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David Wiseman
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uOttawa law professor
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Really looking forward to listening to Alex Neve’s urgently needed Massey Lectures message on renewing human rights (universally) tonight! We are so fortunate to have him as a colleague at uO.

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"Power lies in the collective”: Alex Neve finds hope for universality in small acts | Faculty of Law
For Neve, an adjunct professor of international human rights law, universality is “all-encompassing.”  It is a concept that binds us to one another. It creates a whole from many disparate parts. In hi...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I saw this documentary at the Mayfair Theatre in the summer … a must see! If you missed it, here’s another chance 👇

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The Encampments | Free Screening - Les campements | Projection gratuite
An urgent look at America’s student movement, sparked at Columbia University, as students protested ties to the genocide in Gaza.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Sign on if you agree Israel (like Russia) should not be permitted to participate in the FIFA World Cup 2026 (in Nth America) or the next qualifying round starting later this week.

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FIFA are rolling out the red carpet for Israel
But together with these brave Italian football coaches, we can do something about it. Join us.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Happy to have signed on to this, as a human, as a law professor and as a tennis player/fan 🎾☮️🍉
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 18
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …
August 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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From the vigil for Anas al-Sharif and colleagues, who were murdered by the Israeli military for doing journalism in Gaza, outside CBC Ottawa this evening. As one offering says: “You only target journalists when your enemy is the truth”

The ongoing Israeli genocidal atrocities need to be stopped.
August 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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FEED GAZA NOW!
CEASEFIRE NOW!

You are my federal MP
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THIS?!

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At least 73 Palestinians killed trying to access humanitarian aid, says Gaza Health Ministry | CBC News
At least 73 people were killed while attempting to access aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the health ministry in the Palestinian territory said.
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July 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Well said!

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UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’
United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’
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July 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Kudos to these Tory MPs … more should join them, from their own and other Commonwealth parliaments … overdue for MPs in Australia and Canada to speak up on this …

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Senior Tory MPs and peers break ranks to call for recognition of Palestine
Exclusive: Conservatives ask Keir Starmer to stand ‘against indefinite occupation’ and ‘reinforce international law’
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May 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Good news here …

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APUO passes motion calling for U of O divestment in ‘entities enabling human rights violations’ - The Fulcrum
The motion marks an evolution in APUO’s calls to the university. Previous statements by the union highlighted incidents of academic infringements by the U of O related to pro-Palestinian protests on c...
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May 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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BDS victory: Yesterday, the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa passed a motion calling on the university to divest from institutions “enabling human rights violations, war crimes, and any other breaches of international law in the [OPT].” www.cjpme.org/who_supports...
May 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Excellent! (And note the coming into force of the new municipal by-law on renovictions in Hamilton … should be the minimum of protection for tenants in all municipalities in Ontario)

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Some tenants at this Ontario building have been there for decades. Here's how they won their renoviction case | CBC News
Some tenants had been living in the Emerald Street South building in Hamilton for decades when their landlord tried to evict them for cosmetic upgrades to the kitchens, bathrooms and floors.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Great to see such strong support from Ontario’s legal community for Joint Letter to Premier Doug Ford opposing invocation of the Notwithstanding Clause to override fundamental rights of people experiencing homelessness and living in encampments 👇

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Letter to Ontario Premier Ford - December 2.pdf
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December 2, 2024 at 3:06 PM