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  • Canada threatens to slash funding of Arab Rights NGO over Gaza
    21 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canada’s Immigration minister [Jason Kenney] threatened to slash funds to the country’s largest Arab organization, despite fears that the cuts would affect its ability to provide services to new immigrants, after its president denounced Canadian politicians for backing Israel’s assault on Gaza...
    http://www.guerrillanews.com/headli...
    Please urge Canada not to stop funding CAF as political punishment:
    Minister of Immigration: Jason Kenney: email kennej@parl.gc.ca
    cc: Canadian Arab (…)

  • Canada becomes Israel
    14 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper’s government publicly supported Israel’s brutal assault in Gaza and voted along at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel’s actions three weeks ago. Now Canada has taken over Israeli diplomacy. Literally.
    Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper’s government publicly supported Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza and voted alone at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel’s actions three weeks ago. Now Canada has taken over Israeli (…)

  • In 1972 Canadians donated $15 million to build ‘Canada Park’ on destroyed Palestinian villages
    9 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Overlooking the fertile Ayalon Valley between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv sits Canada Park, a 7,500 acre recreational area covered with pine forests. It is bisected by a winding path the John Diefenbaker Parkway named after the former Canadian prime minister who inaugurated it. Canada Park is a source of pride for the Montreal and Toronto Jewish philanthropists who in 1972 donated more than $15 million to help build it. A brochure of the Jewish National Fund of Canada that undertook the project (…)

  • Canadian MPs take more free trips to Israel than any other country
    8 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Members of Parliament accepted free trips to Israel more than any other country, a report by Canada’s ethics commissioner reveals. Lawmakers’ trips to Israel outnumbered other destinations nearly 2 to 1 during 2008.
    The report on "sponsored travel" shows that the Canada - Israel Committee paid more than $160,000.00 to send 24 federal politicians on trips to Israel, often with their spouses...
    http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02...

  • UNHRC: Canada Grilled Over Gaza Record
    5 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canada’s staunch support for Israel during its 23-day war on Gaza has caused uproar at the United Nation’s Human Right’s body in Geneva.
    During Canada’s first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council in Switzerland, Toronto was questioned on its unconditional sympathy for Israel.
    "It is often asked why, in the Human Rights Council, Canada is the first and often the only country to ask for a vote and vote against issues that address the violations of human rights of the (…)

  • Canada’s Donald (Duck) Davies NDP- MP on Gaza
    17 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canada’s New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Vancouver-Kingsway, recently gave what must be taken as the NDP’s position on the Iraeli attacks upon Gaza...
    "AND PALESTINIANS MUST ALSO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST ISRAEL!"
    a bearded man, with an umbrella in one hand and a Palestinian flag in the other shouted "Shame on you! Shame! Shame!" Davies abruptly surrendered the microphone and a female voice thundered from the loudspeaker, "ISRAEL IS WAGING WAR ON THE PALESTINIANS! OUR (…)

  • From Vancouver, with Love: a prayer for Gaza from Elders of the Coast Salish Territory
    13 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
  • UN Human Rights Council Condemns Israel (Canada ONLY ’no’ vote!)
    13 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The UN Human Rights Council on Monday adopted a resolution condemning the Israeli occupation in Gaza and demanding the immediate withdrawal of military forces. Canada was the ONLY dissenting vote.
    http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/papercha...
    Canada and Israel - Settler States united in Genocide:
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index....
    http://www.international.gc.ca/trad...
    Express yourself: Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper
    pm@pm.gc.ca
    cc: Canadian Peace Alliance
    cpa@web.ca (…)

  • Usurpation -as-Genocide: ’Lawyers and Indians’
    13 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Indian goes into a law office and says,"since my traditional government never agreed by any treaty to be governed by your government, why does your legal system apply your government’s laws to me on my indigenous nation’s unceded national territory?"
    ’’...I have identified the stages by which this judicial abandonment of the truth standard in favour of judicially-backed political opportunism - the big lie - is the basis for the unconstitutional war and genocide upon which the empire of (…)

  • Canadians Killing Civilians in Afghanistan
    9 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Are highly secretive Canadian Joint Task Force 2 Commandos assassinating Afghanis during night raids...? According to a report in La Presse, Canadian soldiers are telling villagers "too bad for you if you don’t want to tell us where the Taliban are hiding. We will come and kill them. We will drop many bombs and fire all over..."
    Canadian troops fired an astounding 4.7 million bullets between April 2006 and Dec 2007
    "our soldiers are well trained and good shots and you will die.." (…)