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About Owen Schalk

Owen Schalk is the author of Canada in Afghanistan: A Story of Military, Diplomatic, Political and Media Failure, 2003–2023 and the coauthor of Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy, with Yves Engler. He is a columnist at Canadian Dimension.
  • The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Photo by Robert Linsdell/Wikimedia Commons.

    Palestinian history is not up for debate

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 2, 2026 by Tanya Cheal (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The backlash against a landmark national museum exhibition on the Nakba exposes an enduring effort to silence Palestinian voices.

  • Guevara se tornou ícone da revolução cubana e deixou legado na área da saúde e da educação | Crédito: YAMIL LAGE / AFP

    Carney won’t support Cuba against U.S. aggression, so we must

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 9, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Government silence won’t help Cuba. Grassroots solidarity can.

  • A flag displaying the logo of Samidoun is seen at a Palestine solidarity demonstration in São Paulo, Brazil, February 15, 2025. Photo courtesy Samidoun Network/X.

    As Israel eyes executions, Canada targets Palestine solidarity

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on April 8, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Ottawa’s actions at home contradict its criticism of Israel’s death penalty law.

  • Smoke billows over Tehran behind the Azadi Tower amid Israeli and US bombardment. Photo by Davoid Ghahrdar.

    Carney’s Iran hypocrisy

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on March 8, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Ottawa’s response to the Iran war exposes the gap between Canada’s rhetoric on international law and its alignment with U.S. power.

  • Havana, Cuba in 2023. Photo by Bruno Rijsman/Flickr.

    Canadians must support Cuba against Trump’s barbaric siege

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on February 10, 2026 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    With the U.S. tightening its grip, Canadians must step up where their government won’t.

  • RSF troops before the war with the Sudanese Armed Forces erupted in 2023. Photo courtesy RSFSudan/Telegram.

    Canada pursues Gulf markets as its weapons fuel war in Sudan

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on November 25, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The UAE’s backing of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces casts a long shadow over Canada’s push for new markets in the Middle East.

  • A still image from a video shared by President Donald Trump on Truth Social on September 2, 2025, depicting a US military strike against a boat in the Caribbean. Image courtesy @realDonaldTrump/Truth Social.

    Mark Carney’s silence on Venezuela reveals complicity

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on September 15, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The prime minister’s inaction on a U.S. massacre in the Caribbean echoes his past role in undermining Venezuela’s sovereignty.

  • World leaders attend the 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 7, 2025. Photo courtesy the Government of India/Wikimedia Commons.

    What is BRICS and where is it going?

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 12, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    How internal divisions and geopolitical realities are shaping the bloc’s role in a rapidly transforming global order.

  • Yemen

    Trump massacres Yemenis so Israel can massacre Palestinians

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on April 21, 2025 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    On April 17, U.S. airstrikes on Yemen killed 74 people and injured 171 in a dangerous escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against the poorest country in the Middle East.

  • Montréal-based writer and political activist Yves Engler is a long-time contributor to CD.

    Free Yves Engler

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on February 23, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is enough to land you behind bars.

  • Political cartoon published in July 1870 depicts Canada as a child, with Great Britain, represented as Mother Britannia, holding out her protective arms. Uncle Sam, representing the United States, stands on the other side, ready to “grab” the child if it falls. Image from Wikimedia Commons.

    Why be a doormat?

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 2, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Canadian leaders are falling over themselves to placate the incoming Trump administration. It doesn’t have to be this way.

  • Lee Mordechai is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Photo supplied.

    Israeli historian accuses Canadian media of enabling Gaza war crimes

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on December 14, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Lee Mordechai says Israel’s war has been “enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse” in the West.

  • An image from a Barrick Gold post on X. Credit: Barrick Gold/X

    Mali’s government issues arrest warrant for Canadian mining company CEO

    Originally published: The Canada Files on December 12, 2024 (more by The Canada Files)  |

    On December 2, 2024, Mali’s popular anti-imperialist government issued an arrest warrant for Canadian mining company Barrick Gold’s CEO, Mark Bristow, a South African national who fought for the apartheid army in the 1970s.

  • Mali’s Assimi Goïta, Niger’s General Abdourahamane Tchiani, and Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré at the first summit of heads of state and governments of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in Niamey, Niger, July 6, 2024. Photo courtesy Agenzia Nova.

    In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on October 22, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    An increasingly assertive group of African nations are constraining the ability of Canadian companies to profit from resources.

  • French embassy in Niger. Relations between the two countries have broken down since a July coup d’état overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum. Photo courtesy France24.

    As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 2, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Over the past few years, numerous West African states have taken steps toward greater economic and security sovereignty, often in opposition to Western (specifically French) designs on the region.

  • Canada’s Militarization and the End of U.S. Hegemony

    Owen Schalk

    Owen Schalk details how Canada’s policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.

  • Peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet has just published an article “conservatively” estimating that the death toll from Israel’s assault on Gaza could be 186,000 people or more. Photo by Humberto Patrick/Wikimedia Commons.

    Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians or more killed in Gaza

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 9, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    By denying the world access to the true death toll in Gaza, Israel is acting, once again, as a complete rogue state.

  • Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Artillery Corps operating near the border with Lebanon. Photo by Sgt. Ori Shifrin/IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons.

    Israel is stoking all-out war, and Canada is complicit

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on June 29, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Far from ending the genocide in Gaza, Israel continues its assault with the military and diplomatic backing of Western states.

  • French embassy in Niger. Relations between the two countries have broken down since a July coup d’état overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum. Photo courtesy France24.

    As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 2, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are charting a new course—one of increased economic and security sovereignty.

  • This file photograph shows Thomas Sankara as he reviews troops in a street of Ouagadougou, during celebrations of the second anniversary of the Burkina Faso’s revolution. Photo by Daniel Lane/AP.

    Thomas Sankara remains a global icon

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on October 9, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    His vision of a socialist, pan-Africanist model of development⁠ was not buried with him.

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