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David Wiseman

@dwwiseman.bsky.social

uOttawa law professor #A2J 🍉

124 Followers  |  22 Following  |  9 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  1.65

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FIFA are rolling out the red carpet for Israel But together with these brave Italian football coaches, we can do something about it. Join us.

Sign on if you agree Israel (like Russia) should not be permitted to participate in the FIFA World Cup 2026 (in Nth America) or the next qualifying round starting later this week.

secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

03.09.2025 13:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to have signed on to this, as a human, as a law professor and as a tennis player/fan 🎾☮️🍉

18.08.2025 17:49 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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From the vigil for Anas al-Sharif and colleagues, who were murdered by the Israeli military for doing journalism in Gaza, outside CBC Ottawa this evening. As one offering says: “You only target journalists when your enemy is the truth”

The ongoing Israeli genocidal atrocities need to be stopped.

11.08.2025 23:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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At least 73 Palestinians killed trying to access humanitarian aid, says Gaza Health Ministry | CBC News At least 73 people were killed while attempting to access aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the health ministry in the Palestinian territory said.

FEED GAZA NOW!
CEASEFIRE NOW!

You are my federal MP
@yasirnaqvicdn.bsky.social
WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THIS?!

www.cbc.ca/news/world/7...

20.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’ United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’

Well said!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

11.07.2025 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Senior Tory MPs and peers break ranks to call for recognition of Palestine Exclusive: Conservatives ask Keir Starmer to stand ‘against indefinite occupation’ and ‘reinforce international law’

Kudos to these Tory MPs … more should join them, from their own and other Commonwealth parliaments … overdue for MPs in Australia and Canada to speak up on this …

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

07.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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APUO passes motion calling for U of O divestment in ‘entities enabling human rights violations’ - The Fulcrum The motion marks an evolution in APUO’s calls to the university. Previous statements by the union highlighted incidents of academic infringements by the U of O related to pro-Palestinian protests on c...

Good news here …

thefulcrum.ca/news/apuo-pa...

03.05.2025 13:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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BDS victory: Yesterday, the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa passed a motion calling on the university to divest from institutions “enabling human rights violations, war crimes, and any other breaches of international law in the [OPT].” www.cjpme.org/who_supports...

01.05.2025 19:26 — 👍 36    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2
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Some tenants at this Ontario building have been there for decades. Here's how they won their renoviction case | CBC News Some tenants had been living in the Emerald Street South building in Hamilton for decades when their landlord tried to evict them for cosmetic upgrades to the kitchens, bathrooms and floors.

Excellent! (And note the coming into force of the new municipal by-law on renovictions in Hamilton … should be the minimum of protection for tenants in all municipalities in Ontario)

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

01.04.2025 06:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Letter to Ontario Premier Ford - December 2.pdf

Great to see such strong support from Ontario’s legal community for Joint Letter to Premier Doug Ford opposing invocation of the Notwithstanding Clause to override fundamental rights of people experiencing homelessness and living in encampments 👇

drive.google.com/file/d/1F3hN...

02.12.2024 15:06 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

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