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Does Canada have the “right” to exist? Does any country?

President-elect Donald Trump said that because Greenland and Panama are vital for US security, he would not rule out using military force to take them over. For Canada he would only use “economic pressure”. But do Canada, Greenland and Panama have the “right” to exist? Does any country have such a right? Read more…

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President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Prize winner and author of “Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid” dies at 100

Former US President Jimmy Carter braved a storm of controversy when he came out in 2006 with his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”. While other major figures including Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu had made the same allegation, Carter was the first major western figure to adopt that terminology. He paid dearly for it. Read more…

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Israeli bombs kill twin Waterloo U Ph.D students as attacks on civilians in Gaza continue to mount

The University of Waterloo says twin sisters, Dalia Ghazi Ibaid and Sally Ghazi Ibaid, who were set to start their PhD studies at the school, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Dec. 5. The UN says that the ongoing genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza is unprecedented and has been intensifying. Many are killed every day. Read more.

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Will anybody try to claim this is antisemitic?

Over a hundred Jews and allies briefly occupied the Confederation building in Ottawa in a peaceful sit-in on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, December 3rd calling for a full and immediate arms embargo against Israel. In song, prayer, and speeches, they called for our politicians to end Canada’s arming of Israeli genocide in Gaza. Learn more.

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