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E. Wayne Ross
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Professor. Social Studies Educator. Journal Editor. American Canadian. Antifascist.
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In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Yes, sadly it is real.
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Here's why is matters ... capitalism
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B.C. allocates one-third of international undergraduate seats to private institutions. Here's why that matters
B.C.'s post-secondary system has been destabilized by plummeting international student enrolment; B.C. determines which schools get seats.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Tenured professor sues University of Kentucky for banning him from law school over comments on Israel

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Tenured professor sues University of Kentucky for banning him from law school over comments on Israel
Exclusive: Ramsi Woodcock, who calls for an ‘end’ to Israel and military intervention against it, says the university violated his first amendment rights
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November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Trevor McFadyen: The slow unravelling of higher education in B.C. has begun -- The federal cap on international students triggered the crisis. Decades of provincial underfunding made it inevitable.
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Opinion: The slow unravelling of higher education in B.C. has begun
The federal cap on international students triggered the crisis. Decades of provincial underfunding made it inevitable.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Indiana University attacks academic freedom: Professor Removed From Class Over Lesson linking slogan "Make American Great Again" and white supremacy. #academicfreedom #badministration

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November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Texas A&M attacks academic freedom, establishing policy that censors classroom discussion of race and gender #academicfreedom #freespeech #badministration

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Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
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November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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West Bank Mosque Is Burned as Israeli Settler Violence Surges

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West Bank Mosque Is Burned as Israeli Settler Violence Surges
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November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Why threats to academic freedom are growing – and how universities can respond to intimidation

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Why threats to academic freedom are growing – and how universities can respond to intimidation
When scholarship is politically steered, the public loses access to evidence and the means to hold power to account.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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U.S. tourism faces $5.7B US loss as Canadians continue to stay home
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U.S. tourism faces $5.7B US loss as Canadians continue to stay home | CBC News
Many Canadians continue to boycott travel to the United States, and the U.S. economy is paying the price. A U.S. Travel Association report forecasts a 3.2 per cent decline in international tourism spe...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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'Running on empty': Why some Alberta teachers are thinking about leaving the province

Some educators feeling grief and regret mixed with bubbling anger as they contemplate how to respond to government's latest moves on education

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'Running on empty': Why some Alberta teachers are thinking about leaving the province
Some educators are feeling grief and regret as they contemplate how to respond to the Alberta government's latest moves on education.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Canada issued 9,995 permits to Indian students from Jan-Aug — compared to 76,930 last year

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Canada issued 9,995 permits to Indian students from Jan-Aug — compared to 76,930 last year
Rejection rates for Indian applicants have increased, but application rates have also fallen as Canada reduces number of permits.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada
Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada

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Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada - Baraka Books
As the Israeli Army pummelled Gaza, those who spoke about the carnage were punished by censure, sanction, smearing and worse.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Remember the Hillel BC‘Contractor’ Who Spread “I ❤️ Hamas” Stickers Framing the SJC at UBC? Turns Out He Had Been Hillel BC’s Advocacy Officer & President of UBC’s 'Israel on Campus'

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Remember the Hillel BC‘Contractor’ Who Spread “I ❤️ Hamas” Stickers Framing the SJC at UBC? Turns Out He Had Been Hillel BC’s Advocacy Officer & President of UBC’s 'Israel on Campus'
A BC Supreme Court ruling reveals how a former Hillel BC advocacy officer orchestrated a deceptive Hamas-smear hoax that triggered threats, fear, and a failed defamation case.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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UBC Geography Colloquium Series – Avery Everhart and Jasbir K Puar: You Can’t Pinkwash a Genocide: Sex/Gender/Fascism

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November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in Vancouver

Expert says event exemplifies worrying overlap between martial arts and extremism

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MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Governments that silence teachers hurt students

What these premiers don’t understand or are unwilling to acknowledge is that teacher strikes are rarely about pay alone. They are acts of advocacy for the conditions that make real learning possible.

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Opinion: Governments that silence teachers hurt students
What these premiers don’t understand or are unwilling to acknowledge is that teacher strikes are rarely about pay alone.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Palestine Under (Cease) Fire: The Struggle Continues

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 | 5:00–7:00 PM
LEW FORUM, ALLARD HALL (UBC)

#freepalestine #UBC #UBCFaculty4Palestine
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Trump's authoritarian economics -- the marketplace of obedience and the merger of political and economic coercion.

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When the Market Bows to Power: Trump’s De Facto Nationalization of Private Enterprise
The Steady State | Steven A. Cash
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November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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When you desperately want to starve Americans:
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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"Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive as a thunderclap. It arrives as a series of adjustments the public learns to live with."

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Autocracy: The Warning Signs I Saw in Panama Are Emerging in America.
The Steady State | by Martha Duncan
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November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Zachary Foster: The eugenist history of the Zionist movement

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The eugenist history of the Zionist movement — Palestine Nexus
The Zionist leadership rejected persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly Jews because they were persecuted, disabled, destitute, sick, diseased and elderly. This is the eugenist h...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing - Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted

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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing
Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted
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November 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM