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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Canada: Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Canada: Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism
Cliquez ici pour une version française de cette campagne. Last week, Public Safety Canada tried to quietly redefine anti-Zionism as antisemitic. This marks the first time the Canadian government has...
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canadians- Please sign! UN Report on companies that do business in the West Bank includes Canadian companies and companies that do business in Canada. PM Carney announced sanctions. Keep the government accountable. actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...
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The UN just updated their database of companies complicit in Israel's illegal settlement, and there are TOO many Canadian connections!
The UN has provided an updated list of businesses associated with illegal Israeli settlements (aka War Crimes) On Friday, September 25, 2026, the UN Human Rights Office issued an updated report on th...
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Close the Doors on Elbit and IAI: Tell CBSA to Take Action. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/clos...
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Close the Doors on Elbit and IAI: Tell CBSA to Take Action
Français ici This week, ICJP and Just Peace Advocates submitted a complaint to the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) requesting that representatives of Elbit Systems Ltd (“Elbit”) and Israel Ae...
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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 11/09/2026
We are deeply alarmed by reports of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya being subjected to continued beatings, deliberate sleep deprivation & threats Israeli authorities must immediately & unconditionally release Dr. Abu Safiya & all Palestinians arbitrary detained takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/175180/action/1
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Please write a letter to Members of Parliament expressing concern. Israel released new maps changing a Palestinian village with private land to “disputed" land - signalling permission for more violence in the West Bank. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 21/08/2026
2/2 It’s long past time to cancel the Canada-Israel free trade agreement, issue sanctions, and use every diplomatic tool at our disposal to rein in this rogue state. Anything less is a green light for Israel to continue killing civilians with impunity.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Genuinely extreme--and quite frankly explosive--fire behavior ongoing within #CottonwoodFire in SW Utah late this evening, with a persistent, deep, and apparently rotating *nocturnal* pyrocumulonimbus. This region had record low snowpack a following record warm winter. Yikes.
Current satellite snapshot showing glaciated anvil atop a very intense wildfire plume in Utah (circled in yellow).Screenshot of current dual panel radar imagery showing smoke plume in Utah. At left is reflectivity, a measure of the density of the smoke plume, and at right is  the relative velocity of the particles within the smoke plume, which exhibits a "couplet" of winds in opposite directions in close proximity (circled), indicative of plume rotation.
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
No sanctions. Charitable status to organizations funding illegal settlements. Canada abandoning basic humanitarian values. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There's some stories from Gaza that break through the ongoing horror and atrocity - or maybe symbolize them. Israel's abduction, detention, and torture of this heroic doctor, Hussam Abu Sufia, is one of them. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/05/2026
3/ We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump: Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble. And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/05/2026
1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Close the Doors on Elbit and IAI: Tell CBSA to Take Action. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/clos...
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Close the Doors on Elbit and IAI: Tell CBSA to Take Action
Français ici This week, ICJP and Just Peace Advocates submitted a complaint to the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) requesting that representatives of Elbit Systems Ltd (“Elbit”) and Israel Ae...
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Peace Pangolin @peace-pangolin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I have been harping on this statistic for a long time. Everyone needs to say it out loud every chance they get. I think most people assume that Canadians are near universally stable and secure. 25%!! 1 out of every 4 people in Canada struggle for daily nutrition. proof.utoronto.ca/2025/new-dat...
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New data on household food insecurity in 2024
We've summarized the latest data on food insecurity in 2024 from Statistics Canada's Canadian Income Survey. In 2024, 10 million Canadians, including 2.5 million children, lived in a food-insecure hou...
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David Doel @daviddoel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Vassy Kapelos: What if [a windfall profits tax on big oil] deflates them? NDP leader Avi Lewis: Tell the family where 1 in 4 Canadians is skipping a meal .. to feed their kids, that an industry making $90B in profits this year can’t afford to pay a little bit more. I’m sorry I just don’t accept it.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/04/2026
The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price.
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) @iclmg-csilc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW ACTION: Bill C-9 is now in the Senate - they started debating it today. Help us stop C-9 at iclmg.ca/c-9-senate/ A reminder of why C-9 must be stopped: - The Libs tabled the Combatting Hate Act to prevent hate crimes. Instead it threatens our Charter rights & freedoms. 1/
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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 09/04/2026
wtfwtfwtfwtfwtfwtfwtfwtfWTFFFFFFFFF
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I mean there it is.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/03/2026
Today, NDP delegates voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution calling on the federal govt to close the loophole that's allowed Canadian-made weapons to be used in human rights abuses abroad — as @jennykwan.bsky.social's Bill C-233 called for. I was proud to speak in favour of the resolution.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 13/03/2026
Canada must call for an immediate ceasefire as the US and Israel continue their illegal and reckless war.  We should be demanding justice for violations of international law and war crimes, not tap-dancing around whether or not we support this disastrous Trump-led military adventure.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Well this is freaking cool!
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 05/03/2026
1/ PM Carney: you can and must categorically rule out participation in this illegal war. Your unqualified support of Trump and Netanyahu’s war was bad enough. It’s unconscionable that you’re now considering putting Canadian forces in harm’s way.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
In the NDP Leaders Debate, I made it clear: no weapons or technology for human rights abusers - including ICE.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 24/01/2026
Want to see a cost breakdown and some solid modelling for how public grocery stores could work in Canada? Read a detailed new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
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How public grocery stores could work in Canada - CCPA
Chances are you spent some of your holiday gatherings talking about the price of food. Costs to consumers have increased by almost 30 per cent since 2020, while mega-grocers doubled their profit margins, and total profits ballooned by over 120 per cent. The growing distrust of Canada's oligopolistic food retail system, where five large chains…
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 24/01/2026
Canadians know monopolies are driving up prices. A public option for groceries would give people a real alternative and bring costs down immediately. It’s affordable, practical, and within reach. Read our plan for Public Options: avilewis.link/public_options
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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Unacceptable
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
BC government workers on strike while the NDP government says workers cannot expect to keep up with inflation, while top paid civil servant makes over 1 million and last raise was over 100%. Income inequality grows. nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...
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CBC Bot posting select CBC RSS Feeds @scrubfire84.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Irish trio Kneecap says it got no official notice about ban from Canada #cbc #cbc-world-news #Canada
Men on stage screaming into microphones.
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Had tickets and was so looking forward to this show. This is an absolute fucking outrage and puts Canada on the EXACT SAME level with our boot-licking, dissent-cancelling neighbours to the south. Solidarity to @kneecapceol.bsky.social and FREE PALESTINE ✊✊✊🇵🇸🇮🇪 🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪
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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
So the decision to ban Kneecap from Canada doesn’t seem to have been done in accordance with any formal procedure but was just a decision that Carney and Gasparro made on the fly and thought made for a good post on the socials? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Irish trio Kneecap says it got no official notice about ban from Canada | CBC News
Irish hip-hop group Kneecap has yet to receive any official communication from the federal government confirming its ban from entering Canada, it told CBC News, after an announcement by Liberal MP Vin...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/08/2025
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Urgent appeal issued by the health unions and medical syndicates in Gaza Strip. August 16, 2025.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Air Canada refused to negotiate in good faith and then the Liberal government stomped on workers’ rights faster than Air Canada finds lost luggage. Cancelations and delays are on them. Workers have the right to strike and to get paid for the hours they work. #aircanadastrike #Solidarity
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This Arctic Circle comic is not pulling any punches about AI and climate change in my weekend paper!
A comic strip clipped from a newspaper, called Arctic Circle. A penguin and an Arctic hare discuss AI’s resource-intensiveness with a man in a suit who says they can’t be turned off if data centers also host military servers. The man gives the hare an “Arctic cola, made from pristine melted glaciers,” and tells the hare to “cool your jets.” The hare reacts angrily to the cola destroying the Arctic, and the man in a suit replies, “look at this hot babe I got my phone to generate: ain’t they worth it, boys?”
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“So to the Biden and Trump administrations, to Democrats and Republicans in Congress, to the US media, I say this: history will judge you. For non-stop complicity in a genocide; aiding and abetting the crime of crimes.” My latest op-ed for the Guardian:
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The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan
The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” The first part of this James Baldwin quote gets thrown around a lot, but it’s the second half that stick with me.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...
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Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows
A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My dear friend and comrade Tan Safi sent me this video a day before the Handala freedom flotilla boat was illegally intercepted in international waters by Israeli forces. All 21 crew members onboard have been abducted by Israel, and are now on a collective hunger strike.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Francesca Albanese : "We have entered the era of the "might makes right, with no exceptions. " Dark times await us all unless we, the global society, wake up and protect our rights. No one is free unless everyone is free". #freepalestine
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
How much plastic gets recycled? About 9%. The remaining 91% is incinerated (12%) or accumulating in landfills or the natural environment (79%). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
Plastics have outgrown most man-made materials and have long been under environmental scrutiny. However, robust global information, particularly about their end-of-life fate, is lacking. By identifying and synthesizing dispersed data on production, use, and end-of-life management of polymer resins, synthetic fibers, and additives, we present the first global analysis of all mass-produced plastics ever manufactured. We estimate that 8300 million metric tons (Mt) as of virgin plastics have been produced to date. As of 2015, approximately 6300 Mt of plastic waste had been generated, around 9% of which had been recycled, 12% was incinerated, and 79% was accumulated in landfills or the natural environment. If current production and waste management trends continue, roughly 12,000 Mt of plastic waste will be in landfills or in the natural environment by 2050.
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Canadians 🇨🇦 - a parliamentary petition sponsored by MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social is requesting gov action on Gaza. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
@cbcnews-rss.bsky.social “Israel says it only targets militants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas” ?? Israel is starving the population in Gaza. It is grotesque and embarrassing to know my tax dollars fund this propaganda. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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York Region paramedic shouldn't have been fired over Israel comments: union, law experts | CBC News
The Centre for Free Expression is calling for the reinstatement of a York Region paramedic whose union says she was fired over a social media post criticizing Israel's military operations in the Middl...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Open letter to Prime Minister Carney from 412 Canadian academics, lawyers, former ambassadors, ministers, public servants, and civil society leaders, urging immediate action to stop the genocide being carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people. www.alexneve.ca/blog/prime-m...
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Canada most definitely has a wealth inequality problem that NAFTA exacerbated. The ‘integrated’ economy with the US brought great wealth … to some Canadians. youtube.com/shorts/M3MSp...
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Canada Has A Huge Wealth Inequality Problem
YouTube video by Steve Boots
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rhiand.bsky.social @rhiand.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Bill C-2 is Carney's top priority right now? How is this addressing the economy or housing? Giving the government draconian powers over immigrants is NOT a what I thought elbows up meant. @mark-carney.bsky.social @lena-diab.bsky.social @heathermcpherson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rachelgi...
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Could Bill C-2 set the stage for Trump-style mass deportations in Canada? Advocates are concerned
Listen now | That's not the only thing in the bill that's got civil liberties groups worried.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
WATCH: Prime Minister Mark Carney, obliterates Dan Albas and the #CPC. That's a fact! Fact! Fact! I can only imagine what he would do to PoiLIEvre 😂😅 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️ #canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #teamcanada #tariffs #tradewar #never51state #buycanadian #usa
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