Jack Letts has been arbitrarily detained without charge under horrible conditions in NE Syria for 8 years. Also held illegally for years are 19 other Canadian women, children & men. Sign and share to bring them home: https://t.co/ltNrOvLins

White supremacy is so insidious. This from the home page of the Weather Network.

These international criminal acts must be condemned by Canada. Extrajudicial killings without any form of due process violate international law. Its basic. They put the life and security of everyone in the hemisphere at risk. @AnitaAnandMP @MarkJCarney

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Just so we are clear… A British doctor can fly to Israel, join the IOF, participate in genocide & MURDER children - & be welcomed back & allowed to practice with no consequence But a Bristish doctor who just SPEAKS OUT against genocide & the murder of kids gets arrested?! WTF

of string. This happens every time i go to the Hill for a press conference or committee meeting. I also recognize it would be a thousand times worse for anyone who does not have my white skin privilege.

and I kept hearing my name spelled out military style (Bravo, Echo, Hotel...) as additional forces came up to ascertain the best way to handle this crisis, I was finally granted access to the meeting room, but they seized subversive materials from my bag (a role of tape and ball

close security scrutiny as multiple heated inquiries were made about whether one of Canada's oldest institutions is secure enough to allow me to attend a meeting two years after the ban expired. After a 40 minute wait, during which frantic phone calls went up the security chain

In Canada Kafkaland, you're always guilty even after your sentence is complete or you're acquitted. Parliament Hill Security (which 3 years ago banned me for 1 year for handing out flyers) was worried about my attendance at a Senate committee meeting and I spent 40 minutes under

close security scrutiny as multiple heated inquiries were made about whether one of Canada's oldest institutions is secure enough to allow me to attend a meeting two years after the ban expired. After a 40 minute wait, during which frantic phone calls went up the security chain

Welcome to Canada. Um, actually, wait 50 years, and THEN welcome to Canada. Perhaps. Maybe. Our racist, exclusionary policies are beyond shameful.

Locking people up for being poor, sick, or in crisis doesn’t solve the problem and in fact makes it worse. When people are detained instead of supported, they often lose housing, jobs, and vital connections. That instability drives desperation, which fuels crime and social harm.

Extremely troubling - Muslim women are particularly vulnerable to facing hate, harassment and violence. The harmful impacts of this targeting are deep, painful and lasting. Thinking of the victim and hope she recovers and finds support.

A Palestinian hostage from Gaza has had his hands broken more than five times. Every time they begin to heal, the occupation breaks them again. Palestinians are being tortured so brutally that some return unable to recognize their own families l others come back without eyes.

Today & every day we must confront Islamophobia & stand with the targets at the personal and institutional level. We should also stand with Canada's hard-working and dedicated Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, @AmiraElghawaby, for doing her job and doing it well.

Last week I joined in solidarity with the Kebaowek First Nation at a rally outside the Federal Court of Appeals affirming the Crown’s constitutional obligation to seek and obtain the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous rights holders and to abide by UNDRIP. This

I'm running for NDP leader as a Groucho Marxist and the only candidate who refuses to join because I'd never want to belong to a party that would accept me as a member.

CSIS is the perfect example of gold star culture, in which you get rewarded no matter how poorly you did. They have been saying they'll do better for 41 years and still they violate the law and our rights and get increased funding

why are you doubling down on this racist misogynist "purity test" rhetoric and then proudly sharing it? I hoped it was an ignorant off the cuff error but you seem to have made it a talking point. Do better.

Being embedded with the Pentagon has never brought the kind of critical coverage we need of a trillion dollar terrorist organization. Maybe now that they no longer lunch with the generals these reporters might actually do their jobs.