Geography Archives: Canada

Robinson: If Western states have their reasons for being cagey of foreign influences, so too do those in other countries.

Wave of campus occupations launched at six unis.

From universities to grassroots movements worldwide, young people are fighting back against the complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestians, setting up encampments and facing repression with resilience. This resistance is rooted in a long tradition to impose clarity upon a world encrusted by compromise, from the movement against apartheid in South Africa to China’s May Fourth Movement.

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is clamoring for the violent suppression of McGill students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is an odious escalation in the Israel lobby’s bid to suppress democracy at the prestigious university.

The wildfires in Canada kept burning all winter, and a new season is set to be catastrophic, as climate feedback loops accelerate disaster, warns John Clarke.

There is a chilling parallel between what happened during the peak of the Irish famine and the current global refugee crisis.

Hydropower has long been heralded as “clean,” “green” energy. Yet living in Akwesasne, just a few kilometers away from the Moses-Saunders Power Dam, it seems that almost every one of its approximately 13,000 residents is either sick or has a family member that is sick.

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.