Geography Archives: Canada

In February, former BC cabinet minister Selina Robinson was forced to resign because of her bigoted comments about Palestinians.

Dozens, possibly two hundred, Canadians are currently subjugating Palestinians in the West Bank and slaughtering them in Gaza.

Last week, the CBC ran an interview on its flagship program, The Current, with Randy Boyagoda, a professor at the University of Toronto (U of T). Dr Boyagoda is neither Jewish nor Palestinian. He is an English scholar with several novels and critical essays under his belt.

Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.

Fears of an “invasion” at the border are nothing more than white supremacy being openly expressed. It could not be otherwise in a settler colony created by migration from Europe. To millions of people the word American still refers to whites only.

The Canada Files became aware of planned Canadian illegal settlement events for selling land in the West Bank and Gaza through a Twitter post from Ghada Sasa, a Palestinian PhD Candidate at McMaster University.

Ottawa has often criticized measures that would limit the ability of Canadian companies to profit from Mexico’s resource wealth.

Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses, dominant worldviews can be voiced without fear of reprisal.

A hard line against behemoths such as Bell is needed now more than ever.

Ottawa appears largely unconcerned by Ecuador’s social and institutional decay.

The resignation of a provincial minister in Canada over anti-Palestinian comments marks a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, reports John Clarke.

Saul, who died last year, played a key role in supporting liberation movements in Africa while advancing social change at home

The poisonous waste, and deadly carbon emissions produced by oilsands production is even worse than had been thought, and production must stop, argues John Clarke.

In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights, a Federal Court has endorsed the Canadian government’s imposition of a sweeping new definition of espionage.

On Nov. 23, close to 600,000 public sector workers in Quebec were on strike. Considering that Quebec has around 4,439,000 people active in the labour market, this represents 13.5 per cent of all workers in the province!

These are the final days of 2023. But are we sure it’s not the end of 1953?

100,000 people marched in the Canadian capital on November 25 to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the complicity of the Canadian government in Israel’s ongoing violence and colonization of Palestine.

Food theft isn’t an indicator of criminality, but of a failing social system.

Although Mexico has maintained a ban on genetically modified (GM) corn since the 1990s, the move by Mexican President Andres Manuel Luiz Obrador (AMLO) in 2020 to eventually ban the import of GM corn in order to promote domestic cultivation of native varieties has threatened to spark a trade war with the United States.

The Ontario NDP is addicted to sucking.