The Canadian who shocked the White House
Nathan Borror The gushing coverage of last week’s Justin Trudeau-Barack Obama “bromance” in Washington, DC, had one former Canadian visitor to the White House scratching her head. When Cabbagetown-born Ca...
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Corporate and military plunder in the Philippines
Photo by Keith Bacongco For many in the Global North, certain countries only appear on our radar screens as discount winter vacation hotspots. Other times, when natural disaster strikes, these…
Beyond #ELXN42
Image from Public Domain Efforts to get people to vote, complete with ballot-box selfies, loomed large on social media, but when casting a ballot is treated as the noblest thing…
Intolerable suffering of refugees’ limbo in Canada
Photo by Mstyslav Chernov As thousands continue fleeing war and persecution in a desperate attempt to find safety in Europe and North America, media and NGOs alike have improperly termed…
Welcome Back, Omar Khadr: Demonized No More
Photo by Khadr family When torture survivor Omar Khadr was granted bail last week, the Harper government actually did something logical: it argued in an emergency hearing that releasing someone…
Another Reason to Resist C-51
Photo from Public Domain A recent run-of-the-mill telemarketing call from one of Canada’s largest credit companies took on a threatening tone. Who knew that owning a credit card whose purchases…
How Canada gets people tortured
Guantánamo Diary Mohamedou Ould Slahi Little, Brown and Company Following December’s release of the U.S. Senate report on American complicity in torture, Prime Minister Stephen Harper quickly declared, “It has…
Lost in the ‘50s with Harper’s anti-terror pablum
Outlaw art made by a person with paranoid schizophrenia. • Artwork by Thomas Zapata Last Friday, viewers of the CBC’s flagship news program, The National, could be forgiven for thinking…
Was Ottawa “Terror” Arrest Timed to Support Repressive New Legislation?
Photo by Saffron Blaze When the RCMP announced an Ottawa anti-terrorism arrest last week, the timing could not have been better for a federal government that appears to thrive on…
Reflections on a violent day in Ottawa
Photo from Public Domain I often find it hard to feel empathy for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. But when I saw the grim picture of him talking on the phone…
The Extradition Case of Dr. Hassan Diab
Hassan Diab is a mild-mannered Ottawa university professor with a passion for history and culinary skills that surely the French would appreciate. In fact, the French government has invested much…