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I'd like to memorialize important human sacrifices, not killing machines, arms trade, and their glorification

Make blossoms not war.

Hear hear! Nice to see someone caring about the future of this country as opposed to using their time in government to sell off whatever public resources they can to the private sector to make them and their friends some extra bucks while screwing the rest of the population for generations to come

That's 10 percent of Canadians with a criminal record, which is higher than I would have guessed

End the genocide - Free Palestine

For Rachel Small, an organizer with World Beyond War Canada (WBW), GAC’s unclear messaging is likely intentional.

“Global Affairs Canada right now is certainly doing its best to avoid speaking about the Canada-Israel arms trade,” Small told The Maple. “The Canadian government is doing its best to appease people across the country who are demanding accountability, while refusing to reveal any actual information about the export of weapons.”

Small noted that the confusion has been compounded by some Liberal MPs who are reportedly telling their constituents that Canada is not arming Israel, possibly due to a misunderstanding of the difference between direct transfers from the Canadian military and exports by private companies to the Israeli military.

“It’s unclear to me if they’re seeking to deliberately mislead the public or whether there’s rampant misinformation within the Liberal Party itself,” she explained.

Corporate ethics is an oxymoron

It was one of two acrid odours that spread over parts of Metro Vancouver in less than a week, raising questions about corporate responsibility to inform the public when such events cause widespread concern and confusion but fall short of health and safety breaches.

The smell Ford referred to was revealed to be “an unplanned issue” with a Parkland fuel refinery processing unit in neighbouring Burnaby. The heavy stench, which Ford compared to jet fuel, blanketed parts of Metro Vancouver and caused more than 100 complaints from local residents.

It came just days after a “controlled release of gas” from a FortisBC interconnect station in nearby Delta, B.C., prompted criticisms from Mayor George Harvie and numerous residents that the utility didn’t notify the public for more than four hours.

Harvie said the heavy odour caused stress and panic in the community, and a flood of calls to local police and fire departments hampered Delta’s emergency response services.

I'm disgusted that the Canadian Medical Association is co-host of this "cross-country tour" with the Globe and Mail to promote healthcare privatization.

Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia – Public health advocates are picketing outside the Halifax stop of a cross-country tour hosted by the Canadian Medical Association and the Globe and Mail today. They will be there to oppose the event’s focus on finding a greater role for the private sector in easing the pressures on Canada’s health care system.

Members and supporters of the Council of Canadians, Nova Scotia Federation of Labour, and Nova Scotia Health Coalition are gathering outside the event at the Halifax Convention Centre beginning at 11am to distribute informational leaflets and engage the participants in conversation.

“We’re out here today because we think these consultations are misleading the public. Instead of asking how we can invest more resources into our strained public health care system, these consultations are reviving outdated and dangerous ideas that will only move us further along the path to U.S.-style, two-tier health care. We’ve heard this debate countless times before, and the evidence has been clear all along: privatized health care would do nothing to solve the current crisis,” says Robin Tress, Co-Executive Director of the Council of Canadians.

“It’s no secret that our public health care system is in dire straits. Long wait times and staffing shortages are taking a toll on both the health system and the public. But we can’t fix these problems by adding on for-profit care. Private, for-profit health care costs more and delivers less. Investing in the public health care system will always be the safest and most sustainable option,” adds Alexandra Rose, Provincial Coordinator of the Nova Scotia Health Coalition.

The researchers from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Yale University found levels that were between 20 and 64 times higher than those reported by industry, depending on the oilsands facility.

That's not a small difference

This US politics post seems appropriate for a US politics community. It does not seem appropriate here. It feels like irrelevant spam here

While international support for the people of Palestine is still a fraction of where it should be (and hopefully will be soon), I think it's much higher than where it was in October or November (for many reasons). I have a lot of hope in South Africa's courageous and commendable case against Israel and its genocide at the ICJ. I pray and hope that things will continue to gather momentum and get better. I think the ICJ ruling may be weeks away. I'd really like to see more action from the EU, because I think that would be influential (on other countries). It's been really interesting, and chilling to be honest, for me to observe that there's far more criticism of Netayahu in Israeli media than there are traditional Canadian and American media. I've read an hour-by-hour description of much of what happened on Oct 7th from an Israeli paper with Israeli military whistleblower sources that paints a pretty clear picture, including the Hannibal Directive, that does not match the narrative exclusively used in traditional North American outlets. Last I saw the traditional North American outlets were running a show-and-tell article about the IDF showing journalists a place where Hamas allegedly kept hostages - the coverage is propaganda

@#$% those who defend, sanitize, or turn a blind eye to genocide