Teaches British and world history at the University of Regina. Research: history of opposition to taxation, anything 18th c. The 1700s: those were good times.
The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta last night.
The documentary shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. The decimation of Gaza’s healthcare system including the detention of healthcare workers is central to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Amnesty awarded Gaza: Doctors Under Attack at the Amnesty Media Awards last week. The work of everyone involved in making this documentary and fighting for it to be broadcast shows the importance of journalists willing to speak truth to power.
#Bafta #Baftas
The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/RBrX86pfgu
You should be upset about this.
Nearly every weekend for the past 2 months this $18M building, which has operating expenses of $18M annually, is sitting empty due to staffing challenges.
Last week, we held a critical conversation on Canada’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Despite the supposed ‘ceasefire,’ Gaza is still being starved, bombed, and invaded by Israel in real time with the support of Canadian-made weaponry.
But our hearts are not only breaking for those in Palestine.
In Iran, parents of 165 school children have just buried their young, after what's been the most deadly event of the US-Israeli-led attack on the country so far. Shamefully, Canada has backed Trump and Netanyahu's war.
From Gaza, to Minab, to Minneapolis, the kidnapping and killing of children in classrooms around the world marks the failure of humanity. Weapons and war are not the answer. Canada must be a force for peace, diplomacy and de-escalation.
Trump is fuelling a humanitarian crisis in Cuba, with an oil blockade that is leading to devastating power outages and rationing. This administration is determined to dominate the hemisphere with brute force and naked impunity.
Canada has a long history of good relations with Cuba. We have consistently voted at the UN to end the blockade of Cuba, and millions of Canadian tourists have visited the island.
We should immediately follow Mexico’s lead and condemn this act of economic warfare. And we should step up with humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people, as NDP MP @alexboulerice calls for in this excellent parliamentary petition: https://t.co/Fu12uUMfgu
Prime Minister Carney, silence is not an option when Trump attacks sovereign nations in the Americas. Canadians expect you to stand up for human rights, international law, and against the bullying of smaller nations by a rampaging superpower.
In light of today's news story by CBC on the University of Alberta's steps to end EDI in hiring policy, Professor Amir Attaran of the University of Ottawa has sent an email to the president warning of legal action.
This email has been posted publicly.
On Charles Platt's Dream Makers, which does a good job describing what it was like to meet Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison etc. https://t.co/pJINDFLQWO