Far right rallies behind Annamie Paul
Was Annamie Paul’s plan to unite the far right and the Green Party? Because, incredibly, that seems to be what’s happening. And stranger still is how some self-professed progressives have let identity...
View ArticleLegal complaint launched against Israeli-Canadian charity
A request to revoke the Canadian Zionist Cultural Association’s charitable status is an important step towards lessening Canadian complicity in Palestinian dispossession. Registered Canadian charities...
View ArticleForeigners select Haiti’s prime minister
It is déjà vu all over again. Recently the Core Group (US, Canada, France, Spain, Germany, Brazil, UN and OAS) published a note saying Ariel Henry was the prime minister of Haiti. Within 48 hours the...
View ArticleCRA’s double standards on Muslim and Jewish charities
Why does the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) treat Jewish, Christian and Muslim charities so differently? In June the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLM) released a report showing that...
View ArticleCanada out of Core Group
Canada is a major player in a coalition shaping the fate of 11 million Haitians, yet few citizens of this country have even heard of the Core Group. Recently, the Core Group (representatives of the US,...
View ArticleLima Group Loses Lima
The Canadian instigated Lima Group has been dealt a probably fatal blow that ought to elicit serious discussion about this country’s foreign policy. But, don’t expect the media or politicians to even...
View ArticleEarthquake devastates Haiti, Canada shouldn’t make it worse
With “friends” like Canada, Haiti is in deep trouble. Justin Trudeau’s statement that this country was “standing ready” to assist after a massive earthquake rocked the western part of Haiti yesterday...
View ArticleCanada’s disaster in Afghanistan
What a waste of human life and resources! With the Taliban quickly taking control of all major Afghan cities we should be asking what was the point of all that bloodletting? More than 200,000 Afghan...
View ArticleAfghanistan was based on lies. Will the militarists apologize?
The quick collapse of the US-backed government in Afghanistan has revealed how little ordinary people should trust Canada’s military, arms industry and associated ideological supporters. Their...
View ArticleIs Denis Coderre fit to run for Mayor of Montréal?
If Will Prosper’s past transgression make him unfit to run to be Mayor of Montréal North, then what about Denis Coderre’s role in further impoverishing Haiti? On Thursday it was reported that Prosper...
View ArticleCanadian military wrecks the environment
The forest fires, torrential floods and other extreme weather events wreaking havoc around the world are a cry from Mother Earth to take bold action. It’s time for environmentalists to directly...
View ArticleToronto’s waterfront shouldn’t serve as a stage to promote warplanes
Toronto’s waterfront shouldn’t serve as a prop to promote violent warplanes. With the air force set to select a new fighter jet, the controversial F-35 Stealth Fighter will be participating in this...
View ArticleAfghanistan a military and an ‘aid’ failure
While recent events have destroyed the credibility of militarists who pushed for the invasion and 20-year-long occupation of Afghanistan, the moral bankruptcy of their supporters in the aid industry...
View ArticleHaiti’s debt of independence
In the vast history of imperialist exploitation few episodes match the depravity of Haiti’s debt of independence. Military blackmail of a small country by a superpower, prioritizing “property rights”...
View ArticleAirshows sell war and militarism
The growing campaign to oppose spending tens of billions of dollars on 88 new fighter jets faces an important, if unconventional, obstacle: the warplanes themselves. Fighter jets are an important tool...
View ArticleCharities Fund Israeli Apartheid
Charities that promote racism against Palestinians, illegal West Bank settlements, the armed forces of another country and racial/religious purity in Israel are subsidized by Canadian taxpayers....
View ArticleErin O’Toole’s racist obsession with China
Erin O’Toole’s Conservative party is obsessed with China and to counter the Chinese “threat” they openly appeal to British colonial settler solidarity. The Conservatives’ election platform refers to...
View ArticleNDP’s foreign policy is a disappointment
The NDP’s foreign and defence policy election statements are poor. Let’s begin by looking at the good part of the NDP’s platform. The highlight of “A better role in the world” is a call to “suspend...
View ArticleAnarchist Bookfair bans anarchist publisher
Some of those overseeing Montréal’s Anarchist Bookfair have lost the plot. They have banned the city’s only English language anarchist publisher from participating on the grounds they’ve published my...
View ArticleWhy won’t any party challenge Canadian foreign policy?
During the first month of the election campaign the discussion of international and military affairs has been dismal at worst and non-existent at best. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix to the...
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