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NEW from @Nuttallreports. Extreme-right misinformation is flooding Chinese media in Canada — and there’s virtually nothing stopping it. thestar.com/vancouver/2019… #cdnpoli #elxn40

Thanks to all who came out for our celebration! We are incredibly grateful for the last 5 years of catalyzing collaboration, and we are eagerly looking forward to many more!

Waking up to the #elxn43 news of the day and grateful to have @ArshyMann and @JesseBrown at @CANADALAND provide a real analysis and discussion of the issue that so many seem to be easily dismissing. Listen here: traffic.libsyn.com/canadaland/SC2…

Heads up people. Toxic masculinity showed up at todays event. View twitter thread. @FridaysFutureWR @WREnviroNetwork @WMC_WR @kwpeace @marchscience_kw @ClimateActionWR @Below2C_ @350Canada @350 @HonorTheEarth @IENearth @ChippewasLine9 @holdthelineWR @SustainableWat @WPIRG @LSPIRG

The USA once shot down an Iran Air passenger plane, killing 290 civilians. The USA also once staged a coup in Iran to replace a popular leader with a monarch who would facilitate Western energy interests. It is comically inaccurate to call Iran the aggressor.

Join @ploughshares_ca’s event on June 4 for an interactive discussion on the importance of digital literacy for ordinary citizen as well as practical ways to address the era of alternative facts. The event is free and lunch is provided! Learn more: ploughshares.ca/2019/05/event-…

Join us at our Vibes Night event, “What NOT to say” in SLC 2141 from 5-7pm!

I am teaching a course to brilliant young women who are critical thinkers and who read. But the canadian education system continues to erase so much! At 21 or older, they have only first heard about the Oka crisis or the existence of slavery in Canada in the past two weeks.

Free advice to Zionists: if you want calm, then decolonize. No national community has ever consented to its own disappearance. Palestinians won't, either.

Things that Israel's bombardment of Gaza is not: --a situation --an overreaction --a conflict --self-defense --anti-terrorism --a cycle of violence What it actually is: --mass murder as calculated strategy in a broader effort at genocide

Our upcoming exhibit is New Fraktur by Meg Harder. Harder draws on fraktur folk art, an imaginative and densely detailed illuminated calligraphy, historically produced by early Mennonite settlers to Ontario. Join us on May 9 to learn more! bit.ly/2BliRPA

The richest 87 Canadian families now have total wealth of $259-billion, an average of almost $3-billion per family, the same as the bottom 12 million Canadians combined. theglobeandmail.com/amp/business/c…

BREAKING: McGill University in Montreal says its male sports teams will no longer be called "Redmen." "The Redmen name is not one that our community would choose today, and it is not one that McGill should carry forward into our third century." cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

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The founder of @growinghopefarm, Sarah Martin-Mills wants to give women from Grand Valley Institution for Women an opportunity to volunteer at the farm. Read more: bit.ly/2Uv0rYl

@FCStPauli416 It was humbling to hear such powerful local stories. That are echoed across the pond from the film. No one is illegal. Thank you to Mary, @FCStPauli416, @MCRSrefugee, @WPIRG and @officialahmedu.

We are not usually very good at tweeting after an event. This one was special. Thank you to @FCStPauli416 for encouraging us to commemorate with a photo and for offering up the film. Really has us inspired as well!

Housing co-op hopes to shake up Waterloo Region real estate market therecord.com/news-story/927…