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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

@jkdamours.bsky.social
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"A journalistic Sean Paul enthusiast" who prefers to be outdoors. reporter/editor covering human rights, migration and more. À Montréal.

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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“We need answers – and from the highest levels of government”: Calls for answers grow after Canada’s interrogation of ex-UN special rapporteur and prominent legal scholar Richard Falk www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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Calls for answers grow over Canada’s interrogation of Israel critic
Ministry of public safety says it is seeking more details about questioning of scholar Richard Falk at Toronto airport.
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
One notable detail here is that Falk is 95 years old. Great reporting by my colleague @jkdamours.bsky.social
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
'Everybody is a fighter in Grassy': The poisoned river and a First Nation's quest for justice (With @jkdamours.bsky.social and support from @ijnr.bsky.social)
aljazeera.com
‘Everybody is a fighter’: Inside a First Nation’s quest for justice
A decades-long fight ramps up in Grassy Narrows as mercury poisoning threatens its water, people and way of life.
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Nature @nature.com · 27/06/2025
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities The results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict. go.nature.com/44nH0la
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First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The bylaws are “a response to the overwhelming and unsubstantiated attacks on pro-Palestinian protests across the country” truthout.org/articles/und... via @truthout.org
truthout.org
Under Pressure From Pro-Israel Groups, Canadian Cities Are Restricting Protest
Toronto, Vaughan, Brampton, and Calgary have all passed bylaws that infringe on protest rights, and Ottawa may be next.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/06/2025
Breaking news: A prominent Minnesota Democrat and her spouse were killed early Saturday morning by a gunman impersonating a police officer. Another state lawmaker and his wife were shot overnight, believed to be connected to the same suspect, police said. A manhunt for the suspect is underway.
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Minnesota lawmaker killed in ‘politically motivated assassination,’ governor says
A prominent Minnesota Democrat and her spouse were killed, while another state lawmaker and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings, police said.
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Iranian media are reporting that the Natanz nuclear site was hit, and a number of top military officials have been assassinated in Israel’s ongoing assault.
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ISRAEL LAUNCHES ‘MAJOR STRIKE’ ON IRAN
Blasts heard in Iranian capital Tehran as Israel carries out large-scale attack on country.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"Behind these numbers are so many individual people whose suffering is immeasurable": In Haiti, 1.3 million people are now internally displaced as violence surges - a new, grim record www.iom.int/news/haiti-s...
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Haiti Sees Record Displacement as 1.3 Million Flee Violence
Geneva/Port-au-Prince, 11 June 2025 – Nearly 1.3 million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, a 24 percent increase since December 2024, according to a recently published Displacement Trackin...
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“I’ve never felt like this before during my time here. When you leave your house, you don’t know if you’ll return home”: Trump’s immigration crackdown shakes LA www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
aljazeera.com
‘You don’t know if you’ll return home’: Immigration raids shake Los Angeles
Residents are on edge as the Trump administration escalates force against protests that have rocked the city.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
'In killing civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites, Israeli security forces committed the crime against humanity of extermination': www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Israeli attacks on educational, religious and cultural sites in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, UN Commission says
GENEVA – Israel has obliterated Gaza’s education system and destroyed over half of all religious and cultural sites in the Gaza Strip, part of a widespread and relentless assault against the Palestini...
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
“It feels like I have lost a part of my body, like someone tore my heart out of my chest. The soul of our home has gone.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza
A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughter
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“US officials who know atrocities are being committed and continue defending them from behind the podium are not neutral, they are complicit. Miller’s silence while in government helped Israel with its genocide. He has Palestinian blood on his hands,” says DAWN's Raed Jarrar aje.io/7agxo4?updat...
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Israel warned ‘weaponising’ Gaza aid equals crimes against humanity
Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza as outrage grows over the killings of starving Palestinians seeking food aid.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Yahya Hamdi al-Najjar, 12 Rakan Hamdi al-Najjar, 10 Eve Hamdi al-Najjar, 9 Jubran Hamdi al-Najjar, 8 Ruslan Hamdi al-Najjar, 7 Reval Hamdi al-Najjar, 5 Sadin Hamdi al-Najjar, 3 Luqman Hamdi al-Najjar, 2 Sidar Hamdi al-Najjar, under 1 year old aje.io/31fovy?updat...
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Israel accused of ‘engineered starvation’ as it bombs Gaza relentlessly
At least five Palestinians killed, 50 wounded by Israeli attack targeting people around a aid truck.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
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Human Rights First @humanrightsfirst.org · 08/05/2025
🚨We just published a NEW REPORT with @refugeesinternational.org on the rampant abuse and enforced disappearances of people seeking #asylum in the U.S. We spoke with people detained in #CBP custody and expelled to the countries they originally fled or to third countries.🧵⤵️
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New Report Reveals Rampant Abuse and Enforced Disappearances of Asylum Seekers in CBP Custody, Illegal Expulsions, and Refoulement - Human Rights First
Washington, D.C. – A new report from Human Rights First and Refugees International reveals systemic and grave human rights abuses by the Trump administration against asylum seekers in U.S. Customs and...
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 08/05/2025
What’s at the heart of Alberta premier Danielle Smith’s separation rhetoric? Oil. Her position, @drewanderson.bsky.social writes, has been driven since the outset by the Free Alberta Strategy. It's a plan to back oil and gas — even if it means breaking up Canada. thenarwhal.ca/free-alberta...
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Alberta separatism plan is really about oil | The Narwhal
The Free Alberta Strategy has driven Danielle Smith’s government from the outset, a plan to back oil and gas even if it means breaking up Canada
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Trump administration has officially designated the Viv Ansanm gang alliance in Haiti as a "transnational terrorist group" ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
After his party lost a 25-point lead in a matter of months, Pierre Poilievre has now lost the seat he’s held for 20 years
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The Breach live election night coverage + analysis: breachmedia.ca/home/electio...
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Election 2025 LIVE ⋆ The Breach
https://www.youtube.com/live/5U-w1S5D-v8?si=li1ewgYv_xqPKlNEThe Breach is back with another night of live election coverage!Tired of the usual tepid punditry dominating the airwaves? Tune i
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“God did the State of Israel a favour that Biden was the president during this period,” ex-Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Herzog said. "We fought [in Gaza] for over a year, and the administration never came to us and said, ‘Ceasefire now.’" www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Israeli attacks on Gaza ‘worsen by the hour’ as drone kills five children
International Court of Justice hearings begin as fears of famine grow in Gaza with Israel’s blockade nearing 60th day.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“This is a priority issue for many Canadians,” said Dania Majid. “We are not detached from what is happening in Palestine.” As Canadians head to the polls today, advocates are putting Palestinian rights on the ballot: truthout.org/articles/adv...
truthout.org
Advocates Put Palestinian Rights on the Ballot as Canada’s Election Nears
Over 300 Canadian electoral candidates have endorsed a 5-point “Vote Palestine” platform thanks to activist pressure.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to Canada's election revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney: www.ft.com/content/743c...
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Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election
FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Nearly 3,000 aid trucks are ready to enter Gaza but are being blocked by Israel, the UN says, as food stocks are depleted and fears of famine rise: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
aljazeera.com
World Food Programme says Gaza food stocks ‘depleted’ amid Israeli blockade
Israel has not let anything into Gaza for eight weeks, UN group says, marking longest border closure in Strip’s history.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The Trump administration has apparently arrested a judge, accusing her of helping an undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest' abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...
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Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest'
A Milwaukee County circuit judge has been arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant "evade arrest," according to FBI Director Kash Patel.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
TIME: You've talked about ... making Canada the 51st state. Maybe you're trolling a little bit on that one. I don't know. Trump: Actually, no, I’m not ... I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state. time.com/7280114/dona...
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Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s ‘100 Days’ Interview
President Trump discussed his trade war and the economy, immigration, presidential power, and more
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/04/2025
Canadian politicians have long treated Palestine as something they can ignore, but that has been changing. “[People] have been engaging actively with their candidates to make it very clear that it’s not possible to ignore this genocide and that they absolutely need to take action.”
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Advocates Put Palestinian Rights on the Ballot as Canada’s Election Nears
Over 300 Canadian electoral candidates have endorsed a 5-point “Vote Palestine” platform thanks to activist pressure.
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Israeli soldiers who killed Palestinian medics last month "fired continuously for three and a half minutes – even from point-blank range – reloading their ammunition multiple times, despite attempts by the aid workers to identify themselves." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Killing of Gaza aid workers: IDF troops fired indiscriminately for over three minutes
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Echoing Trump's push to penalize US colleges over Gaza protests, Canada's Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says if elected, he will cut federal funding to Canadian universities "that promote or tolerate antisemitism" ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...
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Antisémitisme à l’université : le PCC veut des conséquences
Un document rendu public lundi confirme que le parti ne financerait plus les universités accusées de « promouvoir ou de tolérer » l'antisémitisme.
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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Israeli attacks have killed at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza so far today, medical sources tell Al Jazeera. Follow live updates: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Israeli attacks kill 45 across Gaza as heavy strikes hit north, south
Israeli strike on a barbershop in Khan Younis kllls six, displacement tents were targeted in north Gaza.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
propublica.org
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
At least 80 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the last 48 hours www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
aljazeera.com
Israel kills 80 Palestinians in Gaza in 48 hours
Palestinians mourn Israel’s killing of 15 emergency workers in Gaza’s Rafah.
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Alt hed: Trump to restore confederate monuments, censor Smithsonian references to white supremacist American history
washingtonpost.com
Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian
The order directs the vice president to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“There are many innocent people behind bars. And today, my brother is one of them.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
miamiherald.com
Trump sent these Venezuelans to El Salvador mega prison. Their families deny gang ties.
The day after he was arrested while working at a restaurant in Texas, Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez climbed out of a plane in shackles in El Salvador, bound for the largest mega-prison in Latin Americ...
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Trump attacks the judge overseeing the case challenging US deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, saying he should be impeached.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 170 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip aje.io/oc05av
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Death toll climbs past 100 after wave of Israeli air strikes on Gaza
Israel says it has conducted extensive air attacks on Hamas targets in Gaza, the largest since the ceasefire began.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 18/03/2025
"An ICE officer told her that her brother was detained because of a tattoo that linked him to Tren de Aragua…She said the tattoo depicted a rose and that he had gotten it in a tattoo parlor in Dallas. 'He thought it looked cool' she said, stressing that he is not a gang member."
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Relatives of missing Venezuelan migrants desperate for answers after US deportations to El Salvador
Family members of Venezuelan migrants who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador as part of a rapid U.S. deportation operation over the weekend are struggling to get more information as a legal battle plays out.
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 14/03/2025
Spoke with @jkdamours.bsky.social of Al-Jazeera about Trudeau's final days as PM and his possible legacy as he leaves the office. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
aljazeera.com
Trudeau ending tenure as Canada’s PM ‘at his best’ amid Trump threats
As Justin Trudeau formally steps down, experts say he will be remembered as ‘reassuring’ figure in face of Donald Trump.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
From steep tariffs to continued threats of annexation, why is Donald Trump so focused on Canada? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
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‘Closest target’: Why is Donald Trump so focused on Canada?
Tariffs and threats to annex Canada fall into Donald Trump’s wider vision for US dominance in the world, experts say.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“It feels like the whole world is crushing down on me. It’s like everything is stopping,” said Isha Len, a 29-year-old from Cameroon. “I risked everything, my life, everything, crossing the Darién Gap, just to be sent back.” apnews.com/article/pana...
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They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they're stuck in Panama
Over the past week, Panama's government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
“Innovative and inventive central banker” “Technocrat on steroids” “A consummate insider and a consummate elite” Who is Mark Carney, Canada’s new Liberal Party leader and next prime minister? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
aljazeera.com
Who is Mark Carney, Canada’s new Liberal leader and next prime minister?
Economist and ex-central banker takes over from Justin Trudeau in face of Trump tariff uncertainty, looming election.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trudeau will formally step down after the next leader of his Liberal Party is chosen on March 9; a federal election must be held by October 20 (likely much sooner). None of that is nefarious, as Donald Trump seems to be claiming here.
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Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NEW: Mass. Haitian, Venezuelan groups sue Trump administration, claiming racial bias, unlawful rollback of TPS protections www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/03/m...
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Mass. Haitian, Venezuelan groups sue Trump administration, claiming racial bias, unlawful rollback of TPS protection - The Boston Globe
Lawyers allege that Trump cannot revoke an extension that has already been granted, and that his decision is being driven by racial and ethnic bias.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Almost a quarter of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out. www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...
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The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far
The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
'It’s emotional torture': Canada faces lawsuit over delays in Gaza visa programme www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
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‘Emotional torture’: Canada faces lawsuit over delays to Gaza visa scheme
Palestinian families are suing Canada over visa delays they say leave people at risk of life-threatening harms in Gaza.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
mon pays c’est l’hiver etc
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is Trump’s deputy WH chief of staff saying “we never agreed that Canada would not be the 51st state” after a meeting with Canadian premiers.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“The most important factor in Canadian politics right now doesn’t live in Canada.” How Trump’s tariffs, ‘51st state’ threats are shaking up Canada aje.io/b892z4
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‘Trump effect’: How US tariffs, ’51st state’ threats are shaking up Canada
Canadian politicians are trying to tap into growing nationalist sentiment amid US President Donald Trump’s threats.
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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours @jkdamours.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“America is on the cusp of competitive authoritarianism.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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