A Chadian camp for displaced people who fled violence in Darfur at the Chad-Sudan border where over 90,000 people have fled and thousands have been displaced. Photo by Henry Wilkins/VOA/Wikimedia…
Québec Premier François Legault is joined by industry leaders to break ground on the construction site of a new Ford Canada manufacturing plant for electric vehicle battery material in Bécancour,…
Emergency entrance at the University of Montréal Hospital (CHUM). Photo from X. The negotiations between Québec’s ruling Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) and some 420,000 public sector workers united under the…
All Out for Gaza demonstration in Montréal, Tuesday, October 17, 2023. Photo by Lital Khaikin. “More than 20,000 Palestinians have perished in the new war,” reads a newspaper photo caption…
Members of the front commun march down Park Avenue, Montréal, September 23, 2023. Photo by Lital Khaikin. “I make $30 an hour and am barely scraping by,” said Audrey Perreault,…
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté Knopf Canada, 2022 Published in September 2022, Canadian physician and author Gabor Maté’s…
A jade mine in Myanmar. Photo by Hosana Chay/NRGI Myanmar/Flickr. “False solutions” In our ways, spiritual consciousness is the highest form of politics. The people who are living on this…
Photo by Don Fontijn/Unsplash The infrastructure of blacklists Much Western media reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has amounted to hand-holding the public by avoiding content deemed to be disinformation…
A Palestinian youth placed a flag on the Israeli Separation Wall during a protest marking nine years for the struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in,…
Mongolia has long been one of Canada’s closest partners in Asia as a source of strategic metals and minerals, while occupying a fulcrum point between Southeast Asia, Russia and the…
From the European Space Agency, an artist’s illustration of the huge numbers of satellites and space debris in Earth’s orbit today. Image by Hopeful in NJ/Flickr. A space opera Notions…
The lack of oversight and preventive measures in Canadian state facilities ultimately undermines the credibility of Canada’s stance on protecting human rights. Image by Jared Rodriguez/Truthout/Flickr. This is the second…
Heavy tanks and soldiers during the conflict in the Donbass, 2014. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Despite Canada’s long-standing support for the Ukrainian army—and the reverberations of Ukrainian nationalist politics through…
GA-ASI MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), manufactured by Burlington-based L3Harris WESCAM. Photo courtesy of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. Double standards In a rare rapid response to concerns raised…
A security officer stands guard during a visit of the Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), Joanne Adamson, to Bandiagara, Mopti region,…
Taranis by BAE Systems. Image courtesy of BAE Systems. Follow the leader From the Pentagon’s feral “legged squad support system” to swarms of drones to malicious computer programs directing theatres…
While torture is illegal in Canada, ratifying the UN’s Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) would make Canada accountable…
“Subway,” Fortunato Depero, 1930 “You will be perfect, you will be machine-equal. The path to one-hundred-percent happiness is clear.” —Yevgenii Zamyatin, We On bad behaviour In a bloated market for…
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo courtesy of the Kremlin/Wikimedia Commons. In the name of democracy Hide your kids, hide your wife, the Russians are coming, but this time for Canada’s…
Enhanced data gathering and other forms of intrusive risk analysis are part of a new era of surveillance technologies targeting migrant workers in Canada and beyond. Photo by ar130405/Pixabay. Alternatives…
