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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇦 🇵🇸 REPORT | Hundreds of Canadians, in what organizers described as a “people’s arms embargo,” took to the streets across the country on Thursday, to put suppliers for notorious Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems on notice: divest or face sustained public pressure.

Activists with the Arms Embargo Now coalition picketed and leafletted outside industrial facilities from British Columbia to Newfoundland, targeting more than 40 companies identified as suppliers, manufacturers, or logistics partners connected to Elbit, Israel’s largest weapons firm, and one that boasts of battle-testing its products in Gaza. They also launched a pressure campaign aimed at senior executives at dozens of the targeted companies, flooding them with emails. The message: Cut ties with Elbit now.

One target is TTM Technologies in Ontario, which has shipped millions of dollars’ worth of circuit boards to Elbit for use in precision-strike munitions. “Providing circuit boards for Elbit’s Lizard laser-guidance kits isn’t some distant or neutral business relationship,” says Haneen Ismail, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and Arms Embargo Now. “A company like Elbit is a dedicated war machine, but many of its suppliers in Canada operate largely outside of public scrutiny while providing the components and technology it relies on. We are ending that anonymity.”

The movement has already seen significant victories. Last week, Montreal-based Elbit supplier Apollo Microwaves ended its contracts with the company after organizers with Arms Embargo Now pressed it to do so. And after campaigners targeted Scotiabank, Canada’s third-largest commercial bank and once Elbit’s largest foreign shareholder, it pulled its $500 million investment earlier this year. Elbit’s CEO later complained to the Israeli press that the divestment was the work of the damned Canadian public.

▪️By Christopher Ketcham (@cketchamwild) for Drop Site News

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@chrisglover This whole thing is worth watching but definitely listen to the part on Ford & Deco Labels starting around min 2.55. Why isn’t this a huge local news story?

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Why is everybody so broke?

Some politicians leave office richer than they arrived.

Come back next Monday to watch the final video in this series.

#ONpoli #CDNpoli

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[Ahmad Elbayoumi @ahmadelbayoumi]

NEW: CityNews has cut ties with Queen’s Park reporter Tina Yazdani, @policornerca has learned, while at least two of her stories about the Ford government have quietly vanished from the web without explanation.

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[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The Weight on Delcy Rodriguez - As I was leaving the University of the Communes in Tayacito, after a joyful and uplifting visit, an earnest young Professor came up to me and pulled me aside. Very quietly, he asked me what was going to happen. A number of https://t.co/7SDEv3d6jw

[YUFA @YUFAyorku]

Students and Workers United

[Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfacultyassoc]

Today, DFA Exec agreed to amend the complaint filed late Aug with the NS Labour Board. The @DalhousieU Board's attempt to divide the DFA members has backfired. We stand strong and united in the fight to #KeepDalStrong. We welcome productive conciliation meetings on Monday.

[Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfacultyassoc]

Meet @DalStudentUnion DFA, Dal Students, Parents of dal students, supporters, Faculty, 11am this morning outside the Killam Library on University Ave in Halifax to March in Solidarity - #keepdalstrong

[YUProfs4pal @YorkProfs4Pal]

Vigil now at Vari Hall

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[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

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Massacres are currently unfolding in northern Gaza and in eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City, such as Zaytoun, Sabra, and Shuja’iyya, yet there are no journalists on the ground and no media coverage from these areas.

[YUFA @YUFAyorku]

York University Faculty Association (YUFA) Statement on the Resignation of York University President Rhonda Lenton  - June 26, 2025

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York University Faculty Association (YUFA) Statement on the Resignation of York University President Rhonda Lenton  - June 26, 2025

[YUFA @YUFAyorku]

"The York University Faculty Association also said it welcomed the news of Lenton’s early departure. The association claimed the announcement caps “years of tumult and mismanagement,” which the group alleged interfered with the daily work of York’s faculty, staff and students."

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Join the cross-campus alliance for an open forum on a better #YorkUniversity! #WeAreYorkU

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