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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Prime Minister Mark Carney called for an independent investigation into treatment of detained Gaza flotilla activists …
Read More »Foreign affairs minister condemns ‘appalling abuse’ of Canadian flotilla activists detained in Israel
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is calling for Israeli officials responsible for “appalling abuse” of Canadian …
Read More »Israel deports all Gaza flotilla activists after outcry over their detention
Gaza activists who were detained by Israel, and later pinned to the ground to the taunts of the country’s far-right police minister, have been released from prison and sent home. The activists, whose vessel was intercepted earlier this week in international waters by Israeli naval forces as they were trying to deliver …
Read More »Israeli security minister tells detained flotilla activists they should be jailed for long time
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Detained activists from a flotilla of boats that tried to get past Israel’s blockade of Gaza …
Read More »Undercover police operation thwarts plot to firebomb NY-based Palestinian activist’s home
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A New Jersey man who authorities say planned to firebomb the home of a prominent Palestinian …
Read More »At least 6,126 people killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, activists say
Iran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Mideast to lead any American military response to the crisis. Iran’s currency, the rial, meanwhile fell to a record low …
Read More »EU, France condemn U.S. visa ban targeting former EU commissioner, activists
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa bans on a former European Union commissioner and anti-disinformation …
Read More »Judge dismisses young activists’ lawsuit against Trump, concedes ‘very real’ climate harm
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen said the plaintiffs showed overwhelming evidence climate change affects them and that it will worsen as a …
Read More »Activist’s claims principal promoted child pornography are defamatory: lawsuit
A southern Manitoba principal is suing a parent who sought to have books removed from school libraries, saying the woman wrote defamatory social media posts insinuating the principal promoted the dissemination of child pornography. Carman Collegiate principal Mary Reimer says Raelyn Fox has continued to target the Prairie Rose School …
Read More »6 Canadians among scores of activists detained by Israeli military on Gaza flotilla
The Israeli military intercepted a nine-boat flotilla trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza early Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea and detained scores of activists on board, including six Canadians, the flotilla organizers and the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. The ministry said the 145 activists taking part in the …
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