Migrants deserve to be treated like they're part of the community, says organizer Adi Khaitan. Instead of focusing on migrant workers' economic value, leaders should protect their basic human rights. #nlpoli #cdnpoli 🗞️Read the latest from Yumna Iftikhar theindependent.ca/news/changes-t…

I got a copy of a list of clients for one of the world’s largest consulting firms. Here are some of the names that were on the list before Canada tapped McKinsey & Company for clean tech advice in response to the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act. 👇🏽

"White supremacy & white nationalism, fascism, and the rise of the far-right are what make Jews unsafe, not criticism of the state of Israel or solidarity with Palestinians," Jews Say No To Genocide said, defending CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn. readthemaple.com/attacks-on-fre…

Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي reports on Israel's brutal assault of the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

"Our silence empowers the status quo, which in this case means upholding Canada’s complicity in the continued massacre of Palestinians," writes Justin Brake. EDITORIAL: Why I pressed Trudeau on #genocide #cdnpoli #Israel #Palestine theindependent.ca/commentary/edi…

“Journalists have special access to Trudeau and other policy-makers that other Canadians don’t. It’s our civic duty and our democratic responsibility to hold politicians to account, especially on acute and urgent matters.” Justin Brake theindependent.ca/commentary/edi…

"Nearly 1/5 of Palestinians killed in the West Bank are children," while in Gaza "nearly 1/2 of Palestinians killed are children and minors," says journalist Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي. "This is [...] not by accident. Killing the children is killing the future." democracynow.org/2024/9/9/insid…

I'd like NL MPs Churence Rogers Gudie Hutchings Seamus O'Regan Jr Joanne Thompson Yvonne Jones and Ken McDonald to explain why they ignored DFO science AGAIN and approved this political decision. Have they learned nothing from the cod moratorium? cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

When DFO reopened commercial Northern cod fishing against science advice in June, everyone asked: Is this political? We now know the minister’s staff anticipated the reopening “politically a victory” — Tmw, I’ll add context on CBC’s St. John’s Morning Show cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

Joly suspends 30 permits for arms sales to Israel and will block U.S.-bound ammunition sale destined for IDF /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Knife is one of five Indigenous people in Canada to be killed by police in the last two weeks. #cdpoli

Netflix Buys and Oscar-Qualifies ‘Yintah’ Doc About Indigenous Nation’s Fight for Sovereignty, via Variety variety.com/2024/film/news…

We are now hearing of a 6th Indigenous person who has died by RCMP/police in just 11 days. A 🧵: - Aug. 29th, 31-year-old Jack Charles Piche from Clearwater River Dene Nation, SK, struck and killed by an RCMP vehicle on grid road 909 of off Highway 155 near Buffalo Narrows, SK.

A Canadian company is the only one in the world making a special part for Israeli warplanes bombing Palestinians. In Europe, the existence of such a sole-source supplier of F-35 parts has become “vital” to a legal attempt to halt Dutch exports to Israel. breachmedia.ca/israeli-warpla…

Over 20,000 people have been killed and 13 million displaced over the past 16 months, Democracy Now reports. The war has destroyed the country’s healthcare system and caused an outbreak of diseases like cholera, malaria and dengue. #Sudan #Darfur

“It’s not so much that it comes out of this particular brain of Donald Trump, as much as it is part and parcel of the narratives and stories that this country tells itself and the world of who Black people are." -Nana Gyamfi BAJI ✍️🏾The Intercept theintercept.com/2024/09/12/tru…

Join Daniel Banoub & his "crack team of scientists" as they spend 3 days in the Lewis Hills of Western Nfld. Banoub ponders life, the cosmos & the Island's fragile & precious ecosystems in the face of a rush into the windo-to-hydrogen industry. #nlpoli theindependent.ca/commentary/at-…

Springfield "has experienced a wave of bomb threats, temporarily putting 2 hospitals on lockdown, forcing the evacuation of City Hall & elementary schools, & compelling 2 colleges [...] to move classes online [...] Gov. DeWine has deployed Ohio State Troopers to guard the city."