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@alex.readthemaple.com

News editor, The Maple. https://www.readthemaple.com/signup-b/

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A Mossad-Linked Israeli Org Is Trying To ‘Shut Down’ The Maple The organization has sent demand letters to Ontario law enforcement and global payment processors.

An Israeli org praised by the country’s politicians is trying to get @readthemaple.com shut down. Shurat HaDin has claimed to have issued legal notices to payment processors and written to multiple legal and police bodies “calling for a criminal investigation.” An abhorrent attack on the press.

12.02.2026 01:11 — 👍 26    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
ShuratHaDin

"Shurat HaDin has issued urgent legal notices to Stripe, Apple Pay, and all major credit card networks demanding they cut off services to a website that is listing and monetizing Jewish institutions across Toronto. This isn't free speech - it's a threat to Jewish safety."

ShuratHaDin "Shurat HaDin has issued urgent legal notices to Stripe, Apple Pay, and all major credit card networks demanding they cut off services to a website that is listing and monetizing Jewish institutions across Toronto. This isn't free speech - it's a threat to Jewish safety."

A Tel Aviv-based group that describes its mission as going on the "legal offensive against Israel’s enemies" says it is trying to "shut down" Canadian news organization @readthemaple.com

Shurat HaDin is lobbying Canadian police to arrest a Canadian journalist

www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...

13.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 128    🔁 84    💬 6    📌 9
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Group Sending Canadian Right-Wing Media Personalities on Free Trips to Israel Quietly Funded by the Israeli Government Israeli foreign ministry granted Exigent Foundation $175,000 CAD to bring ‘Canadian influencers and policymakers’ to Israel, documents show

NEW: Group sending Canadian right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel quietly funded by Israeli government

Documents unearthed by @pressprogress.ca show Israel's foreign ministry granted the Exigent Foundation $175,000 CAD to bring "Canadian influencers and policymakers" to Israel

12.02.2026 21:13 — 👍 320    🔁 183    💬 12    📌 26

I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry

The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”

12.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 320    🔁 202    💬 16    📌 7
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A Mossad-Linked Israeli Org Is Trying To ‘Shut Down’ The Maple The organization has sent demand letters to Ontario law enforcement and global payment processors.

NEW: A Mossad-linked Israeli lawfare organization is trying to shut down The Maple and get criminal charges laid against me.

Read, share and let Israelis know that they don’t get to decide what Canadian journalism looks like.

www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...

11.02.2026 13:56 — 👍 110    🔁 61    💬 0    📌 5
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Canadians In ICE? Neither Canada Nor U.S. Keeps Track “It’s in our interest to know what citizens are doing, but it’s also in our interest in terms of national security and public security.”

“It’s in our interest to know what citizens are doing, but it’s also in our interest in terms of national security and public security.”

Canadians In ICE? Neither Canada Nor U.S. Keeps Track, by @alexcosh.bsky.social, with comments from me: www.readthemaple.com/canadians-in... #cdnpoli

29.01.2026 23:35 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
https://action.readthemaple.com/2025-fundraising

👋The Maple is about to fall short of our year-end fundraising goal. We're exclusively funded by our readers making small donations. Hitting our target is crucial to sustaining our journalism into 2026.

Please consider becoming a member: t.co/zwqf2R3had

Or making a one-off donation: t.co/5wvYtoqsVt

30.12.2025 16:01 — 👍 19    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 3

Thank you for your support!

30.12.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for your support!

30.12.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Maple does such great reporting, it's well worth supporting. This is just one of the many in-depth articles they published in 2025: www.readthemaple.com/canadas-arms...

30.12.2025 16:24 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
https://action.readthemaple.com/2025-fundraising

👋The Maple is about to fall short of our year-end fundraising goal. We're exclusively funded by our readers making small donations. Hitting our target is crucial to sustaining our journalism into 2026.

Please consider becoming a member: t.co/zwqf2R3had

Or making a one-off donation: t.co/5wvYtoqsVt

30.12.2025 16:01 — 👍 19    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 3
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Support The Maple With A One-Time Donation One-time donations help power our reporting, investigations, and the journalists behind them.

🚨After The Maple’s most-impactful year by far, we may miss our fundraising goal by a significant margin.

Consider becoming a member (action.readthemaple.com/2025-fundrai...) and/or making a one-time donation (readthemaple.com/donate/) now to help ensure we can hire a new journalist next year.

30.12.2025 15:23 — 👍 10    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
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CAF member allegedly leaked the identity of a soldier involved in covert intelligence Master Warrant Officer Matthew Shawn Robar is accused of passing sensitive secrets to a foreign entity

“At one point, prosecutors allege the foreign entity (Ukraine) 'threatened to go to the media with the safeguarded and special operational information in an attempt to leverage Canada into supporting the foreign intelligence service interests.'” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

17.12.2025 19:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Controversial Victims Of Communism Memorial Won’t Include Names The monument was unveiled in December 2024 after a more than one year-long postponement.

NEW: Our dispatch on the federal government's decision not to include any names on the "Memorial to the Victims of Communism."

Experts have warned for years that a list of names submitted for commemoration included Nazi collaborators. www.readthemaple.com/controversia...

17.12.2025 16:10 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
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Bob Rae Had ‘Wings Clipped’ For Defending International Criminal Court A Canadian diplomat based in Washington contacted Rae minutes after he posted a tweet defending the ICC.

NEW: Former UN ambassador Bob Rae said he had his “wings clipped” for posting a tweet defending ICC judges in the face of sanctions imposed by the USA.

Records show a Canadian diplomat based in Washington contacted Rae minutes after he posted the tweet. www.readthemaple.com/bob-rae-had-...

12.12.2025 16:14 — 👍 78    🔁 56    💬 3    📌 5

Thank you for your support, Sean!

12.12.2025 22:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bob Rae Had ‘Wings Clipped’ For Defending International Criminal Court A Canadian diplomat based in Washington contacted Rae minutes after he posted a tweet defending the ICC.

NEW: Former UN ambassador Bob Rae said he had his “wings clipped” for posting a tweet defending ICC judges in the face of sanctions imposed by the USA.

Records show a Canadian diplomat based in Washington contacted Rae minutes after he posted the tweet. www.readthemaple.com/bob-rae-had-...

12.12.2025 16:14 — 👍 78    🔁 56    💬 3    📌 5

"Settler violence against Palestinians often appears sporadic, but it is an official government system with an organized structure operating as intended."

10.12.2025 17:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.

"Over the past two years, settlers have increasingly been 'going into houses, holding people at gunpoint, and giving them 24 hours to leave, and many have… We end up in a situation where no one investigates.'"
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-org...

10.12.2025 17:10 — 👍 8    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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The Maple: Where ‘Reader Funded’ Actually Means Something We’re powered by widespread, organic support from the many, not the temporary goodwill of the few.

NEW: The Maple has a truly unique funding model, even among other independent outlets you may associate us with. In this article I go into detail about who has funded us over the years, the benefits of our model and why you should consider becoming a member.

www.readthemaple.com/the-maple-wh...

09.12.2025 13:53 — 👍 19    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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The Leaked Report Pushing Mark Carney Toward the F-35 Fighter Jet | The Walrus A mysterious internal study seeks to rig the multi-billion-dollar debate over Canada’s air force

"A table outlining an internal Royal Canadian Air Force 2021 study on the F-35 fighter jet versus Sweden’s Gripen has magically shown up in the press at just the very moment it might most influence the choice about to be made."
thewalrus.ca/the-leaked-r...

08.12.2025 18:51 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S. A leaked briefing document gives the full picture behind the government’s talking points.

Elbows up: A leaked Liberal caucus briefing note shows the Mark Carney government fears that regulating arms exports to the USA might upset the Americans.
www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fea...

04.12.2025 16:08 — 👍 75    🔁 40    💬 9    📌 19
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Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S. A leaked briefing document gives the full picture behind the government’s talking points.

Elbows up: A leaked Liberal caucus briefing note shows the Mark Carney government fears that regulating arms exports to the USA might upset the Americans.
www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fea...

04.12.2025 16:08 — 👍 75    🔁 40    💬 9    📌 19
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GTA to IDF A database from The Maple exploring GTA institutions associated with Canadians who served in Israel’s military.

NEW: I created a database profiling Toronto institutions Canadian IDF soldiers attended to get a better understanding of how they portray the Israeli military.

The institutions, which all have charities, include schools, synagogues and summer camps.

gtatoidf.com

03.12.2025 14:11 — 👍 36    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 1
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As Military Spending Soars, Defence Department Fails On Transparency A report shows the Defence Department’s already poor transparency record is getting worse.

DND is being flooded with cash while it makes an absolute mockery of the federal transparency system.

Their bureaucrats don't take their legal obligations under the Access to Information Act or warnings from the Information Commissioner seriously. www.readthemaple.com/as-military-...

03.12.2025 16:53 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The Department of National Defence's Access to Information Directorate just asked me, in response to a request I filed in November, “What constitutes a ‘report’?”

After I said that they know what a report is, they replied with a sarcastic “Have a great day!!”

03.12.2025 16:51 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb...

Ladies and gentlemen, make sure to keep your elbows firmly up while inside the vehicles bound for a country that's going to use them to illegally kidnap innocent men, women, and children share.google/ANhrgIX5WcIm...

03.12.2025 02:00 — 👍 440    🔁 199    💬 31    📌 24
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Voting for budget was a 'mistake' that won't happen again, says Green Leader May | CBC News Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says supporting the Carney government on the budget vote is a "mistake" she won't make again.

This is a political leader so, so far beyond her expiry date it's not even funny. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

02.12.2025 22:46 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Calgary police withhold evidence of brutality as final UofC protest charges fall New documents reveal Calgary Police Service suppressed evidence of brutality by officers at the University of Calgary on May 9, 2024. Among this was camera footage from senior officers that should hav...

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Calgary Police Service suppressed evidence of brutality by officers deployed to the UofC anti-genocide protest on May 9, 2024.

Among the evidence was camera footage from senior officers that should have been examined during an internal investigation.
drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

01.12.2025 15:23 — 👍 52    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 4

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