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Associate Professor, Concordia. Author of Displacing Blackness (2018) and co-author of Out to Defend Ourselves (2023) and Il fallait se défendre (2023).

Montréal, Québec

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1 year

Out to Defend Ourselves tells the story of Montreal's first Haitian street gang, les Bélangers. It traces how the gang emerged from a group of friends, how they battled white racial violence, and how police actions worsened gang violence. Available at bookstores everywhere.

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1 year

Poilievre posted a video explaining his analysis of the housing crisis and how he plans to fix it. I’m seeing a lot of people agreeing with all or part of his position. I want to take a moment to show what’s wrong, incredibly wrong, with his analysis and supposed solution. 1/18

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Trapped in housing hell? You’re not alone. Here’s how we get out.

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In McGill's request for an injunction against the Gaza solidarity encampment, they make what should be a deeply embarrassing claim: they've repeated asked the police to attack their students, but the police have urged them to resolve the situation peacefully.

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New report finds that keeping a person homeless in Quebec costs $72,521 per year, including $17,000 in policing expenses. Providing them a home costs less. We've known this for years, but politicians prefer to campaign on more punishment than more care, even if care is cheaper.

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... namely: the incredible and constantly increasing cost of land, our near-total reliance on homes built by huge, profit-driven companies, and the increasing financialization of housing (its treatment as a financial asset within often huge investment portfolios). 18/18

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It's amazing Canadian police killed more people than anytime on record in 2022, about half of people killed by police since 2000 were in mental distress at the time, and the entire public discourse right now is about how people with mental illness are dangerous for *police*.

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Canadian police killed more people than ever recorded in 2020. And then they set a new record in 2021. And then they set a new record in 2022. Thanks to @trackinjustice and @alexmcclelland for putting together this database.

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Police are violence workers. McGill requested police violence. Against its students and a non-violent protest against genocide.

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McGill requests 'police assistance' over pro-Palestinian encampment

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No big deal. Just the UN saying Canada is violating the Geneva Conventions.

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“The United States and Germany are by far the largest arms exporters and shipments have increased since 7 October 2023. Other military exporters include France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.”

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Canada’s most overfunded police force deployed in the hundreds to protect McGill’s investments in genocide. (This is one deployment; the whole campus is surrounded.)

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"All colonized people see themselves in Palestine ... and all colonizers see themselves in Israel." Mic drop.

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"The only democracy..."

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No one asked for my opinion, but if U of T’s whole thing is that the campus is private property, the City of Toronto should start charging them property tax and send the money to Gaza.

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Focusing on government “red tape” is an old neoliberal move. It’s standard fare for the Conservative Party, going back to the 1980s, and it can be politically useful. 3/18

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This is the most Canadian photo ever. We are forever claiming to protect the people we are killing and/or robbing.

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Children are our future. They must be protected in war. Les enfants sont notre avenir. Ils doivent être protégés en temps de guerre.

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The students who got arrested for occupying the McGill admin building tonight have all of my respect and admiration. They embody everything that universities claim to value and promote - but actually disdain.

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It’s worth noting that, in this graph, Montreal seems to lack the usual pesky regulations, and homes somehow sold for less than they cost to build in 2021. This is a good sign there’s something wrong with the report's methodology. 7/18

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In the video, he blames the housing crisis on Trudeau, but then shifts to an analysis of how *city* regulations (“red tape”) are the cause. These regulations, he says, inflate the costs of housing, and his entire plan is to force/encourage cities to remove them. 2/18

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2 years

A brief history of participatory budgeting in Montreal.

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Montreal shuts it down for Palestine.

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The idea of red tape provides a way of speaking to the needs of “ordinary” Canadians, while advancing the interests of the party’s corporate backers. The existing capitalist provision of housing in Canada need not be changed in any way. We just need to cut gov't waste. 4/18

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3 months

Court rejects McGill’s request for an injunction and police action against the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. McGill: just divest already!

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A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected a provisional injunction request by McGill University to remove pro-Palestinian encampment activists from its front lawn in downtown Montreal.

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In court today, the SPVM spoke against McGill’s request for an injunction against the Gaza solidarity encampment, arguing police discretion is essential and they aren’t the private security force of the university. You know how hard it is to make the SPVM look reasonable?

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People have pointed out that Gaza is roughly the size of Montreal, with about the same population. As Israel has destroyed the homes of 250,000 Gazans since Saturday, that's like flattening the Plateau, Petite-Patrie, and Rosemont.

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The UN called for a ceasefire on Saturday. The next day, five countries (incl. Canada) got together to reaffirm their support for Israel's mass slaughter. We're not part of the international community. We're part of a small clique of countries that got rich off colonialism.

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Israel has killed 5100 Palestinians and 19 journalists, and bombed 42% of all housing in Gaza. 1000+ people are missing in the rubble, including hundreds of kids. And the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the UK just released a statement doubling down on support for Israel.

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Second, the report doesn’t bother to consider how the cost of land varies FROM CITY TO CITY in Canada or over TIME. It simply assumes that land costs 25% of total construction costs for a home, whether we’re talking about Vancouver or Montreal, Toronto or St. John’s. 10/18

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I'm releasing a report today on police spending between 2017 and 2021 in Canada's ten largest cities/regions. The report shows how, despite politicians promising a "racial reckoning" in 2020, cities have continued to boost police budgets - some much more than others. 1/7

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@hope0070 Read the last two tweets in the thread. The solution has to focus on those three issues. Meaning we need to partially de-commodify land and housing. Lots of people have shown how that’s been done in Canada in the past and elsewhere in the present.

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I hope it’s clear these three assumptions lead to an economic model that has nothing to do with the actual housing market in Canada or any capitalist country. 13/18

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The solution to the housing crisis in Canada, then, is to get every city to adopt the regulations used in Montreal. That’s it. Never mind that developers and right-wing politicians constantly complain about the regulations in MTL or that we have a housing crisis here too. 16/18

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Ahmed Hussen is telling the Can Press that the Liberals only restored UNRWA funding after the US "implored" them to do so. For him to say this now is optics. But it's telling that our gov't has to get US permission to do something as radical as sending food to starving people.

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Any real solution to the housing crisis in Canada needs to wrestle with three aspects of the housing market that CD Howe and Poilievre purposefully ignore ... 17/18

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3 years

Montreal in four figures: - Largest police force per capita - Lowest public confidence in police - Highest support for #DefundThePolice - Largest police budget increase in 2022

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“The fight to defund the police is … a fight for political power. It is a fight to prioritize care as a society instead of criminalization. Despite bloating police budgets, this is the struggle that continues.” My text with @shiripasternak #DefundThePolice

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Indeed, the report’s methodology is absurdly bad. The report makes a series of assumptions to make its quantitative/econometric analysis possible, three of which deserve some attention. 8/18

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9 months

This man’s need for attention, despite having nothing to say and no analysis, is going to get someone killed. In the full video, we can see the student was told they would get raped in the Middle East and they respond with the c-word (which you can hear in this video too).

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In reality, the barriers to entry to property development are INCREDIBLY high. Pension funds, REITS, etc., invest in property precisely because the profits are high. The cost of LAND also varies massively from city to city and over time. 14/18

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Poilievre’s claim that regulations are inflating the costs of housing is based entirely on a report by the CD Howe Institute. In figures cited by Poilievre, the report says regulations inflate housing costs by huge amounts: $1.3M in Vancouver and $350K in Toronto. 5/18

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5 months

Maybe I was dreaming, but I feel like there were some events recently where a company was selling land in these illegal settlements and a bunch of Liberals were attacking activists for trying to stop it.

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Canada’s position is clear: the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank endangers the prospects for a two-state solution and we call for perpetrators of extremist settler violence to be held accountable.

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Finally, it assumes that any gap between home PRICES and their COSTS of construction is the result of housing market “dysfunction.” Basically, regulations - "red tape." 11/18

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First, the report assumes that property development in Canada is “perfectly competitive.” There are no barriers to entry, and there are so many firms that “the overall market price for that good will equal its marginal costs of production.” The assumed profit rate is 17%. 9/18

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In fact, the report hints that the “lack of (perfect) competition” is a possible dysfunction, even though this contradicts the report's core assumption. But this is soon forgotten in order to assert that the GAP is entirely the result of government regulations – “red tape.” 12/18

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The problems with Poilievre’s analysis and housing plan are evident in the graph I posted earlier. According to the graph, regulations add 60% to the cost of homes in Vancouver and less than 0% in Montreal. That's the only reason Vancouver is more expensive than Montreal. 15/18

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McGill students tirelessly turn attention back to the real issue: "The real question is why are people not focusing on the fact that our administration is investing in real guns and real weapons that are currently perpetrating massacres and violence in Gaza as we speak.”

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The very minimum academics and universities over here can do is cut all ties with Israel and Israeli universities.

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Breaking: Israel has destroyed the remaining buildings of Al-Azhar University in central Gaza. It has demolished all the universities in Gaza, higher education institutes, and hundreds of government and UN schools. #GazaGenocide

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It's incredible to me that, with a few exceptions, the urban planners and urban scholars I follow are totally silent about Israel's genocidal assault on Palestine. Entire neighbourhoods are being reduced to rubble and people are tweeting about bike lanes.

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Journalist @motaz_azaiza shared this video moments ago showing the complete destruction of Al Zahra city. He asks whether the world will finally stop this Nakba aka ethnic-cleansing of Palestinians using genocide.

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The report itself provides a remarkable graph, supposedly showing the gap between the price a home WOULD sell for without unnecessarily regulations and the price it ACTUALLY sells for. The gap, we can see, is often very large. It’s ~60% in Vancouver and ~40% in Toronto. 6/18

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The Houthis are blocking ships in the Red Sea until needed food and medicine are allowed into Gaza. Canada claims to care about getting aid to Gaza, but hasn’t done anything to ensure that - and will now contribute to this military operation against the Houthis.

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Canada is sending "a handful of personnel" to the Middle East as part of a multinational operation to counter escalating attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, a government official told Global News. READ MORE:

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Compare the city's response to illegal Airbnbs, which are everywhere in the city, to its response to a few encampments created by people displaced, in part, by illegal Airbnbs.

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And we’re over here debating about how student-led Palestine solidarity actions affect “campus safety.”

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The Israeli army detonates the last university it hadn't destroyed yet. A scene from the explosion of the Palestine University with 315 bombs. The university is owned by businessmen and is not affiliated with any political agenda. Israel has destroyed all universities and about

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Concerned your country might be on the wrong side of history? Experts say a good rule of thumb is to check if your country signed a US-authored joint statement supporting the bombing of a poor country for trying to stop a genocide.

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I don’t know, maybe if you need to call in thirty cops to pass your city budget, there’s something to rethink?

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For three months, students showed what education hitched to courage and moral principle looks like. Our hearts swell with respect and gratitude toward them. The movement is stronger for their efforts and it will continue in myriad other forms. Free Palestine.

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3 months

McGill wants the police to attack its students so it can continue to profit from killing Palestinians. Just divest FFS.

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McGill seeks injunction to close down encampment

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The sickness of sending a Caterpillar bulldozer to destroy a pro-Palestine encampment. #RachelCorrie

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3 years

Interesting that the STM (Montreal public transit) posted a $43M deficit in 2021 and it's a major crisis, while the SPVM went over budget by $51M in 2021 and the city just paid it and increased next year's budget (which the SPVM will *still* go over).

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Canada votes for a ceasefire at the UN. No credit to Liberals for this, all credit to the amazing people who have been organizing in solidarity with Palestine for the last two months - and long before that. It’s not a binding resolution, but it’s not nothing.

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153 votes in favour of full ceasefire and clapping in the UN general assembly whilst the Israeli ambassador looked pissed on his phone. They also rejected the amendments that the US and Israel provided that mentioned Hamas previous to this.

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A public message from professors to the students involved in the Palestine solidarity encampment at McGill. "As professors and teaching faculty, we are humbled by what the students have taught us. Our hearts swell with respect and gratitude toward them. Free Palestine."

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On the day the death toll in Gaza hit 20,000, this is the statement Canada's Minister of Foreign Genocide put out.

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See my statement below:

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10 months

Someone needs to explain how being against violence means condemning Hamas on Saturday, and then projecting an Israeli flag on public buildings as Israel bombs Gaza to rubble, destroying homes and killing people who’ve nothing to do with the attack in Israel, every day since.

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The SPVM just released data showing gun crime is down 7% this year compared to last year. Police seizures of guns are down 17%. Only one journalist has reported on this.

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It’s just constant terror and destruction and death. Canadian universities are profiting from every bomb. Justin and Mélanie are networking at a Montreal cocktail party while the SPVM beats and pepper sprays student activists outside …

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A few hours ago, Israel bombed a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians in an area it had designated as a "humanitarian zone" in Khan Yunis city two days earlier, causing casualties and spreading horror among displaced families.

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When you run a university and the police are like, "wait, aren't these your students? Have you tried dialoguing with them?" you should maybe be doing a different job.

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As an aside, Toronto police are the only large force in Canada that “doesn’t keep a record” of no knock raids, so there’s no way of knowing how often they bust through the front door of someone wanted on “mischief” charges.

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Early Wednesday, police raided a townhouse, reportedly looking for a man they allege vandalized a Toronto bookstore. The problem? The man in question moved out the home more than a year ago. How a police raid left these Toronto housemates terrified

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The argument for defunding the police isn’t that there’s no violence or any other kind of harm. It’s that police don’t prevent violence, that they *are* violence, and that our financial and libidinal investment in police prevents us from actually keeping each other safe.

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Many people rightly distrusted the NYT story from the beginning, but the point by point debunking of its claims in this Intercept piece is definitive. Mélanie Joly, who has been trumpeting the NYT’s claims for months, should be asked to respond.

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Anat Schwartz, the Israeli filmmaker & ex-air force intelligence official, gave a stunningly revelatory interview detailing the process that led to the NYT's "Screams Without Words" story alleging systematic sexual violence by Hamas on Oct. 7. Story below:

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Pakistan's UN rep, criticizing Bob Rae and Canada's ghoulish need to add a condemnation of Hamas to a motion calling for a humanitarian truce: "He does not feel the need to name Israel for killing 7,000 Palestinians and injuring 17,000. Only Hamas.”

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Worth a watch: Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN criticising Canada's amendment to the UNGA resolution on Gaza, solely condemning Hamas. All Western states voted for the amendment that nevertheless failed to pass.

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People who are enabling and supporting the actual killing of Palestinians – with actual guns and bombs - are upset about a photo.

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Enough is enough, this is hate speech and incitement to hate, pure and simple! Freedom of expression and the right to protest have their resonable limits and they have been reached. De-escalation at McGill has clearly failed. This needs to end! @SPVM @mcgillu

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An embarrassing text from an awful man. Even the writing style is a crime.

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This is from the former Prime Minister of Canada. Absolutely unhinged, racist garbage - expected from both Harper and @nationalpost . The vastness of genocide support masked as journalism in the comparatively small Canadian media industry puts US newsrooms to shame.

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The Quebec police brotherhood says the "thin blue line" isn't racist because cops started wearing it "before George Floyd." One member says "6 or 7 years before." So I guess there was just a sudden feeling of solidarity among cops around 2014 for no reason at all.

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The SPVM budget for 2021 was $679M. They ended up spending $733M. They self-increased their budget by $54M. Rhetorical question: who's running this city?

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Canada was meant to present today at the ICJ hearings on Israel's occupation of Palestine. Its reps have chosen not to present, but the leaked written submission is available. Basically: "Who cares about international law? Just get two incredibly unequal parties to work it out."

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@JP_Peacemaking @Heidi__Matthews @CIJ_ICJ Canada’s position is direct negotiations between parties is the established framework for resolving conflict, and ICJ should exercise its discretion to not render an advisory opinion. It’s a rather weak legal argument. 🇨🇦 submission is here ⬇️

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Enlightened response to the ICJ decision: cut off funding for refugees in Gaza. Boycott Canada.

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Canada unequivocally condemns the October 7th attack on Israel. I am deeply troubled by the allegations relating to some UNRWA employees. I have instructed Global Affairs Canada to pause all additional funding to UNRWA pending the outcome of the investigation. Read my statement:

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Avec l'ajout de 450 policiers annoncés aujourd'hui, Montréal dépassera encore plus la norme pour les grandes villes du Canada. Nous avions déjà 33% plus de policiers par habitant. Là nous en aurons 41%. La violence à Montréal n'est PAS le résultat d'un manque de policiers.

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Palestinian Canadians to sue Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, alleging Canada's military exports to Israel are illegal #cdnpoli

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@MarcMillerVM This is a vile tweet for an MP. Listen to the video. The student did not say k*ke; they were also disgustingly provoked, as the longer video you've been provided shows. Meanwhile, your and your party's refusal to support a ceasefire is killing a Palestinian child every 10 mins.

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From supporting Israel's mass slaughter in Palestine to super-funding police forces in our cities, our political leaders continually promote organized violence as the solution to real and imagined social problems. A thread on police spending in Canada. 1/11

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United States implored Canada behind the scenes to keep supporting UNRWA: Hussen

United States implored Canada behind the scenes to keep supporting UNRWA: Hussen

OTTAWA – The United States ambassador to the United Nations implored Canada last month to keep funding the UN relief agency for Palestinians, International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen says...

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Three Liberals – @AHousefather , @marcomendicino and @BenCarrwpg – voted against last night's watered-down motion on Palestine. No surprise. For months, they've have been pursuing their own pro-genocide policy, circulating Israel's lies, and slandering anyone who speaks up.

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3 years

The CAQ's new "affordable housing" program will give developers $200 million to build housing units rented for the median rent in the region. The median. If they want to give public money to their friends, just send over a Brinks truck. Don't call it a housing program.

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Asked if we're in a housing crisis, François Legault said it's a matter of perspective. Of course it is. For someone who owns a $5 million house in Outremont, as Legault does, it's not a crisis but a bonanza. #capitalism

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3 years

Coderre announces he'll ban alcohol in parks after 8pm. So, having read the room, he feels people are hungry for more restrictions on their social lives right now? Can someone please get this man a campaign team?

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2 months

At home washing pepper spray out of my eyes and off my clothing, and wondering why an SPVM cop decided to spray a group of people in the eyes when they were five feet away and retreating - other than the obvious answers.

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2 years

Projet Montreal is forcing the STM to cut expenses by $77M so they can boost SPVM funding by a record $63M - along with the usual $30M the SPVM allocates to itself every year by spending what it wants. The green in the party's logo is increasingly crowded out by the blue.

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3 months

University of Calgary admin: if you hate your students this much, you don’t have to do this job.

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3 months

BREAKING: Dramatic scenes from the university of Calgary as the Police begins to dismantle the anti-Israel encampment on day 1. Follow and support @MediaBezirgan for more on-the-ground coverage.

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Another day, another email from McGill admin saying "dialogue has failed, we have unfortunately called the police to dismantle the encampment." As usual, the admin claims the students are refusing dialogue - and assumes no one will check the receipts.

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2 years

Congratulations to Joseph Facal for being the first of the repugnant Quebec media figures to celebrate the fascist victory in Italy - which, as he explains, is just giving the voters what they want in an era of "massive" non-white immigration and ethnic replacement.

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« Je suis content qu’on soit débarrassés de cet individu-là .» François Legault on the suspected author of a triple murder, who was killed by police. It's easier to celebrate an execution than to reflect on whether, with a better mental health system, four people would be alive.

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2 years

In 2020, Montreal asked the public if they wanted the SPVM budget cut. 73% said yes. In 2021, they removed the question from the pre-budget survey. Want to see the question added back? You have until Friday afternoon to email commissions @montreal .ca and tell them so!

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1/2 Children should never be used as a pawns in war. We welcome the news of the 6 Ukrainian children who have returned home from Russia, through Qatari diplomatic efforts.

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6 months

Excellent and critical recap of how the Toronto Police Association stoked public fears, lied to the public, and aggressively lobbied politicians to win a larger police budget increase this year. Quite jealous that Toronto journalists do this kind of work.

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Toronto Police Association touts success of PR campaign to influence police budget debate

“Our goal was to inform the public about the realities of frontline policing and encourage the silent majority to speak up, and they did.”

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2 months

Destroying a Palestine solidarity camp, Montreal style. Riot cops storm the camp at dawn and kettle the campers. Further units come to destroy their belongings, city garbage trucks hall them away, and ECCR (the squad that “helps” unhoused people) passes orders to the displaced.

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Chaque fois qu'on lui pose des questions sur le risque d’abus policiers, Legault répond toujours que le gouvernement ne peut pas s'immiscer dans les affaires de la police. Lorsqu’il estime que la police n'est pas *assez* abusive, le gouvernement doit soudainement intervenir.

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NOUVEAU @francoislegault demande @SPVM de démanteler le campement pro palestinien @uMcGill Selon lui, il est illégal, la loi doit être respectée «Je m'attends à ce que les policiers défassent le campement» #polqc #polcan

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10 months

Just want to point out again that Trudeau’s position on Palestine is farther right than the majority of US Republican voters. Ceasefire now ffs.

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7 months

Somehow it took Mélanie Joly’s office all day to respond to the ICJ decision by saying they’ve been saying for three months now: We will continue to pretend this genocide is consistent with international law. Disgusting.

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3 years

A new report shows Montreal lost 35,000 residents (net) last year - the most in 20 years. This is being reported as an exodus to the suburbs, as if people are leaving empty homes behind. In fact, the wealthy here are taking over more space and *displacing* people from the city.

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The Black teenager who was pinned to the ground, handcuffed, and strangled by SPVM cops wasn't charged with any crime, but was given a ticket for disturbing the peace. His lawyer says this was because he screamed while being strangled.

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3 years

Montreal spends tens of millions each year to have 270 cops patrol the metro system, harass homeless people, and chase people down – and sometimes, as we saw on Saturday, beat them down - for not paying the fare. Fire them and use the money to reduce fares. #DefundThePolice

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2 years

It's soothing to blame the first-past-the-post system for the QC election results, and it's part of the problem. But we also have to face that 54% of votes went to parties (the CAQ and PCQ) that refuse to recognize any of the real problems we face and campaigned on xenophobia.

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3 months

Must be thrilling in the offices of Trudeau, Freeland, and Joly these days. Step one: write down what Netanyahu and Biden say. There is no step two.

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@Mivasair @JustinTrudeau @IndJewishVoices @JewsSayNo @palyouthmvmt @ELDV4Palestine Damn Justin was given the same script as the rest of the tools

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2 years

How many cops does it take to arrest a small group of Indigenous youth for an infraction they haven't come up with yet?

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This is outrageous!

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54% of Quebeckers support defunding the police. And yet the Quebec government, in the vacuous 490-page report on the future of policing released today, claims "none of the stakeholders we met were in favour of defunding the police." Thanks for admitting you're hopeless.

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