Geography Archives: Canada

An excerpt from Bryan D. Palmer’s new book, to be published October 1 by Lorimer.

Our economy and society are heavily dependent on unpaid care work, disproportionately performed by women.

Many of you know that the Yiddish word chutzpah means extreme self-confidence or audacity.

CJPME urges Canada to continue to investigate and punish all connections between Canadian charities and illegal Israeli activity.

One North Vancouver overpass holds lessons in defending against far-right radicalism through counterprotest.

It remains difficult to portray Canada’s increasingly assertive global deployments as a matter of national defence.

I am writing on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) to request that the Canadian government immediately take steps to align its policy with the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), titled the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism.

Human history is rarely dull but we are living through a period in which pivotal change is taking place.

In his opus ‘The Wealth of Nations’ published in 1776 Adam Smith drew a distinction between the progressive state, the stationary state and the declining state.

Specious claims of antisemitism and incivility merely distract from the genocide before our eyes.

Rever: We should not be engaging with, or buttressing a nation that has inflicted so much harm on innocent people.

Canadian tobacco companies are actively trying to capture a new generation of life-long, nicotine-addicted customers.

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

Contextualizing the Re-occupation of Barnhart Island in Shared Legacies of Struggle.

New defence policy promises to expand NORAD, NATO amid vulnerable oceanic ecosystem.

As more people consume more energy, our society moves collectively further away from mitigating climate catastrophe.

As attacks kill yet more civilians in Rafah, students at their allies at UofT say they will not stop pressuring the university to divest from Israel.

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

Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”.