The biggest challenge facing Prime Minister Mark Carney when he travels to the People's Republic of China this week is not the obstructionism of Chinese officials, but the determination of some Canadians to ensure that he fails in his mission. www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

“How can Canada reinvent international talent initiatives and expect profound research productivity without systemically getting rid of a culture that allows attaching suspicion to scholars in Canada solely based on their identity?” New @cuamecanada.bsky.social case study 👇 tinyurl.com/ymukazk6

Oh, I mustn’t forget to add some of our climate advocates including @senrosagalvez.bsky.social, an environmental engineer and @sencoyle.bsky.social, who leads the Senate climate caucus.

My own group - the largest in the Senate - is the Independent Senators Group or @senindepend.bsky.social - and we were the first parliamentary caucus in Canada to quit X. (Please reward our audacity with a follow.)

Interested in public health policy policy? Meet @senmoodie.sencanada.ca, a leading neo-natologist. Is your interest banking or business? Let me introduce @senatorloffreda.bsky.social from Montreal.

And if you're especially interested in the war in Ukraine, and related foreign policy topics, let me introduce you to @stankutcher.sencanada.ca and @donnadasko.bsky.social. He's a psychiatry prof. She's a former pollster. They've both been outspoken champions of Ukraine through its struggles.

If you are a foreign policy wonk - or want to follow one - connect with @senboehm.bsky.social, Canada's former ambassador to Germany, and chair of the Foreign Affair Committee or with @ypwoo.bsky.social, an economic with expertise in the Asia-Pacific relations. #cdnpoli

If you're from the Ottawa area, I recommend following @senclement.bsky.social, aka Bernadette Clement, former mayor of Cornwall, a Black francophone champion of social justice, and @kpateonthehill.bsky.social, aka Kim Pate, a long-time advocate for prison reform. #yow #cdnpoli

This is a very kind wish. But I'd also like to ask you to follow other Canadian senators who are already here, and who haven't been as lucky as I have in connecting with an audience. I convinced a fair few Senate friends to give this platform a try, but many didn't feel it worked for them. #cdnpoli

@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @globalaffairs.canada.ca Can we please do more than just issue tut-tuts? Israel is a rogue state that is annexing Palestinian land and committing genocide against Palestinians. I get you didn’t like Maduro; Netanyahu is worse. Say it. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

What I wish @globalaffairs.canada.ca and @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social had said.

Case study "Modern Exclusion in the Digital Public Square", examines how a 2024 government-funded report by Digital Public Square frames Chinese Canadians as uniquely vulnerable to foreign influence, conflating opinion with fact and lacking transparency. @cuamecanada.bsky.social cuame.ca/studies

Can the government assure Canadians that the funding for any pipeline will come exclusively from the private sector and that this project will not proceed without the consent of affected Indigenous rights holders? #cdnpoli #SenCA

无为而无不为

'Twas months before Christmas when all through the House, Not an MP was sitting — pas même une souris, not even a mouse... To read the 2025 edition of my annual Christmas poem: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/parliamen... youtu.be/sRBRjjcZxRo?...

Spare a thought for the @globalaffairs.canada.ca lawyers who contorted themselves to come up with this response. I should hope that Canada has “robust practices in place”, but the question is whether they were robust enough to prevent ANY Canadian contribution to the genocide in Gaza.

This is unacceptable. It is sadly consistent with what we know about Chinese transnational repression, which is targeted at political dissent on China. Such actions only stir up more dissent abroad, and not just among former nationals. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

1/4 “Whereas manifest destiny & the Monroe doctrine of the early 19th century & its 20th century variants were about territorial expansion & influence commensurate with rising American power, in the current context it is about territorial consolidation. . . www.thestar.com/news/world/u...

Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza www.mpg.de/25778228/112...

canadatalksisraelpalestine.ca/2025/06/30/c... @humanrights.ca

Pleased to co-host last week’s Second Annual Roundtable on Standards in Rule-Making with the Standards Council of Canada. We discussed improving access to referenced standards, modernizing regulatory practices, and reducing internal trade barriers to strengthen Canada’s competitiveness. #SenCA

Why was 95-year-old legal scholar Richard Falk detained at Toronto Pearson Airport as a “national security threat”? We need answers about how and why this decision was made. #cdnpoli #SenCA

Thank you to MP @gordjohns.bsky.social and Senator Osler for co-hosting last night’s reception on the need for a National Strategy on Brain Injury. Grateful to the survivors, families & advocates who shared their strength & helped spotlight this urgent national issue. @braininjurycanada.bsky.social

Last week, I asked the Government Representative in the Senate, Pierre Moreau, why reports continue to show Canadian military exports to Israel despite an official ban. Canadians deserve clarity and accountability on how our export controls are being enforced. #cdnpoli #SenCA #Gaza

Earlier this month, I met the indomitable Naledi Pandor, chair of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and former foreign minister of South Africa, who brought a genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice. Thank you @justiceforallcn.bsky.social for organizing the session.

"Canadians are not antisemitic, but they are appalled by what the Jewish State of Israel is doing", OFIP tells Senate Committee canadatalksisraelpalestine.ca/2025/11/18/c...

NEW: Canadian authorities detained Richard Falk while he and his wife, Hilal Elver, were en route to a Palestine conference in Ottawa last week. I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza. www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...

Falk believes the interrogation is part of a global push to “punish those who endeavour to tell the truth about what is happening”. . . in Gaza. “It suggests a climate of governmental insecurity . . . to clamp down on dissident voices” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

“It's disappointing that Canada — after having acknowledged Palestinian statehood — would take such a hostile attitude toward a conference that really explained to a public . . . the nature of the objections to what Israel has been doing,” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Last week, I spoke to @science-for-peace.bsky.social about the risks of “51st state” thinking in Canada-US relations and why Canada must navigate a changing multipolar world with clear eyes and strategic autonomy. #cdnpoli Read the full speech here: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/domestic-...

14% - 20% of Gaza's pre-October 7, 2023 population of 2.4 million may ultimately be killed as a result of Israel's military operations and the resulting health conditions without urgent intervention from Canada and its allies www.cjpme.org/toll_of_intent via @cjpme.org

WATCH LIVE: Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility Holds a News Conference 🔗 www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Thank you Senator Tony Dean for speaking to my motion. His remarks capture the devastating human toll of this conflict, and the urgency for Canada to act — to examine the risk of complicity and uphold our commitment to international humanitarian law. #CdnPoli #SenCA #Gaza #Palestine

I was in China with Grand Chief Ed John of the Tl’azt’en Nation in BC to premier a documentary on the First Nations totem pole that was given to the Qiang people of Beichuan following the devastating earthquake of 2008.

En appui à la motion de mon collègue, le Sénateur Yuen Pau Woo, j’ai exhorté mes collègues au Sénat du Canada à ne pas rester indifférents face à la souffrance à Gaza. L’humanité doit toujours primer sur la politique. youtu.be/XwDbN7ofvrA?...

In support of the motion introduced by my colleague, Senator Yuen Pau Woo Pau Woo, I urged my colleagues in the Senate of Canada not to remain indifferent to the suffering in Gaza. Humanity must always come before politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOnG...

Je remercie la sénatrice @amy61.bsky.social pour ses paroles courageuses et pour son intervention en faveur de ma motion. Son appel à la clarté morale et à l’action nous rappelle que nous ne pouvons pas rester silencieux. #PolCan #SenCA #Gaza

Thinking clearly about the EV-Canola tariff tradeoff. My OpEd with Dr Bo Chen of the East Asia Institute at the National University of Singapore and @sfu.ca Beedie School of Business: www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

➡️ I support this motion. ➡️ I hope we can ensure Canada rigorously investigates, confronts, and safeguards its obligations to justice and human dignity. ➡️ I invite you to listen to both mine and Senator Woo’s speeches in full, and to engage, question, share. 3/3

This motion isn’t abstract or theoretical. It’s a call for accountability. It’s a call for transparency. It’s a call for Canada to live up to its responsibilities on the world stage. 2/3

Senator Woo’s motion calls on the Government of Canada to examine and report, within 3 months, “the risk of Canada’s complicity in violations of international law (including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide).” 1/3 youtu.be/3_0q3H3ra34

Thank you Senator Pate for speaking to my motion and reminding us of the cost of silence. Canada must face the reality in Gaza and uphold human rights. @kpateonthehill.bsky.social To watch her full speech: youtu.be/3_0q3H3ra34?... #CdnPoli #SenCA #Canada #Gaza #Palestine #HumanRights

On Oct 24, the Lonely Hearts Club met to discuss a possible reset in Canada-China relations. A reset is needed, but will only succeed if we resist the tropes & traps that have held back the relationship since 2019. See my opening remarks: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/domestic-...

I recently met with James Elder from @unicef.org who is in Ottawa to inform Canadians about urgent humanitarian and educational needs in Gaza, amid a precarious ceasefire. Canada did not do enough to prevent atrocities. For a time, we even stopped funding to @unrwa.org. Will we step up now?

"The most important determinant for the future of Canada-ASEAN relations is not what we say or do on ASEAN; it is what we do with Washington DC." – my closing remarks at a symposium organized by YCAR, @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social & ASEAN HOM in Ottawa To read: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/domestic-...

I spoke with No Power Panel about my motion calling on the gov. to examine Canada’s potential complicity in violations of intl. humanitarian law in Gaza. We must confront uncomfortable truths and push for justice. 📺 Watch here: youtu.be/wZDalUvf0lU #cdnpoli #Gaza #SenCA

The question of complicity in war crimes is not just for those individuals; it also implicates the Government of Canada for not enforcing the law against recruitment on behalf of a foreign military.

It took Canada over a decade to acknowledge and apologize for its inaction on the Rwandan genocide. Will it take as long again on Palestine? Full speech: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/parliamen... #cdnpoli #SenCA #canada #gaza #palestine

AKA "complicity" youtu.be/-4eOsVAxCTM?...