20 years ago today Canada supported the US led “kidnapping” and removal of Haiti’s president. Thousands of elected Haitian officials were ousted as part of the US, France and Canada military invasion. To learn more about this terrible historic moment check out this 20 year retrospective article and this video. 

Over the weekend hundreds marched on the Canadian embassy in Port-au-Prince to denounce Ottawa’s $80 million contribution to a new foreign intervention into Haiti. Demonstrators burnt tires and declared that Canada was strangling the country.

On top of the 30 000 who have been killed directly by Israeli forces, Palestinians are increasingly perishing from starvation.

Early this morning, more than 100 people were massacred by Israeli forces and at least 700 others wounded in northern Gaza as they waited for food aid to be delivered.

If Israel continues to block food from entering Gaza far more will die from hunger and related diseases. 

Egypt, Jordan and France have already sought to bypass Israel’s blockade by airdropping assistance. Please take a minute to answer the call from Palestinians to the international community to enable humanitarian aid to reach northern Gaza by emailing Canadian international development minister Ahmed Hussen and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.