We have failed you. This is the awful guilt we carry. We tried. But we did not try hard enough. We will go to Rafah. Many of us. Reporters. We will stand outside the border with Gaza in protest. We will write and film. This is what we do. It is not much. But it is something. We will tell your story again. But we are not there. Not this time. We cannot get in. We are locked out.

Premier Wab Kinew led the Manitoba New Democratic Party to a majority government on October 3, 2023. He did so with a disciplined campaign focused on highlighting the governing Progressive Conservatives’ deficiencies in health care and talking almost every day about proposals to better the system under the slogan of “Fixing Health Care.”

For nearly 75 years, the agony of the Palestinians has been unfathomable to an international audience. The exodus, the dispossession, the daily indignity of Israeli occupation and the extreme violence against innocents have largely been hidden to outsiders. This latest campaign dispels any lingering doubt that Israel’s real intent is to destroy the Palestinians’ will to live.

Now is the time to stand with Palestinians and step into a new era of anti-colonial resistance: an era that refuses the Oslo concessions and the normalization of ties with the Zionist state. Now is the time to remember and uphold other historical victories against settler-colonial regimes. This statement was first posted on the Verso Books website

Since Israel began its brutal siege of the Gaza Strip, Canada’s labour unions have come out in vocal support of the Palestinians. Ranging from calls for an immediate ceasefire, to opposition to Canadian arms sales to Israel, and statements opposing violence “on both sides,” unions have increasingly lined up to call out Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza and the West Bank.

The ethical implications of our media’s promotion of sports betting are profound, and TV hosts giving advice on bets is dangerous ground. As CD media columnist Marc Edge explains, media outlets in Canada have been eagerly taking all this action they can get, especially since most other advertising has long since fled to Google and Facebook.

The Cobre Panamá copper mine, owned by Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals, is once against facing widespread grassroots resistance from Panamanian activists. As Owen Schalk explains, the mine, which is the largest foreign investment in the country, has remained a central focus of Panamanian protest movements for more than a decade.

In a Global News segment this past week, a journalist asked a Canadian diplomat if there were any Palestinian death toll in Gaza that would be too much—a “red line.” It’s a sickening and perverse question, as if there’s a penance in Palestinian blood that needs to be paid. But it is a question that Canadians need to ask of their government, because the answer doesn’t seem clear.

The Israeli state has proved utterly ineffectual in colonizing the collective consciousness of the Palestinian people, of erasing their historical memory, of destroying their spirit to resist by militarily convincing them that resistance is futile. That spirit of resistance, that historical memory, has only gained in intensity and strength during these past three weeks.

Over the past three weeks since it launched its brutal military bombardment of Gaza, Israel has killed more than 8,000 Palestinians and injured 20,000 more. While our government and political establishment continue to enable Israel’s extreme right-wing government, more and more Canadians are saying no to genocide.