Canada gets cozy with repressive Middle East monarchies
While Justin Trudeau’s government embraces repressive Middle East monarchies, they want us to believe their campaign to oust Venezuela’s government is motivated by support for democracy and human...
View ArticleNationalism blinds Québecers to oppression at home and abroad
To protect its culture Québec has decided veiled women shouldn’t be allowed to teach. But the crucifix adorning the National Assembly can stay, as well as a large cross atop the highest point in...
View ArticleAnti-Racist Canada promotes video by anti-Palestinian, FOX News filmmaker
Why would Anti-Racist Canada (ARC) promote a video by a FOX News filmmaker who compares the Left to the KKK and claimed Swedish police refuse to go into immigrant neighbourhoods? Is it because the ARC...
View ArticleTrudeau continues push to overthrow Venezuela’s government
The effort Justin Trudeau is putting into overthrowing Venezuela’s government is remarkable. During the past 12 days the prime minister has raised the issue separately with the leaders of the EU,...
View ArticleIs Canada’s Minister of Defence an Arms Pusher?
Would it surprise you to learn that Canada’s minister of defence is an arms pusher? Last Friday members of Mouvement Québécois pour la Paix interrupted a $135-a-plate luncheon to confront defence...
View ArticleGreen leader May supports same old pro-imperialist foreign policies
Does Elizabeth May hate Palestinians? Does the Green Party leader want the Trump administration to attack Iran? Does she support efforts to overthrow Venezuela’s government? I’ve been asking myself...
View ArticleNDP MP Randall Garrison’s disgraceful anti-Palestinian politics
Randall Garrison is an embarrassment to everyone who supports universal human rights. The Victoria area New Democratic Party MP’s anti-Palestinian politics are beyond disgraceful. Earlier this month...
View ArticleExoneration of Poundmaker great, but also draw links to our colonial military
Good on Justin Trudeau for apologizing to an indigenous leader, but the prime minister ought not ignore the ‘father’ of the Canadian army’s contribution to this injustice. On Thursday the Prime...
View ArticleCanada’s meddling in Venezuela: the case of Ben Rowswell
Why does the dominant media pay so much attention to Russian “meddling” in other countries, but little to Canada’s longstanding interference in the political affairs of nations thousands of kilometres...
View ArticleOttawa in bed with anti-democratic, hardline part of Venezuela’s opposition
Not only has Canada financed and otherwise supported opposition parties in Venezuela, Ottawa has allied with some of its most anti-democratic, hardline elements. While the Liberal government has openly...
View ArticleTrudeau government squeezes Cuba
Ottawa faces a dilemma. How far are Trudeau’s Liberals prepared to go in squeezing Cuba? Can Canadian corporations with interests on the island restrain the most pro-US, anti-socialist, elements of the...
View ArticleRoméo Dallaire denies Canadian genocide and distorts Rwanda’s
Is Roméo Dallaire a genocide denier? After a (question free) talk at Concordia University this week I followed the famous Canadian general out of the room to ask why he still supports ruthless dictator...
View ArticleCanada’s leading apologist for Israeli war crimes disrupted
Last week members of Quebec Movement for Peace disrupted a speech by Irwin Cotler on “Canada as a Human Rights leader” (at the last-minute ‘deputy’ foreign minister, Rob Oliphant, canceled his...
View ArticleMunk School of Global Affairs feeds anti-Iran propaganda
Sometimes, when you pay attention, it is easy to see how foreign policy propaganda works. Take the case of Iran. Recently the US has choked off Iranian oil exports, listed its military a terrorist...
View ArticleOttawa hires hitman to overthrow Venezuelan government
Meet the hired gun Ottawa is using to overthrow the Venezuelan government. The brazenness of Ottawa’s intervention in the South American country’s affairs is remarkable. Recently Global Affairs...
View ArticleAnti-fascist except when they support Israel
Canadian extreme right hate groups have figured out a way to gain mainstream acceptance: Support Israel. While most of the world voted to label Zionism a form of racism in 1975, many self-declared...
View ArticleCanada enables corrupt Haitian president to remain in power
At the front of a protest against Haiti’s president last week a demonstrator carried a large wooden cross bearing the flags of Canada, France and the US. The Haiti Information Project tweeted that...
View ArticleUgly Canadian supports status quo in original banana republic
In 1901, US author O. Henry coined the term “banana republic” to describe Honduras, which was dominated by the US-based United Fruit Company. According to Wikipedia: “Typically a banana republic has a...
View ArticleDoes Justin Trudeau hate Palestinians?
Is Justin Trudeau a racist? He and his government certainly accept and promote anti-Palestinianism. Two recent moves reaffirm his government’s pattern of blaming Palestinians for their dispossession...
View ArticleDespite talk of promoting democracy Trudeau in bed with repressive monarchy
Given his personal history perhaps it is no surprise that Justin Trudeau is fond of monarchies. The United Arab Emirates is a repressive monarchy that pursues violent, anti-democratic, policies in its...
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