UN expert finds 'flagrant breaches' of First Nations rights to clean water: 'I have witnessed the marginalization of First Nations on reserves, where in many cases the human rights to drinking water and sanitation are not respected.' #cdnpolitics
cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

What a week!! I was so excited when I found out I was going to be included in this year’s #time100 list & then was so humbled to read the kind words of Julian Brave NoiseCat when it was published. It made me feel even more emotional about the other big news this week - the end of Stolen...

I just sent Chrystia Freeland a message urging her not to back down and tax the rich and corporations in this week's budget #cdnpoli #Budget2024 act.leadnow.ca/tax-the-rich/

Check out this #ClimateChange project run by Ms. Molly 🍎 It's a proposal for a change in Ottawa's plan to decrease the climate change effects on our city and beyond! Way to go! ocsbECO OCSB Indigenous Ed OCSB Arts

In one of only known cases in N America, someone is facing deportation for climate activism.

On Earth Day, 23-yr old student Zain Ul-Haq who led campus fossil fuel divestment will face deportation from Canada to Pakistan.

insideclimatenews.org/news/16042024/…

Act now stopzainsdeportation.ca

In the 🇺🇸 companies that supplied #Infectedblood products have paid out million$ in out-of-court settlements.
Politicians and drug companies were convicted of negligence in France and Japan
bbc.com/news/health-48…
While in Canada?
Well, here’s a shocker...
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⚫️ READ: NEW Op-Ed in Toronto Star: Canada must sanction Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet

By: Taha Ghayyur and Alex Neve (Contributors)

➡ thestar.com/opinion/canada…

Here Are The 10 MPs Most Lobbied By CIJA readthemaple.com/here-are-the-1…

Here we are bird watching! What a peaceful morning together. We saw many winged: Crows, Robins, Chickadees and Cardinals. What a symphony we heard from Mother Earth today! ocsbECO OCSB Indigenous Ed Ottawa Catholic School Board #ocsbOUTDOORS #forestschool

Everyday, I wear my keffiyeh to work and get asked to take it off to enter the building.

This type of cultural erasure is only making me and other Arab staffers prouder.

Grateful for my boss Marit Stiles’ advocacy on this, calling the Speaker to reverse this decision #ONpoli

I was very happy that my NDP colleague Rachel Blaney (She/Her) refused to withdraw her comments calling out the Conservatives on their blatant misogyny in the House of Commons. Their harassment of women MPs is constant, and it’s unacceptable

‘Exclusion Zone’ Blocked Journalists Covering Vancouver Tent City Teardown readthemaple.com/exclusion-zone…

What a great final session of the Historical Thinking Community of Practice with presentations from the participants. Terrific work taking place in classrooms and communities throughout Canada. Thanks to Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social and James Miles for guiding this group. Canada's History

Thank you to ⁦TIME⁩ for this amazing honour! I’m so proud and humbled to be included in this incredible group. And huge thank you to ⁦the talented Julian Brave NoiseCat⁩ for your lovely words. 🧡 #TIME100 time.com/6964628/connie…

'People described being coached by interrogator on what to say for “confession” videos made by security forces & either had to memorize their testimony or loudly repeat words interrogator whispered to them'

'It is illegal & unethical to conduct interviews in prison' Daniel Sandford

You can hate my choice of words, disagree with my delivery, disapprove how I exposed systemic sexual violence in my workplace but nobody can deny that Toronto police has a systemic sexual violence problem & is doing nothing to protect Women. They fire Women for speaking up #NDA

The selective feminism…

An evening of grim reading.
Or I guess one could just rely on the title, to tell us everything we need to know about the latest from Doug Ford: ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/rele…
🙏OntarioHealthCoal'n
Remember when Doug Ford said this...?
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Wow Dubai is flooding!

Another interesting article on how Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives are degrading public life with bush league insults and meanness.
Stephanie Kusie racks up another editorial on her dismal behaviour in Parliament.

thespec.com/opinion/contri…