OTTAWA—A group of Black anti-racism activists were dropped from a meeting at the Supreme Court of Canada because of concerns over their online posts about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The researchers and advocates who were working with the Michaëlle Jean Foundation say they were “disinvited” from a Jan. 15 presentation about an anti-Black racism project after Chantal Carbonneau, the top court’s registrar, told the former governor general the court was concerned about pro-Palestinian “tweets, likes and comments” on their social media that had made law clerks feel “unsafe” and harmed their mental health.
My Fave Line – El Jones, a poet, activist and political science professor at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, and DeRico Symonds, director of justice strategy with the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute, also objected to what Jones described as “a granular level of surveillance” by the court of their social media accounts.
The idiots were posting on twitter but it’s racist oppression to read their tweets?
Former British Columbia post-secondary education minister Selina Robinson could not have imagined that when she called what would become Israel in 1948 a “crappy piece of land with nothing on it” in a late January Zoom panel, she’d be setting off an ugly chain of events leading to her departure from Premier David Eby’s cabinet. Her comments were hardly a lie, if impolite, but Robison had made herself a target with the NDP simply for being a Jew who 
BRAMPTON, Ont.—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Canada’s public inquiry into foreign interference had gotten off to “a very bad start” as a human rights group withdrew its participation and the Tories were denied full standing.
Parliament spent nearly $600,000 on luxury hotel rooms it didn’t use when nearly half of the listed delegates for a conference of European parliamentarians it hosted either didn’t show up or chose less expensive hotels.