Netanyahu, sought by the ICC for alleged war crimes, weighs in on Mark Carney's comments on Israel, saying it is "fighting a just war with just means." After seemingly agreeing with a protester that Israel is committing genocide, Carney said yesterday he didn't hear the word. www.cbc.ca/1.7506027

UPDATE: Canadian legal group cancels upcoming event after uproar over disinviting Syrian Canadian entrepreneur www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

UPDATE: The Advocates' Society's treasurer Sheila Gibb has resigned over its cancellation of Syrian Canadian Tareq Hadhad's speech, citing a "chilling effect" on members. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

BREAKING: The incoming president of prominent Canadian legal organization The Advocates' Society has resigned, saying the group 'abandoned' its values in cancelling Peace by Chocolate founder Tareq Hadhad's speech over concerns on his views on Gaza. My latest: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tareq Hadhad came to Canada as a Syrian refugee and founded the socially conscious Peace by Chocolate, making headlines for his inspiring story. Now a prominent legal group, The Advocates' Society, has cancelled his keynote address after concerns about his stance on Gaza. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims around the world, has died at 88. It's almost impossible to grasp the enormity of this moment for the Ismaili community. More to come: www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...

More than 4 years after Ejaz Choudry, a 62-year-old father with schizophrenia, was fatally shot in his Mississauga apartment, CBC found the officer who shot him had previously tipped a paraplegic man from his wheelchair during an arrest. @shanifanasser.bsky.social fought the publication ban and wow

No longer 'faceless': Police in Ejaz Choudry death identified - and for one, it wasn't his first fatal encounter It took years to get here and having to testify in court. My latest: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In 2023, an anonymous tipster wrote to CBC News saying they knew the name of the police officer who killed Ejaz Choudry. It was almost impossible to confirm. Now we've learned the names of the five officers involved - and for one, it wasn't his first fatal encounter. 🔗 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The alleged German Christmas market attacker was Islamophobic, had posts on X account supportive of anti-Islam and far-right parties, including the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Reuters reports. On X Friday, ElomMusk posted: "Only the AfD can save Germany." www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Benjamin Netanyahu says Golan Heights will remain part of Israel ‘for eternity’

The scenes from Sednaya prison in Syria are shocking; people wandering into the light after decades in dark detention & torture. I interviewed Omar Alshogre, a former Sednaya child prisoner, about his reaction to history being made in Syria this weekend. Watch/share/subscribe:

"The very prospect that justice is conceivable, that the arc of the moral universe endures, that there is a light that was always there at the end of the tunnel, if only you squinted amid the enveloping dark? I cannot quite conceive of the words." On the enormity of this moment for Syria:

"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."

Marc Lépine's birth name, Gamil Gharbi, is fuelling the term "Killed by a Muslim" on X. His mom, French Canadian, was a former nun. He was estranged from his Algerian father and changed his name at 14. Here's a worthwhile piece on the motivation to cast him as "other": rsc-src.ca/fr/voix-de-l...

Quebec Premier François Legault says he wants to ban praying in public and is considering using the notwithstanding clause to do so. "Seeing people praying in the streets, in public parks, is not something we want in Quebec," Legault said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In a 2006 Israeli operation, a bulldozer plowed through a wall of the Canadian section of the Gaza War Cemetery. CBC spoke to a groundskeeper who pieced five headstones back together. www.cbc.ca/news/world/a... Who knows if these more recently damaged sections will ever be restored.

Millions of people are turning to AI for companionship. They are finding the experience surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and profoundly confusing, leaving them to wonder, ‘Is this real? And does that matter?’

The same Anduril, funded by Peter Tiel, that set up autonomous surveillance towers along the Mexico/US border: amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022... Who exactly will such partnerships “benefit”?

BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:

I have to agree with some of this. Bluesky is absolutely more pleasant, interactive and more intelligent, in my experience. But for media monitoring and breaking news , my X algorithm still performs better - esp. on Gaza. Growing pains maybe, but it's why I haven't been able to fully switch over.

Huge appreciation to our Gaza videographer Mohamed el Saife for his tremendous work on this. youtu.be/aj5Ge8Xv8fQ?...

“No worries if not” -President Yoon Suk Yeol

Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon says Israel’s government is carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in northern Gaza and has accused PM Netanyahu of leading Israel to “ruin”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kcyxvw

Days after ICC announces warrants for Netanyahu, Biden admin moving to approve its largest arms sale to Israel in months. Includes 15,500 JDAM kits + 615 small diameter bombs. Our @washingtonpost.com team has documented extensive civilian harm caused by both. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada have filed a legal action against OpenAI. torstar.com/canadas-lead...

Anyone who's used ChatGPT for more than a few minutes knows it's prone to wild hallucinations. This study shows how dangerously inaccurate it can be when it comes to searching news content. 👇

There is a cost to governmental obfuscation. Misinformation thrives in an information vacuum. Distrust thrives when the gov won't trust you with your own information. This is societally damaging.

"Many of you could be where we are—on the street—but for some simple and not uncommon twist of fate...You deny that reality because it is too horrific to contemplate, therefore you must deny us." This piece will shake you. Make the time. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Extremely disturbing first-hand testimony to Parliament from a retired NHS surgeon who spent Aug-Sep in Gaza. "The drones would come down and pick off civilians—children. We had description after description. This is not an occasional thing." committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...

“lazy linking” is such a funny way to think about the internet — a true distaste for the open web in pursuit of endless scrolling of one walled garden slate.com/technology/2...

The underlying assumption is that a person’s writing style is something to be divined only from what they’ve done in the past, rather than an evolving process that changes as you change as a person who experiences the world.

Turns out that the cars may have been set on fire due to the Montreal's police aggressive use of tear gas canisters. Quelle surprise. (Bien fait, @hassinhadi.bsky.social)

In recent days, there have been breathless reports that "MONTREAL IS BURNING" coming both from Canadian politicians, rage-bait Twitter accounts, and info operations tied to foreign governments. The actual damage, though, has come down to two things: Smashed windows and two cars set on fire. Well...

The National NewsMedia Council has determined that the National Post "breache[d] the journalistic standard of accuracy" in an op-ed from the head of HonestReporting Canada: www.mediacouncil.ca/decisions/20...

It’s ironic that the premise of Canada’s Online News Act is that social media platforms are financially benefitting from people sharing news links Meanwhile in reality, these platforms actually manipulate their algorithms to throttle links so as to prevent users from wandering off to external sites

Haaretz reports that 8,000 Israelis have received temporary Canadian work visas so far this year, 5x more than last year. By contrast, only 733 Palestinians had been approved via Canada's "special Gaza visa program" as of Oct. Only 334 have arrived in the country. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.' The week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Twitter has deleted the >200k followers of noted Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi and hit him with one of those mysterious shadow bans that when you click "follow" on his account it doesn't actually stick, when you hit reload you're not following him

Today in Ontario politics, we have: - Ontario MPP Lisa MacLeod using the term "Canadian race." - Another Ontario MPP, Goldie Ghamari, defending meeting with far-right figure Tommy Robinson.

One thing in #cdnpoli that I'm absolutely fascinated by is what's happening with younger Canadians, especially men under 30. Look at this comparison between Poilievre, O’Toole and Scheer as close to similar timing to a likely election as I could get with the data.

Hey y'all. Look who finally joined us. Give'em a follow why don't you

Israel imposes sanctions on Ha'aretz, "mandating any government-funded body to refrain from communicating" with it, including placing ads. x.com/haaretzcom/s...

Pierre Poilievre calls Canada's stance to respect the ICC's decision "woke weirdness." The ICC found reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu has committed crimes against humanity, including the use of starvation as a weapon. x.com/PierrePoilie...

Awww, my first Bluesky troll. Blockity block! 💕

NEW: Trump has chosen Russell Vought, a promoter of Christian nationalism, to once again direct the Office of Management and Budget. Vought, closely tied to Project 2025, was floated as a Chief of Staff candidate before Trump distanced himself from the project. religionnews.com/2024/02/21/t...

Woke up to a ton of new followers today 🚀, so hi all! I'm a reporter at cbcnews.ca writing on the justice system, use of force, and trying to bring nuance to national security coverage. Before that, I was on a PhD track in religion but quit to pursue journalism. Have a tip? My email's in my bio!👋

Verifying so many journalists here is such a massive and valuable undertaking. Thank you @hunterw.bsky.social for doing this. 👊👊

This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America. — Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%) — Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%) — Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)