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No, Canada should not be selling arms to Saudi Arabia!

Canada should not sell arms to Saudi Arabia in light of the Kingdom’s human rights violations and brutal killing of Jamal Kashoggi.

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April 20, 1995 | LRA Massacre in Uganda

Lord’s Resistance Army massacred hundreds of civilians in northern Uganda in April 1995 and took women and girls as slaves.

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April 19, 1995 | Bombing of Federal Building in Oklahoma

On this day in 1995, an American rightwing terrorist exploded a truck bomb outside a federal building in Oklahoma killing 168 people, including children.

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The challenges of gathering intelligence during a pandemic

Intelligence agencies play an important role during a pandemic to see how widespread the disease is as well as to determine who is hiding the truth.

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April 18, 2014 | Armed attack on UN base in South Sudan

On this day in 2014, a mob of civilians posing as protesters stormed a UN compound in South Sudan and shot dead 48 people, some with RPGs.

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April 17, 1999 | Neo-Nazi bombings in London

Nail bombs planted by a neo-Nazi in London in 1999 killed 3 and wounded 139 people

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April 16, 1925 | Attack on St. Nedelya Church in Bulgaria

150 killed 500 wounded by bomb in Bulgaria in 1925.

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April 15, 2013 | Boston Marathon bombings

Three people died and almost 300 were wounded when two Chechen terrorists planted pressure cooker bombs near the finishing line of the 2013 Boston Marathon

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April 14, 1865 | Assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth assassinated US President Lincoln in an act of terrorism on April 14, 1865

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What now for the environmental movement in Canada?

How recent setbacks, real or perceived, could lead some to activists taking the law into their own hands.