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Celebrating Bob Baldwin, inaugural recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Institute of Ageing’s Pension Centre of Excellence, recognizing Bob’s unparalleled leadership and impact on pension policy and retirement security in Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuzK...

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Who's elite? Whose elite? On the bizarre mangling of class and privilege in America's urban-rural divide: thebaffler.com/latest/one-e...

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Egypt's mercenary agreement to forestall asylum seekers from reaching EU borders: wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-ar...

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Ontario identified 78 new measles cases over the course of two weeks, the largest outbreak in almost 30 years, bringing Ontario's total this year to just over 140, far surpassing the 101 total infections recorded in the province between 2013 and 2023. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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“...this region of eastern Congo is now the locus of the world's third most intractable humanitarian crisis, after Yemen and Sudan…". robertirotberg.substack.com/p/335-the-ki...

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If you think nobody in the American media is speaking out on the Trump administration gong show, listen to this commentary from Lawrence O’Donnell. It is a scorcher: www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

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in this comprehensive video produced In collaboration with Democracy Now!, Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from the ground in southern Lebanon: www.dropsitenews.com/p/south-leba...

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Trump's erratic debt claims undermine global confidence in US government's fiscal integrity: asiatimes.com/2025/02/trum...?

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Detention camps in northeast Syria are packed with thousands of ISIL-linked detainees, al-Hol alone holding 40,000 — mostly wives and children of suspected fighters. Al Jazeera offers a inside look at their reality: in a post-Assad era, what will become of them? www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/202...

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Presidential polling honeymoons always end, but rarely so fast…[Trump’s] approval rating is just barely above his disapproval. This is a historically bad beginning for a presidency. The only worse example is Donald Trump’s first presidency. insidestory.org.au/the-honeymoo...

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"Being confused by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff plans isn't a flaw — it's proof you're paying attention in the funhouse maze of Trump trade threats." www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

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"A newly issued memo from Marco Rubio, effective immediately across all diplomatic and consular posts, may have just barred most transgender people with updated gender markers who are seeking visas from obtaining visas to enter the United States." truthout.org/articles/did...

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Alexander Panetta clarifies one more over-hyped news headline that turns out to be much less than meets the eye: The White House has clarified that North America-wide tariffs are not a done deal, as many news headlines suggested following Trump's offhand remark Monday. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

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“The Canadian Press recently obtained internal documents showing Alberta Surgical Group was billing the government $8,300 for hip replacements, while estimates for the procedure when done in public facilities was just over $4,000.” calgary.citynews.ca/2025/02/24/a...

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This never-ending human rights & security travesty needs to end. Justin Trudeau, @melaniejoly.bsky.social, David McGuinty, it is time to bring home all Canadians who remain illegally imprisoned in NE Syria.

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“The state and the ruling Sandinista party have virtually fused into a unified machine of repression with domestic and transnational impact." #Nicaragua

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Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has brokered a landmark peace agreement between Senegal and the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), ending one of Africa’s longest-running conflicts. www.africanews.com/2025/02/25/s...

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Israel has launched a massive aerial assault on Syria’s capital of Damascus and other cities in a large swath of southern Syria that Israel is attempting to effectively annex, effectively banning the new government from deploying troops south of its own capital. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-lau...

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“In reality Donald Trump is inheriting the most fortified border in American history increasingly run by private corporations and he’s about to use all the power at his disposal to make it more so.” www.theborderchronicle.com/p/the-mass-d...

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Braving Trump's new world : a view from Asia, thinking the unthinkable... insidestory.org.au/the-unilater...

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“...more and more of America’s former friends begin to think seriously of contingency plans. Europe in particular might have to figure out how it will go it alone in future, or even negotiate a world where Uncle Sam is not friend but foe.” insidestory.org.au/welcome-to-t...

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John Feeley, former US ambassador to Panama, condemns Trump’s bully-boy approach to Latin America, comparing his conduct to that of the ruthless and egotistical fictional mob boss Tony Soprano. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Israeli offensive against West Bank refugees. Displaced from Jenin and Tulkarem, Palestinian residents say Israel is waging a deliberate campaign to make the northern refugee camps unlivable. www.972mag.com/jenin-tulkar...

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This a sensitive and beautiful essay, to be savoured, slowly: on the film, 'The Klezmer Project', and the dynamic future of Jewish diasporism. jewishcurrents.org/sonic-bloom

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Europe’s population crisis visualised: The rise of the far-right could speed up the population decline of Europe, projections show, creating economic shocks including slower growth and soaring costs from pensions and elderly care. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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The exhibit, "The Jungle’s Reasons: 30 years of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas through photography" is at the Embassy of Mexico in Ottawa. Free to public. Venue: Embassy 45 O’Connor, 10th floor, until March 21, open to the public Monday to Friday capitalcurrent.ca/ottawa-photo...

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‘The Jungle’s Reasons,’ 30 years of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas through photography, is now at the Embassy of Mexico in Canada, Ottawa, until March 21. Free to public. Venue: Embassy 45 O’Connor, 10th floor.

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Trump administration’s approach to South Africa influenced by the demonology of the global right wing, including Silicon Valley stalwarts like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks — all of whom trace their origins to the country. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

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On Guantánamo, deportation, and ethnic cleansing in the U.S. tomdispatch.com/the-war-on-t...

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"Don’t change, or kneel, or find hostages to feed into a slobbering maw. Don’t coordinate yourself, don’t align yourself, don’t appease...normalcy...lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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"In terms of state-to-state relations, he has already violated international law, threatening international peace and security, threatening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Canada. This is not something that's going to happen — he's already done it." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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“the refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of China’s political system isn’t just an ideological stance, but an obstacle to crafting effective policy...as often about moral posturing as about smart strategy.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Who is benefiting from the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s? “Lecanemab offered the amyloid hypothesis as the one true path to relieving the misery of millions. That promise has never decreased symptoms for a single patient, let alone cured anyone.” www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/a...

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Police breached charter rights in CGL pipeline arrests: "I view the conduct as extremely serious involving racism directed towards Indigenous women...a group...systemically disadvantaged through all sectors of the criminal justice system for generations." www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

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In January, we launched a petition demanding the U.S. intervene for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. Sign and share our petition. His freedom—and his life—depends on bringing widespread attention to his case. actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-t...

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“You just can't snap your fingers….it doesn't work that way … You have to have put in place some sort of an infrastructure. You don't start saying, 'I'm going to change the world,' and then don't figure out how the heck you're going to do that." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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The Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DARTs), world-renowned U.S. program for international disaster and crisis assistance, falls victim to Trump shutdown of USAID, www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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"You wouldn’t think it possible that a...former clerk for the arch-conservative Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, would show more grit in the face of Trumpism than the entire leadership of the national Democratic Party, but here we are." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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Venezuelan migrants at Guantánamo guarded by troops rather than civilian immigration officers...role of immigration detention is being militarized in a new, legally-uncertain course of moving people from U.S. soil into incommunicado detention at an offshore prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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Coalition of immigrant rights and legal aid groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration, demanding that migrants flown by the government to a U.S. detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, be given access to lawyers. www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...

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Outrageous!!! Nigeria’s chief of defence staff, General Christopher Musa, said he and half his delegation, including other senior military officials, were denied entry into Canada to participate in Invictus Games in British Columbia. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

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Christianity is by far the largest faith in America, and Christian conservatives have a strong grip on the levers of government. That dominance is leaving many to question why Trump's new task force on 'eradicating anti-Christian bias' is needed. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/02/13/g...

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Bernie Sanders: "We live in an oligarchic society in which billionaires dominate not only our politics and the information we consume, but our government and economic lives as well."

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America is falling apart too fast to take over Canada, or anyone: Trump is actually weakening America exactly at the time when he’s making all these remarks; he certainly is not doing anything to make US power close to what would be required to do this. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

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Canada can retaliate where it hurts, tearing up the intellectual property laws traded away for tariff-free access to American markets that Trump has now ended, and save $ billions every year on the consumables parts, software, and service for those goods. doctorow.medium.com/canada-shoul...

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URGENT 📷 El Salvador Community Santa Marta condemns the arbitrary detention of Eugenio Chicas, key witness of the defense in the trial against our community leaders and environmental defenders. www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

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“The diamond industry tells us that today 99 % of diamonds are now ‘conflict-free’…The reality is that there’s still virtually no way of knowing whether a diamond is or isn’t connected to some kind of atrocity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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Trump has ordered a pause on the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a serious attack on the commitment to ensure that U.S. companies do not engage in acts of bribery and corruption around the world. icar.ngo/the-internat...

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