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Some of you have never had this ball hit your face and it shows


“Last March, a fog took hold in my head and never left. It settled there somewhere between the moment a DHS agent asked me, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ and the moment I realized that I would miss the birth of my first child,” writes Khalil. A year ago, the Trump administration unlawfully arrested Khalil at his home and detained him for 104 days. “I walk free now, only after an army of lawyers sued the administration for targeting me because of my pro-Palestine speech. But the government is relentless in targeting me,” he writes. “So when I walk, I watch my back.” “When strangers approach me and ask, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ — the same words in the same expectant tone the DHS agent used before the handcuffs — I do not know if they want to shake my hand or spit in my face. I do not know whether they will say, ‘Thank you for what you're doing,’ or follow me through midtown aggressively shouting, ‘Am Yisrael Chai.’ Both have happened. At first glance, I can never tell them apart.” In a new essay, Khalil writes about grappling with these two truths: “That I walk through the city afraid and that the city, in small and persistent ways, tells me I am welcome. That I am watched and that I am seen.” Read it in full: nymag.visitlink.me/tM03B5

The next generation know that Canada’s land and waters are worth protecting — and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

🚨 BREAKING: British oil and gas giant BP has more than doubled profits due to the Iran war - from $1.38bn to $3.2bn

Sir David Attenborough turns 100 next week. "Please make no mistake. Climate change is the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced."

Let's do this, 🇨🇦 The Welsh govt is in the process of introducing legislation to allow for the removal of politicians who lie to the public. The rules would allow for suspension/disqualification of MPs and election candidates found guilty of deliberate deception. Bye @CPC_HQ

At our city-owned grocery stores, staples like eggs and bread will actually be affordable. And we're going to do it the right way, without cutting workers' pay or dignity. Because in the wealthiest city in this country, buying groceries shouldn't be an unsolvable equation. It should be simple, fair, and within reach for everyone.






Doug Ford's changes to Freedom of Information laws are now officially law. I've written to the RCMP, the Information and Privacy Commissioner, and the Secretary of Cabinet — calling on all three to make sure government records related to the Greenbelt scandal are locked down before this government can destroy them.




#BREAKING: The Ford government just scheduled late-night sittings – until midnight – to ram through FOI changes. Just when you thought this government couldn’t get any worse, they’re now scheduling late night sittings to quietly change the rules, hoping to keep Ontarians in the dark.

220 Ceasefire Violations by Israel in Lebanon in 3 days Since the ceasefire went into effect on 17 April until 19 April (noon), Israel has committed 220 violations in Lebanon, according to the Lebanese National Center for Scientific Research and National Center for Natural Hazards and Early Warning These ceasefire violations killed 3 people and injured 7, including 4 paramedics. They included: - 7 aerial strikes - 50 detonations and blowing up infrastructure - 52 artillery shelling - 15 shooting with machine guns. - 30 incidents of overflights by military and reconnaissance planes, including over Beirut. @CNRS @NCNE_Lebanon
