CBC reports that @susanholtnb.bsky.social will travel to India with PM Mark Carney. Clearly, private interest in Indian capital investment in Canada has completely subordinated any consideration of human rights.

The head of an Indigenous-owned forestry company in New Brunswick says that provincial government statements about consultation with Indigenous communities over forestry policy are “hollow” without efforts to increase self-determination. nbmediacoop.org/2026/02/25/c...

Canadian Media Gives American Fighter Jets More Favourable Coverage Champions of the F-35 fighter jet deal were quoted 41 per cent more often than critics. www.readthemaple.com/canadian-med...

NEW: As 🇺🇸 gets ready for more wars of aggression, a Crown corporation is quietly promoting more 🇨🇦 arms exports to the Americans. Last year, the Canadian Commercial Corp. more than doubled the value of contracts with the US DoD to $2.1 billion. www.readthemaple.com/the-crown-co...

"At a minimum, such a disaster would destroy any possibility of preserving peace and achieving fundamental progressive changes inside Iran through the efforts of the Iranian people themselves. The country would be plunged into prolonged instability […]." www.solidnet.org/article/Tude...

I wrote to the Canadian Commercial Corporation seeking transparency on its Human Rights Assessment of indirect transfers of Canadian military equipment to 🇮🇱 via 🇺🇸, as reported by CBC News & @alex.readthemaple.com. If there’s no complicity risk, say so. If there is, Canadians deserve to know.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives a standing ovation and chants of "Modi!" in the Israeli Knesset. Canadian PM Mark Carney is due to travel to India tomorrow. A recent analysis by the Lancet has determined that more than 75,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's genocidal campaign.

More than half of the kids in state care are Indigenous people. Ford is attempting to hide Ontario's contribution to Canada's ongoing genocide against Indigenous people. From residential schools to the present child "welfare" system, Canada has never stopped committing crimes against humanity.

"Average new mortgage amounts have continued to rise, hitting $363,778 for all homebuyers (a four per cent increase) and $441,301 for first-time buyers (a five per cent increase)."

"An American pilot had to eject from an F-35 over Alaska in January 2025 because hydraulic lines in the jet’s nose and landing gears were clogged with ice. He spent 50 minutes on the phone with Lockheed Martin engineers, who couldn’t fix the problem, while he was still flying."

"In November 2025, members of a small Marxist study circle in the [Russian] city of Ufa were sentenced to 24 years, accused of 'terrorism' and 'conspiracy to overthrow the government” for reading works of Marx.'"

Latest Stratfor analysis indicates that there is genuine concern among Trump regime officials regarding potential blowback to military action against Iran. Allegedly, internal debates about which demands to place on Iran during negotiations are ongoing.

I’m cursed to wake up every morning and see that people still aren’t communist enough . One day though

3 on 3 is unserious at a supposedly elite level of world competition.

US war criminal and genocidaire Steve Witkoff expresses Trump admin's exasperation at the fact that Iranians have not accepted American suzerainty:

“why do you lock replies” people don’t realize that the kind of entitlement they have towards interacting with a stranger is a new phenomenon and the internet incentivizes a certain level of anti social behavior one should have the agency to spare oneself from

Since Stratfor published this analysis, the military buildup near Iran has increased exponentially. USS Gerald R. Ford CSG expected to be on station near Palestine coast on Sunday.

Stephen Fuhr openly acknowledges the corrupt system of patronage that dominates Canadian government: "Small to medium-sized enterprise don't necessarily have the ability to have these big lobbyists in Ottawa to go and do their bidding for them."

I never knew what The Leap was supposed to do, or did. I didn't know about this unionization issue, nor the connection to The Breach. But I will say this: doing labour relations properly is very, very hard and you can't just figure it out on the fly. provincialtimes.ca/exclusive-di...

Link to the petition: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... Tweet by @alex-tyrrell.bsky.social

Any US strikes on Iran likely to be layered, targeting air defence first, then HVT like refinery capacity, energy generation, public infrastructure.

NEW: After Scotiabank divested from Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, I spoke to activists who kept up the pressure for 3 years. “I do think it’s safe to say that Elbit became less and less sustainable for them to hold on to.” www.readthemaple.com/scotiabank-d...

A 120-page filing has been submitted to the ICC accusing FIFA's President Infantino and UEFA's President Ceferin of "aiding and abetting war crimes (specifically, the transfer of civilian population into [Palestine] occupied territories) and crimes against humanity (specifically, apartheid)."

I identified four (4) NBA teams part-owned by a firm that sold a property to the Department of Homeland Security for a planned ICE detention center. And I explain why more owners could follow in the warehouse to megajail business. it's the new [eyeblack]:

One of the first sections of the new "Defence Industrial Strategy" released by the Canadian government describes how private businesses *must* be assured that any potential conflict requiring arms production will last for an extended period. www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

"'By implementing their naval blockade plans, the Europeans are deliberately pursuing a scenario of military escalation, testing the limits of our patience and provoking active retaliatory measures,' Patrushev said."

"Between 2017 and 2018 alone, [US] sanctions killed an estimated 40,000 Venezuelans and plunged many more into precarity. Over 300,000 people were put at risk because of the lack of medicine and health care […]."

"Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand did not say whether Canada will speak out against Washington or offer fuel or humanitarian aid. She instead noted efforts to support Canadians in need, including to leave the country."

Scotiabank fully divests from Elbit Systems. Scotiabank’s most recent filings reveal that it has fully divested from Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. They currently have zero shares in the company. Read more: buff.ly/ptvu6Cp

The US and Israel spent years creating shell companies and infiltrating the entire supply chain of a pager manufacturer to make hundreds of exploding devices which killed and maimed Hezbollah members and Lebanese civilians. And people are paranoid about China knowing their seat warmer settings.

International fugitive and genocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu admits that there are "no heavy weapons in Gaza," and that weapons used during Al-Aqsa Flood were primarily assault rifles. Direct contradiction to the narrative that Hamas destroyed entire buildings and 100s of vehicles on Oct 7 2023.

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

We stand with the Cuban Revolution against Yanqui Hyper-imperialism. We believe in the importance of sovereignty and dignity against intimidation and theft. ¡Cuba sí! ¡Yanquis no! Donate to buy solar panels for Cuba: letcubalive.info/donate #LetCubaLive #EndTheBlockade #Solidarity

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

"According to CPJ’s own database, Israel deliberately killed 64 journalists in 2023, 76 in 2024, another 51 in 2025 and three so far in 2026."

Shooting dozens of rounds of tear gas and using pepper spray and their batons, the SPVM violently pushed back more than a thousand people who showed up this afternoon to send a message to GardaWorld over their contracts with ICE at their offices and training center in Ville Saint-Laurent. (thread)

Not a flag guy by any means but I consider the blacked-out maple leaf to be a desecration of the original Canadian flag. A black maple leaf means it's dead.

A new group launching in Fredericton later this month will give socialists, and everyone interested in socialism, the opportunity to meet, learn more and build community. nbmediacoop.org/2026/02/12/s...

NEW: Group sending Canadian right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel quietly funded by Israeli government Documents unearthed by @pressprogress.ca show Israel's foreign ministry granted the Exigent Foundation $175,000 CAD to bring "Canadian influencers and policymakers" to Israel

The far right was in overdrive yesterday to make the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge about trans people. It helped obscure the fact that it's actually Canada's first mass shooting targeting children. Canada's Dunblane. My latest - noraloreto.substack.com/p/naming-it-...

Every single time

"Major global banks including JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, and ING Group have also signed on."

"NATO's Arctic Sentry initiative will be headquartered out of the alliance's military command in Norfolk, Va." Zero change in Canada's subordination to US geopolitical priorities.

For nearly a year, the feds have been quiet about a scathing UN report on Canada's treatment of disabled people, including MAiD expansion and paltry financial supports @spichaksimon.bsky.social presses the government for answers in our latest for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...

NEW: A Mossad-linked Israeli lawfare organization is trying to shut down The Maple and get criminal charges laid against me. Read, share and let Israelis know that they don’t get to decide what Canadian journalism looks like. www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...

Once again Canada proves it has no interest in upholding international legal obligations.

Canada must help Cuba. Here is my latest about Canada's long and deep relationship with the island nation, and how Carney's Davos speech turned out to be all talk and no action. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

Hussam Qassem made a drum set from plastic, wood, and metal scraps. Video shows him playing the drums and singing to his forcibly displaced family in their tent in Gaza while children around him sing and dance.

NEW: Canada’s top-paid CEOs made more in the first 33 hours of 2026 than the average worker will all year, writes Adam King. www.readthemaple.com/top-paid-ceo...

The Canadian government applauds Nazi collaborators and allows Israel to destroy the graves of its own soldiers.