“We need answers – and from the highest levels of government”: Calls for answers grow after Canada’s interrogation of ex-UN special rapporteur and prominent legal scholar Richard Falk www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

One notable detail here is that Falk is 95 years old. Great reporting by my colleague @jkdamours.bsky.social

'Everybody is a fighter in Grassy': The poisoned river and a First Nation's quest for justice (With @jkdamours.bsky.social and support from @ijnr.bsky.social)

First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities The results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict. https://go.nature.com/44nH0la

The bylaws are “a response to the overwhelming and unsubstantiated attacks on pro-Palestinian protests across the country” truthout.org/articles/und... via @truthout.org

Breaking news: A prominent Minnesota Democrat and her spouse were killed early Saturday morning by a gunman impersonating a police officer. Another state lawmaker and his wife were shot overnight, believed to be connected to the same suspect, police said. A manhunt for the suspect is underway.

Iranian media are reporting that the Natanz nuclear site was hit, and a number of top military officials have been assassinated in Israel’s ongoing assault.

"Behind these numbers are so many individual people whose suffering is immeasurable": In Haiti, 1.3 million people are now internally displaced as violence surges - a new, grim record www.iom.int/news/haiti-s...

“I’ve never felt like this before during my time here. When you leave your house, you don’t know if you’ll return home”: Trump’s immigration crackdown shakes LA www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

'In killing civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites, Israeli security forces committed the crime against humanity of extermination': www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

“It feels like I have lost a part of my body, like someone tore my heart out of my chest. The soul of our home has gone.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

“US officials who know atrocities are being committed and continue defending them from behind the podium are not neutral, they are complicit. Miller’s silence while in government helped Israel with its genocide. He has Palestinian blood on his hands,” says DAWN's Raed Jarrar aje.io/7agxo4?updat...

Yahya Hamdi al-Najjar, 12 Rakan Hamdi al-Najjar, 10 Eve Hamdi al-Najjar, 9 Jubran Hamdi al-Najjar, 8 Ruslan Hamdi al-Najjar, 7 Reval Hamdi al-Najjar, 5 Sadin Hamdi al-Najjar, 3 Luqman Hamdi al-Najjar, 2 Sidar Hamdi al-Najjar, under 1 year old aje.io/31fovy?updat...

🚨We just published a NEW REPORT with @refugeesinternational.org on the rampant abuse and enforced disappearances of people seeking #asylum in the U.S. We spoke with people detained in #CBP custody and expelled to the countries they originally fled or to third countries.🧵⤵️

What’s at the heart of Alberta premier Danielle Smith’s separation rhetoric? Oil. Her position, @drewanderson.bsky.social writes, has been driven since the outset by the Free Alberta Strategy. It's a plan to back oil and gas — even if it means breaking up Canada. thenarwhal.ca/free-alberta...

The Trump administration has officially designated the Viv Ansanm gang alliance in Haiti as a "transnational terrorist group" ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...

After his party lost a 25-point lead in a matter of months, Pierre Poilievre has now lost the seat he’s held for 20 years

The Breach live election night coverage + analysis: breachmedia.ca/home/electio...

“God did the State of Israel a favour that Biden was the president during this period,” ex-Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Herzog said. "We fought [in Gaza] for over a year, and the administration never came to us and said, ‘Ceasefire now.’" www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

“This is a priority issue for many Canadians,” said Dania Majid. “We are not detached from what is happening in Palestine.” As Canadians head to the polls today, advocates are putting Palestinian rights on the ballot: truthout.org/articles/adv...

A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to Canada's election revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney: www.ft.com/content/743c...

Nearly 3,000 aid trucks are ready to enter Gaza but are being blocked by Israel, the UN says, as food stocks are depleted and fears of famine rise: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

The Trump administration has apparently arrested a judge, accusing her of helping an undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest' abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...

TIME: You've talked about ... making Canada the 51st state. Maybe you're trolling a little bit on that one. I don't know. Trump: Actually, no, I’m not ... I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state. time.com/7280114/dona...

Canadian politicians have long treated Palestine as something they can ignore, but that has been changing. “[People] have been engaging actively with their candidates to make it very clear that it’s not possible to ignore this genocide and that they absolutely need to take action.”

The Israeli soldiers who killed Palestinian medics last month "fired continuously for three and a half minutes – even from point-blank range – reloading their ammunition multiple times, despite attempts by the aid workers to identify themselves." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Echoing Trump's push to penalize US colleges over Gaza protests, Canada's Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says if elected, he will cut federal funding to Canadian universities "that promote or tolerate antisemitism" ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...

Israeli attacks have killed at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza so far today, medical sources tell Al Jazeera. Follow live updates: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

At least 80 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the last 48 hours www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Alt hed: Trump to restore confederate monuments, censor Smithsonian references to white supremacist American history

“There are many innocent people behind bars. And today, my brother is one of them.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Trump attacks the judge overseeing the case challenging US deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, saying he should be impeached.

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 170 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip aje.io/oc05av

"An ICE officer told her that her brother was detained because of a tattoo that linked him to Tren de Aragua…She said the tattoo depicted a rose and that he had gotten it in a tattoo parlor in Dallas. 'He thought it looked cool' she said, stressing that he is not a gang member."

Spoke with @jkdamours.bsky.social of Al-Jazeera about Trudeau's final days as PM and his possible legacy as he leaves the office. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

From steep tariffs to continued threats of annexation, why is Donald Trump so focused on Canada? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

“It feels like the whole world is crushing down on me. It’s like everything is stopping,” said Isha Len, a 29-year-old from Cameroon. “I risked everything, my life, everything, crossing the Darién Gap, just to be sent back.” apnews.com/article/pana...

“Innovative and inventive central banker” “Technocrat on steroids” “A consummate insider and a consummate elite” Who is Mark Carney, Canada’s new Liberal Party leader and next prime minister? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

Trudeau will formally step down after the next leader of his Liberal Party is chosen on March 9; a federal election must be held by October 20 (likely much sooner). None of that is nefarious, as Donald Trump seems to be claiming here.

NEW: Mass. Haitian, Venezuelan groups sue Trump administration, claiming racial bias, unlawful rollback of TPS protections www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/03/m...

Almost a quarter of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out. www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...

'It’s emotional torture': Canada faces lawsuit over delays in Gaza visa programme www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

mon pays c’est l’hiver etc

This is Trump’s deputy WH chief of staff saying “we never agreed that Canada would not be the 51st state” after a meeting with Canadian premiers.

“The most important factor in Canadian politics right now doesn’t live in Canada.” How Trump’s tariffs, ‘51st state’ threats are shaking up Canada aje.io/b892z4

“America is on the cusp of competitive authoritarianism.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...