Geography Archives: Canada

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.

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.

How a rogue spy and two reporters are breaking the fragile system for integrating immigrants.

The obsession with foreign plots to undermine our institutions is a hallmark of the erosion of political discourse in Canada.

What would happen if the media and intelligence agencies applied the same standard used regarding China to the Israel lobby?

Public health coverage in Canada needs to expand to include a wider range of interventions and gender affirming procedures.

Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment.

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.

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.

Wang assures that his country’s response to US aerial objects intercepting Chinese airspace has been both professional and responsible.

Indigenous rights and sovereignty must be at the centre of our collective efforts to rescue a habitable planet.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently found himself in hot water for removing the right to strike from educational workers, imposing terms and conditions of employment on them, and using the Notwithstanding Clause to bar them from asserting their constitutional rights.

In 1996, the eight countries on the Arctic rim—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States—formed the Arctic Council, a journey that began in 1989 when Finland approached the other countries to hold a discussion about the Arctic environment.