Trudeau’s Centre for Peace, Order, and Good Government is a sham
Should peace groups challenge Canadian militarism by pushing clear, principled, demands or by promoting a militarist government’s bid to rebrand itself through a “peace” institute? In a recent blog...
View ArticleCanada out of the Lima Group, Core Group and OAS
“Qui se ressemble, s’assemble.” The English saying is “birds of a feather flock together.” Translated from Spanish: “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.” The folk wisdom that...
View ArticleTrudeau promotes mining exploitation in Africa
The Trudeau government, just like the Harper Conservatives, has used Canadian foreign policy to protect the profits of wealthy mining companies against ordinary Africans desire to benefit from resource...
View ArticleNiki Ashton promotes anti-Palestinian activist
If she had called Palestinians “towel heads” would that be too much? How about physically removing a Palestinian activist from a meeting? What’s the threshold at which left NDPers would stop promoting...
View ArticleTrudeau enables corporate Canada to exploit Ethiopia’s minerals
The Federal government wants Canadian corporations to profit from Ethiopia’s minerals. During his recent trip to the Horn of Africa country Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced negotiations on a...
View ArticleTrudeau government deepens ties to repressive Kuwaiti monarchy
As many parents have warned their children, real friends do not encourage stupid, embarrassing, or life-threatening behaviour. But because of our “friend” to the south, Justin Trudeau’s government...
View ArticleTrudeau’s extraordinary campaign to overthrow Maduro
The effort Justin Trudeau’s government is putting into removing Venezuela’s President is remarkable. So is the utter hypocrisy of their campaign. On Thursday Ottawa hosted the Lima Group, a coalition...
View ArticleNeo-Nazi’s arrest highlights Ottawa’s support for Ukrainian far right
The recent arrest of a Canadian neo-Nazi on the run in the US should embarrass the federal government. As has been reported, it raises important questions about extremists in the Canadian military....
View ArticleArms firms swarm decision makers
More politically dependent than almost all other industries, arms manufacturers play for keeps in the nation’s capital. They target ads and events sponsorships at decision makers while hiring insiders...
View ArticleIsrael and Liberal International Criminal Court hypocrisy
Just when you think Canadian government hypocrisy could hit no greater heights, the Liberals launch a double standards rocket to the stars. The Trudeau government recently pressed the International...
View ArticleHaiti petition challenges foreign policy apparatus
While it may seem to be a simple call to release documents, Solidarité Québec-Haïti’s House of Commons petition is an indictment of Canada’s entire foreign policy/media apparatus. In my research about...
View Article‘Arm’s-length’ military institution promotes belligerent worldview
Not satisfied with Canada’s largest public relations machine, the Canadian Forces also employ various “arm’s-length” institutions to push their influence over the discussion of military and...
View ArticleTrudeau government seeks West African gold
Despite the prime minister’s show of visiting a place where thousands of people were sold as commodities, the point of his trip was not to acknowledge the great wrong done to Africa during the slave...
View ArticleOttawa dances with Saudi kingdom
As Canadians focus on the coronavirus pandemic the Trudeau government announced it was lifting its suspension of arms export permits to Saudi Arabia. It has also renegotiated the government’s $14...
View ArticleIntelligence agencies fail to protect us from pandemic
With millions forced out of work and many more stuck at home, Canadians need to ask tough questions of organizations receiving billions of dollars to protect them from foreign threats. The country’s...
View ArticlePolitics and Writing in the Times of COVID-19
by Gary Engler and Yves Engler It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. It is a bright cold day in April and clocks are striking thirteen. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has …...
View ArticleCanadian GHG emissions grow
While governments’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic proves significant resources can be marshalled quickly in a crisis, there is little evidence official Canada sees global warming as a comparable...
View ArticlePlanet of the Humans backlash
The backlash may be more revealing than the film itself, but both inform us where we are at in the fight against climate change and ecological collapse. The environmental establishment’s frenzied...
View ArticleOttawa’s ties with far right Colombian president undermines human rights...
A week ago a former Canadian soldier instigated a harebrained bid to kidnap or kill Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Launched from Colombia, the plot failed spectacularly with most of the men...
View ArticleCANADA DOES NOT DESERVE A SEAT ON THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL
Published today in the Toronto Star, this article is supported by more than a hundred artists, activists and academics including David Suzuki, Roger Waters, Noam Chomsky, Ellen Gabriel, Pam Palmater,...
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