I was proud to sign this petition this week that has now been signed by thousands of academics: “We strongly believe that international exchange – especially in troubled times like these – is essential for maintaining an open and global academic community”
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Statement against the Boycott of Israeli Academics.
Launched by a doctoral student at the Hebrew University, the list of signatories is very distinguished, and growing by the day. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The school is a six minute walk from where we lived when I was a young child in Toronto. Unimaginable to think that Jewish kids are no longer safe in the neighbourhood and at the local school.
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How it started How it's going

It was totally predictable (and predicted) but hard to overstate the disastrous embarrassment of Canada’s digital policy. Bill C-11 will take years to implement and is already facing trade and court challenges, while Bill C-18 has harmed the very news outlets it intended to help.

Unbelievable. After literally campaigning on the issue in 2015, access to information has been an utter disaster under this government.
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. The Economist calls out Bill C-18 as a fiasco that has harmed Canadian news outlets instead of helping them and noting that other countries should spike proposals to copy the law. The government ignored repeated warnings that this was the likely outcome.
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This entire community just walked a Jewish boy to school — 150 people to protect him.

The little guy is REPEATEDLY attacked by schoolmates.

Gets death threats Hamas style.

Kids throw rocks at him.

Being a Jewish kid is a huge safety risk in Canada.

Government was repeatedly warned that Bill C-11 raised the prospect of a trade challenge and retaliatory tariffs. Here’s one of my posts on the issue in 2022:
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It dismissed the risk every time.

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Unbelievable. After literally campaigning on the issue in 2015, access to information has been an utter disaster under this government.
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It was a pleasure for Marco Mendicino and I to meet the brave students from campuses all across BC today. We will ensure your stories are brought forward in Parliament. Antisemitism is unacceptable on campus and everywhere else.