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Safder Raza

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vancouver paramedic 🚑 ex-engineer/tech bro 🤮 from techno-optimism to class consciousness land back | free palestine | tax the rich

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Part of why I wrote my book The Age of Insecurity was to get at some of the economic dynamics now being weaponized against some parts of the socialist left. Yes, “middle class" (hard to define), professionals, and even affluent folks are in DSA. That’s good! 🧵
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 14/08/2026
'We’re in uncharted territory. There is no historical analog for this kind of rapid increase in fire activity.' In the last decade, more area has burned in B.C. than in the preceding 67 years. Professor Mike Flannigan explains why: thenarwhal.ca/bc-wildfires...
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The ‘new reality’ of B.C. wildfires is anything but ‘normal’ | The Narwhal
Scientist Mike Flannigan looked at decades of data about B.C. wildfires. He has ideas about how to protect people and the planet in years to come.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Got upset and made this so hopefully people will actually listen. What the fuck are we doing here folks?
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Yuen Pau Woo @ypwoo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A brilliant but depressing read. To paraphrase: The demand for moral stupidity comes from a Western ear that is desperate to avoid the truth. www.equator.org/articles/mor...
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Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/06/2026
They’re going to call you a socialist regardless. So be a socialist.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 29/06/2026
A record-breaking heat dome sent nearly 12,000 emergency calls into B.C.’s ambulance system in a single day in 2021. Five years later, are we any more prepared? thenarwhal.ca/bc-heat-dome... #bcpoli
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Paramedics share lessons from B.C.’s heat dome emergency | The Narwhal
B.C. recorded 12,000 emergency calls in just one day. Can new systems keep up with extreme weather heat?
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"Centrists don’t fear bad government...They fear a left-wing that governs well. That’s the terrifying threat Mamdani poses to the status quo—and the massive opportunity his administration presents for all of those who want to transform it." Read the whole forum: hammerandhope.org/forums/mamda...
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How Is Zohran Mamdani Doing?
Nine New Yorkers discuss the first six months of the Mamdani administration.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Canadian government is eyeing changes to the Canada Labour Code that could widen the definition of “essential services” to include work that’s important to the “well-being of the population.” “These workers are essential to corporate profits, not human life” said Teamsters’ Christopher Monette
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/05/2026
Workers have fought and died for the right to strike. We will not allow this government to take us backwards.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is evil collective punishment.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Devastating memoir of Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Srour on surviving torture inside Israel’s prisons from 1993 until 2025. "I have decided to write because things do not find existence outside the borders of language, not even genocide." www.equator.org/articles/why...
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‘Why Don’t You Just Die?’ • EQUATOR
Surviving torture and brutality inside Israel’s prisons
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Zoë Yunker @zoeyunker.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Something big just happened on Haida Gwaii. For the first time in B.C., a utility-scale solar project is now taking a meaningful bite out of a diesel-fuelled remote grid. It's a product of years of work from the Haida Nation, and it could signal a tipping point. (photos: Katherine Cheng) 🧵
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Haida Gwaii’s historic plan to ditch diesel | The Narwhal
Solar North, the first large-scale solar project on a remote grid in B.C., is just the start
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/04/2026
Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it. His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.
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Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts
Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 09/04/2026
1/ Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date. Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
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Lebanon death toll surpasses 200 after Israel launches assault despite U.S.-Iran ceasefire | CBC News
A wave of Israeli airstrikes swept across Lebanon on Wednesday, leaving at least 112 dead and hundreds wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Anyone trying to understand Israel in Lebabon over decades, read Maya Mikdashi "In Lebanon, Israel’s war of impunity is being waged against three fronts: the battlefield, the country’s social fabric and its political society" These attacks kill & displace while trying to foment sectarian violence.
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From Palestine to Lebanon, A War Without Limits and the Wages of Impunity
The seventh Israeli invasion of Lebanon is being waged in both the shadow of genocide in Gaza and within the world that Israel’s permission to commit genocide has created. This is a world where intern...
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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“For Premier Eby to suddenly say changing DRIPA is ‘non-negotiable’ and will pass this session is an absolute betrayal of everything DRIPA and of our evolving relationship with the NDP over the last decade” Grand Chief Stewart Phillip #bcpoli cheknews.ca/premier-eby-...
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Premier Eby says changing DRIPA is 'non-negotiable' and will be pushed into law
B.C. Premier David Eby says that changing the Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Act is "non-negotiable" and it will be pushed into law.
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 19/03/2026
For years, Palestinian trade unions have been calling on global counterparts to stand in solidarity. Now, activists are asking Canada’s largest labour body to do just that. pressprogress.ca/labour-for-p...
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The Labour Push to Declare Israeli Goods Untouchable
'Answering the call' from Palestinian trade unions, Labour For Palestine is gearing up for a vote by the Canadian Labour Congress
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.
Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
You love to see it!!! #LandBack #Nuchatlaht www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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B.C. Appeals Court sides with First Nation over Aboriginal title on Nootka Island
The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling after finding the judge used an “arbitrary boundary” to determine a First Nation’s Aboriginal title over a swath of Nootka Island off weste...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed. In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.
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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Liberal government is “appalled” at the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which is causing economic damage. Yet it is utterly silent at the blockade of Cuba, which is causing death to innocents. That’s not only incoherent, it’s immoral.
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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
i guess i don't understand how this isn't crime-against-humanity stuff. or does that simply not matter anymore www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Cuba’s power grid collapses in third nationwide blackout amid US oil blockade
Network breakdowns compounded by daily blackouts of up to 12 hours caused by fuel shortages
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Safder Raza @safderr.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Handouts to the wealthy, austerity for everyone else
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Let me tell you something about Cuba. US officials are constantly saying "socialism in Cuba is a failure". But in fact Cuba's achievements with socialism are extremely impressive:
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BC Non-Profit Housing Association @bcnpha.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"Delaying housing does not save money; it shifts costs to other parts of the system, where they are far more expensive." Read this new commentary from community housing sector leaders Jill Atkey, Margaret Pfoh and Thom Armstrong. ow.ly/61Go50YvB3Z
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Opinion: 2026 B.C. budget turns its back on housing and communities will pay the price
Opinion: As housing projects stall, families remain in overcrowded situations. Seniors can't downsize. Young workers leave markets they can't afford
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The BC Teachers Federation, the province wide labour union representing over 40,000 teachers, has just passed a resolution in support of BDS! The first province-wide motion to support BDS in solidarity with Palestine!!
Press Release from bc teacher union
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16/03/2026
Although our wealth concentration is not yet at the level of the U.S., we must take what is happening south of the border as a dire warning of the consequences of failing to rein in extreme inequality. Three experts write. #canpoli #uspoli
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How the Top One Per Cent Threaten Canada’s Future | The Tyee
Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. To preserve democracy, we must act.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
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Safder Raza @safderr.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Excited for more of this when we finally elect a progressive council in October!
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs.... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 05/03/2026
At B.C.’s universities, a violent RCMP unit showed up to spy on student Palestine protests. A Breach investigation reveals how the CRU was shaping the encampment response, as the militarized unit grows itself into Canada’s go-to force to repress dissent. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
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A notorious RCMP unit shaped B.C. universities’ reaction to Palestine encampments ⋆ The Breach
From Fairy Creek to university campuses, CRU-BC is positioning itself as the go-to police force for repressing dissent
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Unless you are in echo chamber, yr movement spaces (like mine) are likely imploding "Solidarity is not grounded in identical analysis, synchronized outrage, or emotional unanimity. Solidarity is disciplined commitment to remain in relation under conditions that continually threaten relation itself"
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Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal
Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 01/03/2026
To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country. In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits. This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Thinking aboutt migrants - in UAE and GCC countries. So far those killed in the UAE are Pakistani, Nepali, Bangladeshi. every year, about 10,000 migrant workers die in gcc. Thinking about refugees in Pakistan w/ border escalation & war with Afghanistan. Already, 20% of global refugees are Afghan.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Tell Iranian And Cuban Diaspora Warmongers To Shut The Fuck Up US government-toppling military interventionism doesn’t magically stop having a record of being reliably disastrous just because your family happens to come from the country being targeted. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/tell-irani...
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Tell Iranian And Cuban Diaspora Warmongers To Shut The Fuck Up
Reading by Tim Foley:
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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
PM Carney in Davos: “It means acting consistently, applying the same standards to allies and rivals.“ We are sending aid to Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. Consistency should require us to send aid to Cuba in the face of US aggression.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A mind-boggling — 31x — increase in public spending on for-profit nursing agencies in BC’s public health care system From $8.8m in 2018 to $272m in 2024 via BC Nurses Union www.bcnu.org/news-and-eve... #bcpoli
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12/02/2026
The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada. Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced
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As Tumbler Ridge Mourns, Anti-Trans Misinfo Spreads | The Tyee
No good will come from the conservative rush to weaponize the shooter’s identity in this story.
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Jon Milton @whosestreets.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Canada is uniquely positioned to break the siege of Cuba—we should be leading a regional coalition to ship oil and aid to Cuba, and prevent the humanitarian crisis that U.S. regime is attempting to deliberately trigger. I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca
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Send Canadian oil to Cuba - CCPA
The United States is attempting to deliberately trigger a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. Canada must act in concert with regional allies to defy the blockade.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Why Is the Media Not Touching Jeffrey Epstein’s Clear Connection to Israel?" They’re instead focusing on the possibility that Epstein was a Russian asset, writes Prem Thakker for Zeteo.
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Why Is the Media Not Touching Jeffrey Epstein’s Clear Connection to Israel?
They’re instead focusing on the possibility that Epstein was a Russian asset.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up. Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 31/01/2026
Much of the public believes violent crime is a major problem, even though it's at historic lows in the United States. This disconnect is "the product of carefully cultivated propaganda," says author @equalityalec.bsky.social. www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/alec…
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From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing
As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening...
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The idea among even centrist liberals that this tough moment is “the right time” to treat marginalized people even worse than we do already neatly underscores the callousness and inhumanity of the political and media class in this country. Status for all. Full rights for all.
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 27/01/2026
More than 100 Gazans have been accepted to Canadian universities. Canada isn’t letting them in. pressprogress.ca/gazans-accep...
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More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.
See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti, a 37-year old nurse, was just murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. We must organize and build solidarity across borders to #AbolishICE. First up - BC billionaire Jim Pattison owns a US warehouse that will soon be turned into an ICE processing facility. Tell Eby to shut down the deal. #bcpoli
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