canary

Speaking at a protest last Friday, she said that Columbia University’s role in Khalil’s abduction was “beyond capitulation” and that this issue is the "canary in the coal mine" in terms of criminalizing political speech.

Joly said Canada was the "canary in the coal mine", with the Europeans next, and the UK after that.

“The first canary in the coal mine was that the students stopped moving to New York,” he recalls.

The warnings from history were clear: the survivors more than anyone understood the risks of intolerance, and antisemitism was the canary in the coal mine.

We are also weathered and suffer great health disparities because of our experiences in a racist society and how we are the miner’s canary.