Yintah, a documentary about Wet’suwet’en pipeline resistance, has just won audience choice award at #HotDocs !

Possession offences were down by 77% compared to before decrim. Hundreds didn't't go to jail or get a criminal record. That was the whole point of decrim. To get cops out of our lives. But politicians want MORE cops in our lives. Won't stop there. Soon, more cops in your life too

Brishti Basu Brishti Basu The Breach - Health workers in Gaza are killed for existing- it falls on our shoulders to speak the truth for the Int'l Criminal Court and CIJ_ICJ work re Israels war crimes and #Genocide_in_Gaza . Tomorrow-a thread on this. Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 breachmedia.ca/canadian-docto…

The testimony of Canadian doctors who went to Gaza may help indict Israel.

Brishti Basu reports on what Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 and Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 shared to international lawyers building a war crimes case against the Israeli state. breachmedia.ca/canadian-docto…

Students camped at McGill to stop Israel's assault on Gaza have been smeared as “antisemitic,” “toxic,” and “violent.”

But what I’ve seen are Jews & Palestinians working together for the most profound principle of the Jewish tradition: liberation for all. breachmedia.ca/canadian-stude…

Students who’ve set up camp at McGill have faced torrential downpour, a court injunction, and threats of police violence.

But they’re refusing to move until their demands are met: divestment from companies and universities implicated in Israel’s assault on Gaza.

The NYPD crackdown on Columbia U students was led by a member of the school’s faculty

Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia prof who leads an NYPD intel division that maintains an office in Tel Aviv

Weiner said student 'rhetoric' necessitated the violent raid
thegrayzone.com/2024/05/02/col…

I hate to go against the prevailing media narrative, but:

By many measures decriminalization of possession of small amounts of drugs was working.

My explainer today. thetyee.ca/News/2024/05/0…

Happy World Press Freedom Day to all the student journalists doing an amazing job of covering campus protests.

In honour of Poilievre's comments about B.C.'s 2,500 drug deaths, I made these charts for a story tomorrow.

Harm reduction advocates point to Alberta's drug death increase while safe supply critics point to B.C.

idk maybe it's quite a complicated health issue

Putting it out there that I'm a student journalist at McGill who has been at the Palestine solidarity encampment every day so far. If any editors are interested in commissioning stories on this, please get in touch!

A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an injunction request that would have forced protesters at the pro-Palestinian encampment on McGill University's downtown campus to leave. cbc.ca/news/canada/mo… .

for The Walrus, I wrote about the misguided, self-serving attempts by Canadian employers to cover up their institutional problems by strategically positioning Indigenous people in front of them. thewalrus.ca/how-workplace-…

‘There’s an Indigenous truth, and then there’s the Canadian truth, and they’re very, very different.’ thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/angela… via The Discourse

As a Jewish alumni of McGill who cares deeply about antisemitism, I call bullshit.

I spent time at the encampment this weekend and can say McGill is cynically smearing these students to justify the police violently clearing an entirely legitimate protest. twitter.com/kinsellawarren…

Yeah, the NYPD deployed a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle to aid in the crack down on peaceful, unarmed student protesters. These are military vehicles designed specifically to withstand improvised explosive device (IED) attacks & ambushes. What a joke.

This is disgusting and I've never heard of such a thing: cockroaches in Saanich Peninsula Hospital

Upon confirming, Island Health was quick to point out 'they do not bite'
Does that make it ok?? Baffling response, no mea culpa or apology to patients
bc.ctvnews.ca/health-authori…

New: Bellingcat and Scripps News followed one IDF battalion’s movements across Gaza, geolocating their social posts to highlight IDF involvement in systematic destruction of Palestinian land and livelihoods: bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

People detained in hospitals under mental health laws in UK dying at 3X rate of prisoners. It's incomprehensible how scandalous this is--you're being 'helped' in a 'hospital' for emotional distress, yet... (And I don't think US or Canada even track this.)
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Wait let me get this straight: 100 students were arrested because the uni claimed they had yelled “kill the Jews”. Then it turns out the student who yelled that was holding an Israeli flag, trying to unsuccessfully bait the crowd and was booed in return

thedailybeast.com/pro-israel-agi…