canada

This is gonna help the cost of living crisis there lol

On November 5, 2024, Dimitri Lascaris and six other lawyers from across Canada filed an historic lawsuit against Canada's federal government.

On the following day, they held a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to announce the litigation and to explain its legal basis. This video includes their full press conference, as well as brief statements made by two of the lawyers after the press conference concluded.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are two Palestinian-Canadians, Hany El-Batnigi and Tamer Jarada. Their families have been devastated by Israel's war on Gaza. They allege that Justin Trudeau's government has violated its duty under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention to prevent genocide, and has violated their rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The six lawyers with whom Lascaris has launched this litigation are Professor Faisal Bhabha, Professor Emilio Dabed, Jouman El-Asmar, Yavar Hameed, Shane Martinez and Asaf Rashid.

The lawsuit is being funded by the Legal Centre for Palestine (LCP). You can support the lawsuit by donating to LCP here: https://www.lcpal.ca/support-our-case.

Archived link to the WaPo article mentioned.

The evidence isn’t public yet. But the actions Canada are taking are very serious. They’ve expelled Indian diplomats and are now accusing India’s Home Minister, the second-most powerful person in the country, to be behind the killings.

The WaPo article claims the Indian government used its diplomats to find information on people - who used Indians in Canada for this purpose, often by threatening to deny them needed immigration papers. Then, the diplomats would send this information back home.

There, the government worked with a criminal enterprise to organize killings on Canadian soil. This was all facilitated by India’s intelligence agency.

All of this information was apparently conveyed to India earlier this year, where a senior Indian official initially denied any knowledge and later admitted some information but denied others.

And apparently more will become public as the trial for the Nijjar killing begins soon.

That is, he overrode the ERRE and public consultations, and refused to let the issue go to a referendum, because he decided it was too risky to let Canadians choose our own electoral system. Trudeau’s comments reveal his view of the role of elected government: not to dutifully enact the decisions of the people, but to decide issues for Canadians. He acted based on his view of Canadians’ best interests, and will continue to do so, even if that means paternalistically overriding Canadians’ attempts to chart their own destiny.

Matthew Green for NDP leader

Edit: Just noticed the name of the co-author ho-lee-SHIT

Michael Coulthart, head of the PHAC’s Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease Surveillance System, who was involved in the early days of the investigation has said he believes something real is going on that cannot be explained by the alleged bias or personal agenda of one neurologist. “My strongest hypothesis is that there is some environmental exposure – or perhaps a combination of exposures – that is triggering and/or accelerating a variety of neurodegenerative syndromes,” he wrote in an October, 2023, e-mail to another PHAC employee. He added that this complex scenario allowed politicians “to conclude nothing coherent is going on.”

On election day, NDP led in 46 districts, the Cons in 45 and the Greens in 2. NDP need 47 seats for a majority - but even with the current seats they can rule with the Greens as a minority.

Today, recounts started and will go on till Monday. After the first count at 1 PM Pacific, NDP lead grew in two district and they closed in on the Cons in one district. If this pattern holds, they might have a majority.

Too soon to say, but it is more likely now that it was a couple hours ago. Next recount update is at 4 PM Pacific.

I know this is very electoralism-heavy and might not matter to people outside the province/country. But this has been on my mind constantly for the past week.

The entire election has been a fiasco. The BC NDP, which is a neoliberal party way more right-wing than the federal NDP, shifted even more to the right during this campaign. I’m not going into everything they did, but it was bad. The Greens, in response, became a true left wing party. The Cons, which were a non-entity sprung up out of nowhere as a true force - a shame they are literally an alt-right and fascist one - anti-science, anti-homeless, anti-abortion, anti-indigenous, anti-immigration, anti-climate etc etc. If they wasn’t enough, the Liberals, which were the province’s traditional opposition party completely collapsed and folded into that Cons giving them massive support.

Just…fucking incredible.

The Greens won two seats but their leader lost hers. To me, an NDP minority propped up by the Greens would seem like a good outcome. But the way things have shaken out so far, a couple by-elections and the Cons could come into power.

So these late counts giving the NDP a more secure footing seems a good thing. Hopefully someone with more knowledge than me can weight in, though.

A government-funded monument to some of World War II’s worst villains leads us to trace the history of Holocaust revisionism and anti-communist terrorism at the heart of Canada (small country north of USA).

Featuring Dan Boeckner: www.patreon.com/BOECKNER

Previously: Episode 101: OUN-BAD: www.patreon.com/posts/episode-101-oun-41883859

Release date: 23 October 2024

30 min preview of this episode is available on TA's sound cloud

Full episode is paywalled at their patreon.

If you want more of a taste before you buy, here is an alternative 🏴‍☠️ feed courtesy jumble.top. It has the full episodes.

summer-fall 2024 theme is posts, poles, tubes exclusively

~~It isn't letting me upload the rest.~~ Able to upload a few more but am still being limited. Lemmy.ml is tired of my bullshit.

linky

Accusation comes around 20min https://www.cpac.ca/in-committee-from-the-house-of-commons/episode/public-safety-and-national-security--october-24-2024?id=e7884f7a-dc0a-4568-bab9-415195774299

Libs are conflicted because the accuser is conservative (and therefore a putlerite chaos agent), but Pugliese has previously reported on topics that are verboten / synonymous with Kremlin disinfomatskaya influence ops amongst hitlerite canadian liberals (Freelands nazism, "victims" of communism memorial boondoggle, gov psyops on civilians)

Pugliese's writing https://ottawacitizen.com/author/davidpugliese2/

40 seats counted for both the NDP (mildly social democrat) and the ~~Q Anon~~ BC Conservative Party. NDP leads in 6, BCCP leads in 5. 47 needed for a majority government.

For some fucking reason the "final count" isn't going to happen until this weekend .

There's reason for cautious optimism, as the NDP has always performed better with mail-in / absentee ballots than on election night, analysis here.

However, in that article, buddy crunches the numbers and concludes it's unlikely going to be enough to flip any close conservative ridings (such as Kelowna Centre, which BCCP astonishingly only won by ~150 votes). ALSO however, Juan de Fuca was only taken by NDP with 20 FUCKING VOTES.

There's an average of ~500 mail-in absentee ballots per riding to count this weekend.

So, all week my family is wondering whether or not our kid is going to learn about climate change in school or not, or whether we're going to be governed by a party with people who post Q Anon tier shit-post memes to Facebook and said that (CW: racism)

The Greens (who won two seats) have said they're likely willing to prop up the NDP with a supply-and-confidence agreement (as they did after the 2017 election) but nobody can make an actual decision until we know if any of these close seats are going to flip to another party this weekend.