Carney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the table
Mark Carney in Davos. Photo courtesy the World Economic Forum/Flickr. As Mark Carney prepares to welcome the world’s most powerful investors to Toronto, opposition to the prime minister...
Bianca Mugyenyi
Campaign to prohibit illegal Israeli military recruitment in Canada gets big boost
IDF soldiers return from the Second Lebanon War in August 2006. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The campaign to oppose illegal Israeli military recruitment has broken new ground. The Liberal government…
Roger Waters lends star power to the fight against Palestinian dispossession
Roger Waters performs with Pink Floyd in Ottawa. Photo by Brennan Schnell/Wikimedia Commons. Last week, a 78-year-old UK-born rock star and a soft-spoken Palestinian Canadian undergraduate joined forces for a…
Ottawa must be honest with Canadians about troops in Ukraine
The NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group conducts an exercise in the Camp Ādaži training area in Latvia as part of Operation Reassurance, September 1, 2019. Photo by Corporal Djalma…
A modest proposal for reimagining Canadian foreign policy
The Canadian flag flies over the Peacekeeping Monument in Ottawa. Photo from Flickr. Kim Campbell once said “an election is no time to discuss serious issues.” While most politicians would…
76 years after Hiroshima bombing, time for a nuke-free world is now
A huge expanse of ruins left after the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Photo courtesy AP. The Trudeau government says it supports nuclear disarmament, but its actions tell…
What will it take to transform Canada’s foreign policy for the better?
With Canada suffering two consecutive defeats in its effort to gain a UN Security Council seat, the time has come to fundamentally reassess Canadian foreign policy, writes Bianca Mugyenyi .Photo…
How Canada should respond to Israel’s escalating violence
In this July 22, 2014 file photo, smoke and fire from a devastating Israeli airstrike rise over Gaza City during the holy month of Ramadan. Photo by Hatem Moussa. NDP…
Backlash over ‘Free Meng Wanzhou’ event reflects growing anti-China sentiment
Illustration by Canadian Dimension Attacks against an event I recently moderated reflect a growing trend in Canada towards increased tolerance for anti-China rhetoric. It is time for progressives to stand…
New group of progressive MPs are challenging Canada’s foreign policy myths
Illustration by Canadian Dimension Last week, Paul Manly brought some internationalist fire to the House of Commons. During question period the Green Party MP gave the government’s foreign policy a…
Canada does not need more warplanes
An F-35 Lightning II employs a Guided Bomb Unit-12 (GBU-12) Paveway II laser-guided weapon from the internal weapons bay against a fixed ground tank test target at a test range…
Canada’s Support for the Trump Administration’s Venezuela Policy
Venezuelans march against the US embargo in a large #NoMoreTrump protest in the streets of Caracas, August 2019. Photo by Ben Norton/The Grayzone. This is what empowering a bully looks…