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Yuen Pau Woo
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Independent Senator for British Columbia, Parliament of Canada
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What I wish @globalaffairs.canada.ca and @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social had said.
January 5, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Case study "Modern Exclusion in the Digital Public Square", examines how a 2024 government-funded report by Digital Public Square frames Chinese Canadians as uniquely vulnerable to foreign influence, conflating opinion with fact and lacking transparency. @cuamecanada.bsky.social
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December 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Can the government assure Canadians that the funding for any pipeline will come exclusively from the private sector and that this project will not proceed without the consent of affected Indigenous rights holders? #cdnpoli #SenCA
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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无为而无不为
December 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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'Twas months before Christmas when all through the House,
Not an MP was sitting — pas même une souris, not even a mouse...

To read the 2025 edition of my annual Christmas poem: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/parliamen...

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Annual Christmas Poem - 2025 Edition
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December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Spare a thought for the @globalaffairs.canada.ca lawyers who contorted themselves to come up with this response. I should hope that Canada has “robust practices in place”, but the question is whether they were robust enough to prevent ANY Canadian contribution to the genocide in Gaza.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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This is unacceptable. It is sadly consistent with what we know about Chinese transnational repression, which is targeted at political dissent on China. Such actions only stir up more dissent abroad, and not just among former nationals.

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‘I don’t know who I can trust,’ says Quebec YouTuber harassed by Chinese government | CBC News
Yao Zhang knew something was up when she started seeing fake sexually explicit images of her circulating online. The YouTuber, who often criticizes the Chinese government, is one of several Canadians ...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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1/4 “Whereas manifest destiny & the Monroe doctrine of the early 19th century & its 20th century variants were about territorial expansion & influence commensurate with rising American power, in the current context it is about territorial consolidation. . .

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Not the 51st state but a vassal state: What Donald Trump’s national security strategy envisions for Canada
Released Thursday, the 2025 National Security Strategy is also a window into the dramatic shift in America’s official world view under Trump.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza www.mpg.de/25778228/112...
Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy
Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account
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December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Canada’s overdue apology to the Palestinian people
Canadian Prime Ministers have apologized for various Canadian misdeeds over our 150 years of existence. We have also taken (partial) steps to remediate. But one Canadian act which has caused immens…
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December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Pleased to co-host last week’s Second Annual Roundtable on Standards in Rule-Making with the Standards Council of Canada. We discussed improving access to referenced standards, modernizing regulatory practices, and reducing internal trade barriers to strengthen Canada’s competitiveness.

#SenCA
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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The Interrogation of Richard Falk: When Speaking Truth Becomes a “National Security Threat” | Countercurrents
Author’s Note I wrote this essay to show what really happened when Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained at the Canadian border — and to explore what it reveals about power, accountability…
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November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Why was 95-year-old legal scholar Richard Falk detained at Toronto Pearson Airport as a “national security threat”?

We need answers about how and why this decision was made.

#cdnpoli #SenCA
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Thank you to MP @gordjohns.bsky.social and Senator Osler for co-hosting last night’s reception on the need for a National Strategy on Brain Injury. Grateful to the survivors, families & advocates who shared their strength & helped spotlight this urgent national issue. @braininjurycanada.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Last week, I asked the Government Representative in the Senate, Pierre Moreau, why reports continue to show Canadian military exports to Israel despite an official ban. Canadians deserve clarity and accountability on how our export controls are being enforced.

#cdnpoli #SenCA #Gaza
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Earlier this month, I met the indomitable Naledi Pandor, chair of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and former foreign minister of South Africa, who brought a genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice.

Thank you @justiceforallcn.bsky.social for organizing the session.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"Canadians are not antisemitic, but they are appalled by what the Jewish State of Israel is doing", OFIP tells Senate Committee

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“Canadians are not antisemitic, but they are appalled by what the Jewish State of Israel is doing”, OFIP tells senate committee
OFIP was invited to appear before the Senate Standing Committe on Human Rights which is undertaking a study on the rise of antisemitism in Canada. We told the Senate that we think that fears over a…
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November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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NEW: Canadian authorities detained Richard Falk while he and his wife, Hilal Elver, were en route to a Palestine conference in Ottawa last week.

I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
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Canada Detained This Legal Scholar En Route To Palestine Conference
Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained for approximately three hours at Pearson airport.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Falk believes the interrogation is part of a global push to “punish those who endeavour to tell the truth about what is happening”. . . in Gaza. “It suggests a climate of governmental insecurity . . . to clamp down on dissident voices”

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Former UN rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses interrogated in Canada
Falk, who is in Canada for Palestine Tribunal, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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“It's disappointing that Canada — after having acknowledged Palestinian statehood — would take such a hostile attitude toward a conference that really explained to a public . . . the nature of the objections to what Israel has been doing,”

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Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Last week, I spoke to @science-for-peace.bsky.social about the risks of “51st state” thinking in Canada-US relations and why Canada must navigate a changing multipolar world with clear eyes and strategic autonomy. #cdnpoli

Read the full speech here: senatoryuenpauwoo.ca/en/domestic-...
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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14% - 20% of Gaza's pre-October 7, 2023 population of 2.4 million may ultimately be killed as a result of Israel's military operations and the resulting health conditions without urgent intervention from Canada and its allies www.cjpme.org/toll_of_intent via @cjpme.org
The Toll of Intent: Looking at the Genocidal Impact of Israel's Assault on Gaza
This report synthesizes existing data to project that between 14% and 20% of Gaza's pre-October 7, 2023, population (approximately 341,000–480,800 Palestinians) could ultimately be killed as a result ...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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WATCH LIVE: Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility Holds a News Conference
🔗 www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Thank you Senator Tony Dean for speaking to my motion. His remarks capture the devastating human toll of this conflict, and the urgency for Canada to act — to examine the risk of complicity and uphold our commitment to international humanitarian law.

#CdnPoli #SenCA #Gaza #Palestine
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I was in China with Grand Chief Ed John of the Tl’azt’en Nation in BC to premier a documentary on the First Nations totem pole that was given to the Qiang people of Beichuan following the devastating earthquake of 2008.
November 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM