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avelshi

  1. @RickAnderson @acoyne called the Davos speech "perilously close to a vision statement" at the time.
  2. More from Min. Aglukkaq: "I tried to educate him about Nunavut & Canada's Arctic & Inuit way of life. I found that he was not listening."
  3. Great response from Minister Aglukkaq on UN's De Schutter: "I found him to be ill informed, patronizing, academic, studying us from afar."
  4. @annette_r No wait. The place is still new. Give it a month and that'll change. The hordes will descent on it and it will be ruined.
  5. .@TheBlackHoof's new restaurant Raw Bar is outstanding. And, of course, the cocktails are delicious too.
  6. 21 years later. Before and after. #TFS twitter.com/avelshi/status…
  7. Ha! They have an old picture of me from the high school musical on a wall in the Toronto French School. twitter.com/avelshi/status…
  8. Excited to see old friends, terrified to see old teachers @ my 10 year high school reunion @ the Toronto French School twitter.com/avelshi/status…
  9. Destructive & reckless behaviour damages communities. @BlakeRichardsMP's C-309 Concealment of Identity Act will help keep our streets safe.
  10. .@kenneyjason w/ Vietnamese-Canadians denouncing communism. Occupy protesters a few feet away are wearing Che shirts. twitter.com/avelshi/status…
  11. Two protests currently happening on Parliament Hill: on main steps, an anti-Communist rally; by the flame, an Occupy demo. Will they meet?
  12. Also shooting a police officer "@PeterHarris: Gary Freeman tells @evansolomoncbc racism is behind why he's kept from Canada"
  13. Congrats to @prashantrao, the new Baghdad Bureau Chief at Agence France-Presse. He was a great editor at the LSE's student paper, the Beaver