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Missing from the convo about rising “hate” in Toronto is that we don’t count the routine police beatings, dog maulings, home raids, and killings of Black and Indigenous folks as “hate crimes” because that would require a reckoning with the nature of policing in this country.

Ottawa says Israel’s new death penalty law “dehumanizes Palestinians.” In the same week, it dissolved @SamidounPP and escalated its crackdown on Palestine solidarity at home, contradicting its own rhetoric and reinforcing the system it claims to oppose. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is sounding the alarm over Canada’s immigration and borders bill, saying its measures may weaken refugee protection and compromise the country’s compliance with international human rights obligations. thestar.com/politics/feder…

In Toronto, the first community policing model began in 1967, introduced in two neighborhoods with large Black communities. By 1970, it had expanded citywide, with a 1973 creation of the Ethnic Relations Unit, and a “Black section” in 1975. from PBL briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/…

We are pleased that the CBC Ombud has issued a landmark decision upholding our complaints regarding CBC's false claims that Israel’s occupation of Gaza “ended” in 2005. For years, CBC has repeatedly reported that “Israel's military occupation of the territory ended” in 2005. However, this is a settled question in international law: Israel’s occupation of Gaza never ended, due to its ongoing effective control over the territory. In a direct rebuke of CBC editorial staff, the CBC Ombud sided with our complaint, finding that CBC failed to meet the “criteria for accuracy” in the ethical codes that guide its journalism. An editor's note and a correction were added to the original story. This review helps ensure that CBC News will now have to be honest about Israel’s longstanding occupation of Gaza, rather than obscuring it. This victory provides media advocates with a key new decision to reference when arguing for better from our media. Read more about this impact: cjpmemap.ca/impact_cbc_omb…

RCMP surveillance of Indigenous leaders was ‘completely wrong’: Tagak Curley “It’s like being accused, wrongfully accused, for a crime we didn’t commit,” Curley said, stating he and other leaders were treated as if they were “non-Canadians.” nunatsiaq.com/stories/articl…

Israel has passed a new draconian law, which vastly expands its state apparatus of death for Palestinians and deepens apartheid in its legal system. Canada cannot stand idly by while the genocidal government enacts this cruel and inhumane form of punishment. Our leaders need to take action, and sanction Israel now!

Cutting VPs who are crucial to school-functioning, yet the province has tens of millions allocated in the new budget to forcibly return police back to schools, reversing the decisions taken by school boards to remove them when they were deemed both ineffective and harmful.

The federal government wants to limit how the public uses the Access to Information law. More secrecy is coming. ottawacitizen.com/public-service… via @ottawacitizen

The Israeli government is moving forward with its illegal E1 settlement plan. E1 would partition the north and south of the West Bank, severing communities from one another and further entrenching Israeli apartheid. Canada has condemned E1, but words alone are not enough. We have to act now to stop them. 📢 Go to bit.ly/E1letter to tell Mark Carney, sanction Israel now!

Canada used spies, infiltration and physical and electronic surveillance against George Manuel—one of the most widely respected First Nations leaders in modern history, documents show. The secret agent was code numbered A-828. cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

Sanction Israel's E1 Settlement Project Now!. actionnetwork.org/letters/canada…

REMEMBER THEM Palestine Scholars Murdered in Gaza Genocide Honoring lives and legacies of martyred Palestinian academics These biographies are modest attempt to convey sense of what their families, their communities, Palestine, and all of us have lost rememberinggazascholars.org

#New: Why Mounties paid 5 informers to spy on Dene leaders A 1,700-page RCMP intelligence dossier on the Dene Nation confirms this investigation for the first time. Here is an in-depth look at a spy probe that Dene say inluded a bugging and break-in. cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

Americans using commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners under US surveillance and subject them to warrantless government spying. This essentially circumvents entire purpose of using VPN's. wired.com/story/using-a-…

Why Mounties paid 5 informers to spy on Dene leaders: Inside a secret surveillance operation Dene leaders say Mounties broke into and bugged office in Cold War-era disruption program CBC News has obtained a newly declassified copy of the RCMP Security cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

The Canadian government argued, in court, that it needed four years to review an RCMP intelligence dossier on the Assembly of First Nations precursor to protect CSIS’s modern source recruitment program, among other things. Thanks to my colleagues for this.cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

Cops were created and exist to protect capital. "Canadian energy company Enbridge has agreed to funnel money to U.S. law enforcement in anticipation of protests against its Line 5 pipeline reroute project." bnnbloomberg.ca/markets/oil/20…

Policing measures are ramping up dramatically in this city, and regardless of the justification, there is no timeline in which this does not facilitate more harm for Black, Indigenous, and unhoused people.

This demonstrates part of why I tell people not to join the police intending to be “one of the good ones” - the good ones will be pushed out by leadership because the impunity is systemic, all the way to the top thestar.com/news/gta/veter…