Geography Archives: Canada

Numerous countries, including Canada, profit from the illegal exploitation of Sahrawi resources.

If your climate policy is supported by the oil and gas industry, it’s not climate policy at all

A popular uprising has paralyzed life in much of Haiti. While police are violently suppressing protesters, don’t expect Canadian officials to criticize security forces they fund.

Rosa Luxemburg popularized the dictum “Socialism or Barbarism”. Since World War I Leftists of various stripes have adopted or modified the maxim. In Haiti the struggle has been between those seeking “poverty with dignity” and oligarchic gangsterism. Unfortunately, Canada has been on the side of barbarism.

Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?

Cuba has more than 380,000 urban farms producing 1.5 million tons of vegetables each year.

On Wednesday B’nai Brith announced a lawsuit against McGill University, Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) and student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).

This interview is part of a series with the Blended Finance Project a group of unions, non-governmental organizations and academics who are concerned about the Canadian government’s embrace of what is called “blended finance.”

Universality must be at the core of any progressive electoral platform.

Protesters have condemned that power outages have increased, while prices have gone up since LUMA began operating Puerto Rico’s electricity transmission and distribution system in June 2020.

It’s because of decades of public investment that the company, and our national airports system, exist in the first place.

In a major turn toward re-engagement, Maduro has announced increased ties with states in North Africa, West Asia and beyond.

A military funded academic, working at a school launched by Condoleezza Rice, claims leftist and anti-war journalists engage in Russian disinformation. His report doesn’t provide any evidence or refute anyone’s argument, but the legacy media laps it up.

As the U.S. government’s Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

The same people who criminalize sex work, criminalize other “serious offences” against sexual norms such as medical treatment for trans people and access to abortion.

The prohibition against Huawei dangerously aligns Canada with the NSA and other members of the Five Eyes spy network.

Canada’s “left wing” party is openly opposed to negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.

The new Cold War and the spread of anti-Asian racism.

Queer advocates worry how the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, set to go into effect in Florida, could impact education on gender diversity and sexual orientation of young Canadians.

Ottawa residents’ blockade of the convoy is a model for confronting the extreme-right.