Ted Rutland

Don’t stop talking about the famine in Gaza Israel wants you to believe that airdrops and symbolic aid trucks will solve the famine in Gaza. Don’t believe them. These measures are not meant to end hunger, only to quell growing global outrage as...

"In the two days following Israel’s announcement of the tactical pause, Israeli forces killed over 160 Palestinians ... It was a lie crafted by Israel, amplified by Western media, declared without our knowledge, and never enforced." mondoweiss.net/2025/07/dont...

Screenshot of Columbia's settlement with the White House

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

It's wild how different crime reporting looks when the police and their allies aren't trying to discredit BLM and the "union" isn't in contract negotiation. There have been more murders in Montreal so far this year than any Jan-July since 2007, but the copagandists are chill.

It's wild how different crime reporting looks when the police and their allies aren't trying to discredit BLM and the "union" isn't in contract negotiation. There have been more murders in Montreal so far this year than any Jan-July since 2007, but the copagandists are chill.

He definitely won't! But there's a kind of friendliness between the Sud-ouest reps that makes my stomach turn.

This would be one of the biggest foreign policy failures in Canadian history - except the policy was never to stop Israel. These "warnings" are performances for the domestic population (which opposes the genocide) and the ICJ.

I can't stop thinking about how Canada issued its first big warning to Israel in May 2024, when it said invading Rafah would cross a red line. And then Israel destroyed Rafah, made it the hub of its "murder through aid" operation, and is now planning a concentration camp there.

La loi ne dicte pas que la police doit être la réponse à une situation donnée. Cela ressort clairement du texte de la loi et beaucoup plus clairement de la littérature sur la question, que tu refuses de lire.

En ce qui concerne EMMIS, j'ai passé deux ans à l'étudier. Je t'invite à lire le rapport.

Nicous D’Andre Spring, détenu illégalement, abandonné fatalement Bien que le traitement qui lui a été infligé soit odieux, il s’inscrit dans un contexte plus large.

Lien : www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

« Détenu illégalement, voyant ses droits bafoués, il a vu chacune de ses tentatives de dénoncer l’injustice qu’il subissait accueillie par toujours plus de violence. » Mon texte avec @emrical sur le mort de Nicous Spring et le système carcéral anti-Noir.

«[E]n choisissant comme chef Craig Sauvé ... Transition Montréal signale un positionnement gauchiste assumé.» Oui, finalement, une option à gauche.
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Montréal a transféré la gestion de stationnement de la police au service de mobilité en 2019. D'autres villes ont transféré les appels 911 non criminels à des équipes d'intervention civiles. Aucune loi ne stipule que la police doit continuer à intervenir dans une situation donnée.

Montréal a certainement le pouvoir de transférer certaines tâches actuellement effectuées par la police à d'autres services. Honnêtement, je ne vois pas pourquoi Ludvic soutiendrait le contraire, si ce n'est pour appuyer les décisions de son parti.

Ce % serait plus bas maintenant, bien sûr, en raison de la campagne de réaction et de la panique morale au sujet des crimes violents lancée par la police, ses alliés médiatiques et les chroniqueurs de droite - et aussi parce que la PM elle-même a servi d'organe de relations publiques au SPVM.

Je ne vois pourquoi nous parlons de la définancement de la police, alors que Sauvé n'a pas encore pris position sur la question. Mais oui, un sondage IPSOS réalisé en août 2020 a révélé que 54 % des Québécois étaient en faveur.

L'idée que les compétences provinciaux vs. municipaux est fixée par la loi est faux. Ludvic refuse de lire la littérature sur cette question, de regarder ce que les autres villes font, ou de regarder la façon dont Projet assume des responsabilités « provinciales » lorsqu'elle sert sa base.

Why we published a book on Canadian’s media cover-up of the Gaza genocide ⋆ The Breach Desmond Cole sits down in Toronto with Dania Majid and Martin Lukacs to discuss and launch The Breach’s latest book, When Genocide Wasn’t News

This recording of the Toronto launch of the book, When Genocide Wasn't News, is so powerful and full of details about how the corporate Canadian media (including CBC) has whitewashed Israel's genocide. Thanks to the contributors and @TheBreachMedia.
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Oh interesting. I hadn’t thought of the influence of Dorais. I’d love to hear more about that if there’s something I should read or if you want to say more about that.

He was a city councillor with a party that muzzled its left-wing members, until all of them left. Look at how Projet has changed the city and imagine what the future will be if they don't have a left-wing challenger. We can worry about vote splitting, and advocate strategic voting, on election day.

Do we disagree or are you just a better curmudgeon? (I'm doing my best, but you're really good at this!)

As for left strategy, I wonder if we actually disagree. I'm not a social democrat and I don't think the (tiny!) grassroots left should be devoting its energy to electoral politics. But I think having a soc-dem option (which we haven't had at the city level since the RCM) is a good thing.

I didn't remember his support for turning STM agents into constables spéciaux. Since that time, he's the only city councillor to stand against the never-ending police budget increases and one of two councillors to support drug decrim.

Photo of Craig Sauvé, alongside the headline: "Un ancien de Projet Montréal se lance à la mairie de la métropole."

This is the best local news in a long time. Craig Sauvé is running for mayor and leading a new progressive party, Transition Montréal. Sauvé, first elected in 2013, is the best city councillor we've got.

Le modus operandi de La Presse et surtout de Daniel Renaud.

J’imagine qu’il va être acquitté. On ne peut pas bcp espérer de ce système.

Recall that Spring was detained illegally at the time, having won his release the day before. Reports suggest Spring's agitation for his awarded release was viewed as resistance by prison guards and confronted the only way guards know how to deal with resistance.

Prison de Bordeaux | Un chef d’unité accusé de l’homicide involontaire d’un détenu Un chef d’unité d’expérience de la prison de Bordeaux a été accusé jeudi d’avoir tué un jeune détenu en 2022. Des accusations pratiquement sans précédent pour un gestionnaire de centre de détention. L...

Very happy to see the prison supervisor who ordered the escalating and ultimately fatal violence against Nicous Spring in December 2022 charged with manslaughter and removed from the prison for the length of the trial.
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How Israel’s war on Iran saved the “West” from its own humanity After Israel’s genocide became untenable for even Israel’s staunchest allies to support, the West needed a more “perfect villain” to keep backing Israel. And there was no better villain for an indoctr...

Source: mondoweiss.net/2025/06/how-...

The global rejection of the genocide in Gaza had begun to carve its way into political decision-making circles in the “West,” where Israel has always received its impunity. Five countries — the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway — imposed sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli ministers most explicit in their genocidal intent. Spain had announced the suspension of arms sales to Israel, and France was preparing for an international conference to recognize Palestine as part of the two-state solution. None of this alleviated the agony of Palestinian children in Gaza. But it indicated that the world had begun to see Palestinian suffering. Then Israel attacked Iran.

Qassam Muaddi identifies what's at stake and what's so soul crushing about Israel's new war: it was meant to re-establish unquestioning Western support for Israel's genocide ... and it's working.