Kelly O’Connor, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said she gasped out loud when she saw the text. Any medical worker who denies care to someone hurt in a war zone is committing a “serious breach of the Geneva Convention,” she said in an interview....
The move on Wednesday marks a U-turn in Ukraine’s approach on the matter. Kyiv had long opposed the measure and had repeatedly criticised Moscow for mobilising prisoners to fill its ranks....
‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Matthew Perry: Los Angeles police launch investigation into actor’s death (www.theguardian.com)
The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy? (www.theguardian.com)
UK climate activists convicted in first trial of new anti-protest laws (www.theguardian.com)
Friendly Father: South Korea bans TikTok hit idolising Kim Jong Un (www.bbc.com)
Attacker of Slovakia's prime minister may not have acted alone, says minister (tvpworld.com)
Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder can challenge US extradition (www.bbc.com)
Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters (kitchener.citynews.ca)
Kelly O’Connor, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said she gasped out loud when she saw the text. Any medical worker who denies care to someone hurt in a war zone is committing a “serious breach of the Geneva Convention,” she said in an interview....
Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way (www.reuters.com)
Calls grow for University of Alberta president's removal after police intervention (rabble.ca)
CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand ⋆ The Breach (breachmedia.ca)
Students, teachers, unions and NDP united in denouncement of police raids at U of A and U of C (www.theprogressreport.ca)
Quebec court rejects McGill injunction request to remove encampment (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show (www.washingtonpost.com)
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U of A associate dean resigns over removal of student protesters from campus (edmonton.ctvnews.ca)
Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
Doug Ford says pro-Palestinian university encampments 'need to move' (www.cp24.com)
Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just Canada’s latest Pretendian case? (www.theguardian.com)
US commander appeared to suggest UK special forces were operating in Ukraine (www.businessinsider.com)
Pundits regularly attacked pharmacare without disclosing Big Pharma ties (breachmedia.ca)
Grocery giants paid for friendly Liberal, Tory policy with decades of donations (breachmedia.ca)
‘They made it look so easy’: traditional craft of bookbinding rejuvenated for the TikTok age (www.theguardian.com)
Canada pitches in $76 million for 'faster' German air-defence systems in Ukraine (kitchener.citynews.ca)
In January 2023, Canada spent $400 million to send an American air-defence system to Ukraine, which Blair says is still being manufactured.
Peru authorities investigate president as brother arrested (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine parliament passes bill for prisoners to join army (www.aljazeera.com)
The move on Wednesday marks a U-turn in Ukraine’s approach on the matter. Kyiv had long opposed the measure and had repeatedly criticised Moscow for mobilising prisoners to fill its ranks....