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Influential: this column is Paris Hilton approved
“Know the star you are. And see yourself as part of a galaxy.” So sayeth the Mother of All Influencers, the Hashtag Highness, the Rich Stick Insect, Paris Hilton. Paris…
Everyone
My Daisy Group email has been hacked. Please don’t open it. Apologies.
Dani Miran got his hostage son back. But what happens next?
Dani Miran stopped shaving when his son Omri was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023. As far as I know, he hasn’t shaved it off yet, but he…
He’s home
This is me interviewing Dani Miran, father of hostage Omri Miran, in Hostages Square for our documentary The Campaign. Omri was in the first group of hostages released. So happy…
Ex-Brit Army commander: Qatar had it coming
Richard Kemp is a retired soldier, but he still talks like one in active service. Speaking to a crowd of attentive listeners at the Toronto home of former Canadian Senator…
Fifty to one: Hamas vs. Israel in the information war
Fifty to one. Fifty to one: that is the estimated ratio of “pro-Palestinian” to “pro-Israel” online content. If you think you are seeing far more material favouring the Palestinian side…
Mohamad Fakih doesn’t belong in the Order of Canada
No one would really care about Mohamad Fakih, if it were not for that little enamel pin on his lapel, and the letters – “C.M.” – he always seems to…
WAKE UP
Those are the opening words to Spike Lee’s Fight The Power, one of the most important movies ever made. It’s about racist hate and violence, and how quickly it can…
Richard Lloyd plus some geriatric punks!
Come by! I’ll buy you a drink!
The oppressed become oppressors
What happens when the oppressed become the oppressor? Because – make no mistake – that’s what has happened since October 7, 2023. At the start, the pro-Palestine contingent protested the…
The Jew hunters
Meet Davide Mastracci…Jew hunter? Mastracci is the opinion editor at something called The Maple. It publishes opinions with titles like these: “Israeli Products Should Have No Place In Canada” “Genocide…
An empathetic drought
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY – Barack Obama called it the “empathy deficit” – which the former U.S. President defined as “being able to stand in somebody else’s shoes and see the…