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The First Nations at the frontline of Canada’s fires
As smoke and smog choke the Northeast, Alberta’s Indigenous Nations face down apocalyptic wildfires and the provincial government’s “let-it-burn” climate policy.
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Canadian looting of Zambian resources led to debt crisis
While a geopolitical tussle between Washington and Beijing over Zambia’s debt default has received significant international attention, Canada’s contribution has been largely ignored.
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Spy on your fellow (pro-Palestinian) students to get a scholarship
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) offers scholarships to proponents of the world’s most aggressive European settler colonial outpost. It’s a small part of a broader campaign to harass internationalist activism at Canadian universities.
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Canada is burning. Capitalism stoked the flames
Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.
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The Group of Seven should finally be shut down: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2023)
During the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, near where the meeting was held.
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Big bad Canada pushes to protect profits from Mexico
The Trudeau government is pressing Mexico to maintain its loosely regulated, pro-capitalist mining policies.
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Debunking the myth of the ‘mom-and-pop’ landlord
The characterization of landlords as struggling families is central to the prevailing depoliticized view of housing.
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Hypocritical outrage: What’s wrong with burning flag of an Apartheid State?
On Wednesday a Montréal teenager filmed himself taking five Israeli flags attached to the outside fence of Hebrew Foundation School in the borough of Dollard-des-Ormeaux (DDO). With Arabic music playing in the background, he subsequently burned them.
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Canadian ambassador okays terrorist bombing of blogger
What do you call it when a Canadian ambassador justifies the placing of a bomb in a café to kill a prominent member of the media and which injures dozens of others? Diplomacy?
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The ‘Chinese interference’ story is rooted in xenophobia, economic decline
Ottawa’s anxieties about a power to the East are neuralgic, irrational, and grimly familiar.
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Canadians protest outside U.S. embassy against Biden’s visit
This week, Friday marked the 24th anniversary of the 78-day bombing campaign NATO carried out against Yugoslavia, and Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Multiculturalism is over in Canada – it’s back to Sinophobia
How a rogue spy and two reporters are breaking the fragile system for integrating immigrants.
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Canada’s ‘China syndrome’
The obsession with foreign plots to undermine our institutions is a hallmark of the erosion of political discourse in Canada.
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Let’s compare China’s ‘agents’ in Canada to Israel’s
What would happen if the media and intelligence agencies applied the same standard used regarding China to the Israel lobby?
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The crisis of trans health care in Canada
Public health coverage in Canada needs to expand to include a wider range of interventions and gender affirming procedures.
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State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining
Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment.
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Nearly half of Canadians aged 18 to 34 support socialism
Fewer (32%) said income taxes should be raised on all citizens except those with low income to finance socialism, and the fewest (20%) said a purchase tax on goods and services should be imposed to fund socialism.
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Snowden: U.S. distracting from Nord Stream blasts with ‘flying objects’
The U.S. is creating panic over a possible flying object downed above the United States and Canada to distract journalists from their possible major sabotage of the Nord stream blast, according to famed whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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U.S. ‘balloons’ flew 10 times over China since last year: FM spox
Wang assures that his country’s response to US aerial objects intercepting Chinese airspace has been both professional and responsible.
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‘Climate Justice in So-Called Canada’
Indigenous rights and sovereignty must be at the centre of our collective efforts to rescue a habitable planet.