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1 week ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
The March to Gaza is off after a tumultuous weekend that saw Canadians detained and deported, passports removed and piled haphazardly on the ground, and that saw police beat demonstrators for trying to travel between Cairo and Ismailia. I spent my weekend speaking with a marcher, Canadian physician Yipeng Ge, who was there for it all. I also spoke with Global Affairs Canada about a Canadian who went missing for more than 24 hours at the hands of the Egyptian police.
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2 weeks ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
Thousands of people are gathering to march towards the Rafah crossing, where they’re hoping to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. Palestinians are starving to death as lines of trucks wait outside Gaza’s walls. Israel is only allowing a trickle of aid to enter the region, and distribution of the meagre supplies has been politically motivated and deadly. “They are starving while trucks full of food are blocked. They are dying while the world negotiates. Gaza has no time left.
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2 weeks ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
This week, we've got primary care physician Yipeg Ge on the show. We spoke on Tuesday, because on Wednesday, Yipeng left to join people from around the world who are heading toward the Rafah crossing in Egypt to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. While the goal isn't to enter Gaza this time, he has been on the ground before. Yipeng previously traveled to Gaza to provide aid and medical care. He’s got more strength of character than most of our elected officials blended together.
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2 weeks ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
Remember those far-right dweebs, Diagolon? Well, turns out they’ve been a bit busy behind the scenes.
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2 weeks ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
I finally heard back from government departments about some provisions that have people worried in the government’s massive new border bill, Bill C-2. There’s just one hitch: their response got key information wrong, which suggests the government might not be aware of what’s in their own Bill. I’ve got the receipts to prove it.
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2 weeks ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
That Canada is sanctioning two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers for “inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank”Specifically, two far-right cabinet ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government — but not Netanyahu himself — are now inadmissible to Canada, and they can’t do any business in Canada or with Canadians at home or abroad. The announcement came down this morning, in a joint statement alongside the UK, Norway, Australia and New Zealand.
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2 weeks ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
I spent the last few days reaching out to advocates, experts and the government about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new border bill, Bill C-2. What I learned was…not reassuring. Migrant Rights Network, an alliance of several groups advocating for migrant justice, is sounding the alarm. So are two separate civil liberties groups, who are warning that the bill could be used to trample on the rights of both Canadians and people immigrating to Canada.
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2 weeks ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
A few days ago, I personally emailed Canada’s foreign affairs department to seek comment about the government’s response to the genocide in Gaza. See, on May 19, Canada released a joint statement that threatened action if Israel didn’t stop its military operations in Gaza, immediately allow the flow of humanitarian aid, and halt settlements.
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3 weeks ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
Today, we’ve got a fan favourite back on the show: Paris Marx! Paris is a whip-smart tech critic, the host of the podcasts Tech Won’t Save Us and System Crash, and writes the newsletter Disconnect. Paris is also my favourite person to gossip with about Canadian politics. Now that we’ve gotten a few weeks of a Carney government under our belts, it’s time to get chatting.
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3 weeks ago | 
rachelgilmore.substack.com | Rachel Gilmore
It’s finally here. The inevitable breakup between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. You know what? We deserve this. So let’s allow ourselves to enjoy it. It all started — at least, publicly — when Elon Musk started to speak out about the spending in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Then Trump accused Elon of suffering from Trump derangement syndrome. Then the Epstein allegations came.
