My predecessor as executive director of Human Rights Watch, Aryeh Neier, finds Israel's obstruction of food and other essentials to Gaza to be evidence of genocide. nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Great news!

Making #HeatPumps more affordable, so low & middle income families can make their homes cleaner, safer & more comfortable (& reduce emissions) all year around!

Important investments in people & planet. H/t George Heyman Josie Osborne Steven Guilbeault Laurel Collins 🌎

As wildfires rage across our region, we see the consequences of neglecting emergency preparedness and Indigenous Services.

Our communities need support.

This government must properly invest in ISC and emergency preparedness to save lives.

.Stefanie Dekker explaining that the Israelis attacking trucks carrying aid, to prevent it from reaching Gaza, are doing so with the tacit approval of the state.

Stefanie is reporting from Jordan because the Israeli govt has banned Al Jazeera journalists from working in Israel

Dental care is health care!

So proud to be part of Jagmeet Singh’s NDP team that delivered on our dental promise for millions of Canadians. Now let’s do Pharmacare!

This is the correct take, and he even includes that it radicalizes both the far right and far left. This is the kind of thing I think about when people say universal basic income costs too much. We may pay for the lack of UBI with the loss of our democracy. Put a price on that.

New findings: The oil and gas industry spent > $1 trillion on election campaigns since 1990, five big oil companies spent $3.6 billion on advertising over the same time, and they all keep drilling.

America’s biggest energy scam is happening now thehill.com/opinion/energy…

The U.N. has NOT lowered the recorded death toll in Gaza, but Israeli government partisans deliberately conflict the number of dead whose identity has been determined with the total number of dead. theguardian.com/world/article/…

I just emailed my MP calling on them to rein in Big Grocers like Loblaws. As more Canadians now access food banks to feed their families, please join me. act.leadnow.ca/Grocery-Greed/

'I am Jewish. I am Israeli. My parents were in Auschwitz. I am not going to support genocide, am I? I am here with Palestine.'

Israel is clearly pursuing two objectives. First, to kill as many Palestinians as possible—including through severe deprivation—while still retaining US support. Second, to render Gaza uninhabitable and eventually remove the population on 'humanitarian' grounds. The regime must…

Always good to see efficient⚡️heat pumps⚡️getting love ➡️ more households in B.C. saying goodbye to fossil gas & staying cool ❄️in summer.

Any objective observer knows that Israel has broken international law and Israel has broken American law. They should not be receiving another nickel in U.S. military aid.

'Canada’s big banks are still lighting the fuses of carbon bombs, pouring billions into fossil fuel financing during the hottest year on record... It’s time for our government and regulators to step in.' nationalobserver.com/2024/05/14/new…

Israeli forces have carried out at least eight strikes on aid workers’ convoys and premises in Gaza since October, even though aid groups had provided their coordinates to the Israeli authorities to ensure their protection, killing 31 aid workers -- @HRW. hrw.org/news/2024/05/1…

Amid student protests over Gaza, one of the first schools to announce a divestment plan is Union Seminary in New York, which is affiliated with Columbia University. President Serene Jones explains what motivated the theological school to act, saying it was 'not a hard decision.'

What’s different about the Woodland Cree blockade compared to other Indigenous frontlines I’ve reported on is that non-Native industries such as Weaver & multiple others have joined in. Here one of Weaver’s heavy equipment is moved onto the blockade to show solidarity. The local…

For the first time under Burnaby's tenant assistance policy, displaced tenants will return to the re-developed building at the same rent. Out of 49 eligible tenants, 32 chose to return next month. The remaining non-market units will be rented at 20% below CMHC median for the area

There’s something very eerie about the Fort Nelson wildfires blazing through a night lit up by the aurora borealis. The delicate precision of the Earth’s magnetosphere next to climate-induced fire weather starting far too early in the season. Stay safe, B.C.

Reproductive rights are under attack. While Conservatives vote against contraceptives and push legislation and petitions to violate abortion rights, Liberals fail to uphold access. When will the government enforce the Canada Health Act and protect the right to a safe abortion?