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It controls TIFF, however

TIFF’s PR department keeps hitting a lot of home runs, I see.

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Hoo boy. All you historians who wrote about the Third Reich? You are in really big trouble, because you didn't get a signed release from the Nazi legal team in advance. In the future, be sure to contact TIFF for more expert legal counsel. They really know their stuff.

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Among elite professionals in the cloistered PR world, this is known as “a stinking pile of unadulterated bullshit.”

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The pounding TIFF has received will be studied by PR students for years to come. And their misery ain't over yet.

Pro tip: don't lie. The truth is like water - it always finds a way out.

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I like writing for a tabloid. You have to write for a limited space, and you can't ever talk down to a reader. You are expected to have an opinion, and to defend it. Emotion and passion are good. Playing it safe isn't.

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Well, well. The Doha Film Institute - based, you know, in Qatar, which funds and hosts Hamas - has had many films shown at TIFF. I wonder if any money changed hands?

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I am unenthusiastic about all the mushy stuff happening on Star Trek.

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Ouch.

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Is there a planned genocide happening in the Middle East?

Yes. And it is Hamas and its axis that have planned it.

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There isn't a Canadian, American or European Jew who can control what the Israeli government does.

Attacking them for what the Israeli government does is antisemitism.

Simple.

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Left: symbols that Nazis placed on prisoners in concentration camps. Right: University of Toronto encampment, last Summer.

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In all my years as a journalist, I never got photographed like this with a source.

But a best friend? You bet.

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Some statistics never lie.

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In TO to see my sons. We were walking West on King - he was just behind me - and a guy sees me and snarls an epithet. "Why'd that guy swear at you, Dad?"

"Probably the Star of David, bud. Ain't Toronto grand?"