Roadmap for an arms embargo
Israeli troops on the edge of the Gaza Strip. Photo courtesy the Israel Defense Forces/Telegram. On May 28, virtually every attendee arriving at CANSEC—North America’s largest annual arm...
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Out in the cold: Where does Canada stand on Sudan?
Refugee camp in Sudan. Photo by Alun McDonald/Oxfam/Flickr. “We feel shunned” On Saturday, February 22, on a bitterly cold and snowy afternoon in downtown Montréal, a demonstration was ...
Canada’s response to Sudanese humanitarian crisis reflects systemic racism
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…
A common language: Critical metals and Québec’s clientelist relationship with France
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,…
Wholesale privatization, false solutions
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…
Despair is the currency of massacre
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…
Québec public sector workers are ready for a general strike
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,…
Compassion in an age of anxiety and disillusionment
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…
“The voice of Indigenous peoples is the real voice of nature”
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…
Who watches the watchers?
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…
Amnesia and fragmentation in the narrative of Israel’s occupation of Palestine
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,…
Land grabs for rare earth metals continue outside the South American Lithium Triangle
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…
Space neoliberalization agitates the frontiers of Canadian data privacy
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…
Unconscionable treatment continues in Canadian detention centres
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…
Stumbling toward peace in Donbass
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…
WESCAM controversy highlights double standards in Canadian arms controls
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…
An inconvenient coup: Canada’s disingenuous response to Mali’s revolt against a corrupt government
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,…
Machines in the chain of command
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…
Canada drags its feet on international convention against torture
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…
Screening for ideals: Social credit is alive and well in Canada
“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…