Molly Kane

"Let us postpone our pessimism for better times." Eduardo Galeano. Searching for the cracks that let the light in.

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

A silent march through the streets of Paris to mark the 1,000th day of Israel's war on Gaza.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Today’s announcement shows what this federal government will protect above all else: the profits of Big Oil.

As we mark the five-year anniversary of a heat dome that killed 619 people in British Columbia – and as many communities across the country are facing extreme weather right now – Canadians deserve leadership that protects us. Instead, this government is doubling down on yesterday’s failed solutions and dragging us into further danger, risk and insecurity.

The opaque and confusing public-private partnership ownership structure means it's very likely that we, the public, will not only bear the risks and the damages, but also the lion's share of the costs.

Canada’s New Democrats unequivocally oppose this pipeline proposal. If anything, this is a pipeline to the courts. It ignores the federal government’s legal responsibility to meaningfully consult Indigenous nations, including Treaty 8 nations in Alberta, threatens endangered species, and accelerates climate change. It will sow the very divisions the Prime Minister claims he wants to avoid.

We do not achieve unity or prosperity from projects that pit communities against one another, all while a handful of oil and gas CEOs walk away with enormous profits.

While we're stuck fighting yesterday's battles over pipelines, and the Prime Minister openly admits that our emissions will rise, the rest of the world is racing ahead on renewables. We cannot afford to fall behind while other countries build the industries of the future.

Canadians deserve better than being told our only choice is another fight over another pipeline. This country needs an alternative to the Liberal-Conservative consensus that is doubling down on a future of climate-wrecking corporate welfare.

New Democrats are ready to build something bigger, safer, and better – a Canada that is a renewable energy superpower, with an east-west clean electricity grid and good green jobs in every region. Lower costs for families with home retrofits and heat pumps for all. Investing in the care economy as a nation-building project.

That’s what it looks like to build big things that actually unite this country.

[Molly Kane @mollkane]

@MarkJCarney What about the tradition of respect for human rights and international law? Does that not matter anymore?

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Ms Rachel, an American educator who makes content for children, posted a video holding a copy of the latest UN report on Gaza titled "The essence of children has been destroyed".

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

I am heading to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights for a preview of the Nakba Exhibit. I was there yesterday touring the other exhibits. In the Rwandan Genocide section there was a small video being played and in the video was a clip of @IrwinCotler congratulating himself for being the Minister of Justice when some Rwandan genocidaires were prosecuted in Canada. How shameful to purport to be a human rights lawyer and yet actively deny and negate the lived experiences of Palestinians. Disgusting.

“We have listened to every one of these voices. We have reflected. And we have renewed our resolve to continue the difficult, sometimes contested, and often controversial work of building understanding about human rights. We are a museum grounded in Canada's human rights framework, whose mandate requires us to bear witness to the full complexity of the human story. We are proud to open this exhibit because the story it tells will help achieve that mandate, and because this story belongs in the collective memory of Canadians.” @CMHR_News

[Molly Kane @mollkane]

@sarobertson_ So speaks the xénophobe.

[Molly Kane @mollkane]

@EvanDyerCBC And the children buried alive in Gaza, killed by Israel with Canada’s support? Their cemetery is not hallowed ground? Where is our humanity?

[Molly Kane @mollkane]

@MarkJCarney Partners in genocide. No wonder you wish him well.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Great the @globeandmail published this horrific truth.
Canadian media has been deeply complicit.

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62

More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb

[Molly Kane @mollkane]

@MarkJCarney Partners in genocide.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

No matter the amount of fanfare showered on a deal with Iran, we must never forget that the never-ending Israeli defilement of the collective Palestinian body is the alpha and the omega of global immorality. Before anything else, end the occupation, murder and starvation.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer has gone — but we will never forget the role his government played in the greatest crime of our time.

Today, I re-presented my Bill for an independent inquiry into Britain’s complicity in genocide.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

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[NEWSTALK 1010 @NEWSTALK1010]

"He really is contradicting not only what Canada has stood for many years, but he's also contradicting what Canadians believe right now." Former Foreign Affairs Minister @LloydAxworthy tells @MooreintheAM the Prime Minister's support for the US/Israel war on Iran is problematic.

[Yuen Pau Woo @yuenpauwoo]

You have the support of millions, including me. I look forward to seeing the exhibition. It should tour so that more Canadians can learn about the Nakba — past and, especially, present. Don’t give in to the haters.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Here’s just one of the unprecedented measures the Liberals pushed through at the end of this session:

Cabinet ministers will now be allowed to authorize the use of banned pesticides in the name of “national economic security.”

Even if they’ve been deemed unsafe for human health.

Debate was shut down, and scientists, public health and environmental experts were not allowed to testify before the bill was passed.

Another gift to powerful corporations at the expense of Canadians.

Legislation by lobbyists.

https://t.co/2gnDf3Ijl4

[NDP @NDP]

The federal government has tabled a new water bill that backtracks on recognizing the human right to water for First Nations. This is shameful, and it is a slap in the face of communities who have been waiting for decades to have safe drinking water.

This government has failed for more than 10 years to fulfill its promise to end boil water advisories. And yet it moves at breakneck speed to deliver for Corporate Canada.

Prime Minister Carney is rushing Canada in the wrong direction.