Kelsey Gallagher
@kelgallagh.bsky.social
Arms trade, arms control & disarmament. Focus on Canadian military exports. Senior Researcher with ploughshares.ca, Expert with @Forumarmstrade.bsky.social
ICE says armoured vehicles ordered from Canada's Roshel produced in U.S.
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ICE says armoured vehicles ordered from Roshel produced in U.S.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the vehicles it is purchasing from Canadian defence firm Roshel fall under Buy American provisions.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
ICE says armoured vehicles ordered from Canada's Roshel produced in U.S.
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Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: MP Kwan
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Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: Kwan
Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or any other organizations with sketchy human rights re...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: MP Kwan
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Anand won’t say whether Canada would block export of armoured vehicles for ICE use
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Anand won’t say whether Canada would block export of armoured vehicles for ICE use
Washington has ordered nearly $10-million in vehicles from Brampton-based defence contractor, records show
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December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Anand won’t say whether Canada would block export of armoured vehicles for ICE use
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Ontario's Roshel under contract to supply 20 armoured vehicles to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm | CBC News
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb bla...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Ontario's Roshel under contract to supply 20 armoured vehicles to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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ICE is buying $7.2M worth of armoured personnel carriers from Canada.
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‘America, uh...First!’: ICE to buy $7.2m worth of Canadian armored personnel carriers
Exclusive: ‘There are so many things wrong with this,’ one government-affairs watchdog told The Independent
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December 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
ICE is buying $7.2M worth of armoured personnel carriers from Canada.
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"Revenues from sales of weapons and military services by the 100 largest global arms-producing companies reached a record $679bn in 2024, according to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)"
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Top global arms producers’ revenues surge as major wars rage: SIPRI report
From Israel to Elon Musk's SpaceX and other giant companies in the US and Europe, arms producers had a profitable 2024.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"Revenues from sales of weapons and military services by the 100 largest global arms-producing companies reached a record $679bn in 2024, according to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)"
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Thoughtful @icrc.org commentary outlining not only the enduring humanitarian imperative for the Mine Ban Treaty, but also the operational, economic, and security-related considerations which render AP mines obsolete in modern conflict
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Do anti-personnel mines still have military utility in modern warfare? - Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog
Five States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention have recently submitted instruments of withdrawal, citing national security and military necessity, while at least one other has taken ste...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thoughtful @icrc.org commentary outlining not only the enduring humanitarian imperative for the Mine Ban Treaty, but also the operational, economic, and security-related considerations which render AP mines obsolete in modern conflict
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Ottawa reviewing two Canadian-owned companies over Sudan weapons links
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Ottawa reviewing two Canadian-owned companies over Sudan links
Foreign Affairs Minister looking into companies that reportedly sold equipment that ended up in the hands of militia connected with atrocities in Darfur
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November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Ottawa reviewing two Canadian-owned companies over Sudan weapons links
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Officials won’t say if Carney will raise issue of UAE arms shipments to Sudanese militia during Abu Dhabi visit
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Officials won’t say if Carney will raise issue of UAE arms shipments to Sudanese militia during Abu Dhabi visit
Human-rights groups and activists are urging the PM to put pressure on the Emirates to halt its alleged weapons shipments
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November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Officials won’t say if Carney will raise issue of UAE arms shipments to Sudanese militia during Abu Dhabi visit
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UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean
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UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean
Rare rupture between military allies comes as concerns grow over Trump administration’s lethal sinking of boats
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November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean
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Former Canadian diplomat @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social calls on the government of Canada to address the diversion of Canadian arms to the RSF in Sudan
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Sudan’s paramilitary force agrees to U.S. humanitarian ceasefire proposal
YouTube video by CBC News
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November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Former Canadian diplomat @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social calls on the government of Canada to address the diversion of Canadian arms to the RSF in Sudan
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"Is Canada complicit in Trump’s illegal war in Venezuela?" via Ted Snider/ @canadiandimension.bsky.social
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Is Canada complicit in Trump’s illegal war in Venezuela?
The Trump administration’s covert bombing campaign against alleged Venezuelan “narco-terrorists” has drawn scrutiny from legal experts and human rights observers. As evidence of cartel ties remains un...
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October 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Is Canada complicit in Trump’s illegal war in Venezuela?" via Ted Snider/ @canadiandimension.bsky.social
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"There has to be more human rights oversight…. We are seeing Canadian weapons being misused." - @kelgallagh.bsky.social
A high-tech Canadian-made camera system was used as part of controversial U.S. strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug boats: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli
A high-tech Canadian-made camera system was used as part of controversial U.S. strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug boats: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli
Canadian tech helped U.S. strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats: report | CBC News
Canadian technology was used by the U.S. military in operations that blew up at least two alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean in September, according to a report by Project Ploughshares.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"There has to be more human rights oversight…. We are seeing Canadian weapons being misused." - @kelgallagh.bsky.social
A high-tech Canadian-made camera system was used as part of controversial U.S. strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug boats: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli
A high-tech Canadian-made camera system was used as part of controversial U.S. strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug boats: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli
Thanks to the CBC's visual investigations team for covering the story here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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And below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRvN...
October 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Thanks to the CBC's visual investigations team for covering the story here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
And below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRvN...
And below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRvN...
Our new report, “Targeted from Above,” reveals that Canadian-made MX-Series surveillance and targeting optics produced by L3Harris Wescam were used in two U.S. airstrikes in the Caribbean, conducted on September 2 and 15.
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Read the report here: ploughshares.ca/targeted-fro...
Targeted from above: Canadian sensors facilitating unlawful U.S. airstrikes in the Caribbean - Project Ploughshares
On the morning of September 2, 2025, a small speedboat skims across open water somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. Suddenly, in a flash of white, it’s destroyed in a U.S.-launched airstrike. All 11 people...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Our new report, “Targeted from Above,” reveals that Canadian-made MX-Series surveillance and targeting optics produced by L3Harris Wescam were used in two U.S. airstrikes in the Caribbean, conducted on September 2 and 15.
Read the report here: ploughshares.ca/targeted-fro...
Read the report here: ploughshares.ca/targeted-fro...
Today, MP @jennykwan.bsky.social
announced she will introduce a Private Members’ Bill to close export control loopholes that allow for the unregulated transfers of Canadian weapons to the U.S., some of which end up in third states, including Israel
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announced she will introduce a Private Members’ Bill to close export control loopholes that allow for the unregulated transfers of Canadian weapons to the U.S., some of which end up in third states, including Israel
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Arms Exports: NDP MP Jenny Kwan Discusses Private Members’ Bill
At a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, NDP MP Jenny Kwan outlines her private members’ bill aimed at closing loopholes in Canadian law related to arms exports.Joining her at this event are...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Today, MP @jennykwan.bsky.social
announced she will introduce a Private Members’ Bill to close export control loopholes that allow for the unregulated transfers of Canadian weapons to the U.S., some of which end up in third states, including Israel
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announced she will introduce a Private Members’ Bill to close export control loopholes that allow for the unregulated transfers of Canadian weapons to the U.S., some of which end up in third states, including Israel
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Reposted by Kelsey Gallagher
BREAKING: Hamas accepts latest Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal proposal
Hamas accepts latest Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal proposal
The news comes just hours after President Trump urged Israel to expand its attacks on Hamas.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
BREAKING: Hamas accepts latest Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal proposal
Is Australia supplying weapons to bomb Gaza? Here’s what we know about fighter jet parts in the F-35 program
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Is Australia supplying weapons to bomb Gaza? Here’s what we know about fighter jet parts in the F-35 program
The Greens have urged Labor to stop supplying F-35 parts to a global supply chain that can be accessed by Israel – but the government says such claims are ‘misinformation’
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August 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Is Australia supplying weapons to bomb Gaza? Here’s what we know about fighter jet parts in the F-35 program
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🧵 Originally began in part to inform U.S. security assistance, the delayed latest Country Reports on Human Rights Practices is now available, with expectation that much is no longer included. As reactions come in, we'll add to this thread. www.state.gov/reports/2024...
2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - United States Department of State
The annual Human Rights Reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agre...
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August 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🧵 Originally began in part to inform U.S. security assistance, the delayed latest Country Reports on Human Rights Practices is now available, with expectation that much is no longer included. As reactions come in, we'll add to this thread. www.state.gov/reports/2024...
New report from @cpteams.bsky.social finds that Turkish strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan decreased by 97% over prior months following the onset of the PKK's disarmament process
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Turkish Military Attacks Reduce by 97%, Amid Ongoing Peace Developments and New Turkish Military Operation — Community Peacemaker Teams - Iraqi Kurdistan
With the initiation of disarmament and ongoing peace negotiations and implementation efforts, Turkish military strikes decreased sharply—by 97% compared to the previous month —representing a signific...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
New report from @cpteams.bsky.social finds that Turkish strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan decreased by 97% over prior months following the onset of the PKK's disarmament process
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19