British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

Twelve British universities paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to “spy” on student protesters and academics, including those who have expressed solidarity with Palestine www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Ottawa has asked Israel to investigate Canadian's killing in Lebanon: Anand | CBC News Canadian officials have summoned Israeli ambassador Iddo Moed to request an investigation into the killing of Mohammad Hassan Haidar, a Canadian citizen in southern Lebanon, Foreign Affairs Minister ...

Israeli ambo summoned after the killing of a Canadian in Lebanon.

🇨🇦 has called for investigations into killings of citizens & the destruction of 🇨🇦-built civilian infrastructure. Nothing has come of them.

Investigations must be independent, not done by offending parties. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Poilievre pivoting from calling out Carney's economic credentials (the Bank of Canada under Poilievre's hero, Stephen Harper, no less) to schoolyard antics and name-calling 👇

Canada’s residential school abuse survivors face fresh battle to stop testimony being destroyed First Nation communities warn that government must act as accounts face destruction, risking central part of Canada’s reckoning with its colonial legacy

"It’s a consistent pattern that we’ve seen with the federal government in terms of stepping back from their obligations."

Canada’s residential school abuse survivors face fresh battle to stop testimony being destroyed: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Q: Why does he need to run for mayo?

A: He’s trying to ketchup!

😅

Agreed entirely.

The ICE "detention facilities" *are* concentration camps - literally facilities concentrating civilians deemed 'unwanted' and 'enemies' of the U.S. state, in violation of their basic human rights.

The history of concentration camps is longer & more common than most people know.

Israeli soldiers punished over vandalism of Jesus statue in Lebanon Two soldiers will be removed from combat duty and receive 30 days of military detention, Israel's military says.

And then what? Back into IDF service?

The Israeli soldier who smashed a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in illegally occupied Lebanon and the soldier who photographed the incident to receive 30 days of military detention: www.bbc.com/news/article... #Lebanon

From Gaza to Lebanon: Forcible Displacement Dressed in Humanitarian Garb In recent hostilities, first in the Gaza Strip and now in Lebanon, the Israeli military has adopted a new modus operandi: issuing blanket relocation directives instructing millions of people to indefi...

From Gaza to Lebanon: Forcible Displacement Dressed in Humanitarian Garb www.ejiltalk.org/from-gaza-to... @ejiltalk.bsky.social

Hungary Must Arrest Visiting Leaders Sought by ICC, Magyar Says Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar said he would halt the departure from the International Criminal Court that his predecessor Viktor Orban initiated, affirming that Hungary would respect ...

A win for justice and accountability:

Hungary's incoming President Peter Mahgyar has said that Israeli PM Netanyahu must be arrested if he enters Hungarian territory, pursuant to the ICC warrant against him.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #ICC

Gao Zhen: China sculptor's secret trial highlights censorship extremes Gao Zhen is being retroactively punished for 15 year-old-works, in a case that has alarmed rights groups.

"In the half-century since the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, this is the most prolonged crackdown that we've seen – far eclipsing the period after the Tiananmen massacre in 1989." www.bbc.com/news/article... #China #humanrights

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

"You can have massive trades on a financial instrument that clearly show that someone was privy to what Donald Trump was about to declare. Yet there is a strong chance that no-one will be prosecuted."

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency: www.bbc.com/news/article...

During the time of the Israeli military’s attack on Qasmieh bridge, the bridge was the main access point for civilians in southern Lebanon to food and other humanitarian aid. Governments should signal to Israel that they will not risk complicity in war crimes by immediately suspending arms sales.

A welcome and very good move. The people of Sudan deserve so much better than the neglect they receive amidst hunger, atrocity and displacement.

Canada announces $120 million in new funding to support the people in Sudan impacted by war: www.canada.ca/en/global-af... #KeepEyesonSudan

Centering accountability for atrocities: Why Lebanon should (finally) join the ICC Destruction in Lebanon (Photo: AFP / Getty Images) “We are going to do what we did in Gaza.” That’s how a senior Israeli official described the Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon. The thr…

To hold Israeli and Hezbollah perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity accountable, and to center justice and accountability over atrocities in Lebanon, Beirut should once again commit itself to joining the #ICC - and this time do it: justiceinconflict.org/2026/04/06/c... #Lebanon

The human cost of the war in Sudan, three years on The conflict, which erupted in 2023, has left behind a human toll which is "simply staggering", reports the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher.

"The conflict has seen human suffering on a huge scale, with 65% of the population in need of food, water, shelter and medicine. Thousands of people have been killed, and millions forcibly displaced."

The human cost of the war in #Sudan, three years on: www.bbc.com/news/videos/... #KeepEyesonSudan

Lebanon: Israeli Bridge Attack a Potential War Crime The Israeli military’s destruction of the Qasmieh bridge on April 16, 2026 effectively cut off Lebanese territory south of the Litani river from the rest of the country.

“The Israeli military’s systematic & repeated attacks on bridges, which threaten to isolate civilians in southern Lebanon from access to means of survival, demonstrate a callous disregard for the welfare of the tens of thousands of people still living there." www.hrw.org/news/2026/04... #Lebanon

No mention of who started the war or how it was started, let alone its illegality.

Post-Davos = pre-Davos.

Killing of Iranian activist in B.C. exposes increasingly bitter divisions within the diaspora Masood Masjoody had a long history of firing accusations at those he considered adversaries. So when he claimed on social media last fall that two fellow Iran-born activists were plotting to kill him,...

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

The Charter of Rights & Freedoms deserves celebration.

But the decision not to include socio-economic rights or explicitly positive rights is lamentable. Inequality has only 📈 since the Charter & today's affordability & housing crisis can't be properly addressed as a human rights issue bc of it.

Killing of Iranian activist in Canada exposes tensions in a diaspora divided over the war Recipients of threats and others blame the influential movement led by the exiled crown prince who supports the war launched by the U.S. and Israel

Killing of Iranian activist in Canada exposes tensions in a diaspora divided over the war: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Italy will not renew defence agreement with Israel, Meloni says The Italian PM said the pact, which happens every five years, would be suspended "in view of the current situation".

Italy will not renew its defence agreement with Israel "in view of the current situation", Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announces: www.bbc.com/news/article... #Lebanon #Gaza

Opinion: In a joyful Budapest, I see the chance of an unprecedented transition With Trumpian hero Viktor Orbán toppled, Europe must support post-populist system change

"Above all, though, there’s the priceless prize of showing that there is a path out of deep populism... Even the United States might then want to take some Hungarian lessons." - Timothy Garton Ash: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #Hungary

Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.

How much does Trump hate Canada?

Five charts help illustrate the U.S. President’s obsession with his northern neighbour: www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ar... #cdnpoli

UN experts condemn Israel’s unprecedented bombing in Lebanon after ceasefire announcement, demand immediate halt to hostilities GENEVA — UN experts* today condemned Israel’s illegal aggression and indiscriminate bombing campaign against Lebanon on 8 April, only hours after a ceasefire agreement was brokered by Pakistan between...

UN Experts call on "all member states to suspend arms transfers to Israel while there is credible evidence of serious violations of international humanitarian & human rights law."

UN experts condemn Israel’s unprecedented bombing in Lebanon after ceasefire announcement www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Sudan: World Leaders Need to Act on Ongoing Atrocities Leaders meeting in Berlin on April 15, 2026, the three-year mark of ongoing conflict in Sudan, should commit to concrete, time-bound measures to protect civilians and to hold those responsible for ser...

3/3 This conference should not have to be remembered as the first day of yet another year of atrocities against civilians in Sudan. 

Read more from HRW: www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

Canada's FM @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social still won't say how a Canadian citizen was killed in southern Lebanon (reports say it was in an Israeli attack) and declined to join a diplomatic push by a large number of allies to demand that Lebanon be included in talks on de-escalating the war.

Why?

Sudan: Three years on, warring parties intensify brutal war on civilians The three-year-long brutal conflict in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their respective allies

“Minimal, half-hearted and lackluster responses from the African Union, the UN Security Council and other international and regional actors have only emboldened the perpetrators to continue carrying out these attacks." - @agnescallamard.bsky.social amnesty.ca/human-rights... #KeepEyesonSudan

Abhorrent. One again, those targeted by settler crimes are children and their access to what so many others take for granted: school.

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to reunite with long-lost love The son of pensioner Marie-Thérèse says he worries for his mother's frail health, while she is detained in a Louisiana ICE centre.

"They handcuffed her hands and feet like she was a dangerous criminal."

An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US last year after rekindling a 1960s romance is being detained at an #ICE in Louisiana: www.bbc.com/news/article... #ICEout