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Michel_Kingston
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Retired IT, parent, grandparent. I love everything about space. I like to follow politics. I favour Proportional Representation. I am concerned about climate change and the environment. I like to read my daily newspapers, sometimes more than one.
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actionnetwork.org/letters/budg...
Budget for War. Austerity for the Rest.
To placate Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney is driving an unprecedented expansion in military spending while cutting public services. This week’s budgets expected to solidify the government’s ...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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#BoycottUScars #BoycottUSAcars #BoycottUSauto #BoycottUSAauto
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Why my candidacy upends NDP leadership race - Yves Engler
An upcoming event encapsulates why my candidacy upends the NDP leadership race. The talk raises essential, if controversial, ideas while displaying what could be described as important ‘establishment’...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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CBC finally exposes scandal of tax deductions for genocide - Yves Engler
Incredibly, Canada’s most significant contribution to Palestinian dispossession is called “charity” and deemed worthy of deductions from tax owing. So, the Fifth Estate exposing the subsidized groups ...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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NDP 2026 is out! Economic Democracy. Land Back. Co-op housing. Shut down tar sands. Free tuition. Abolish billionaires. Liberation for all. It’s a blueprint for a generation to come. Check it out: NDP2026.ca
October 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Write to PM Carney: No Cuts to Pharmacare Funding
Prime Minister Carney promised to protect pharmacare and expand it to cover everyone in Canada. Now his government is getting ready to cut $25 billion to pay for a growing defence budget, including…
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September 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Support MP Kwan’s bill to close the US Loophole!
Canada is quietly arming Israel — and fueling genocide. Email your MP and demand they support MP Kwan’s private members’ bill to shut down the U.S. loophole that lets Canadian weapons end up in Israel...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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yvesengler.com/2025/08/19/a...
Amidst horrors in Gaza some prefer to focus on antisemitism - Yves Engler
Canadian officials and commentators continue to justify the unspeakable horrors inflicted on people who have endured 22 months of a live-streamed holocaust in Gaza. After Israel assassinated six Pales...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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yvesengler.com/2025/08/15/h...
‘Homes Not Howitzers’ a part of the housing solution - Yves Engler
Officially Canada considers housing a right. But the government certainly doesn’t act as if it is a principle to follow, leaving over one hundred thousand without a home and many more to worry about t...
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August 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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yvesengler.com/2025/08/05/t...
Time to face ecological reality — Degrowth now! - Yves Engler
Capitalism’s need for endless consumption is imperiling humanity’s long-term survival. It should not be controversial to call for degrowth in Canada. The corporate consumption juggernaut is destroying...
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August 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...
Canada must demand justice for Awdah Hathaleen
Beloved husband, father, son, friend, teacher, and civil resister, Awdah Hathaleen, was shot dead by Israeli settler Yinon Levi on Monday, July 28th while defending his community of Umm Al-Khair from ...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Tax Breaks for Genocide: Canadian charities are funding Israeli universities engaged in genocide and occupation war crimes
Send a letter to the Canada Revenue Agency letting them know you demand they take steps to prevent your tax paying dollars subsidizing Israeli universities. In our recent report "Tax Breaks for Genoc...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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yvesengler.com/2025/07/23/i...
It’s wrong to join foreign military — left and right should agree - Yves Engler
Why don’t right-wing Canadian nationalists condemn those fighting in a foreign military? They should join the anti-genocide and pacifist minded critics of those involved in Israel’s holocaust. Recentl...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Tell Carney to Sanction Israel
It’s time for Canada to act. Send an urgent message demanding that Prime Minister Carney and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand follow through with their threat of sanctions, and impose an arms emba...
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July 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Octopus massacre
They're building the world’s first octopus farm. Here's how we can stop them:
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July 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Gaza: Not in our name
Israel is raining bombs on women and children -- but this could end the mass murder!
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July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza
Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!
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July 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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DON’T LET GENOCIDE SUPPORTERS HIJACK NDP LEADERSHIP RACE
As Israel corrals Palestinians into a concentration camp in Gaza, extremist former Jewish Defence League head Meir Weinstein, Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley and disgraced former BC NDP cabinet min...
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July 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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yvesengler.com/2025/07/08/n...
NDP members want leader to boldly oppose Israel’s genocide - Yves Engler
Heather McPherson’s ‘vocally tepid’ opposition to a live streamed holocaust encapsulates what’s wrong with some of the NDP’s leading figures. As foreign affairs critic during the holocaust in Gaza McP...
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July 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Tell CBC to Stop Pandering to "Israeli Digital Army" and Canadian Charity, HonestReporting Canada
Tell CBC to Stop Pandering to "Israeli Digital Army" and Canadian Charity, HonestReporting Canada: Continued Attacks Against Journalists Reporting on the Reality in Gaza On July 2, HonestReporting...
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July 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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yvesengler.com/2025/07/07/w...
Why I’m running for leadership of NDP - Yves Engler
I’m running to lead the New Democratic Party. Canada needs a mainstream voice willing to challenge capitalism and imperialism while promoting de-colonization, de-growth and economic democracy. Initial...
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July 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Condemn Carney’s Call for “Zionist Palestinian State”
Recently Mark Carney said Canada would only accept a “Zionist Palestinian state”. As Craig Mokhiber noted in response to your comment, “calling for a ‘Zionist Palestinian state’ is like calling for ...
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June 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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What is happening in Gaza is an injury to our collective conscience. We must be allowed to speak out
Silence means we can neither confront nor mourn what is going on.
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June 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Shame on the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
www.cjpmefoundation.org/letter_to_th...
Letter to the OCDSB: Retaliation Against Valedictorian for Pro-Palestinian Graduation Remarks
The ARPCF has sent a letter to the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB), condemning the punitive response to a student’s pro-Palestinian graduation remarks. The letter denounces the silencing...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Tell Carney to Sanction Israel
It’s time for Canada to act. Send an urgent message demanding that Prime Minister Carney and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand follow through with their threat of sanctions, and impose an arms emba...
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June 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM