Over 100 international organizations are calling for Montreal-based WSP Global Inc. to be added to the UN database of businesses operating in illegal Israeli settlements due to its role in the Jerusalem Light Rail system.

Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister and its top diplomats in Ramallah and Tel Aviv have all made anti-Palestinian comments in the last month.

It appears Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, is not willing to take up the story when it contradicts Canadian foreign policy.

Over 2,000 people have written to the CBC to condemn its deletion of the word Palestine and its subsequent apology for uttering the word Palestine. Despite this public outcry, the Canadian publicly funded broadcaster continues to protest that the word Palestine falls outside its language standards.

It’s been one year since India revoked Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status, leaving the territory in a complex system of lockdowns, internet outages and rampant human rights abuses.

The United Church of Canada once supported the Palestinian right of return and criticisms of Zionism. But then it caved to pressure from the Israel lobby.