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NEW: The Liberal government is applauding a new business jet deal with a Saudi-owned company. It represents growing trade between Canada and the Saudi dictatorship under PM Mark Carney. www.readthemaple.com/liberals-cel...
Liberals Celebrate Bombardier Jet Deal With Saudi Company
Canada is increasingly doing business with the repressive Middle Eastern Kingdom.
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New Pipeline Has Nothing To Do With Appeasing Separatists, Carney Says “The referendum, that doesn’t enter into the calculus.” www.readthemaple.com/new-pipeline...
New Pipeline Has Nothing To Do With Appeasing Separatists, Carney Says
“The referendum, that doesn’t enter into the calculus.”
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NEW: Mark Carney is looking to cash in under the new right-wing presidency of Keiko Fujimori in Peru. Carney dispatched parliamentary secretary Rob Oliphant to attend Fujimori's inauguration in Lima today with instructions to “unlock new opportunities.” www.readthemaple.com/mark-carney-...
Mark Carney Wants To Cash In Under Peru’s New Right-Wing President
For Canada’s Liberal government, Keiko Fujimori’s election victory is being seen as an opportunity to open new business ventures.
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These efforts began in February 2025 after I published Find IDF Soldiers, a database that now contains profiles of 206 Canadians who have joined the Israeli military. It hasn’t stopped since. I detail what it looks like, and who is involved. www.readthemaple.com/i-asked-peop...
I Asked People Trying To Get Me Imprisoned How It’s Going
My journalism on Canadians who join the IDF has made me the target of pro-Israel forces.
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NEW: I reached out to the pro-Israel forces who have been trying to get me imprisoned to ask how their campaigns are going. www.readthemaple.com/i-asked-peop...
I Asked People Trying To Get Me Imprisoned How It’s Going
My journalism on Canadians who join the IDF has made me the target of pro-Israel forces.
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NEW: WestJet Flight Attendants Are Ready To Make History www.readthemaple.com/westjet-flig...
WestJet Flight Attendants Are Ready To Make History
By overwhelmingly voting to strike, the workers may finally force an airline to take the issue of unpaid work seriously.
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NEW: The Liberals have awarded up to $34 million to a U.S. defence giant they claim is Canadian, writes @emmapaling.bsky.social www.readthemaple.com/liberals-awa...
Liberals Award Millions To U.S. Company They Say Is Canadian
The government funded Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of defence giant RTX, formerly Raytheon.
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NEW: Defence Minister David McGuinty says there’s “really little daylight” between Canada and the United States on military and intelligence affairs. “We trust each other. We work together. That will not stop in my view. I don’t think it can stop for Canadians.” www.readthemaple.com/david-mcguin...
David McGuinty Says There’s ‘Little Daylight’ Between U.S. And Canada
“We trust each other. We work together. That will not stop in my view. I don’t think it can stop for Canadians.”
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Mark Carney is promoting his plans for a new Alberta oil pipeline while Ontario is ravaged by wildfires. www.readthemaple.com/mark-carney-...
Mark Carney Boosts Alberta Pipeline While Ontario Wildfires Rage
In northern Ontario, 180 wildfires were burning as of Wednesday evening, including 72 that were “not under control.”
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NEW: First Nations Chiefs Call Out Exponential Rise In Anti-Indigenous Hate “Canada has failed to take the necessary steps to follow its own legislation and has failed to protect First Nations people.” www.readthemaple.com/first-nation...
First Nations Chiefs Call Out Exponential Rise In Anti-Indigenous Hate
“Canada has failed to take the necessary steps to follow its own legislation and has failed to protect First Nations people.”
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Quebec Agency Warns Arms Exports To U.S. Could Violate Treaty “It considers this exemption a risk factor for violations of the Arms Trade Treaty, ratified by Canada.” www.readthemaple.com/quebec-agenc...
Quebec Agency Warns Arms Exports To U.S. Could Violate Treaty
“It considers this exemption a risk factor for violations of the Arms Trade Treaty, ratified by Canada.”
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NEW: Mark Carney has appointed a former oil executive once described as a “climate villain painting Big Oil green” as Canada's consul general in New York. www.readthemaple.com/mark-carney-...
Mark Carney Appoints Former Oil Executive As U.S. Diplomat
An advocacy group accused Susannah Pierce of being a “climate villain painting Big Oil green.”
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NEW: An independent body of the Quebec government has warned that exports of artillery propellant to the United States risk violating Canada’s Arms Trade Treaty obligations. www.readthemaple.com/quebec-agenc...
Quebec Agency Warns Arms Exports To U.S. Could Violate Treaty
“It considers this exemption a risk factor for violations of the Arms Trade Treaty, ratified by Canada.”
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NEW: I wrote a small guide explaining how to archive things you see online and why you should. Archiving is essential for journalists, researchers and activists, and the more of us who get in the habit of archiving what we find, the better. www.readthemaple.com/heres-how-to...
Here’s How To Archive Online Content, And Why You Should
Archiving is essential for researchers, journalists and activists to do their work, and all of us can play a role in it
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NEW: We published a small guide explaining how to archive things you see online and why you should. Archiving is essential for journalists, researchers and activists, and the more people who get in the habit of archiving what they find, the better. www.readthemaple.com/heres-how-to...
Here’s How To Archive Online Content, And Why You Should
Archiving is essential for researchers, journalists and activists to do their work, and all of us can play a role in it
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Mark Carney Says Trump ‘Won The Argument’ On NATO Spending “It’s not just he’s winning the argument, he’s won the argument.” www.readthemaple.com/mark-carney-...
Mark Carney Says Trump ‘Won The Argument’ On NATO Spending
“It’s not just he’s winning the argument, he’s won the argument.”
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NEW: Mark Carney claims Donald Trump "won the argument" on NATO spending, as Canada prepares to spend $159 billion per year on its military. Carney made the comment at this week's NATO summit in Ankara, where he also supported the latest U.S. attacks on Iran. www.readthemaple.com/mark-carney-...
Mark Carney Says Trump ‘Won The Argument’ On NATO Spending
“It’s not just he’s winning the argument, he’s won the argument.”
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What's missing from corporate media's coverage of the new pipeline announcements? Emma Paling breaks it down in tomorrow's edition of Second Scoop 👇 www.readthemaple.com/signup-secon...
NEW: Pierre Poilievre once again parrots Pete Hegseth’s call for a ‘warrior culture’ in the military. www.readthemaple.com/poilievre-ag...
Poilievre Again Parrots Pete Hegseth’s Call for ‘Warrior Culture’
“We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture.”
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RCMP Can Apply Israel’s Gaza Tactics To Canadian Policing: Briefing www.readthemaple.com/rcmp-can-app...
RCMP Can Apply Israel’s Gaza Tactics To Canadian Policing: Briefing
The RCMP can apply the lessons it learned at an Israeli military seminar last year to “Canadian law enforcement contexts.”
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NEW: The RCMP can apply the lessons it learned at an Israeli military seminar last year to “Canadian law enforcement contexts,” according to a briefing document written by Canada’s defence attaché in Israel. www.readthemaple.com/rcmp-can-app...
RCMP Can Apply Israel’s Gaza Tactics To Canadian Policing: Briefing
The RCMP can apply the lessons it learned at an Israeli military seminar last year to “Canadian law enforcement contexts.”
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If you've been following the "controversy" surrounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' Nakba exhibit, you won't want to miss tomorrow's edition of Second Scoop. Emma breaks down how the campaign against it pushes anti-Palestinian racism. Sign up below👇 www.readthemaple.com/signup-secon...
NEW: I wrote a piece arguing that Zionism is Canada’s most-successful hate movement. www.readthemaple.com/zionism-is-c...
Zionism Is Canada’s Most-Successful Hate Movement
The Jewish-supremacist ideology motivating genocide has widespread support among Canada’s elites.
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NEW: Emma Paling looks at why there is such a wide and persistent gender gap when it comes to support for Alberta separatism. www.readthemaple.com/why-men-and-...
Why Men And Women Are So Divided On Alberta Separatism
35% of Albertans want to start the process to hold a binding referendum on separation, according to recent polling.
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We just published the first wide edition of Second Scoop, a new media criticism newsletter from The Maple. This week, Emma panned the National Post's love affair with Elon Musk and highlighted what the press missed in its coverage of the Iran deal. Sign up: www.readthemaple.com/signup-secon...
Canada’s corporate press churns out too much bullshit to keep up with, but Emma Paling has you covered. Sign up to receive Second Scoop, a brand new newsletter from The Maple covering stories that Canada’s mainstream media over-hypes, overthinks, or just ignores. readthemaple.com/signup-secon...
NEW: The Zionist lobby is spinning a false narrative about overnight shootings at Jewish schools and synagogues being motivated by Palestine protests. The goal of this is to facilitate the stripping away of civil liberties in Canada, writes Davide Mastracci. www.readthemaple.com/the-zionist-...
The Zionist Narrative On ‘Antisemitic’ Shootings Is Bullshit
The false claim that shooters were motivated by Palestine protests has been used to help strip civil liberties.
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NEW: I took an in-depth look at the Zionist narrative on the shootings of Jewish institutions in Toronto, and came to the conclusion that it’s bullshit that has been used to restrict our civil liberties. Read my investigation to find out why. www.readthemaple.com/the-zionist-...
The Zionist Narrative On ‘Antisemitic’ Shootings Is Bullshit
The false claim that shooters were motivated by Palestine protests has been used to help strip civil liberties.
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