Ryan Hillier

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.

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Photos: Palestinian fishermen struggle to feed their families on Gaza City’s shores Editor’s note: This is the latest photo essay by Rizek Abdel Jawad, a photojournalist from Gaza City whose work has

Palestinian fishermen risk their lives in shallow waters after Israel blocked access to the sea and destroyed all large boats. Rizek Abdel Jawad’s new photo essay documents their struggle to provide for their families.

View the photos here:
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Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...

A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.

From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:

Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty Washington also called for end to Afghanistan investigation and change to Rome Statute in return for lifting sanctions

In a back channeled "offer" to the International Criminal Court, the United States proposed dropping sanctions on ICC officials if the Court

•Dropped charges on Israeli officials and pledged not to indict anymore
•Stopped investigating crimes in Afghanistan
•Amended the ICC treaty

the ICC said: no

The caveat being that the United States isn't in a declared state of war with Venezuela.

Another in the extremely long string of war crimes executed by the US military.

Same as the response to Covid-19. No data, no problem.

This is the guy who was hyping Trump as someone who is planning multiple genocides. You suck

Influential article claiming glyphosate isn’t carcinogenic retracted by scientific journal A "hallmark paper" arguing that glyphosate isn't carcinogenic has been retracted by the peer-reviewed journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 25 years

The study was retracted over concerns that employees from Monsanto may have partially ghostwritten the article and that its listed authors — one of them a former senior official at Health Canada — “may have received financial compensation” from the company.

Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social

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.
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Marx commented at the time that the huge concentration of stock market investment in US rail companies “gave in one word an impetus never before suspected to the concentration of capital and also to the accelerated and immensely enlarged cosmopolitan activity of loanable capital, thus embracing the whole world in a network of financial swindling and mutual indebtedness, the capitalistic form of ‘international’ brotherhood’”. When the rail company stocks fell, the rest of the market fell and an economic slump ensued.

"Marx commented at the time that the huge concentration of stock market investment in US rail companies '[embraced] the whole world in a network of financial swindling and mutual indebtedness, the capitalistic form of international brotherhood.'"

AI and the railway mania The AI bubble continues. The Magnificent Seven of tech media continue to drive the US stock market, along with the AI companies. The ten largest US companies by stock market value, holdin…

"AI investing companies now represent 75% of S&P 500 returns, 80% of earnings growth and nearly 90% of capital-spending growth in the last year."

"Knowledge becomes data; teaching becomes delivery. What disappears are precious human capacities—curiosity, discernment, presence. The result isn’t augmented intelligence but simulated learning: a paint-by-numbers approach to thought."

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.

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Denmark starts work on rocket fuel facility for Ukraine Danish and Ukrainian officials have marked the start of construction of a facility that will supply rocket fuel to Ukraine, believed to be the first such scheme in a NATO nation.

"'I don't like it, it's too much. We are a small country, we have paid a lot of money to Ukraine,' said Marielle, a woman in her forties who did not want to give her family name.

She said she feared the plant would make Denmark the 'next target for Russia.'"

That's the idea.

The US bulldozed the prospect of Uniting for Peace in Palestine UN endorsement of Trump plan a “colonial outrage” that will ultimately implode.

“UN Resolution 2803 puts Gaza in the hands of a puppet administration, with the US as the new manager of an open-air prison, further crushing Palestine's right to self-determination and any path to peace.”

‘This is the new slavery’: Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused and injured - Investigative Journalism Bureau Harvesting cannabis in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley as a migrant labourer in 2023, Maria recalls being surprised when her boss invited her and two friends for dinner at his home in the nearby mo...

"This is the new slavery": The humans feeding you are subject to abuse and, tied to employers, have little recourse when harms take place. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/this-is... via @ijbstories.bsky.social

Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner sit across the table from Rustem Umerov, Sergey Kislitsa, Andrey Gnatov and the rest of the Ukrainian delegation in Miami November 30 2025.

Things are going well in Miami. Note the patch worn by Gnatov, clearly reminiscent of the Dirlewanger emblem.

Dr. Yipeng Ge, Dr. Safa Elhassan, Sonal Marwah and Michael Lynk joined the Canadian Health Coalition’s Anne Lagacé Dowson for a conversation about health care workers in war zones on Monday, November 24. The webinar is now available for viewing here:

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It drives Israelis crazy that Palestinians are the most resilient indigenous People in the world. Look at this

Lollll

In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity

Co-wrote this piece with the brilliant @nisrinelamin.bsky.social
and Ismail Adam of the Darfur Diaspora Association, on Canada's complicity in the war in Sudan and the genocide in Darfur, for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...

‘Having a hard time getting food’: Nunavut hunger crisis continues ‘People are having a hard time now getting food’: Nunavut hunger crisis continues as Indigenous Services Canada refuses to answer questions

Canada cancelled its northern food program over the summer and is refusing to answer APTN’s requests for why. Canada continues to Canada…

Anyone stating that this is a principled stand is delusional.

A live streamed genocide wasn't enough to resign over. A pipeline, that probably won't even be built, was.

The Canadian government is happy to talk about sovereignty for itself (the embodiment of corporate and private interests which dominate the political system), but fails to realize it in Northern communities.

Archived link: archive.today/2025.11.27-0...

Russia, Ukraine: Kremlin Dismisses Prospects of Near-Term Peace Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated it was "premature" to conclude the conflict in Ukraine was nearing an end, TASS reported Nov. 26.

Almost two years later and the trajectory of the war remains unchanged. Stratfor notes that "Russia maintains an uncompromising military posture for the winter to exhaust Ukrainian defenses [...]." worldview.stratfor.com/situation-re...

If you read the article you will learn that members of the construction company management team have already been arrested on charges. To date there have been no convictions for the Grenfell Tower Fire which killed 72 people.

BREAKING OTHER PEOPLE’S TOYS: SABOTAGE IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD : Meegan, Daniel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive This thesis explores the value of sabotage as a strategic tool in a multipolar world. More specifically, it examines if sabotage can play a role in imposing...

The current reality - of criticial infrastrucure warfare and sabotage by means that avoids necessitating official declaration of war between peer nations - would appear to be directly inspired by this paper authored in 2020. "Breaking Other People's Toys: Sabotage in a Multipolar World."