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My lastest piece dives into how the National Post produces anti-Palestine slop like this using Canadian taxpayer subsidies, grants and public funding.
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palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
Canadian received Bell Canada text saying 'Welcome to Palestine' while visiting Jerusalem nationalpost.com/news/canada…
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everyone in the qrts is way too broke to be opposed to a wealth tax
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Twice in the past month, @CTVNews has invited @josephbvarner to pitch continuing war on Iran. Both times, CTV failed to disclose that he is an Exigent Foundation fellow.
The Exigent Foundation is a Canadian pro-Israel org that is covertly funded by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
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According to Canada's broadcasting ethics council, it is not a violation of journalistic standards to omit that a regular "expert" guest on @CTVNews is actually a fellow for an organization funded by Israel.
Joe Varner received an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel.
Twice in the past month, @CTVNews has invited @josephbvarner to pitch continuing war on Iran. Both times, CTV failed to disclose that he is an Exigent Foundation fellow.
The Exigent Foundation is a Canadian pro-Israel org that is covertly funded by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
Certainly the Liberals running a finance bro in the Plateau, the most hipster part of Mtl, are clearly in touch with their local electorate.
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Le PQ démantèle le ministère de la Cybersécurité et du Numérique rc.ca/TW8WRd
Les Libéraux présentent comme candidat dans Laurier-Sainte-Marie l’ancien PDG de Desjardins, surtout connu pour la fuite de données du groupe financier coopératif en 2019. Plus de 4,2 millions de clients ont vu leurs données personnelles et financières volées lors de ce scandale.
Liberals running a disgraced Bank CEO best known for one of the worst scandals in Desjardins history. He's the candidate in Mtl's Laurier-Sainte-Marie riding replacing Steven Guilbeault, who quit over Mark Carney's love for oil pipelines.
Anthony Issa / أنطوني عيسى 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
The median annual household income in Laurier–Sainte-Marie is around $59k, 71% of the population are renters.
As CEO of Desjardins for 9 yrs, @liberal_party candidate Guy Cormier made $4.5 million a year.
This is the party thats supposed to be tackling the affordability crisis?
Anthony Issa / أنطوني عيسى 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
My lastest piece dives into how the National Post produces anti-Palestine slop like this using Canadian taxpayer subsidies, grants and public funding.
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palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
Canadian received Bell Canada text saying 'Welcome to Palestine' while visiting Jerusalem nationalpost.com/news/canada…
Anthony Issa / أنطوني عيسى 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
"Canada should not be propping up media corporations owned by an American hedge fund with ties to a Republican donour, let alone allowing them to use public subsidies in order to perpetuate anti-Palestinian racism in tabloids masquerading as news.
Postmedia regularly attempts to cast grassroots Palestinian organizations as 'foreign proxies.' But, in reality, it is the chain itself that answers to the interests of a right-wing hedge fund owner and the desires of the Zionist lobby.
Canadian public opinion has shifted decisively in favour of Palestine as Israel's genocide continues without accountability. Canadians would be better served if those public dollars went toward independent journalism, rather than a media corporation that answers to the interests of its American owner and the Zionist lobby."
Canada’s largest newspaper chain is majority controlled by a U.S. hedge fund. Its flagship paper, the National Post, has quietly rewritten wire stories in Israel’s favor and run pro-Israel advocacy alongside its news. Canadian tax dollars are helping fund it.
@IssaMeAnthony of @CJPME follows the money: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
Anthony Issa / أنطوني عيسى 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
Canada’s largest newspaper chain is majority controlled by a U.S. hedge fund. Its flagship paper, the National Post, has quietly rewritten wire stories in Israel’s favor and run pro-Israel advocacy alongside its news. Canadian tax dollars are helping fund it.
@IssaMeAnthony of @CJPME follows the money: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
Anthony Issa / أنطوني عيسى 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
We have written to the CBC requesting a change to the misleading title of their article "Why a spate of gun-for-hire shootings in Toronto were likely paid for by Iran."
What the investigation in the article confirms is that the shootings are linked by a multi-layered gun-for-hire network.
What is not established through the facts in the article is any concrete link to Iran. Instead, this appears to be entirely in reference to intelligence reports from Canada (CSIS), the FBI, and the UK, which have raised concerns regarding alleged Iranian-linked plots against Jewish-Canadians. These reports themselves originate from an American federal court complaint which alleges that two attacks in Canada were ordered by an Iraqi national named Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi with potential links to Iran, who had been arrested in Turkey and extradited to the United States. The complaint cites multiple conversations between al-Saadi and an undercover FBI agent. These are allegations based on undercover FBI operations, not criminal findings.
Given the fact that the courts have not decided on a verdict, there is still no conclusive evidence connecting Iran to the shootings in Canada.
Unfortunately, the article does not discuss the unconfirmed status of these allegations, but appears to treat them as sufficient evidence to support the article’s thesis, as reflected in the article’s title.
Reporting this as “likely” based on the evidence to date unfortunately adds fuel to rising Islamophobia in Canada, whose proponents use these anti-Iran conspiracies to normalize and justify anti-Muslim hate.
Today CBC published an article with the headline: “Why a spate of gun-for-hire shootings in Toronto were likely paid for by Iran.”
I was intrigued, as there has been almost 0 evidence offered for this claim thus far.
Unfortunately this article doesn’t offer any either, adding nothing new. CBC says they spent weeks on the investigation, so these are pretty pitiful results, at least in terms of finding evidence of who paid for the shootings.
I’m not sure why they feel comfortable with such a declarative headline given the lack of evidence (other than journalistic standards going out the window when the subject is an Official Enemy country).
Also, CBC and other journalists continue platforming police claims that they need backdoor access to messaging apps to solve these shootings, with no push back or critique about how these powers can be abused, including against journalists.
cbc.ca/news/investigates/ira…
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NEW: Postmedia piggies are hogging the media-funding trough, recently pulling in millions more from Google.
readthemaple.com/postmedia-p…
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The American CEO who bought Stelco is openly admitting that he purchased the company to sabotage it.
This is why the Liberals should have never approved Stelco's sale in the first place. When you give away ownership of a critical industry like steel, your economy is forever under another's thumb.
There is only one solution that will save these jobs and put Canada back in the driver's seat: we need to nationalize Stelco.
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U.N. Commission of Inquiry Finds Israel Committed Genocide in Gaza, War Crimes in West Bank democracynow.org/2026/10/27/…
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DEVELOPING: Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am, or the United Arab List, says Israeli police have seized ballot boxes in the town of Arara in the Negev.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/bd2ca9
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🗳️ A fight broke out inside a polling station in the Palestinian town of Tira in central Israel on Tuesday, after Arab Knesset member Ahmad Tibi confronted an Israeli settler trying to block Palestinian citizens of Israel from voting, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported. Video shared by Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti shows a tense confrontation inside the station.
🔸 Local sources told Al-Quds that armed settlers were present inside polling stations in Palestinian towns, posing as observers for far-right parties to intimidate voters. The legal rights group Adalah called for urgent action over shortages of Arabic-language ballots in several towns.
🔸 Israel's ruling Likud party also deployed paid teams outside polling stations in Palestinian towns to collect footage and testimony that could be used to challenge the results if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc appears headed for defeat, Haaretz reported.
🔸The operation, estimated to cost millions of shekels, runs separately from official election monitors and reportedly covers nearly every polling station in Palestinian communities.
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After being 'battle-tested' on Palestinians under occupation, a drone from Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems is about to start surveilling the Arctic as part of the Canadian Coast Guard. We continue to call on Canada to cancel all contracts with this company, which a UN report has named as being complicit in genocide.
nunatsiaq.com/stories/articl…
