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Trump has based his ENTIRE tariff attack on Canada on the claim that 43 pounds of fentanyl, of the 4,500 that entered the United States last year, came through the northern border. This investigation found that the actual figure is closer to zero www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Although to the authors, "world" appears to mean just Europe. There are more potential allies for Canada around the world than European ones. This seems to be a blind spot in Canadian foreign policy as well.

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You do not need to pre-register to vote in Ontario. You need a piece of ID with your address on it or a piece of ID and a bill with your address on it, prepare that now. Check your polling station for tomorrow, here: www.elections.on.ca/en.html #onpoli

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I remember when US diplomats were shocked and dismayed that countries such as South Africa would abstain on these votes.

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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

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💯 CBC journalists seem slow (or reluctant) to accept the new reality. I guess it's hard to break old, lazy, "both sides" habits. Canadian listeners and viewers deserve better.

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I don’t know what to call this but flamboyantly evil.

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Call to contribute to an edited volume on migrant (ir)regularity in the Americas. Abstracts due Feb 7 migdep.colmex.mx/actividades/...

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How the world’s richest man laid waste to the US government

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A key food insecurity data tool used by humanitarian groups worldwide has been taken down due to the Trump administration's stop-work order on USAID, raising alarm among aid workers.

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If I had to guess what will happen to US foreign aid, I’d say they’ll eventually allow a small subset of funding, but redirect it via evangelical groups connected to Project 2025 Because yes there’s ideology. But there’s also always grift

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"One study estimated that if PEPFAR were to end, as many as 600,000 lives would be lost over the next decade in South Africa alone. And that nation relies on PEPFAR for only 20 percent of its H.I.V. budget. Some poorer countries are almost entirely dependent on it." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

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The Rwanda-backed M23 says it’s taken control of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The fighting is having catastrophic consequences for the humanitarian situation around Goma. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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Inscrivez-vous maintenant pour façonner l’avenir du Canada et faire entendre votre voix dans la course à la chefferie libérale de 2025 : lpc.ca/inscrivez-vous

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All the people who were shrugging and equivocating over Elon and whether he was aligning with Nazi, far-right forces should be launched into the sun. May they never be taken seriously again.

submitted 34 days ago • 113 comments

Probably our best bet for a non-Conservative government, and one that can defend Canada against Trump's threats, is the Liberals under a new leader. Register by Monday to have your say in who that leader should be.

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Since returning to the White House, President Trump has carried through on promises of “shock and awe” by laying groundwork for mass deportations and all but eliminating access to asylum at the border Our Muzaffar Chishti & @kathleenbush.bsky.social get you up to speed bit.ly/trump2-immig...

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Trump causes gasps at Davos by once again pushing to annex Canada. "We have a tremendous deficit with Canada. We‘re not going to have that anymore. We can‘t do it... As you probably know, I say you can always become a state. And if you‘re a state, we won‘t have a deficit."

submitted 36 days ago • 67 comments

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Succinct illustration of how the audience for Africa topics and users from African countries are still on Twitter. @geoffreyyork.bsky.social posted the same article about Namibia on here - where it was shared 14 times - and on Twitter - where it was shared over 1,800 times.

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Nicely balanced piece on Trudeau's record and likely legacy. One of the better pieces in the ongoing deluge.

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We still have a government, including after Parliament dissolves! There is never not a Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau is still PM right now. We always have a government in Canada, and even a 'caretaker' gov't (post-Parliament dissolving) can act in our interests on a pressing matter.

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