Avi Lewis @avilewis@mstdn.ca
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Organizing works! This is a win for public pressure, and a message about the moral clarity Canadians want from politics right now.

Now we need legislation to ban all Canadian companies from contracting with ICE or otherwise supporting Trump's kidnapping and deportation machine. And Parliament must pass Jenny Kwan's bill to close the U.S. arms export loophole – so that no Canadian armoured vehicles, weapons, or equipment end up in the hands of ICE to brutalize people.

ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/b

Businessman and philanthropist Jim Pattison poses for photographs during a Canada's Walk of Fame ceremony honouring him, in Vancouver, on Friday February 15, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Company owned by B.C. billionaire says ICE warehouse sale ‘will not be proceeding’

A company owned by British Columbia billionaire Jimmy Pattison says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which planned to use the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

www.ctvnews.ca · CTVNews

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