coalition that elected him
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For 123 years, Poland existed without a sovereign state. Three empires had divided its territory, suppressed its aspirations, and attempted, in different ways, to destroy its national identity. Generations of Poles were born, lived, and died without ever seeing their homeland free and yet Poland endured. It survived in the prayers of mothers, the classrooms of courageous teachers, the writings of poets, the sacrifices of insurgents, and the quiet determination of ordinary families who refused to surrender their identity. Some fought with weapons. Others fought with books, language, faith, and memory. Many paid with their freedom or their lives. When Poland regained independence in November 1918, it was not simply the restoration of a state. It was the fulfillment of a promise carried across generations by people who knew they might never live to see it realized. And perhaps that is the greatest lesson of Polish history: that our lives can have meaning beyond what we ourselves will ever witness. Freedom is not merely inherited, it is entrusted to us by those who came before. Let’s remember not only the heroes whose names fill our history books, but also the countless forgotten Poles whose sacrifices made November 11 possible. A nation may be erased from a map, but it cannot be erased from the hearts of those determined to remember. Niech żyje Polska! 🇵🇱 Happy Polish Independence Day.
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Chris Alexander 🇨🇦🌻 retweeted
Niemcy uwolnili Józefa Piłsudskiego z twierdzy magdeburskiej, licząc na to, że wbiją klin w polskie społeczeństwo. Berlin bowiem doskonale zdawał sobie sprawę z wewnątrzpolskich sporów między środowiskami Dmowskiego, Piłsudskiego, Witosa, Daszyńskiego. Niemcy sądzili, że powrót Piłsudskiego do Warszawy wywoła polityczny chaos. Jednakże Niemcy, jak to im się często zdarza, całkowicie się pomylili. Pojawienie się Piłsudskiego w Warszawie wywołało dokładnie odwrotny efekt. Polacy zjednoczyli się pod przywództwem Komendatnta i sięgnęli po niepodległość!
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