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Montreal police pursue criminal charges against journalist for covering Gaza protest (ricochet.media)

submitted 6 months ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 63 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just so we evaluate Scotiabank fairly, let's note what the protest was about:

They wanted to raise awareness about Scotiabank being the largest non-Israeli investor in Elbit, a contractor accused of making cluster munitions — which are banned globally under the terms of a 2008 treaty signed by over 100 countries.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://fintel.io/so/us/eslt

Elbit Systems Ltd. (US:ESLT) has 346 institutional owners and shareholders that have filed 13D/G or 13F forms with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). These institutions hold a total of 8,367,716 shares. Largest shareholders include Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd, 1832 Asset Management L.P., Vanguard Group Inc, Altshuler Shaham Ltd, VGTSX - Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund Investor Shares, Invesco Ltd., PPA - Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF, Jpmorgan Chase & Co, Meitav Dash Investments Ltd, and VTMGX - Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund Admiral Shares .

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

1832 Asset Management L.P. is a subsidiary of Scotiabank.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks.

Scotia Global Asset Management® is a provider of global investment management solutions and is a registered trademark of The Bank of Nova Scotia, used under license. Scotia Global Asset Management includes the following subsidiaries of The Bank of Nova Scotia: 1832 Asset Management L.P.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

CUT(V) has been a target of the SSPVM ever since the 2012 student strike. They were there, covering the protests, every. single. night. Right at the front when people were getting peppered, gassed, and beaten. Themselves getting harassed, attacked, beaten multiple times.

And they were doing it live (some of the first people to do such live streams). Their courageous and tireless coverage was a big part of why the protests evolved into a broader popular uprising. People saw live, every single night, what those students were going through. The SSPVM could never forgive them and still hold a grudge to this day.

All this to say, I'm not surprised in the least by this fascist behaviour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mVfrtUUnag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwFE6WUzcfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjUKb33fMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbYaWHH3u2A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB6hoBmHdXM

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This isn't very surprising with Montreal police, who are basically Canada's LAPD, but I still don't understand their motive here.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I hate to say it, because it sounds like conspiracy-mongering, but the reason is "Money".

A lot of people want the narrative to go a certain way, and those people have a lot of money and thusly a lot of influence. That they're losing control of the narrative has caused them a kind of narcissistic injury, and they're lashing out.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 6 months ago

Donations from the billionaire class (and the threat of their cessation) cost people their jobs at universities last year. They threaten student protests right now. This doesn't seem the least bit conspiracy-mongering to me.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate a bit on who you think is doing this and why?

[–] applepie@kbin.social 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Owners of Scotiabank here specifically but really most of owners of large enterprises though

Looks like scotiabnak is materially invested but I bet most owners just shill whatever the geopolitics dictates as they want want to piss off their hosts. parasites know better.

[+] cygnus@lemmy.ca -10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, I'm not following. Why would Scotiabank care about protests at a university?

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Did you even read the article?

The 27-year-old journalist was arrested on April 15 while covering a sit-in at the Scotiabank on McGill College Ave

Furthermore

the protesters, processed in a room provided by Scotiabank (typically arrestees are taken to a police station for processing, but, in an unusual move, the bank offered police the use of their offices)

This didn't happen at a university. It happened at the bank, specifically protesting the bank itself for its unethical investments.

[+] cygnus@lemmy.ca -15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did you read the article? Your own quote says the branch is on campus.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

First you need to start working on your reading comprehension, second if you're gonna be so freaking wrong maybe you should done down the condescension, third even if you were right that the bank was on campus, it would still have happened on bank property.

The branch is on McGill AVENUE not on McGill CAMPUS.

Let me give you one final hint from the article so you can further practice your reading comprehension:

Craig was tipped off about an action taking place at the Scotiabank across from McGill University on April 15.

You see the part that says ACROSS FROM? It means "in front of", not "on".

[–] healthetank@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_College_Avenue

[–] applepie@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That bank doesn't care, it is a legal entity, but the owners do because they got money tied up and they use their lapdogs against people they don't like exposing them.

[+] cygnus@lemmy.ca -12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anybody else hear a whistling sound?

[–] applepie@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pathetic...

[+] cygnus@lemmy.ca -8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I guess it's just an innocuous coincidence that you're saying mysterious "banker" "parasites" are using their "money" and their "lapdogs" to attack a university for... unspecified reasons? in order to prevent themselves from being "exposed"?

[–] applepie@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes ruling elites are parasites leeching off the labour of working people, then use gained wealth to benefit themselves and drive narrative benefial to them. If peasants step out of line, they will use coercive power of the state to suppress any such "misconduct"

You got an issue with this analysis?

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Everyone else: This bank is directly invested in manufactoring illegal weapons.

You: Blaming bankers for the direct obvious result of their investment sounds pretty antisemetic

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

"Everything I don't like is antisemitism"

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When I'm in a fascist repression of the press contest and my opponent is a western liberal democracy:

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 6 months ago

Wtf Canada.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

WHAT?