@FL_MDD:
If there was any justice, social media influencer Dahlia Kurtz, would be charged for promoting hate.
@penguinsrequiem:
There will be no peace on this planet until Zionism is rooted out and neutralized everywhere.
@amel1taibi:
Freedom of speech is becoming selective. Very appalling!
Calls for nuking or ethnically cleansing an entire population in #Gaza are tolerated, but asking for human rights and justice makes people “guilty”! What kind of logic is this? The double standard is insane.
@AzraRashid:
Why wasn’t the « Toronto woman » charged with obstructing police work with her frivolous complaint?
@mwpittmeadows:
Jewish supremacy must be demolished in Canada
@david_depiero:
Of course Canada is weaponizing the legal system to snuff out dissent.
Yves calls out the hypocrites and embarrasses the warmonger class to their face. 
which is why the NDP typical Zionist Numbnuts wouldn’t let him run for leadership.And now, they’re dragging him through the mud for it.
He’s right, they’ll do it to you too.
@ElJonesPoet:
This is absurd. The police regularly lodge bogus charges on protestors forcing people through long and costly procedures and face no consequences but emailing police to say drop the charges is now harassment. Also, I remember when Masuma Khan got thousands of death/rape threats in her email and police said that wasn’t illegal unless they literally cited her address and made a direct threat to be outside. But now we need to protect cop inboxes from emails criticizing a charging decision?
MatthewSloly:
Well, I hope that there will be a charter challenge because it’s deeply problematic that someone should be charged with harassment for a charter protected political speech. That you don’t see a problem with this is indicative of your lack of basic democratic ethics.
@EnglerYves Jan 23:
BREAKING: SENDING AN EMAIL TO THE POLICE IS NOW A CRIME IN CANADA
Today, a Quebec court decided that the “Send” button is a criminal weapon.
Judge Karine Giguère found me guilty of harassment and obstruction of justice today. My crime? Promoting an Action Network email campaign where supporters asked the police to drop a ridiculous investigation.
The Crown argument was that a detective was “intimidated” by receiving 1,500 emails. The court ruled that because these emails briefly “stopped her email from working,” it constitutes criminal obstruction.
Let that sink in.
They didn’t convict me for violence. They didn’t convict me for threats. They convicted me because the public demand for accountability was too loud for their inbox to handle.
This verdict is not just an attack on me — it is a declaration of war against every activist, every union member, and every citizen who dares to petition a public official.
If you email your MP too many times, is that harassment?
If a union floods a CEO’s inbox during a strike, is that obstruction?
If 100,000 NDP members demand a leadership vote, is that a crime?
This is the fragility of the police state on full display. They have guns, badges, and jails, but they crumble when the public sends them a letter.
I spent five days in jail to fight their gag orders. I will appeal this conviction all the way to the top.Excellent! Not just to clear my name, but to ensure that your right to speak to power doesn’t end in handcuffs.
They want silence. We are going to get louder.
If you can assist with the legal appeal: https://yvesengler.com/donate/
@BlueyesPecola:
Ridiculous. If one were to indulge the Orwellian dystopia, if they have decided that the “Send” button is a criminal weapon, don’t they have to go after the 1,500 email senders as well?
@amaniaag824:
This is the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard in my life. Sending emails is a crime now?!
@mnsj1968:
I hope you appeal, at worst it’s mischief (temporary interference) with their inability to use equipment at work.
@RickyFromDaRock:
Convicted for generating public interest and calls for oversight.
@JamesClay1917:
Solidarity. The Socialist Equality Party unequivocally denounces this conviction, which is part of a state campaign against basic democratic rights.
@UnacceptableN:
That retarded. We should start an email campaign to the judge to ask him to drop such ridiculous charges.
@denisrancourt:
It is not unique to Canada: I know of an essentially identical case in France, regarding promotion of an email campaign to get police not to be so political with an “investigation”.
@docjazzmusic:
A heads up for what’s to come. It’s outrageous!
But outrageous things pass for normal now. No media will side with truth, or with justice. Only with power.
It’s going to get much, much worse if the people accept this.
Stay strong. Appeal. Fight back.
@MatthewSloly:
If this ruling ahgainst @EnglerYves stands, it usurps the Charter guarantee of political expression. Organizing a non-violent email campaign to a public official is core s.2(b) speech. Feeling “overwhelmed” by a full inbox doesn’t = harassment. It’s democratic accountability!
The authoritarian logic here is dangerous: speech is legal only until it becomes effective.
If mass political pressure can be criminalized as “obstruction” then unions, petitions, strikes, & protests are all conditional rights. That’s not rule of law. It’s a police-state.Canada is a Zionist state. Israel rules us.
@Workers_Tribune:
This guilty verdict is serious attack on all fighters for Palestine liberation. The left, Palestine & labour movements should get behind Yves’ efforts to beat back this decision—and fight the other innumerable frame-ups still sweeping the Palestinian movement. Some wins on this front would go a long way to strengthening the fight for Palestine, which has never been at a lower ebb.
@dennisraphael.bsky.social:
Like Sanders, AOC and Mamdani in the U.S., Yves Engler is the kind of agitator Canada needs
@moriamarmalade.bsky.social:
yves engler asks if mark carney believes in venezuelan sovereignty the way he believes in greenland sovereignty
you have to hand it to yves for always being rightespecially about Zionism and Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, which is why, in my view, the judge found him guilty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqzp…
Challenging Carney’s speech in Davos 2:54 Min.
@rekastner.bsky.social:
It’s all performative. Carney still backs ALL of Trump’s policies. Yves Engler reminds us: x.com/i/status/201…
@ForensicJoan:
It seems [Carney’s] “groundbreaking” speech means nothing other than pretence.
@BahiraR:
@MarkJCarney is contradicting himself. You cannot claim to be standing up to U.S. pressure and defending Canadian sovereignty in a speech, while simultaneously aligning with U.S.-led geopolitical and military agendas and their fucking child and woman undressing AIbehind closed doors.
This sudden shift in tone is not leadership it’s political theatre. Politicians do not change their principles overnight. What we are seeing is messaging calibrated for applause at the World Economic Forum, not a genuine change in policy direction.
Sovereignty is proven through consistent actions, not speeches. If your policies still mirror Washington’s priorities, then claims of independence ring hollow — no matter how polished the rhetoric sounds.
Canadians deserve honesty, not contradictions dressed up as courage.Carney is intelligent and well spoken, but he has zero courage
@MoosePapa2020:
Carney bailed out Jared Cushnervia Brookfield, to gain favour with his Nazi bestie, kid rapist Trump.
@JoanieOC:
Brookfield, which Carney was Chair of the board up until he became PM & is still profiting from bailed out Jared Kushner in 2019. 666 Park Ave was about to be foreclosed Brookfield & Qatar leased it for 99 years & paid up front-$1 billion-the mortgage due. They are all buddiesno wonder Herr Carney accepted Trump’s Gaza “peace” board position which is just about ego fluffing for Trump (to pretend he rules the world), the Trump klan stealing Palestinian’s hundreds of billions in oil and gas, and Kushner stealing the land from Palestinians, destroying what’s left of Gaza to turn it into a sleazy low class ugly polluting glittering Riviera for the rich pedophiles, while whitewashing Israel’s crimes and genocide.
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Yves Engler, who is basically the left’s version of Ezra Levant, is an unpleasant dick (and might even admit so himself).
But he is not rightly criminalized for organizing others to write letters in poor taste.
His conviction sets a dangerous precedent on freedom of expression and assembly.
Yves Engler found guilty of harassment over mass e-mail campaign directed at detective by Eric Andrew-Gee, Jan 23, 2026, The Globe and Mail.
The left-wing activist Yves Engler was convicted of harassment and obstruction of justice by a Quebec judge on Friday for mounting an e-mail campaign directed at a Montreal police officer who was planning to charge him in another case.
Judge Karine Giguère accepted the testimony of detective Francesca Anna Crivello that she was “intimidated” by the roughly 1,500 e-mails she received on the morning of Feb. 19, 2025, from supporters of Mr. Engler, and was prevented from doing her work because the influx briefly stopped her e-mail from working.
Mr. Engler, a former NDP leadership hopeful who was blocked by the federal party from running in December, called the verdict a “terribly dangerous precedent” that could criminalize petitioning public officials.
@yvesforndpleader.bsky.social:
In Toronto Star Rick Salutin slams unelected 3 person NDP vetting committee’s exclusion of my campaign: “Yves Engler will be missed in the NDP leadership race, now that they have, with Stalinist joie de vivre, rejected his candidacy.”
@elee-2025.bsky.social:
DO NOT ATTEND NDP LEADERSHIP RACE CORRUPT SHAM!
LEADERSHIP DEBATE COMMITTEE: ONLY “YES” PEOPLE
NOT ACTIVISTS/ANTI FOREIGN POLICY/ANTI NATO
NDP COWARDS: COMPLICIT IN PALESTINE GENOCIDE!
NO: AUTHOURS, HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS,
FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCHERS BELOW:
YVES ENGLER
BIANCA BUGYENYI
Absolutely disgusted with the NDP bureaucracy: Me too. The fed NDP lost all credibility by their Zionist actions against Yves Engler. And them repeatedly violating my privacy rights sending me emails to my private email address, begging money from me, and my vote, even after my endless requests asking them to stop and to remove my address from their files (for over a year now). Not one of the NDP “leadership” hopefuls that did this to me apologized. Asshats, the entire fucking NDP leadership gang, except Engler – he’s the only one that has not violated my rights.
I’ve never seen a good leader in Canada’s fed NDP – Jack Layton was dying, still he knowingly gave Harper majority in 2011, destroying my lawsuit. They’re just glorified conservatives like the greens, and pathetic cowardly controlled opposition like Canada’s synergizing envNGOs.
NDP rejects Yves Engler as leadership candidate /via www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art…
@wolfhowlart.bsky.social:
I would have rejoined the NDP is they let Engler in. If he lost, I would have supported the winner in the federal election. But if they’re not even going to let him in, then that party is finally dead to me as far as I’m concerned.Ya, some democracy by the fed NDP, there’s nothing democratic about them. Disgustingly Nazi, pro frac pro genocide Party
@robinedgar59.bsky.social:
The legal letter to the #NDP from Mr. Lascaris said “if people claim to be ‘intimidated’ by Mr. Engler despite his demonstrated commitment to #nonviolence,” and an absence of evidence that he has assaulted or threatened to assault anyone, “then the fault does not lie with Mr. Engler.”
Fair point.
@yvesforndpleader.bsky.social:
Four days ago, arch Zionist long-time Ontario MPP and Macdonald-Laurier Institute Ambassador Lisa MacLeod called me a “Home grown terrorist” while two days ago Masha Kleiner wrote “Canada doesn’t only harbor foreign terrorist leaders, we also have homegrown ones: Yves Engler.”
@yvesforndpleader.bsky.social:
Avi Lewis has driven his supporters down an authoritarian, anti-socialist, path. The NDP leadership candidate’s role in assisting the party establishment’s bid to crush an insurgent campaign doesn’t portend well for an individual whose family’s history is steeped in crushing the left.
NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson has applauded an individual who fought for Hitler and supported Ottawa paying $35 billion for the Trans Mountain pipelineShe’s married to oil and gas. She has also repeatedly spoken alongside and praised leading Zionist Irwin Cotlerone of the most evil Canadians there’s ever been, Mr. Pro Mass Murder of innocent kids and women, attended a CIA-influenced Trilateral Commission meeting in 2022 and is a member of the NATO Parliamentary Association. But Lewis has repeatedly applauded McPherson. He describes her as one of the “magnificent seven” NDP MPs in Parliament and treats McPherson with respect. The Upper Canada College alumnus — whose name is listed between those of David Thomson and Galen Weston Jr among the elite high school’s “notable alumni” — has never suggested McPherson should be excluded from the race.Avi is a hypocrite, most unsuitable for leader
Lewis and many of his supporters’ reaction to my campaign is far different. Incredibly, Lewis justified the party brass blocking me and my three-year-old from an NDP social the night before the party’s first official debate in Montreal. The video of his support for my exclusion from an event open to the public went viral. Lewis was also the only leadership candidate willing to tell the Globe and Mail that we should (effectively) be excluded from the race. Mr. Authoritarian Lewis hates democracy!Conversely, Tony McQuail told the Globe we should be allowed into the race and Heather McPherson previously suggested as much to the National Post.
(Afterwards our campaign communications lead Mike Palacek emailed Avi to clarify his position. He failed to respond as with other requests we’ve made to Avi to express himself in favour of our participation in the race.)
Five days after it was reported that we were blocked from the race Lewis responded to a question about this attack on party democracy by (effectively) justifying it. Pressed on the matter, Lewis said his campaign would release a statement on vetting in a few days but he’s yet to do so.
When they were simultaneously leader of the national and Ontario NDP Avi’s grandfather, David Lewis, and father, Stephen Lewis, expelled the leftist Waffle from the party in 1972. While he regularly cites his grandfather and father’s record, Avi hasn’t distanced himself from their expulsion of the Waffle. In his bid for power, Lewis and his campaign have driven a sizable segment of leftish NDPers to articulate morally unconscionable positions. One of his high-profile backers, Judy Rebick, was asked directly on Facebook if she thought it was ok for the unelected three person NDP vetting committee to block members from having a right to select a socialist campaign with substantial support. Rebick responded “I don’t know”. Over the past three months Rebick has repeatedly smeared me.
In that Facebook thread she noted, “all Yves has ever done is promote himself” and then “the only thing I’ve ever seen Yves Engler do besides his writing is to harass politicians and disrupt meetings.”
Like most Avi supporters, Rebick isn’t worked up about McPherson applauding a Nazi, supporting buying a tar sands pipeline, engaging with a CIA talk shop, sitting on a NATO parliamentary body or praising Canada’s leading proponent of a state that’s committed a holocaust. In another example of the punch left attitude elicited by the NDP brass/Lewis, rabble.ca editor Kim Eliott joined Rebick in the smear stating that the NDP vetters’ “intimidation and harassment concerns” should have been “sufficient to disqualify a potential leadership candidate”.
In the same Facebook conversation, Eliott denies that “the concerns about intimidation and harassment were simply for haranguing politicians as many activists would do”, suggesting the vetters had some unstated — non-political — ‘harassment’ justification for excluding me from the race. I’ve probably written 200 columns for Rabble over the past 25 years. The Lewis campaign has been smearing me for months.
Two months ago Avi’s longtime “advisor” Martin Lukacs engaged in a ten-minute smear claiming I was a “grifter” breaking NDP and Elections Canada rules (NDP vetters did not cite any rule violation in excluding me from the race, which didn’t stop Lukacs’ The Breach sidekick, Desmond Cole, from simply moving on to new procedural criticism of my campaign). The leftists who have joined the brass’s bid to suppress an anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist campaign are ignoring the role the NDP leadership race should play in pushing the “Overton window” in the direction of social and economic justice. Additionally, how will a victorious Lewis defeat the neoliberal, imperialist, power structure within the NDP if he drives out/alienates socialists from the party?
As Dock Currie recently noted, “In this calamitously anti-democratic NDP ‘leadership race,’ Avi Lewis is not the villain… With that said, what Avi is running on is ‘democratic renewal’, ‘taking back control of the party’, ‘real democracy’, etc., and that really doesn’t jive with being placid and indifferent to one’s own ‘social democratic’ party procedurally excluding, and demonizing, a passionate and committed anti-war activist. Those things juxtapose as jarring and incongruous.”
@alisoncreekside.bsky.social:
NDP declines to let Yves Engler run for NDP leader.
Quelle surprise. If the NDP couldn’t even afford to let the patient and level-headed Paul Manly run for them, they sure as hell weren’t going to allow Engler up on their debate stage.
@wifejackson.bsky.social:
If Yves Engler wasn’t fucked over by the NDP, I would vote NDP.Me too.
@mrcranky.bsky.social:
Just look at their fear of Yves Engler.I bet you Israel and Canada’s vile Zionists have ordered Engler disallowed in any way from running the NDP, and for judges to rule again him. Canada, like most of the so called “developed” world, is run by Zionism/Israel.
@alexstation.bsky.social:
Seems rather odd that this Globe and Mail article on Yves Engler never uses “allegedly” when describing the charges he’s currently facing. They only use it for the old, withdrawn case. Mainstream media adopting the police narrative and implying context for guilt. Pathetic.It’s forbidden in the Zionist mass murdering kid raping thieving world, to support Palestine. Not just pathetic, it’s undemocratic and cruel.
You’re a fucking liar Avi! If the NDP are not the money, why did you violate my privacy rights, and beg money from me? FFS. Douche!
@charlesmyerscough.bsky.social:
Meanwhile, the NDP are rigging their leadership contest. Yves Engler hasn’t been allowed to run, attend the debates, turn out at the conventions. The NDP is still being run by a small group of elites.
@mondoab.bsky.social:
To be Left is to be anti-Capitalist.
Liberals are not anti-Capitalist, they are not left.
NDP does not seem to be anti-capitalist either, there are some NDP members that might qualify as anti-capitalist.In my my experience, Fed NDP and most provincial NDP are ultra capitalistic conservatives, some even more right than Herr Nazi Carney
In terms of people running for Federal NDP leadership, Yves Engler might fit the bill.
@maniisnala.bsky.social:
Author jailed in Canada after criticizing a Zionist, with Yves Engler
youtu.be/9vE4fRIrPmE?…
@fagankara.bsky.social:
Their French is the least of it. Oh and they just excluded Yves Engler. No reason given. He’s as fringe as it gets but so are some of the other candidates
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