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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Pain lingers despite guilty plea by the man who defaced Canada's Holocaust monument
Description: On July 25, Iain Aspenlieder pleaded guilty in court to a charge of mischief for defacing Canada's National Holocaust Monument. Before dawn on June 9, Aspenlieder—a former lawyer with the City of Ottawa—cycled to the monument with three cans of bright red paint to write the words "FEED ME". He meant the phrase as a political statement about the humanitarian condition of Palestinians in Gaza, he admitted. He had also just started a hunger strike, which lasted nearly a month, to call attention to the cause.
After his guilty plea, a Superior Court justice released Aspenlieder on bail...