Peace-minded Canadians deserve a voice in Parliament
NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson’s promotion of NATO and opposition to diplomacy is prolonging the horrors in Ukraine. On Monday McPherson attacked the Liberals for acceding to Germany’s...
View ArticleGovernment censorship rebrands with ‘disinformation’ campaign
Last week the Social Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Management released a report titled “The reach of Russian propaganda and disinformation in Canada”. According to lead...
View Article‘Anti-racist’ but pro-apartheid and government funded
Should anti-racists collaborate with leading promoters of apartheid? An absurd question? Unfortunately, not. Recently Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) researchers Dan Collen and Étienne Quintal helped...
View ArticleUS pushers of war with China find Canadian allies
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan combined with the head of the US military Mark Milley recently calling the Chinese military “noticeably more aggressive” has greatly ratcheted up...
View ArticleTime to acknowledge hateful leader of “anti-hate” group
What do you call an “antiracist” group led by an open ethnic/religious supremacist? Last year Israeli human rights group B’tselem published “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the...
View ArticleB’nai Brith’s lawsuit attacks campus free speech, student democracy
On Wednesday B’nai Brith announced a lawsuit against McGill University, Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) and student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). The apartheid lobby...
View ArticleTime to disrupt Ottawa climate criminals
We must keep the pressure on. Even while ecocidal forces attack Canada’s environment minister, those hoping to avoid societal collapse can’t stay mum on the former Greenpeace employee’s climate crimes....
View ArticleCanada’s actions, inactions leading us closer to nuclear war
Humanity is a mistake away from “nuclear annihilation”, according to the head of the United Nations. But the Canadian government refuses to support efforts to lessen that risk. In fact, they’ve pursued...
View ArticleCondemn latest Israeli attack on Gaza, Canadian complicity
Israel has attacked Gaza again and it’s time Canadians understood their country’s contribution to the brutal treatment of those living in the 360 square kilometre strip of land. Today Israel killed at...
View ArticleCanada’s terrorist list actually enables terrorism
On Friday Israel launched its latest outburst of violence against Gaza. Over 72 hours at least 44 Palestinians, including 16 children, were killed. More than 300 Palestinians were injured while many...
View ArticleCanada no peacekeeper and never has been
The Maple’s recent two-part series on “The Bloody History of Canadian ‘Peacekeeping’” is important to understanding Canadian foreign policy. Even though Canada hasn’t contributed significant troop...
View ArticleHow many Ukrainians will die before Ottawa seeks peace?
By restarting Operation UNIFIER Canada is ramping up its war with Russia. The military training mission had been Ottawa’s principal contribution to a seven-year-old proxy war, which appears likely to...
View ArticleShould Clayton Ruby be considered a left hero?
Clayton Ruby came to my attention in 2002 when I was a vice president in the Concordia Student Union. With two other self-declared leftists, Ruby penned a Globe and Mail commentary condemning our...
View ArticleUS student, Israel lobby groups behind McGill lawsuit
What to do if you are unable to convince your peers to vote for apartheid? Sue them. Two weeks ago Jonah Fried launched a lawsuit against the Students Society of McGill University (SSMU), Solidarity...
View ArticleCanadian Navy sails with US empire into war, environmental disaster
Ottawa is hellbent on supporting the US empire’s drive for global domination even if it increases the odds of war and undermines the cooperation required to overcome the climate crisis. Canada’s...
View ArticleTruth to the Powerless shines as critical foreign policy analysis
Official Canadian foreign policy supports empire and corporate interests, but you’d never know that if you rely on the dominant media or government pronouncements. Then along comes Pitasanna...
View Article‘Peacekeeping’ or defund the military?
I recently participated in a debate with Walter Dorn and others on Canadian peacekeeping. It was illuminating. After Black Alliance for Peace Haiti coordinator Jemima Pierre detailed the horrors of the...
View ArticleHaitians have no reason to trust Canadian ‘assistance’
If the Canadian government was really trying to “help” Haiti solve its political and insecurity crisis it would criticize police who kill protesters. In recent days Ottawa has aggressively taken up the...
View ArticleSupporters of Palestinian rights should praise NDP’s dramatic policy shift
Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue? Eighteen months ago, Jagmeet Singh refused to utter the word “Palestine” but on Aug. 26 he sent out an email...
View ArticleMcGill-Tel Aviv University partnership announcement interrupted
Yesterday I interrupted a major funding announcement at McGill to ask the head of the university about her suppression of Palestine solidarity. As she spoke from the Faculty Club’s stage I asked...
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