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Canada is supplying Israel with arms despite explicit claims to the contrary and against its commitments to international law such as it exists. www.ploughshares.ca/publications...

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Scoop: Hot Docs confirms to @TheGrindTO this will be Scotiabank's last year sponsoring the festival. Hot Docs says “Scotiabank has opted to waive its recognition benefits at this year's festival.” It's still listed as a sponsor on the site though. Screencap from today.

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Breaking: charges have been withdrawn for three more of the "Indigo 11." They were pursuing a legal action against the police, and the crown withdrew the charges. Press conference about to start. More to come.

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Pierre Poilievre has bashed asylum seekers who crossed at Roxham Road and has pledged to “track down” and deport many of them. Now it turns out his own relative did exactly that—and then got help from Anaida Poilievre and a MP’s office to stay in Canada. breachmedia.ca/hypocritical...

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Breaking: charges have been withdrawn for three more of the "Indigo 11." They were pursuing a legal action against the police, and the crown withdrew the charges. Press conference about to start. More to come.

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Scoop: Hot Docs confirms to @TheGrindTO this will be Scotiabank's last year sponsoring the festival. Hot Docs says “Scotiabank has opted to waive its recognition benefits at this year's festival.” It's still listed as a sponsor on the site though. Screencap from today.

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Last call!

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lmfao

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New research exposes how fossil fuel prices & profits are driving the affordability crisis The profits pocketed by oil and gas corporations, CEOs, and investors are at the expense of workers and consumers - making life less affordable for all

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Ad space is available in the next issue of The Grind, out April 4! Reach tens of thousands of readers in the TTC and at 300+ shops around Toronto. Contact: ads[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca

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The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

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In 2020, a carbon dioxide pipeline in Mississipi burst, sending ~45 to hospital. Alberta oil companies want to build a CO2 pipeline in Canada; does this incident hold important lessons? Words by me; based on a CBC radio documentary. www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...

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Following @thegrindto.bsky.social's investigation into the Nightwood Theatre's Innovators Program and the conflict over Palestine, Labour In the Arts published 10 testimonies from people with a connection to the program (bottom of page). labourinthearts.com/2025/03/11/%...

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🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL RESUMES WAR ON GAZA Israeli Prime Minister’s Office: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz have instructed the military to take forceful action against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.”

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UPDATE: Drop Site contributor Abubaker Abed reports that Israeli shelling and bombardments have intensified in Deir al-Balah and central Gaza, with tanks advancing further east and heavily shelling the area ahead of them.

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Today is Long COVID Awareness Day. Many Canadians are still impacted by Long COVID / Post COVID Condition, more support and research is needed. It has been an honour helping with the CAN-PCC www.canpcc.ca guidelines to help with guidance for ppl affected & health care workers serving them.

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I'll be on Green Majorit Radio on CIUT 89.5 FM in Toronto today at 11 a.m. interviewing Ontario Place 4 All about this. Article here: www.thegrindmag.ca/commercial-u...

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The Grind looks deep into the story behind the statement that Nightwood put out in the fall. www.nightwoodtheatre.net/elementor-15...

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I didn’t talk about this publicly for over a year. I guess I had hope that we could resolve things before that needed to happen. It’s wild to me how Nightwood leadership continues to try and obscure the truth, even despite the clear evidence presented.

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I recently got an email from StrategyCorp, the conservative-connected comms and lobbying firm for Therme's Ontario Place redevelopment. They wanted a correction, but nearly everything they said was false or misleading. And when you scratch the surface, there's a much bigger, under-reported scandal.🧵

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Many arts orgs have been scared to show even the smallest public displays support for Palestinians and Palestine. This detailed investigation shows how fears around donor reaction seemingly drove that decision-making at Nightwood Theatre. By Emma Paling and Robyn Grant-Moran.

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The Province of Alberta encouraged Universities to deny students their Charter Rights. @ucalgary.bsky.social laid the groundwork for anti-Palestinian racism on campus and then called the cops who came with pepper grenades, shields and batons. The receipts in our latest episode 🧾👇 shorturl.at/HadKN

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BREAKING | Israeli police have once again raided the famous Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem, confiscating dozens of books and arresting Imad Muna, one of the owners. His son Ahmad reports that officers seized books by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, and Rashid Khalidi, among others.

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Over the next decade, Pathways Alliance companies are planning to spend more than $50 billion developing and exploring for new oil and gas fields. Yet they want taxpayers to pay $16 billion for their greenwashing carbon capture plans www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/10/n...

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I recently got an email from StrategyCorp, the conservative-connected comms and lobbying firm for Therme's Ontario Place redevelopment. They wanted a correction, but nearly everything they said was false or misleading. And when you scratch the surface, there's a much bigger, under-reported scandal.🧵

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NEW: Commercial use allowed on 30% of Therme’s Ontario Place ‘public’ outdoor space. Plus: doubts about the ‘$200 million’ investment After Therme’s comms team at StrategyCorp contacted us, we looked at the lease again. What we noticed was shocking... www.thegrindmag.ca/commercial-u...

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Is X down? Users report large outage on Elon Musk’s social media platform. The platform formerly known as Twitter had roughly 26,000 outages reported in Canada and the U.S. on Monday morning.

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wrote for The Grind about Law and Order Toronto's awful encampment episode, their appropriation of former encampment resident J the Letter's artwork, the speed at which political crises become aestheticized, and seeing my own work repurposed for bad copaganda www.thegrindmag.ca/the-law-orde...

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The episode creates ridiculous storylines and interactions while drawing inspiration from real headlines and people. It also manages not to engage at all with why encampments exist. The end product is cheap and insulting, writes @michaeldeforge.bsky.social.

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It's election day in Ontario, and as usual there's discussion of strategic voting. I wrote a short article about this controversial tactic in the new issue of @thegrindto.bsky.social. Gunna summarize it in this thread. 🧵

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