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I came here for Chris Selley
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NEW: No Arms In The Arts launches boycott of the Scotiabank Photo Award.

70 artists, curators and photographers, including many past winners and nominees, are withdrawing their work ahead of the 2025 nominations.

boycottphotoaward.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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lithub.com/why-i-risked...

I'm continuing to boycott the Giller and I'm grateful to folks like Rachelle Freisen who risked and endured state violence to ensure that we continue to hold the line.
Why I Risked Arrest to Protest the Giller Prize’s Blood Money
On November 13th 2023, a little over month into Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, the Giller Prize held its annual televised gala to award Canada’s biggest fiction prize. The broadcast was di…
lithub.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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"Israel is the top yearly international recipient of Canadian charitable donations, from charities and foundations whose non-profit status facilitates their ability to send millions of dollars to Israel."
#Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
Lessons from the cultural front
No Arms in the Arts organizers look back on over a year of confronting cultural institutions complicit in Palestinian genocide
briarpatchmagazine.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Since I covered the announcement today and the subsequent press conference, I used this week's edition of The Catch to sum up the problems with Carney's NATO groveling today. Check it out. #cdnnews #cdnpoli
It's the Magical Military Tour
Carney touts expanded militarism and AI-hype as the right way to defend Canadians
readthecatch.ca
June 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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These principled artists have worked hard and put a lot on the line to protest Canadian wealth that funds both the arming of a genocide and feel-good prestige arts awards. Arts philanthropy looks good, bombing people does not. We are lucky to have these people. breachmedia.ca/scotiabank-i...
Inside the campaign that upended CanLit’s ties to Scotiabank and Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach
The grassroots campaign that took on the Giller for its ties to the genocide in Gaza forced a broader reckoning in the Canadian literary community
breachmedia.ca
May 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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In honour of Evan Solomon being proclaimed the Liberal candidate for Toronto Centre, here’s 40 minutes of him getting absolutely manhandled by Noam Chomsky.

youtu.be/7lPnLK9z1fI?...
CBC Hot Type Evan Solomon interviews Noam Chomsky on his book 9/11
YouTube video by TheEthanwashere
youtu.be
March 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Scotiabank is certainly a valid target for the anti-war movement.

But @aliyapabani.bsky.social suggests that there are other economic targets that could yield more immediate, tangible results.

Check out this clip from our latest Rabble Rants: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBW1...
Aliya Pabani on Selecting Economic Targets in Canada #activism
YouTube video by Blueprints of Disruption
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March 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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One down, two to go - the Canlit Responds response to the Giller Prize and Scotiabank severing ties
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I sent the Gastro Guru an email asking him to correct his false assertions that I was fired from the CBC and repeatedly sued for defamation.

He said he would “consider holding back” if I stopped calling him a Nazi, “bad-mouthing” him on Reddit and “vandalizing” his Wikipedia page.
January 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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i am an Araki diehard and i love this movie to death, so was extremely excited to be able to draw this

vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
January 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Laissez faire nationalism
Is there a single country out there where the majority are like idk we just live here
January 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Is there a single country out there where the majority are like idk we just live here
January 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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At the Journalists for Human Rights gala, $102 well spent.

(though regrettably not by me)
October 2, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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Today I ran into Loblaws' CEO Per Bank in the No Frills parking lot and asked about the $22 million he was paid last year.
December 20, 2024 at 8:18 PM