The school that administers the Pulitzer Prizes will not be allowing press on campus 🥴

Breaking News: Israeli and foreign officials believe the International Criminal Court is preparing arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas leaders related to the war in Gaza. nyti.ms/4aVQ96w

Exactly 1 yr ago, I announced that I was wrapping up W&C. Listeners responded, hoping for access to a digital archive. Now I’m thrilled that the complete 33-year run -1000 hrs- will be available to anyone, free of charge! CBC has partnered w/ SFU’s Special Collections +RareBooks.

Russia arrests two more journalists - reports bbc.in/44jGu7q

SCOOP: I reviewed an internal State Dept memo, parts of which was classified, that included the most extensive and serious to date warnings to Secretary Blinken over Israel’s possible non-compliance with international humanitarian law. Here’s what I learned 1/X

😂 the longer you read the funnier it gets. well done ⁦PressProgress⁩ pressprogress.ca/ottawa-book-fe…

An NBC News investigation into 7 deadly Israeli airstrikes has found Palestinians were killed in areas of Gaza that the Israeli military explicitly designated as safe zones. An NYT investigation found the same thing.

Targeting civilians is a war crime.

Israel's longest running paper calls for recognizing Palestine & admits that Israel for the last 15 years 'has refrained from all negotiations with [the Palestinians]' & 'did everything possible to thwart [US mediation] efforts'

'Israel is not taking a single step' towards peace

a thousand words… #canpoli #gaza

Look at those three young women watching. This picture is so symbolic.

What would you say if you saw this in another country? In Hong Kong? Or Iran? Or Russia?

Austin, Texas:

Torontonians donate $90,000 and counting to Umar Zameer’s legal bills trib.al/RCNWXfE

“They — and the rest of us — should learn some lessons …The first : when you don’t really know what happened, just shut up.”

NAN Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler calls for disbandment of Thunder Bay police.
He says “nothing has been done” to effectively reform Thunder Bay police and that “the service has turned into a cold case factory” when it comes to the deaths of Indigenous people.

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Meaghan Gray Chief Myron Demkiw TPA President Jon Reid Here’s Umar Zameer speaking

Israel “has yet to provide supporting evidence” of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency Unrwa are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said.
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

We - the bar - should be thanking, acknowledging and congratulating defence lawyers like Nader R Hasan whether they win or lose these big cases.

In my opinion, they have the hardest job in law: representing the unpopular in the face of the entire apparatus of the state … /2

This, by Yuval Noah Harari, is masterful. It gives me no satisfaction - only grief - to add that I’ve been saying all this since 10/10, but he says it much better. Enough. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…