My faculty association at the University of Toronto is currently considering a motion (introduced by anonymous members) to divest our pension fund from Israel.

The measure singles out Israel for a unique sanction. It also uses members' pensions for a political agenda on which no consensus exists.

In this article, my coauthors and I examine Ukraine's debates over local police, in which many municipalities have created de facto policing bodies. How can cities contribute to public safety? And how do war veterans influence local security services?

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A United States that occupied Greenland or Canada would no longer be the United States that we knew. We can't know exactly what would happen in the domestic political arena, but it's difficult to imagine democracy survive in anything like the current form. Perhaps Trump has thought this through. 1/

Watching Trump and Vance attacking Zelensky in the Oval Office was like being back in middle school and seeing another child get bullied, or perhaps being on a subway car and seeing one passenger abusing another. Watching someone else being humiliated and degraded, you inevitably feel complicit.

The US punitive tarriffs on Canada and Mexico:

While it is understandable that some Canadian politicians like Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seek to reason with Trump, or at least placate him, those like Ontario Premier Doug Ford who take a harder line are more likely to change US policies. 1/

Hello fellow Twitter refugees and veteran Bluesky users, I am glad to be with you here, beyond the control of Musk and Putin!