Shooting into tents w/ arbitrarily detained women and children huddling inside is a sick criminal act. It is long past time that Canada repatriate remaining Canadian children, grant permits to their mothers, and bring home illegally detained Canadians from Iraq. www.middleeasteye.net/news/they-al...

'They almost killed my child': Women in Syria's Roj camp describe night of gunfire and fear

Women detained in northeast Syria's Roj camp say bullets tore through tents housing children during a confrontation with Kurdish-led security forces

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Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade, David J. Climenhaga reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth

Wreckonciliation: When it comes to the massive, hugely consequential impacts of his reactionary policies on Indigenous people, Carney sets up what will likely be a one hour meeting tops with reps from 3 different nations. Because getting to the Stampede is more important to him.

My latest for @quillandquire.bsky.social Two new titles serve as disturbing reminders of our own “Maple Leaf” violence, a shameful reality deeply rooted in Canadian history and increasingly shaping contemporary political discourse. quillandquire.com/review/for-b...

Mark Carney won't use the legally correct "genocide" to describe the genocide taking place in Gaza because he does not want to "politicize" that word. This despite legal findings, findings of genocide scholars, etc. And yet he'll recognize every other genocide (as he should).

There is no climate justice without Palestinian liberation: a statement by Palestinian civil society on the 2026 Bonn Climate Change Conference.

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Israel Didn't Go Wrong. Israel Itself Is What's Wrong

Buying Time for Israel: On Omer Bartov's Liberal Zionism and Colonial Blindness

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BREAKING: Canada exported $14.6 million of military goods to Israel in 2025, according to data released today by Global Affairs Canada. www.readthemaple.com/canada-expor...

Canada Exported $14.6 Million Of Military Goods To Israel In 2025

A total of 50 military export permits were utilized to sell goods to Israel in 2025.

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Some days I just want to vomit. Carney's propaganda video over the weekend was racist and militaristic to the core. His description of settlers arriving to an "inhospitable land" was an insulting erasure of thriving Indigenous people, culture, and history.

This book is a gift. Not all gifts are easily received, and while at times difficult to read, it's an important rejoinder to those who question CNN exclusive report about the online “rape academy” that received 62 million visits in February. womenwhochoosetolive.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-mu...

A Must Read Book in the Age of the "Rape Academy"

This book, along with its timing, is a gift. Not all gifts are easily received, and while it is at times difficult to read, it is an importa...

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Isolate, Inebriate, Intimidate, Repeat: High Rates of Sexual Force Against Women Are Reported When Young Men Given Anonymous Surveys 🫠🫠🫠

During a recent hearing before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, U.S. lawmakers blasted the Trump administration's decision to lift sanctions on Russian oil giants Gazprom and Rosneft — companies now accused of aiding the mass abduction of Ukrainian children.

US hearing exposes links between Russia’s energy sector and abduction of Ukrainian children

During a recent hearing before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, U.S. lawmakers blasted the Trump administration's decision to lift sanctions on Russian oil giants Gazprom and Rosneft — companie...

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I mask everywhere. I've traveled the world; gone to the movies; gone to comedy shows; I've presented in rooms of 1,000s. 1x someone made a passive aggressive comment to me about it. One time! If you've stopped masking, it is not too late to start again. Please take care of your health.

New Covid variant has been identified and is already spreading in 25 states

Researchers say the strain could evade protection from current Covid shots

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You can't tell me everything is doomed, we might as well give up, we're cooked, etc etc when just yesterday we learned of dogs that worked together to escape a slaughterhouse to make their way home & now we learn a civilian talked down a suicide bomber by being kind. Doomerists are wrong.

Man who talked down hospital bomber says would-be attacker asked for a cuddle

Nathan Newby set to receive George Medal for stopping a potential atrocity with an act of kindness

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“.. He fought back tears as he explained what was there before: two wooden shelters, an outpost to make cheese, sheds for his equipment. The horse paddock was spared, but the chicken coop was gone.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

A strong recommendation for repatriation and an end to Canadian complicity in arbitrary detention and torture! Jack Letts is one of the 16 remaining detainees who have been blocked by Canada from exercising their Charter right to return home. homesnotbombs.blogspot.com/2026/03/un-c...

UN Calls on Canada to Repatriate Detainees from North-eastern Syria and Iraq

March 24, 2026 – The United Nations Human Rights Committee has called on Canada to repatriate 14 Canadian men and children (as well as two m...

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bring them all ome now. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/04/m...

Mother urges Canada to swiftly repatriate her son after reported transfer to Iraq

OTTAWA — The mother of a Canadian man says she fears for his safety behind bars in Iraq after receiving word from Canada’s foreign ministry he may have been transferred there from detention in northea...

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That Joury & her brothers had to share their deep, heavy emotions today at all is a shame on Canada's government, which forces such children to bear their traumatized souls before media & the nation for the simplest of pleas: bring our mother here now. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

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They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom.

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

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A ProPublica analysis of habeas cases shows that immigrants have filed more challenges to their detention in the first 13 months of Trump’s second term than in the last three administrations combined — and the number keeps rising.

More Immigrants Are Challenging Their ICE Detention Than Ever Before

Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Tru...

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Hard not to read this and feel that what @bardcollege.bsky.social president Leon Botstein found morally urgent and emotionally effecting in the Epstein story was not the women and girls who were abused, but the rich man who was embarrassed.

Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here is how @bardcollege.bsky.social President Leon Botstein addressed Jeffrey Epstein the just after the Miami Herald published an article detailing his sexual abuse of children: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Olivia Dean: "I guess I want to say I'm up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant, I wouldn't be here... I'm a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated"

When we talk about abusive men weaponing the legal system, this is what we mean. He not only viciously murdered his wife. He then tortured her poor loved ones by dragging things in court for YEARS only to finally admit "Yeah, I did it and I did it on purpose."

Jason McKay admits he intended to kill his wife Jenny, enters guilty plea to Regina murder | CBC News

Jason McKay pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on the eve of his second trial, which was scheduled to begin this week in Regina Court of King's Bench. He now admits he intentionally killed his wif...

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they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital

The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

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In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization

It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

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Days after Mark Carney gassed on about international law, Canada is on the edge of once more becoming complicit in an act of extraordinary rendition to torture. homesnotbombs.blogspot.com/2026/01/fami...

Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria for 8 years. Also held illegally for years are 15 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN

Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria for 8 years. Also held illegally for years are 15 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: chng.it/C5tc5vHN