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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: canada
Date: December 8, 2023, 2:30 am
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HTML https://hyperallergic.com/860322/citing-silencing-of-arab-voices-artists-cut-ties-with-art-canada-institute/
Citing Silencing of Arab Voices, Artists Cut Ties With Art
Canada Institute
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> A number of artists and curators have said they are cutting
ties with Art Canada Institute (ACI) after the arts nonprofit
was accused late last month of attempting to suppress the voices
of a group of Arab and Muslim artists. A dozen Canadian artists
are accusing the online art platform, which is part of the
Massey College at the University of Toronto, of failing to
uphold its own mission statement
>
> Amid the fallout, several other artists have withdrawn from
projects with the ACI
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> Before it was canceled on November 28, the online exhibition
Lands Within brought together a dozen Canadian artists of North
African and Southwest Asian backgrounds to explore and
recontextualize the historically misconstrued region through
landscape photography. After months of planning, which included
a Letter of Agreement signed in August and an exhibition layout
review in early November, ACI’s managing director Michelle Yeung
emailed the group’s curator Amin Alsaden on November 23 to
inform him that the exhibition would undergo a so-called
“sensitivity review.” Yeung said the process was put in place to
affirm that the show would not unintentionally alienate or
offend (white) readers
>
> “What is disturbing here is that ACI’s so-called ‘sensitivity
review’ apparently targeted this exhibition because of our
cultural background,” Alsaden told Hyperallergic. “I am
perplexed as to how our birth identities, or landscape
photography, suddenly became offensive to them.”
>
> Palestinian-Canadian artist Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, another
participant in the exhibition, told Hyperallergic that she had
“little doubt” that the review “was an attempt to police our
work as Palestinian, Arab, and other SWANA artists.”
>
> “Over the past two months, we’ve seen a wave of denialism and
censorship in arts institutions across Canada that targets
Palestinians and those who voice even slight empathy with us,”
Hamadeh said, adding that “not only are Palestinians refused the
right to mourn or challenge the unprecedented violence waged
against our friends and families back home, but our very
existence is seen as a threat.”
>
> ACI was founded in 2013 by Sara Angel as a digital art museum
and open-source library. Although it is not publicized in her
biography on ACI’s website, Angel also sits on the board of
directors for Israel Museums and Arts, Canada (ICAAM) — a
pro-Israel organization
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> “The real policies that these institutions have about
diversity and inclusion, all this talk about freedom of speech —
it is all talk,” Lynn Kodeih
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: canada
Date: December 9, 2023, 3:47 am
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/soleiman-faqiri-inquest-day-15-homicide-1.7053159
Soleiman Faqiri's death should be deemed a homicide, Ontario
coroner's counsel says
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> Ontario's coroner's office is calling for Soleiman Faqiri's
jail cell death to be deemed a homicide, with its counsel saying
the evidence points in "one direction."
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> "Inquest counsel is proposing homicide as the appropriate
manner of death in this case," coroner's counsel Prabhu Rajan
told jurors at the inquest into Faqiri's death on Friday.
>
> "In our view Soleiman's death was a tragedy, a preventable
tragedy," Rajan said. "We don't take this position lightly, but
we believe the evidence points in this one direction."
>
> Speaking to jurors directly, presiding coroner Dr. David
Cameron said, "It was no accident that he was restrained in the
manner that he was."
>
> No one was ever charged criminally in connection with Faqiri's
death at the Central East Correctional Centre (CECC) in Lindsay,
Ont. on Dec. 15, 2016.
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> The inquest has previously heard guards carried out nearly 60
policy breaches in Faqiri's death.
>
> Ontario's chief forensic pathologist has said the injuries
Faqiri sustained in the restraint created "a perfect storm for
his death."
>
> Faqiri died after being repeatedly struck by guards, pepper
sprayed twice, covered with a spit hood and left shackled face
down on the floor of a segregation cell after being moved from a
shower stall, where he allegedly squirted water and shampoo on
guards. During the course of his transfer, one guard alleged
Faqiri spat at him and slapped Faqiri twice in the face before
other guards joined in restraining him.
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> while none of his injuries on their own were fatal, his death
was the result of being held face down on his stomach and the
injuries he suffered while being restrained and repeatedly
struck.
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HTML https://www.cp24.com/news/oshawa-man-charged-for-allegedly-uttering-death-threat-toward-woman-wearing-hijab-in-toronto-s-east-end-1.6679910
Oshawa man charged for allegedly uttering death threat toward
woman wearing hijab in Toronto's east end
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> An Oshawa man has been charged after allegedly uttering a
death threat to a woman wearing a hijab in Toronto’s east end
last week.
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> He allegedly made derogatory remarks regarding the woman’s
religion before threatening her.
>
> Police said the suspect shortly left the area. The woman did
not sustain physical injuries.
>
> The incident is being investigated as a suspected
hate-motivated offence, and members of the hate crime unit
arrested the suspect, 54-year-old George Murray, earlier this
week.
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> He has been charged with uttering death threats. Murray is
scheduled to appear in a Toronto court next month.
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Re: State subverters
DIR By: neo-nazis
Date: December 9, 2023, 3:56 am
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rcmp-terror-charges-1.7053162
Ontario men arrested on terrorism charges linked to neo-Nazi
movement
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> Two Ontario men are facing terrorism-related charges, the RCMP
says, after allegedly participating in the creation of
manifestos and recruiting videos in support of far-right
extremism and the neo-Nazi terrorist movement.
>
> In a news release issued Friday morning, police said the
charges stem from an 18-month investigation, with several search
warrants carried out in the Toronto and Niagara regions.
>
> The men, according to investigators, helped create Terrorgram
Collective manifestos and Atomwaffen Division recruiting videos.
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> Atomwaffen Division was listed as a terrorist entity in Canada
back in 2021, and after that listing, many former members joined
"Active Club Canada," investigators say.
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> Members of the group have been seen performing combat training
exercises in community parks.
>
> Investigators say members of the group also have ties to a
group called the Hammerskins in Durham region.
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> Atomwaffen Division is an international neo-Nazi terror group,
police say, which started in the U.S. The organization has since
spread to the U.K. and Canada, alongside other locales.
>
> "The group calls for acts of violence against racial,
religious, and ethnic groups, police, and bureaucrats, to prompt
the collapse of society," the RCMP said in its news release.
>
> The Active Club network, meanwhile, is made up of
decentralized cells of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups,
police say. They operate in many U.S. states and in other
nations, including Canada.
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> "The network was created in January 2021 and it promotes mixed
martial arts to fight against what it asserts is a system that
is targeting the white race, as well as a 'warrior spirit' to
prepare for a forthcoming race war," the news release reads.
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> The Terrorgram Collective, is a group of channels on the
messaging app Telegram that police say share "neo-fascist
ideology and that produce and share manuals on how to carry out
racially-motivated violence."
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: canada
Date: December 19, 2023, 6:07 pm
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HTML https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/university-revokes-mcgill-name-from-sphr-palestinian-rights-group
Palestinian-rights group vows to keep using McGill's name
despite revocation
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> McGill University confirmed Monday that it has barred a
Palestinian-rights group on campus from using the word “McGill”
in its name after the student club described the Oct. 7 massacre
by Hamas of Israeli civilians as “heroic.”
>
> Despite the name revocation, a representative of Solidarity
for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) vowed to continue using the
internationally recognizable McGill brand. On Tuesday, McGill
remained on SPHR’s Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and X (formerly
Twitter) accounts.
>
>
> “We are rejecting this name change because we are McGill
students who have a right to political expression on the McGill
campus,” said the representative, who declined to have their
name published for fear of reprisals.
>
> “This is just another blatant way to smear the only group on
campus which is representing Palestinian students.”
>
> The McGill revocation stands in sharp contrast with the
approach taken by Harvard and some other U.S. universities that
have been reluctant to take action against their student groups
for celebrating the Hamas attack against Israel. A Quebec
Superior Court judge last month suspended the adoption of a
pro-Palestinian policy by the SSMU after a Jewish student filed
a request for an injunction.
>
> The suspended SSMU policy called on the university to condemn
Israel’s bombing of Gaza following Hamas’s attack, and to cut
ties with corporations “complicit in genocide,
settler-colonialism, apartheid or ethnic cleansing against
Palestinians.”
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gaza-israel-palestinian-settlers-1.7062844
As U.S., U.K. and EU sanction violent Israeli settlers, Canada
hangs back
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> The Trudeau government still won't say if it's considering
imposing sanctions on violent Israeli settlers in the wake of
travel bans announced by both the U.S. and the United Kingdom in
recent days.
>
> The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said
last week that he will recommend EU sanctions as well.
>
> Canada, like its American, British and European allies, has
called on Israel to restrain extremist Jewish settlers who have
brought new levels of fear and violence to the West Bank under
the year-old government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.
>
> Netanyahu's cabinet includes some of Israel's most radical
settler leaders in its top posts.
>
> Canada provides settlements with diplomatic cover
>
> According to its official foreign policy, the federal
government considers all Israeli settlements in the West Bank to
be illegal, an obstacle to peace and "a violation of the Fourth
Geneva Convention."
>
> In practice, however, the government of Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau has provided the Israeli settlement enterprise with
diplomatic and legal cover. Since 2015, Canada has consistently
voted against the annual UN motion that calls for the Fourth
Geneva Convention to be upheld in the Occupied Territories and
for settlement construction to cease.
>
> The Trudeau government has also written to the International
Criminal Court at The Hague saying that Canada, as one of the
nations funding the court, wants it to reject all cases brought
against Israel by Palestinians.
>
> In July this year, as Israeli settler violence reached a
boiling point, the Trudeau government also wrote to the
International Court of Justice pressing it to refuse to issue
"an advisory opinion on Israeli practices in the occupied
territories," as requested by the UN General Assembly.
>
> Canada's lawyers told the court it should reject the case
because Israel did not recognize its jurisdiction, and because
"Canada is concerned that the issuance of an advisory opinion on
Israeli practices in the occupied territories may contribute to
a polarization of positions."
>
> The government also has allowed Israeli settlements to raise
funds in Canada and claim Canadian tax refunds — an apparent
contradiction of Canada Revenue Agency policy that states that
"an organization is not charitable in law if its activities are
contrary to public policy."
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: annoying
Date: January 3, 2024, 9:35 pm
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HTML https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/israel-s-allies-warn-against-displacing-palestinians-in-gaza-to-places-like-canada-1.6709389
Israel's allies warn against displacing Palestinians in Gaza to
places like Canada
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> The report by the Israel Hayom newspaper cited unnamed sources
as saying a member of the Knesset had pointed to Canada,
mentioning its new program offering limited visas to relatives
of Canadian citizens who are seeking passage out of Gaza.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: colonizers
Date: January 3, 2024, 9:48 pm
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HTML https://montreal.citynews.ca/2023/11/21/racism-discrimination-canada-immigration/
Racism, discrimination may be to blame for immigrants’
dissatisfaction with Canada: advocates
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> More than one-third of recent immigrants to Canada say living
here has been worse than expected, according to a new Leger poll
done exclusively for OMNI News. 
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> Racism and discrimination may be playing a role.
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> More than half of the respondents say they’ve experienced or
witnessed racism and discrimination.
>
> “I work with a lot of people who are immigrants and they have
a lot of dreams about coming to Canada,” said Niemi. “And one of
the dreams is that Canada is a society that’s fair, that’s based
on equality, that does not have the kind of ethnic and religious
strife that they live in their countries of origin.
>
> “And when they come here, they will encounter discrimination,
particularly in employment and in housing. This is where they
start to feel a little bit less optimistic and less hopeful
about society as a whole.”
>
> “They realize over time that perhaps it’s the skin colour, the
race that holds them back, that makes them get less
opportunities than they expected,” said Niemi.
>
> “This is something that could be a fact, that it impedes
integration and also satisfaction as newcomers. Because they
feel that these are the barriers that they didn’t expect.”
>
> A quarter of those polled say they’ve experienced or witnessed
religious discrimination.
>
> Conseil Migrant’s Carlos Rojas, an advocate for migrants’
rights for more than 20 years, says racial profiling needs to be
addressed.
>
> “When people see you, they act in different way,” said Rojas
>
> “When you arrive here, the first years of your staying in
Canada is overwhelming… I can tell you the amount of information
that you have to handle and amount of things that you have to do
is just overwhelming.”
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-relatives-gaza-1.7072798
Muslim group calls on Ottawa to lift cap on program allowing
Palestinians to flee to Canada
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> The National Council of Canadian Muslims is calling on the
federal government to remove a cap on the number of Palestinians
who can seek refuge with their Canadian extended family members
from the violence in the Gaza Strip.
>
> The special extended family program for people in Gaza is set
to launch next week. Palestinian Canadians pleaded for months
for help from the federal government to rescue their loved ones
from the Israel-Hamas war.
>
> The program offers visas to a maximum of 1,000 Palestinians,
which would allow them to take refuge in Canada for three years
if their families are willing to support them financially during
that time.
>
> "There should not be a cap," said Uthman Quick, the
organization's director of communications.
>
> The cap "takes into consideration the volatility on the ground
and the difficulty that Canada and like-minded countries are
having in moving people from Gaza to Egypt," Immigration
Department spokesperson Matthew Krupovich said in an email
statement Tuesday.
>
> Toronto immigration lawyer Yameena Ansari said she believes
the cap vastly underestimates the number of people who need
help.
>
> Ansari advocated for the policy as part of an ad hoc group of
immigration lawyers called the Gaza Family Reunification
Project.
>
> "Just between the lawyers in this group, we know more than
1,000 applicants," said Ansari, who called the cap "heinous."
>
> Cap will result in 'battle royale' for visas, lawyer says
>
> "What's at stake is — and I want to put this really bluntly —
is your family going to live or are they going to die?" Ansari
said.
>
> Most people in Gaza don't want to leave, Quick said, and they
want to know that if they do flee to Canada, they'll have the
right to return home when the conflict is over.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: canada
Date: January 7, 2024, 7:57 pm
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HTML https://theconversation.com/whats-behind-the-dramatic-shift-in-canadian-public-opinion-about-immigration-levels-219193
What’s behind the dramatic shift in Canadian public opinion
about immigration levels?
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> Over the last few years, Environics public opinion data also
indicated Canadians felt very positively about immigrants and
immigration levels.
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> Something changed in 2023.
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> There is a large body of research examining how perceived
threat/competition predicts attitudes toward immigrants and
immigration.
>
> This research shows that negative attitudes toward immigrants
can develop when situational factors — for example, housing
shortages, inflationary pressures and a rise in anti-immigration
ideologies — combine to create perceptions of group competition.
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> Perceived competition may be rooted in real or imagined
national economic challenges, as well as beliefs about access to
housing, employment and other resources.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: canada
Date: January 12, 2024, 4:37 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/palestinian-gaza-migrant-canada-1.7080991
Ottawa seeking unprecedented level of personal details from
Palestinian migrants, lawyers say
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> immigration lawyers say Ottawa is asking for an unprecedented
level of personal information from prospective migrants.
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> "It's strikingly different than what is ordinarily required
for a visitor visa application," said immigration lawyer Pantea
Jafari. "[The federal government] is asking for significantly
more information than any of those applications, and even more
than any permanent resident's application."
>
> The form asks for "a full and detailed employment history,
since the age of 16 years, including exact dates, description
and details on your roles and responsibilities, name(s) of
supervisors(s), reason for leaving the job, and any disciplinary
issues."
>
> It also requires a "description" of, and explanations for,
"any scars or injuries which have required medical attention."
The form asks applicants to list all social media accounts,
former phone numbers and email addresses associated with a
prospective migrant, along with passport information.
>
> Jafari said that's a lot of information to ask of people who
are fleeing for their lives.
>
> "It's an incredibly difficult position to put an already
vulnerable population into, and I just can't imagine being
anyone that needs to fill this out right now. I can't imagine
the hardship that they're experiencing," she said.
>
> Adam Sadinsky of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers
said it took him six hours recently to help a family of four
gather all this information. He said it would be a lot for
anyone struggling with unreliable internet access in Gaza.
>
> Aidan Simardone, who also practices immigration law, said the
federal government's approach to migrants from Gaza betrays a
double standard.
>
> He pointed out that Ukrainians fleeing Russia's full-scale
invasion in 2022 were not asked such detailed questions, despite
the documented existence of a group with neo-Nazi ties, the Azov
Battalion, operating in Ukraine.
>
> In an interview with CBC's Ottawa Morning on Thursday, Miller
said it's reasonable to ask for these details given the security
concerns.
>
> "I don't think Canadians would forgive us if we let in someone
that was not the person we wanted to be, and turned out to be a
terrorist," he said.
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-chief-pro-palestine-demonstration-flag-1.7081772
Toronto police chief reverses course, identifies 'terrorist
flag' waved at demonstration
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> A day after refusing to identify the "terrorist flag" held at
a demonstration last weekend that led to charges being laid
against a man for public incitement of hatred, Toronto's police
chief said the flag belongs to the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine.
>
> At a Toronto Police Services Board meeting Thursday, police
announced that a 41-year-old man was charged with public
incitement of hatred for allegedly waving the flag while
marching through the city's downtown Sunday.
>
> Demkiw called the charge "unprecedented," noting the "very
high threshold" to charge anyone with a hate propaganda offence.
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-elementary-school-racial-slur-connaught-1.7079495
Elementary school warns parents about student racial slurs
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> Parents at an elementary school in Ottawa are being asked to
speak to their children about respect and kindness because
primary-age students had used racial slurs.
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> While the board described these incidents as isolated, Taylor
said based on her experience racist incidents in schools often
go unreported, especially if they're not overheard by a staff
member.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: worthless country
Date: February 20, 2024, 3:51 pm
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HTML https://www.readthemaple.com/trudeau-government-authorized-28-million-of-new-military-exports-to-israel-since-october/
Trudeau Government Authorized $28.5 Million Of New Military
Exports To Israel Since October
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> The Trudeau government authorized at least $28.5 million of
new permits for military exports to Israel during the first two
months of the state’s brutal war on Gaza
>
> “It’s not only troubling that Canadian officials have
continued to authorize arms transfers since the onset of
Israel’s operation, but also that the value of those transfers
is in the tens of millions.”
>
> “These combined values exceed that of total Canadian arms
exports to Israel for any year on record.”
>
> The newly issued permits include four worth a combined total
of $1.7 million that authorize the sale of, among other items,
goods under an export category that includes “bombs, torpedoes,
rockets, missiles, other explosive devices and charges and
related equipment and accessories, and specially designed
components.”
>
> Michael Bueckert, vice president of Canadians for Justice and
Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), called the military exports to
Israel “absolutely scandalous.”
>
> “It’s almost as if Canada is accelerating its arms export
authorization process amid a genocidal campaign,” he said.
>
> Canadian ministers have been accused of deliberately sowing
confusion about military exports to Israel
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HTML https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-warned-to-cut-off-military-exports-to-israel-or-face-legal/
Canada warned to cut off military exports to Israel or face
legal challenge
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> A coalition of Canadians and Palestinians is urging Foreign
Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to cut off military exports to
Israel, warning it may bring a legal challenge if Ottawa fails
to act.
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/10252851/unrwa-israel-attack-allegations/
Canada pauses funding for UN agency amid alleged staff role in
Israel attacks
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> Canada has temporarily paused “any additional funding” for the
United Nations agency charged with delivering aid to
Palestinians amid allegations that staff members were involved
in the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel, in which 1,200 people were
killed.
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Re: Western Racism and Islamaphobia in Canada
DIR By: the white menace
Date: February 20, 2024, 4:06 pm
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HTML https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3252335/are-hongkongers-canada-facing-shifting-immigration-attitudes-emigrants-say-viral-racist-tirade
‘Go back to Hong Kong’ jibe sparks debate on level of racism in
Canada
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> Canadian city of Richmond in spotlight after woman filmed
telling Asian man to ‘go back to Hong Kong’ during angry
exchange at local council meeting
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> A widely shared video originally posted by online group
Neighbours of Richmond shows a white woman in favour of the
motion accosting an elderly Asian man during the rally and
describing him as “what’s wrong with Canada”.
>
> “You do not belong here. Go back to Hong Kong,” the woman says
in the video.
>
> Community leaders were quick to rebuke the woman’s comments,
even as the country is grappling with fears of a gradual shift
from its traditional acceptance of immigrants.
>
> “Racism has no place in our society and it is disheartening to
witness such behaviour,” said Chak Au, a Richmond city
councillor who once taught at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong and moved to Canada in 1988.
>
> “This incident underscores the urgent need for collective
action against racism,” he said. “[I]t is an essential endeavour
for fostering a more inclusive and equitable society.”
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HTML https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/hidden-figures-podcast-shines-light-on-racism-in-canadian-academia/
Hidden Figures: New podcast shines a light on racism in academia
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> The Hidden Figures Project team, which includes Nathan Andrews
and Akalya Kandiah from the department of political science, has
been exploring how racism and Whiteness occur in the social and
natural sciences in Canada.
>
> “The main rationale is informed by the need to challenge the
academic status quo by critically evaluating how practices that
have historically marginalized certain scholars persist, how
these practices remain part of broader systemic injustices and
what can be done about it to make our disciplinary fields more
inclusive.”
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HTML https://www.torontomu.ca/diversity/news-events/2024/02/on-being-explicit-about-anti-black-racism-in-canada/
On being explicit about anti-Black racism in Canada
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> Experts showcased evidence of systemic discrimination against
the Black population in Canada
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> Racism remains a major issue, with 58% of Black people aged 15
years or older reporting discrimination. Further, 50% of Black
employees reported that they have experienced discrimination in
promotional processes.
>
> Despite bridging the education gap with almost identical rates
of post-secondary education when compared to the rest of the
population, Black Canadians have the highest rate of
underemployment for any Canadian-educated racialized group
>
> The United Nations Human Rights Commission expressed serious
concerns about the Canadian justice system for the way Black
people are treated. Black people in Canada face over-policing
and are over-incarcerated. “One of the most devastating
indications of the persistence and perniciousness of anti-Black
racism is the finding that the Canadian Human Rights Commission
had discriminated against their Black and racialized employees,”
Cukier said.
>
> Governments at all levels and private sector companies now are
explicit in their commitments to fighting anti-Black racism. If
you don't name the problem, you can't forge solutions.”
>
> Despite the evidence pointing to systemic discrimination,
Cukier said the backlash directed against the Black population
and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) efforts is growing.
She pointed to a recent poll from Global News where almost
one-half of respondents said that diversity is causing Canada to
change in ways they don't like.
>
> There are reports of upward harassment, microaggressions and
unconscious bias. “We have seen Black women rise, despite the
odds, into leadership roles, only to be targeted, held to
impossible standards and then pushed over what we refer to as
‘the glass cliff,’” she said.
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