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 ArticleSupport for Peru coup all about Canadian mining companies
Seven weeks after Pedro Castillo was ousted protests and blockades continue across Peru. Sixty protesters have been killed since the elected president was ousted, a move Canada immediately endorsed....
View ArticleDefend her, but Elghawaby is no principled progressive
The politicians and media in Québec are widely unhappy about Amira Elghawaby’s appointment as the federal government’s representative to combat Islamophobia. Progressives should also be critical of...
View ArticleDevil is in the details of ‘Holocaust education’
As a general principle “education” about racism and the horrors a vile ideology has inflicted upon the world is a good thing and should be encouraged. But as is the case with many things the devil is...
View ArticleAmidst hysteria, calling for peace is hate; more war is peace
Apparently discussing the “path to peace” in Ukraine is hateful. After trying to ban a talk questioning Canada’s role in the NATO proxy war a Ukrainian student group smeared it. Two weeks ago, I spoke...
View ArticleUS interference in Canada far greater than China’s
The US is a far bigger threat to Canadian sovereignty and democracy than China but you’d never know it from following the dominant media. In recent days a CIA-linked firm got the federal government to...
View ArticleDespite hot air about balloons Canada should withdraw from NORAD
A Chinese balloon has been a wonderful gift for an alliance that embeds Canada deeply into the US Empire. On the opinion page of Monday’s Globe and Mail, Royal Military College of Canada professor...
View ArticleLast thing Haiti needs is more Canadian gunboat diplomacy
Yesterday at a Caribbean Community summit in the Bahamas Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would deploy two naval vessels to Haiti. Canada’s prime minister made the announcement to please Washington...
View ArticleRight wing panic over ‘15-minute cities’ about freedom for cars, not people
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose Nothin’, don’t mean nothin’, honey, if it ain’t free – Janis Joplin A growing backlash against 15- minute cities highlights how confused many who...
View ArticleHey NDP, better no foreign critic than one backing US Empire
Would the world be better off if the NDP didn’t have a foreign affairs critic? I began thinking about this question after seeing a recent tweet from Heather McPherson calling on the Liberals and...
View ArticleSave our children, replace downtown highways with housing
Project Montréal’s response to Mariia Legenkovska’s tragic death highlights the hollowness of their green, livability, rhetoric. At a recent press conference to announce the city’s response to the...
View ArticleContrasting Ottawa’s response to invasions of Congo, Ukraine
An invasion of a neighbouring country that breaks international law. Tremendous death and destruction. An authoritarian government with a long-time ruler who crushes any opposition. But not Russia...
View ArticleUnderstanding the logic of Canada giving $2.26 billion in arms to Ukraine
Over the past year Ottawa has given Ukraine over $2 billion in weapons. The size of the arms donation is unprecedented in Canadian history. According to a February 17 Le Devoir calculation, Canada has...
View ArticleGlobe’s go-to-guy on China interference an expert in election rigging
The Globe and Mail’s hypocrisy on election interference is impressive. To press Trudeau on China, Canada’s ‘paper of record’ turned to an individual involved in rigging a Haitian election who then led...
View ArticleTo see real foreign influence, check out Canada’s military
If you believe the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Conservatives, the Chinese own a backbench Liberal MP, which has been front page news recently. But no one mentions Washington’s...
View ArticleGlobe and Mail ignores Canada’s backing of right-wing coups
Even when it covers right-wing, US-backed coups in Latin America Canada’s paper of record omits Ottawa’s role. From Chile in 1973 to Peru today, the Globe and Mail erases Canada’s role in undermining...
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