Canada offers tax ‘charity’ receipts for NGO dispossessing Palestinians
A foreign based “settler colonial NGO” is seeking Canadian government subsidies. This week a representative of Jerusalem-based Regavim will be hosting a series of fundraisers in the Greater Toronto...
View ArticleOttawa backs removal of elected Peruvian president despite protests
Many Peruvians have taken to the streets to oppose last week’s removal of elected president Pedro Castillo. Ottawa has supported the ouster of the former teacher and union leader whose government...
View ArticleSanctions against wealthy Haitians step in right direction
Ottawa’s Haiti sanctions are so surprisingly well targeted that one must ask, did the Liberals bid to lead a foreign military intervention drive them to target former allies? In recent weeks the...
View ArticleInterupting Irwin Cotler
On Saturday I interrupted Irwin Cotler. At the premiere of First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler I called Canada’s former justice a “fraud” who claims to promote human rights yet backs...
View ArticleWho rules Peru? Canada sides with USA
The Trudeau government is helping Washington consolidate a coup that has sparked a furious popular backlash in Peru. Ottawa is defending an unelected regime that has suspended civil liberties and...
View ArticlePortrait of prominent Israel defender who attacked me
The chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs in Québec recently assaulted me and then claimed to be the victim of my aggression. Reuben Poupko’s lie was defamatory. After I called UN Watch...
View ArticleWhy wasn’t Bernie Farber protesting racist, homophobic NGO?
Has the extreme right gone mainstream in Canada’s pro-Israel community? A number of prominent figures in Toronto’s Jewish establishment have rallied to support a “settler colonial NGO” set up by a...
View ArticleAntisemitism or anger at Palestinian solidarity in U of T medical faculty?
A recent ‘report’ on antisemitism at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (TFOM) points to Jewish influence, not oppression, within the University of Toronto. Reaction to the dubious article highlights...
View ArticleOttawa cheers rather than mourns end of Japanese pacifism
The Liberals are celebrating the demise of one of the more positive outcomes of WWII. And, in pushing conflict with China, they are ignoring Canada’s ignoble role in some horrible history. Last week...
View ArticleImperial hubris keeps Bob Rae blind to Haitian history
Bob Rae wants Canada to help re-establish a Haitian military with a brutal history. In making his case, Canada’s ambassador to the UN demonstrated his imperial ignorance and hubris. Upon returning from...
View ArticleHey editor, writing Palestinians don’t exist is supporting genocide
The double standard is startling. A publisher whose newspaper is accused of making a questionable link to a horrific 80-year-old crime must be denounced by everyone who attended a large event, but few...
View ArticleIn foreign policy Canada often inverts the Golden Rule
Rather than the Golden Rule, the ethos guiding Canada’s relations to weak nations seems to be: ‘Do Unto Others The Last Thing You Would Have Them Do Unto You’. For example, how many Canadians would...
View ArticleVotes at UN reveal Canada as continuing supporter of US Empire
Justin Trudeau’s government refuses to support United Nations votes to make the world more just and less dangerous. Ottawa’s record on the General Assembly’s largely symbolic resolutions strips away...
View ArticleCanadian taxpayer-funded military chief promotes war, arms build-up
The business of war is very profitable for a few weapons makers and generals who end their careers as high paid shills. The recent warmongering by the head of Canada’s military is a troubling...
View ArticleNDP condemns only one of three Latin America coup attempts
It’s good Jagmeet Singh and Heather McPherson criticized the failed ‘Bolsonarista’ coup in Brazil. It would be better if they also challenged the Liberals’ support for overthrowing governments in...
View ArticleAmplifying Israel lobby style attacks dangerous for the left
Canada’s preeminent left-wing publication has found itself on the same side as Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, B’nai B’rith and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs...
View Article‘Fact-free blather’ in Canadian foreign policy
“We need to make sure that the solutions are driven by the people of Haiti themselves,” noted Justin Trudeau after meeting US president Joe Biden in Mexico City last week. In December Canada’s prime...
View ArticleFarber’s ‘anti-hate’ must include Palestinians
Three weeks after smearing antiracist, social justice, protesters Bernie Farber backed away from his statement. The chair of Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) erased his tweet and made a partial mea...
View ArticleTime to use words of B’Tselem –‘A regime of Jewish supremacy’
NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson recently published a statement critical of the aggressively racist new Israeli government. It decried “rising anti-Semitism” but ignored Jewish supremacy....
View ArticleOttawa’s support for repressive Haitian police grows as democracy fades
Canada says one thing and does the opposite in Haiti. Despite Justin Trudeau saying Haitians must approve the solutions to their country’s crisis, in practice Canada simply imposes authoritarian...
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