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The Income Gap In Canada Has Reached A Record High The wealthiest amass more through higher salaries and passive income, while workers face stagnating wages.

NEW: The income gap in Canada has reached a record high.

In 2025 Q1, the top 20% of households held 64.7% of all wealth, while the bottom 40% accounted for just 3.3%.

Read the latest issue of Class Struggle from Adam King.

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Canada Awards $169 Million Deal To U.S. Company Sued Over Iraqi Abuse CACI is one of the latest American companies to win a major Canadian military contract.

NEW: The Canadian military is awarding 2 contracts worth a total of $169 million to an American company whose subsidiary a federal jury found legally responsible for the abuse of three Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib prison. www.readthemaple.com/canada-award...

Subsidizing The Occupation Discover how charitable donations and tax breaks in Canada are subsidizing the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

NEW: Subsidizing The Occupation is a major project from The Maple explaining how you and other Canadians have helped fund Israeli violence.

www.subsidizingtheoccupation.ca

Two Charges Against Pro-Palestine Activist Yves Engler Dropped “It’s a victory for those of us who oppose Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”

BREAKING: Two charges against Yves Engler alleging he harassed Dahlia Kurtz have been dropped. Four charges against Engler remain, alleging he harassed a Montreal police investigator assigned to the case. Read more from @alexcosh.bsky.social.

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Defence Attaché Briefed By Israeli Who Compared Gazans To Cockroaches “There’s not really any strong opposition to the idea within Israel in general that Palestinians are a lesser race of people.”

Defence Attaché Briefed By Israeli Who Compared Gazans To Cockroaches
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Defence Attaché Briefed By Israeli Who Compared Gazans To Cockroaches “There’s not really any strong opposition to the idea within Israel in general that Palestinians are a lesser race of people.”

NEW: Canada’s defence attaché in Israel was briefed last year by an Israeli academic who has compared Palestinians to cockroaches.
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Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.

NEW: Uber drivers have unionized for the first time in Canada, writes Adam King.

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Coming next week: another major project from The Maple exposing Canadian complicity in Israeli crimes. This was supposed to come out more than a year ago, but got delayed. Sadly, it will still be very relevant.

As Gaza Starves, Remember Writers Who Opposed UNRWA These individuals have written opinion pieces calling for UNRWA to be defunded or dismantled

NEW: As Gaza starves and Palestinians are slaughtered while trying to get food, we should remember the writers who called for UNRWA to be dismantled. I’ve compiled a list of them who made these arguments in Canadian newspapers since October 7.

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CUPE Is Fighting The Zionist-Instigated Firing Of A Paramedic Solidarity is needed to win Katherine Grzejszczak’s reinstatement and declare that attacking labour supporters of Palestine won’t stand.

NEW: CUPE Is Fighting The Zionist-Instigated Firing Of A Paramedic.

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CUPE Is Fighting The Zionist-Instigated Firing Of A Paramedic Solidarity is needed to win Katherine Grzejszczak’s reinstatement and declare that attacking labour supporters of Palestine won’t stand.

NEW: CUPE Ontario is fighting the Zionist-instigated firing of a paramedic, writes Adam King in his coverage of the campaign, which includes an interview with Fred Hahn.

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Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Exports To Israel Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts.

Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Exports To Israel

Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts. www.readthemaple.com/canada-autho...

Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Exports To Israel Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts.

BREAKING: Canada authorized $37.2 million worth of new military exports to Israel in February, reveals @alexcosh.bsky.social.

The goods fall under an export category that includes bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles and other explosive devices.

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Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Exports To Israel Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts.

NEW: Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Export Permits To Israel This Year.

Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized new exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts. www.readthemaple.com/canada-autho...

CityNews Quietly Removed Stories About A Former IDF Member The decision to delete these pages may violate the newsroom’s policies

NEW: CityNews quietly removed stories about a former IDF member. The decision to delete these pages may violate the newsroom’s policies, writes @davidemastracci.bsky.social.

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CityNews Quietly Removed Stories About A Former IDF Member The decision to delete these pages may violate the newsroom’s policies

NEW: Since Find IDF Soldiers was released, public sources I used for soldier profiles have been disappearing. I recently discovered CityNews Kitchener quietly deleted two stories about a former IDF soldier, which may violate its news guidelines.

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Carney Justified Attacks While Iranian Canadians Feared The Worst “Israel wants to commit genocide against people of Palestine, against people of Gaza, and they see Iran as an obstacle to this.”

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Carney Justified Attacks While Iranian Canadians Feared The Worst “Israel wants to commit genocide against people of Palestine, against people of Gaza, and they see Iran as an obstacle to this.”

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The Liberals Are Bailing Out Canada Post Management Again The federal government is doing management’s bidding by undermining CUPW and forcing a vote on a substandard offer.

NEW: The Liberals are bailing out Canada Post management again, writes Adam King.

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Carney Justified Attacks While Iranian Canadians Feared The Worst “Israel wants to commit genocide against people of Palestine, against people of Gaza, and they see Iran as an obstacle to this.”

NEW: Mark Carney justified the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran while Iranian Canadians feared for the safety of their relatives.

“We feel abandoned. We feel like we are forgotten about.” www.readthemaple.com/carney-justi...

Canadians Should Stand With Iran Against The U.S. And Israel The Israelis and Americans pose a far greater threat to world peace and justice than Iran has or ever could.

NEW: Canadians should stand with Iran against the United States and Israel. The U.S.-Israeli alliance is a far greater threat to global peace and justice than Iran ever could be.

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The RCMP Investigated Maple Editor Davide Mastracci The national police force determined Mastracci’s journalism was “non-criminal”; he was likely added to a police database.

NEW: The RCMP investigated our editor @davidemastracci.bsky.social following the publication of Find IDF Soldiers, a database of Canadians that have joined the Israeli military.

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The RCMP Investigated Maple Editor Davide Mastracci The national police force determined Mastracci’s journalism was “non-criminal”; he was likely added to a police database.

NEW: The RCMP, Canada’s federal police force, investigated me for my journalism about the Israeli military. Here’s what happened...

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Canada Sold $18.9 Million Of Military Goods To Israel, Despite ‘Pause’ Canadian companies sold $18.9 million of military goods to Israel in 2024.

NEW: Canada Sold $18.9 Million Of Military Goods To Israel, Despite ‘Pause’

The data confirms Liberal politicians have repeatedly lied to the public about Canada stopping military exports to Israel. www.readthemaple.com/canada-sold-...

Canada Sold $18.9 Million Of Military Goods To Israel, Despite ‘Pause’ Canadian companies sold $18.9 million of military goods to Israel in 2024.

Canada Sold $18.9 Million Of Military Goods To Israel, Despite ‘Pause’
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How Canada’s ‘Condo Class’ Has Disrupted Political Organizing The rise of condos is making door-to-door political campaigning obsolete.

The rise of a "condo class" in Canada has deeply disrupted political organizing.

“Developers, slash landlords, slash the corporate class, have overcome the threat of community organizing for the collective good within these spaces.”
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Israeli Products Should Have No Place In Canada Labour 4 Palestine is calling on the Canadian Labour Congress to declare all Israeli goods and services ‘hot cargo.’

NEW: Labour 4 Palestine is calling on the Canadian Labour Congress to declare all Israeli goods and services “hot cargo.”

Adam King covers the campaign in the latest issue of Class Struggle.

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Government Export Agency Noted 99 Israeli Crimes, But OK’d Arms Sale “It is hard to really conjure a mitigation measure that could reduce the level of risk of arms transfers to Israel.”

NEW: Government Export Agency Noted 99 Israeli Crimes, But OK’d Arms Sale

“It is hard to really conjure a mitigation measure that could reduce the level of risk of arms transfers to Israel.”
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Government Export Agency Noted 99 Israeli Crimes, But OK’d Arms Sale “It is hard to really conjure a mitigation measure that could reduce the level of risk of arms transfers to Israel.”

NEW: Government Export Agency Noted 99 Israeli Crimes, But OK’d Arms Sale

“It is hard to really conjure a mitigation measure that could reduce the level of risk of arms transfers to Israel.”
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In March, we published a report indicating that a Canadian Crown corp was awarded a contract through the US DOD to ship 155mm artillery propellants to Israel. When asked by journalists, then–Foreign Minister Joly dismissed our findings as “false information”

Now from @readthemaple.bsky.social: