The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that a group called Democracy Rising is planning a protest in front of Hootsuite's headquarters in Vancouver this Friday to press the company to cancel its ICE contract "and publicly apologize." The Globe's Sean Silcoff and Joe Castaldo write that chief executive officer Irina Novoselsky acknowledged the harm caused by the tactics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a letter to employees Wednesday but continues to refuse media interviews. "What we are watching unfold right now is wrong," Ms. Novoselsky wrote in a note to employees. "The loss of life and the fear being felt in communities as a result of recent enforcement actions are devastating." A number of high-profile American CEOs have issued memos to employees recently about the federal government's aggressive immigration crackdown. Apple CEO Tim Cook called for "de-escalation" in a letter to employees Wednesday while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote that "what's happening with ICE is going too far" in his own internal memo. Dozens of CEOs of Minnesota-based companies, including Target, 3M and Best Buy, wrote an open letter calling on "state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions."
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