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We’re coming together to demand the Canadian government impose a full, immediate arms embargo on Israel.
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Today & every day until Canada implements a full two-way arms embargo against apartheid #Israel:
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PROTEST FOR #GAZA in #LdnOnt
All out against the U.S.-Israeli occupation of Gaza!
Sunday, November 23, 2025, 12-3p.m.
Intersection of Oxford and Wonderland
Bring your flags, signs, family, and friends.
@reimagineco.bsky.social @indjewishvoices.bsky.social
All out against the U.S.-Israeli occupation of Gaza!
Sunday, November 23, 2025, 12-3p.m.
Intersection of Oxford and Wonderland
Bring your flags, signs, family, and friends.
@reimagineco.bsky.social @indjewishvoices.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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PROTEST FOR #GAZA in #LdnOnt
All out against the U.S.-Israeli occupation of Gaza!
Sunday, November 23, 2025, 12-3p.m.
Intersection of Oxford and Wonderland
Bring your flags, signs, family, and friends.
@reimagineco.bsky.social @indjewishvoices.bsky.social
All out against the U.S.-Israeli occupation of Gaza!
Sunday, November 23, 2025, 12-3p.m.
Intersection of Oxford and Wonderland
Bring your flags, signs, family, and friends.
@reimagineco.bsky.social @indjewishvoices.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
PROTEST FOR #GAZA in #LdnOnt
All out against the U.S.-Israeli occupation of Gaza!
Sunday, November 23, 2025, 12-3p.m.
Intersection of Oxford and Wonderland
Bring your flags, signs, family, and friends.
@reimagineco.bsky.social @indjewishvoices.bsky.social
All out against the U.S.-Israeli occupation of Gaza!
Sunday, November 23, 2025, 12-3p.m.
Intersection of Oxford and Wonderland
Bring your flags, signs, family, and friends.
@reimagineco.bsky.social @indjewishvoices.bsky.social
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Last week, I spoke to @science-for-peace.bsky.social about the risks of “51st state” thinking in Canada-US relations and why Canada must navigate a changing multipolar world with clear eyes and strategic autonomy. #cdnpoli
Read the full speech here: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/domestic-...
Read the full speech here: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/domestic-...
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Last week, I spoke to @science-for-peace.bsky.social about the risks of “51st state” thinking in Canada-US relations and why Canada must navigate a changing multipolar world with clear eyes and strategic autonomy. #cdnpoli
Read the full speech here: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/domestic-...
Read the full speech here: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/domestic-...
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“It's disappointing that Canada — after having acknowledged Palestinian statehood — would take such a hostile attitude toward a conference that really explained to a public . . . the nature of the objections to what Israel has been doing,”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“It's disappointing that Canada — after having acknowledged Palestinian statehood — would take such a hostile attitude toward a conference that really explained to a public . . . the nature of the objections to what Israel has been doing,”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Falk believes the interrogation is part of a global push to “punish those who endeavour to tell the truth about what is happening”. . . in Gaza. “It suggests a climate of governmental insecurity . . . to clamp down on dissident voices”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Former UN rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses interrogated in Canada
Falk, who is in Canada for Palestine Tribunal, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Falk believes the interrogation is part of a global push to “punish those who endeavour to tell the truth about what is happening”. . . in Gaza. “It suggests a climate of governmental insecurity . . . to clamp down on dissident voices”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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NEW: Canadian authorities detained Richard Falk while he and his wife, Hilal Elver, were en route to a Palestine conference in Ottawa last week.
I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...
I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...
Canada Detained This Legal Scholar En Route To Palestine Conference
Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained for approximately three hours at Pearson airport.
www.readthemaple.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
NEW: Canadian authorities detained Richard Falk while he and his wife, Hilal Elver, were en route to a Palestine conference in Ottawa last week.
I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...
I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...
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More FREE #LabourFilms screenings starting TONIGHT, sponsored by @uwofa1.bsky.social
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Package B (84m) – Thur Nov 20, 7pm ET
A tarea, 28m (Spain)
Working for Freedom, 10m (Can)
Ghost Workers, 26m (NL)
Limerent Pittsburgh, 3m (US)
COVID Sourdough, 16m (US)
watch.eventive.org/cliff2025/pl...
Package B (84m) – Thur Nov 20, 7pm ET
A tarea, 28m (Spain)
Working for Freedom, 10m (Can)
Ghost Workers, 26m (NL)
Limerent Pittsburgh, 3m (US)
COVID Sourdough, 16m (US)
A tarea | University of Western Ontario Faculty Association B | CLiFF 2025
Poachers and climate change are wiping out the fine clam and the slimy clam in the Galician estuaries in Spain. A group of shellfish gatherers fight to remedy this imbalance, whose hard work and tradi...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
More FREE #LabourFilms screenings starting TONIGHT, sponsored by @uwofa1.bsky.social
watch.eventive.org/cliff2025/pl...
Package B (84m) – Thur Nov 20, 7pm ET
A tarea, 28m (Spain)
Working for Freedom, 10m (Can)
Ghost Workers, 26m (NL)
Limerent Pittsburgh, 3m (US)
COVID Sourdough, 16m (US)
watch.eventive.org/cliff2025/pl...
Package B (84m) – Thur Nov 20, 7pm ET
A tarea, 28m (Spain)
Working for Freedom, 10m (Can)
Ghost Workers, 26m (NL)
Limerent Pittsburgh, 3m (US)
COVID Sourdough, 16m (US)
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More from @antlerrivermedia.bsky.social by Qazi Mustabeen Noor, on 'food-chain labour' screenings curated by @j4mw.bsky.social as part of the Canadian Labour International Film Fest :
antlerrivermedia.ca/food-chain-l... #LabourFilms
antlerrivermedia.ca/food-chain-l... #LabourFilms
“Food Chain Labour”: CLIFF and Justice for Migrant Workers joint film screening depicts worker struggles - Antler River Media Co-op
From November 5 to November 8, an audience passionate about great movies and workers’ rights had the chance to watch six curated short films based on the theme “food chain labour”. These selections we...
antlerrivermedia.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
More from @antlerrivermedia.bsky.social by Qazi Mustabeen Noor, on 'food-chain labour' screenings curated by @j4mw.bsky.social as part of the Canadian Labour International Film Fest :
antlerrivermedia.ca/food-chain-l... #LabourFilms
antlerrivermedia.ca/food-chain-l... #LabourFilms
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Pour la première fois, l’Allemagne a refusé son soutien à l’extension du mandat de l’agence de l’ONU pour les réfugiés palestiniens (UNRWA), mais elle reprend dans le même temps plein pot ses livraisons d’armes au régime génocidaire, car "la guerre à Gaza est finie"
europalestine.com/2025/11/20/h...
europalestine.com/2025/11/20/h...
Heil ! L’Allemagne suspend son soutien à l’UNRWA, et reprend ses livraisons d’armes à Israël
Pour la première fois, l’Allemagne a refusé son soutien à l’extension du mandat de l’agence de l’ONU pour les réfugiés palestiniens (UNRWA), mais elle reprend dans le même temps plein pot ses livraiso...
europalestine.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Pour la première fois, l’Allemagne a refusé son soutien à l’extension du mandat de l’agence de l’ONU pour les réfugiés palestiniens (UNRWA), mais elle reprend dans le même temps plein pot ses livraisons d’armes au régime génocidaire, car "la guerre à Gaza est finie"
europalestine.com/2025/11/20/h...
europalestine.com/2025/11/20/h...
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So proud of my colleagues @fightforthefuture.org and the massive coalition of local folks that made this happen www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/19/o...
Oakland rejects $2 million contract with surveillance company over concerns of ICE spying
Flock Safety was shown the door after hundreds rallied against the company.
www.mercurynews.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So proud of my colleagues @fightforthefuture.org and the massive coalition of local folks that made this happen www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/19/o...
More from @antlerrivermedia.bsky.social by Qazi Mustabeen Noor, on 'food-chain labour' screenings curated by @j4mw.bsky.social as part of the Canadian Labour International Film Fest :
antlerrivermedia.ca/food-chain-l... #LabourFilms
antlerrivermedia.ca/food-chain-l... #LabourFilms
“Food Chain Labour”: CLIFF and Justice for Migrant Workers joint film screening depicts worker struggles - Antler River Media Co-op
From November 5 to November 8, an audience passionate about great movies and workers’ rights had the chance to watch six curated short films based on the theme “food chain labour”. These selections we...
antlerrivermedia.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
More from @antlerrivermedia.bsky.social by Qazi Mustabeen Noor, on 'food-chain labour' screenings curated by @j4mw.bsky.social as part of the Canadian Labour International Film Fest :
antlerrivermedia.ca/food-chain-l... #LabourFilms
antlerrivermedia.ca/food-chain-l... #LabourFilms
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University faculty & staff are the backbone of our postsecondary system. Great to meet with @ocufa.bsky.social reps from @uwofa1.bsky.social, King’s & Huron. With record enrolment, Ontario needs more investment, not more red tape, to keep our campuses strong. #onpse #onpoli
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
University faculty & staff are the backbone of our postsecondary system. Great to meet with @ocufa.bsky.social reps from @uwofa1.bsky.social, King’s & Huron. With record enrolment, Ontario needs more investment, not more red tape, to keep our campuses strong. #onpse #onpoli
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Éditorial | Une clause de droits acquis pour les orphelins du #PEQ est un compromis acceptable dans le débat migratoire. #immigration
Une affaire de dignité
www.ledevoir.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Éditorial | Une clause de droits acquis pour les orphelins du #PEQ est un compromis acceptable dans le débat migratoire. #immigration
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BIG THANKS to you MP Kwan for this important legislative initiative, & thanks to all the other MPs who supported the #nomoreloopholes Bill-233 at 2nd reading! @leahgazan.bsky.social @loriidlout.bsky.social @beynate.bsky.social & others!
For a full #ArmsEmbargoNOW!
armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
For a full #ArmsEmbargoNOW!
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Arms Embargo Now!
Our new report has just exposed a massive pipeline of military aircraft parts and explosives flowing from Canada to Israel via the U.S., facilitated by a deadly loophole in Canadian law.
armsembargonow.ca
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
BIG THANKS to you MP Kwan for this important legislative initiative, & thanks to all the other MPs who supported the #nomoreloopholes Bill-233 at 2nd reading! @leahgazan.bsky.social @loriidlout.bsky.social @beynate.bsky.social & others!
For a full #ArmsEmbargoNOW!
armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
For a full #ArmsEmbargoNOW!
armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
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Joe Hill is everywhere.
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Joe Hill is everywhere.
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OPINION | « Dans la foulée du conseil national du PQ la fin de semaine dernière, le chef a confirmé mes craintes : le Québec-pays « libre » restera bien séquestré dans le carcan de l’impérialisme américain. »
La nouvelle chronique de Martin Forgues 👇
La nouvelle chronique de Martin Forgues 👇
Le PQ et la trumpisation du projet indépendantiste – Pivot
Révolution bolivarienne québécoise, ou barbarie?
pivot.quebec
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
OPINION | « Dans la foulée du conseil national du PQ la fin de semaine dernière, le chef a confirmé mes craintes : le Québec-pays « libre » restera bien séquestré dans le carcan de l’impérialisme américain. »
La nouvelle chronique de Martin Forgues 👇
La nouvelle chronique de Martin Forgues 👇
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Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.
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Qu'est-ce qu'un cessez-le-feu quand on continue à mourir sous les bombardements ? Qu'est-ce qu'un plan de paix quand l'aide entre au compte goutte, quand le système de santé est en ruine, que les blessés s'accumulent, quand on vit sous des tentes en plein hiver ?
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
EN DIRECT, Gaza : nouveaux bombardements israéliens dans l’enclave, les autorités locales annoncent quatre morts
Au moins 27 personnes sont mortes mercredi dans des frappes israéliennes, selon un bilan de la défense civile de l’enclave palestinienne. L’armée a affirmé avoir agi en riposte à « des terroristes ».
www.lemonde.fr
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Qu'est-ce qu'un cessez-le-feu quand on continue à mourir sous les bombardements ? Qu'est-ce qu'un plan de paix quand l'aide entre au compte goutte, quand le système de santé est en ruine, que les blessés s'accumulent, quand on vit sous des tentes en plein hiver ?
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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The latest CBC report shows why Canada urgently needs tighter oversight on military exports. When Canadian components can end up in airstrikes abroad, we have a responsibility to act.
That’s why I introduced Bill C-233 to strengthen export-control accountability.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
That’s why I introduced Bill C-233 to strengthen export-control accountability.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canadian-made jet fighter maintenance parts, bombs shipped to Israel via U.S., report suggests | CBC News
Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleg...
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The latest CBC report shows why Canada urgently needs tighter oversight on military exports. When Canadian components can end up in airstrikes abroad, we have a responsibility to act.
That’s why I introduced Bill C-233 to strengthen export-control accountability.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
That’s why I introduced Bill C-233 to strengthen export-control accountability.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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🎥 The first hour of debate on my Private Member’s Bill C-233 is now live.
This bill aims to close the arms-export loophole and ensure Canada is not complicit in grave human rights violations.
Watch here ⬇️
youtu.be/a3iQ7vuskms?...
#BillC233 #cdnpoli #HumanRights
This bill aims to close the arms-export loophole and ensure Canada is not complicit in grave human rights violations.
Watch here ⬇️
youtu.be/a3iQ7vuskms?...
#BillC233 #cdnpoli #HumanRights
Private Members Bill C-233 to close arm embargo loophole - 1st hour debate
YouTube video by Jenny Kwan, MP
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
🎥 The first hour of debate on my Private Member’s Bill C-233 is now live.
This bill aims to close the arms-export loophole and ensure Canada is not complicit in grave human rights violations.
Watch here ⬇️
youtu.be/a3iQ7vuskms?...
#BillC233 #cdnpoli #HumanRights
This bill aims to close the arms-export loophole and ensure Canada is not complicit in grave human rights violations.
Watch here ⬇️
youtu.be/a3iQ7vuskms?...
#BillC233 #cdnpoli #HumanRights
STARTING NOW: Register to watch FREE Canadian #Labour International #Film Festival with the @westernu.ca Faculty Association @uwofa1.bsky.social
Check it out & register at: watch.eventive.org/cliff2025/pl... @londoncouncilcdns.bsky.social @londonlabour.ca
@j4mw.bsky.social #CLiFF2025
Check it out & register at: watch.eventive.org/cliff2025/pl... @londoncouncilcdns.bsky.social @londonlabour.ca
@j4mw.bsky.social #CLiFF2025
Victory Train | University of Western Ontario Faculty Association A | CLiFF 2025
On the purple trains that run through the rapeseed fields of Skåne, anger is growing. The train company is planning yet another cutback. But this time the train staff are ready to back each other!
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November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
STARTING NOW: Register to watch FREE Canadian #Labour International #Film Festival with the @westernu.ca Faculty Association @uwofa1.bsky.social
Check it out & register at: watch.eventive.org/cliff2025/pl... @londoncouncilcdns.bsky.social @londonlabour.ca
@j4mw.bsky.social #CLiFF2025
Check it out & register at: watch.eventive.org/cliff2025/pl... @londoncouncilcdns.bsky.social @londonlabour.ca
@j4mw.bsky.social #CLiFF2025
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SMU Part-Time Faculty have a tentative agreement! SMU PT members, check your email for more information.
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
SMU Part-Time Faculty have a tentative agreement! SMU PT members, check your email for more information.
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
#SMUstrike #FairDealNow #cdnpse #canlab
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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Israël n'autorise que le passage de l'inutile.
Les marchés regorgent de chocolat... mais on ne trouve pas d'aliments nourrissants. Des médicaments sont livrés, mais les hôpitaux sont à court d’antibiotiques et de pansements. Il n'y a pas de carburant...
Les marchés regorgent de chocolat... mais on ne trouve pas d'aliments nourrissants. Des médicaments sont livrés, mais les hôpitaux sont à court d’antibiotiques et de pansements. Il n'y a pas de carburant...
"Systematic starvation and a false image‼️⚠️
Markets are full of chocolate, while hospitals are empty of antibiotics and bandages.
Shelves overflow with canned food, yet there’s no protein — and no fuel"(Rulla Naja Alalami) #Gaza
Markets are full of chocolate, while hospitals are empty of antibiotics and bandages.
Shelves overflow with canned food, yet there’s no protein — and no fuel"(Rulla Naja Alalami) #Gaza
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Israël n'autorise que le passage de l'inutile.
Les marchés regorgent de chocolat... mais on ne trouve pas d'aliments nourrissants. Des médicaments sont livrés, mais les hôpitaux sont à court d’antibiotiques et de pansements. Il n'y a pas de carburant...
Les marchés regorgent de chocolat... mais on ne trouve pas d'aliments nourrissants. Des médicaments sont livrés, mais les hôpitaux sont à court d’antibiotiques et de pansements. Il n'y a pas de carburant...
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