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  •  | Jagmeet Singh | MR Online

    Singh deserves praise for stand on Palestine at leaders’ debates

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on April 19, 2025 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    It’s significant that Jagmeet Singh raised Israel’s genocide at both leaders’ debates.

  •  | Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network | MR Online

    Who will they add next to Canada’s ‘terror’ list?

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on October 20, 2024 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Banning Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network highlights the anti-Palestinian character of Canada’s terrorist list.

  •  | Arif Virani is sworn in as Canadas Minister of Justice and Lawyer Normal of Canada as Key Minister Justin Trudeau sits in the course of a Cupboard shuffle at Rideau Corridor in Ottawa Ontario on Wednesday REUTERS | MR Online

    Charging Canada’s genocidaires

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on March 12, 2024 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Dozens, possibly two hundred, Canadians are currently subjugating Palestinians in the West Bank and slaughtering them in Gaza.

  •  | Israels ambassador to UN | MR Online

    The doublethink of ‘genocide education’

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on October 11, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Fall 2023 is a strange time to be alive or to die.

  •  | The Swastika and the Maple Leaf | MR Online

    Liberal alliances with Nazis produce inevitable blowback

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on October 5, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    NaziGate highlights Canadian ties to far-right Ukrainian nationalism, support for NATO and a long history of conflict with Russia.

  •  | What the Dream EDSAs of Urban Planners and Architects Look Like 2020 Update   EnP Tinio | MR Online

    Left, right and centre blind to crazy car culture

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on September 5, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Corporate and capitalist forces are driving us toward civilizational collapse but institutional myopia and crass electoralism also play their parts in the unfolding planetary tragedy.

  •  | Operation Naberius military training | MR Online

    Democracy far down list of Canadian interests in Niger

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on August 8, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    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 […]

  •  | First Quantum Kansanshi Mine Zambia | MR Online

    Canadian looting of Zambian resources led to debt crisis

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on June 9, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    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.

  •  | Image created for anti mining protest in front of Canadian embassy | MR Online

    Big bad Canada pushes to protect profits from Mexico

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on May 11, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

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

  •  | Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky | MR Online

    Canadian ambassador okays terrorist bombing of blogger

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on April 6, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    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?

  •  | Justin Trudeau | MR Online

    Let’s compare China’s ‘agents’ in Canada to Israel’s

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on March 11, 2023 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

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

  •  | Haitian police Port au Prince July 7 2022 | MR Online

    Canada supports oligarchic gangsterism in Haiti

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on September 6, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    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.

  •  | Image Canadians for Justice  Peace in Middle East | MR Online

    Supporters of Palestinian rights should praise NDP’s dramatic policy shift

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on August 31, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

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

  •  | Court | MR Online

    B’nai Brith’s lawsuit attacks campus free speech, student democracy

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on July 29, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    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).

  •  | Intellectual prostitutes call critics foreign agents useful idiots | MR Online

    Intellectual prostitutes call critics foreign agents, useful idiots

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on June 12, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    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.

  •  | Canadian National Democratic Party | MR Online

    NDP onboard with Cons, Liberals in warmongering over Ukraine

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on May15, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

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

  •  | Maybe the story is more complex than Russia bad Canada good | MR Online

    Maybe the story is more complex than Russia bad, Canada good

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on January 2, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    The saber rattling is becoming scary. But Canadian officials labelling Russia “aggressive” while stoking unnecessary conflict has a long history.

  •  | Time to revoke charitable status from group funding Israeli military | MR Online

    Time to revoke charitable status from group funding Israeli military

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on January 15, 2022 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association (CZCA) was caught supporting a foreign military in violation of charity law. But it’s unclear if the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will apply its rules to the Israel focused registered charity.

  •  | Azov Battalion marching | MR Online

    Military knows it looks bad but works with neo-Nazis anyway

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on November 9, 2021 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    The Canadian military seem willing, even eager, to work with neo-Nazis in the Ukraine in order to weaken Russia, something the U.S., NATO and Ukrainian–Canadian groups support.

  •  | Pigs and Canadian imperialism | MR Online

    The curious case of Haitian pigs and Canadian imperialism

    Originally published: Yves Engler Blog on October 11, 2021 (more by Yves Engler Blog)

    Pigs and Canadian imperialism. Most people would have difficulty understanding the connection. But for many Haitians the relationship is a historical memory.

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