Letter to NDP leadership about foreign policy
Do you understand just how racist and colonial the NDP’s foreign policy seems to many? The party’s apparent racism is on display in its response to widely covered issues such as China and those largely...
View ArticlePro-Israel Canadians pressure Ottawa over Iran
Those Canadians who take their political cues from Israel are obsessively stoking conflict with Iran. In a clear example, former CEO of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre Avi Benlolo has published a...
View ArticleTime to revoke charitable status from group funding Israeli military
The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association (CZCA) was caught supporting a foreign military in violation of charity law. But it’s unclear if the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will apply its rules to the...
View ArticleWhen will Canada admit its Venezuela coup failed?
Three-years ago Sunday Juan Guaidó declared himself president of Venezuela in a Caracas park. The same day Canadian foreign minister Chrystia Freeland formally recognized the little-known opposition...
View ArticleNATO is and always was a threat to African independence
Another election postponement in Libya is a reminder that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a threat to Africans. Last month, Libyan presidential elections were postponed partly out of...
View ArticleCrown drops charges against Rabbi Mivasair
Today the Ontario Crown finally dropped charges against Rabbi David Mivasair. While the authorities devoted significant resources to harassing Mivasair for embarrassing the Israeli consulate in...
View ArticleAs for NATO all parties agree — follow orders without question
NATO’s proponents often claim it’s a democratic force but in Canada’s case the alliance highlights the hollowness of our democracy. A healthy polity requires vigorous debate on important issues, but no...
View ArticleHonesty needed in media coverage of Canada-Haiti relations
Media coverage of the Trudeau government’s recent conference on Haiti was appalling. To start with, despite official pronouncements, Ottawa is not an ally of Haiti. On Friday Prime Minister Justin...
View ArticleMaybe the story is more complex than Russia bad, Canada good
The saber rattling is becoming scary. But Canadian officials labelling Russia “aggressive” while stoking unnecessary conflict has a long history. Echoing a 2009 statement from Prime Minister Stephen...
View ArticleThe Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming! — again
The media wants Canada to give more weapons, military trainers and other support to Ukrainians seeking conflict with Russia. “Canada faces criticism for ‘soft’ response to Ukraine amid Russia...
View ArticleTrudeau’s Latin America policy an embarrassing right wing failure
Justin Trudeau’s Latin American strategy is in tatters. Regional integration is ramping back up, socialists remain in power in Venezuela and leftists have won a series of national elections. From the...
View ArticleLest We Forget the Ottawa Initiative on Haiti
Nineteen years ago today the Canadian government hosted a meeting that significantly impacted two decades of Haitian politics. Jean Chretien’s Liberals organized an international gathering to discuss...
View ArticleAnti-China Canadian MPs claim sovereignty over Argentine mine
The anti-China panic sweeping Canadian politics has descended from tragedy into farce. A month ago I mocked Globe and Mail Report on Business columnist Eric Reguly for complaining about China-based...
View ArticleBiased coverage of foreign affairs should be criticized
In no area of coverage is Canadian media more biased than in international affairs. Send more weapons to fight Russia, Canada is helping Haiti and don’t allow China to buy our strategic minerals — in...
View ArticleNew fighter jets will make keeping secrets from public easier
The Liberals plan to purchase 88 fighter jets lacks transparency. Even worse, new warplanes will empower a secretive branch of an institution not known for its democratic ethos. Canada’s second largest...
View ArticleProgressives ignore Canadian support for Ukraine’s right-wing policies
An important union and progressive principle is to wish for others what we want for ourselves. Except, it seems, in international affairs. In the Ukraine, Canadian unions, language rights organizations...
View ArticleCanadian interference in Ukrainian affairs reaches epic proportions
If there was an award for the world’s most hypocritical political party, the Liberal Party of Canada would be frontrunners to take the prize. In their bid to ramp up tensions between nuclear armed...
View ArticleOppose Ottawa convoy but don’t send in military
Leftists should categorically reject the idea of deploying the military to disperse right-wing anti-vaccine mandate protesters. Talk of using the Canadian Forces (CF) to dislodge the truck convoy in...
View ArticleTime to end Canadian taxpayer subsidies for Israeli apartheid
Amnesty International’s recent conclusion that Israel is committing “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” should galvanize opposition to Canada’s most significant form of support for the...
View ArticleQuestion everything, except Canadian foreign policy
Why would a progressive media outlet regurgitate what the Conservatives and dominant media are saying about Canada arming the Ukraine? Recently The Tyee published “Canada’s Military Aid Hypocrisy: No...
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