Censorship in Canada: Vanessa Beeley’s Talks on Syria
Vanessa Beeley is a British journalist who was invited to Canada in the fall of 2019 to present talks in seven cities on the conflict in Syria. The sponsors of…
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The Pallister Conservative threat to Manitoba Hydro
Photo by John Woods/CP Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister called a snap election for September 10, over a year before required under the province’s fixed election law. Undoubtedly this was done…
Review of the Renegotiated NAFTA: Benefits and Drawbacks to Canada
Trudeau and Freeland praise USMCA trade deal There is something strange about this. Other than Maude Barlow and of Sujata Dey of the Council of Canadians, it appears that no…
Proposals to Reinvigorate the NDP Platform
Photo by BC NDP During the Tommy Douglas era the CCF and NDP had platforms that caught the imagination of a wide range of people. The CCF and the NDP,…
The Bank of Canada Should Be Reinstated To Its Original Mandated Purposes
Photo by Bank of Canada Few people understand the Canadian government’s relationship with the Bank of Canada or the nature of the Bank’s original raison d’être. Back in 2011 a…
Open Letter to Jagmeet Singh: NDP’s reactionary foreign policy positions must be changed
Photo from Jagmeet Singh’s Facebook Page Dear Mr. Singh, As the newly elected leader of the federal NDP you are in a position to carry on with the party’s sound…
Open Letter to NDP re: their support for White Helmets Nobel Peace Prize
Screenshot from Netflix promotional documentary Dear Mr. Cullen, Since it was you who made the public presentation regarding the NDP’s position on this matter, I am writing directly to you…
Open Letter to Stéphane Dion re: Ukraine and Russia
Photo by Mstyslav Chernov The Honourable Stéphane Dion Minister of Foreign Affairs House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2 Dear Minister Dion, Thank you for your letter of June 30…
A blueprint for Canada’s energy policy
After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians Gordon Laxer Douglas & McIntyre, 2015 When Ralph Nader called Gordon Laxer’s book After the Sands “a myth-destroying blockbuster” it couldn’t...
Lament for a Party that has lost its way
Photo by Canada’s NDP I write this with sadness and dismay. Finally, after more than 80 years from the time Canada’s social democratic party had been formed (first as the…
The Ukraine crisis: Why and how it has come to this
Photo by Mstyslav Chernov Background of the Ukraine-NATO issue To understand why and how the situation in Ukraine has come to what it is, it’s necessary to go back to…
Misinformation about Ukraine and Russia
Since the overthrow of the Yanukovych government in Ukraine at the end of February 2014, the mainstream media en masse has attempted to whitewash the nature of the current interim…
Crimea’s legal right to a referendum
There has been a great hue and cry by the U.S., Ukraine and other countries about the supposed illegality of the proposed referendum by Crimea on its future political status.…
Canada needs a NDP-Liberal-Green Coalition
Canada’s last three elections are proof positive that we have a flawed electoral system. Does it make any sense that recently it’s been impossible to get a government that reflects…
Québec Independence would not be the end of Canada
In his argument against the possibility of Québec separating from Canada, Andrew Coyne (National Post, July 5) has presented a dooms-day scenario – “It would be the end of Canada.”…
The Syrian saga
The Syrian situation is extremely complex this being the result of its history, its diverse ethnic groups, its long-lasting repressive regime, and compounded by a decade-long desire of the USA…