Geography Archives: Canada

Clarke: The social and economic consequences of climate change will play out along deeply entrenched fault lines of inequality

Ottawa has long undermined efforts by impoverished countries to draw greater benefits from their natural resources.

This isn’t what Western countries wanted to sow in West Africa, writes Owen Schalk.

Military coups are generally bad. Foreign invasions even more so. What then to think of the situation in Niger? While the political situation in the west African country is fluid, some facts are incontrovertible. An (at least nominally) elected president was ousted by the presidential guard after demoting its leader. The pro U.S./French President Mohamed […]

A court has ruled on the enforceability of contracts between sex workers and their clients in a precedent-setting case.

June featured unprecedented Canadian heat and wildfires, record-low Antarctic sea ice, and a strengthening El Niño.

Tiny Crawford Lake, near Toronto, holds a detailed record of radical global change.

The beginning of July saw the hottest days on record globally.

The promises of environmental stewardship from Canada’s political establishment clash with its support for fossil fuel interests.

Canada’s recent seizure of a Russian an-124 cargo plane, which had been delivering COVID supplies when it was grounded in February 2022 at Pearson Airport (it was forced to pay a fee for every minute, despite being trapped there), is another sanction among many others.

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.

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.

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. 

Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.

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.

The Trudeau government is pressing Mexico to maintain its loosely regulated, pro-capitalist mining policies.

The characterization of landlords as struggling families is central to the prevailing depoliticized view of housing.

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.

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?

Ottawa’s anxieties about a power to the East are neuralgic, irrational, and grimly familiar.