The owner of this site is welcoming open Nazis onto this platform but wants protests against genocide removed from college campuses. When these guys say they’re about “free speech” you know what kind of speech they want to free

Governments can still act to protect their own peoples and environments, but they may have to pay immense sums to investors and lawyers…
Mining Companies are Suing Governments, and it's Compromising Environmental and Human Rights Laws triplepundit.com/story/2024/inv… via @triplepundit

BREAKING: This brilliant speech yesterday by a Columbia professor on the cowardice of the university administration in calling in police to arrest students will be cited throughout history -– and will inspire generations of students for decades to come.

Columbia still on…

Brilliant graphic showing how the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit of $200 a month doesn't bring people anywhere close to the poverty line, let alone above it!👇

WATCH-- Chris Hayes: It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.

Residents in the Greater Toronto Area had no idea a company operating in their community uses a known carcinogen. We dug into it in a massive investigation with The Local Magazine, Denise Balkissoon writes in this week’s newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-ste…

Kind of obvious but if we want transit agencies to have the capacity to build transit faster/cheaper and manage projects more effectively, we actually need stable and reliable funding to support that work. The current reliance on only project-based funding is part of the problem

I stand in solidarity with students and anti-war advocates.

What is happening in the US right now is very dangerous and alarming.

In Canada, I want students to know this:

It is your right to peacefully protest - and I will defend that.

New Democrats will continue to stand for…

I do wonder how liberals who see armed police cracking heads on campuses & think 'Well, those folks deserve it, they're leftists/Palestinians/agitators/etc,' don't also think: 'Hold on, if I don't speak out against this now, how on earth will I complain when Trump does it to me?'

How Israeli apartheid works:

Approval for new construction in Jewish neighborhoods (Har Homa, Givat Hamatos & Givat Hashaked & new Jewish settlement at the Atarot airport)

Denial for new construction in Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem, Tel Adaseh
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Congress is instructing the FBI to investigate student protesters chanting 'death to America'.

There's just one problem: they never said that.
kenklippenstein.com/p/claims-that-…

The Notwithstanding Clause is the story

Not the stunt yesterday. Don't let Pierre change the channel. He wants to torch the charter to attack:

LGBTQ+ rights
Abortion
Health care
Climate efforts
Minorities protections

Unchecked. Unhinged. Unfit.

#cdnpoli #PierrePoilievreIsMAGA

A whistleblower who sounded the alarm on safety issues with Boeing planes has died under mysterious circumstances, according to a report. trib.al/avgeC5X

Texas Tribune The free market is supposed to take care of that sort of thing, amirite?

New: A decayed utility pole that broke, causing the power line to fall on dry grass in the Texas Panhandle, sparked the state’s largest wildfire in history, a Texas House committee confirmed Wednesday. bit.ly/4dpMa3N

In the U.S., Sterigenics has agreed to pay out over US$400M after allegations its facilities' emissions are linked to cancer. Do Scarborough and Mississauga residents know what Sterigenics has been up to near their homes? An investigation with @thelocalto: thenarwhal.ca/sterigenics-mi…

'Saudi Arabia has stepped up the arrest of citizens for social-media posts related to the Gaza war... a media figure who said Israel should never be forgiven has been arrested, as has an individual calling for a boycott of American fast food restaurants.' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

'Hala Consulting and Tourism Services, a firm owned by Sinai tribal leader and business tycoon Ibrahim al-Organi, has been charging Palestinians crossing from Gaza's Rafah to Egypt at least $5,000 per adult and $2,500 for children under 16'
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'It would be far more worrying if the young were indifferent to the deaths of [15k] thousands of children.” Edward Luce