A sign outside the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) headquarters in Ottawa. Photo by Chris Wattie. One of the stories dominating Canadian media right now—the baseless accusation that Beijing interfered…
Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso. Photo courtesy Presidencia de la República del Ecuador/Flickr. As embattled Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso faces public disdain, struggles against potential impeachment, and foments regional divides, Ottawa…
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Photo courtesy US State Department/Wikimedia Commons. On March 11, online media outlet The Breach published a document that shines a light on Ottawa’s usually…
Land defenders erect a barricade against OceanaGold mining operations in Barangay Didipio, the Philippines. Photo courtesy J. Bonifacio/Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment. On March 1, seventy-seven national and international…
Hugo Chávez in uniform, 2010. Photo courtesy Presidencia de la Nación Argentina/Wikimedia Commons. March 5, 2023 marks the ten-year anniversary of the death of legendary Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Only…
Oilsands production near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr. In February 2022, the Trans Mountain Pipeline announced a construction cost update: the new price tag totalled $21.4 billion. The…
Cuban Americans hold a rally in Miami to support dissidents on the island, July 2021. Photo from Flickr. Canada’s foreign policy record is stained with countless examples of hypocrisy, opportunism,…
Voting in Ecuador, 2021. Photo courtesy AS/COA/AP. On February 5, a series of important votes occurred in Ecuador. Roughly 80 percent of Ecuadoreans voted on 23 provincial prefects, 221 mayors,…
Doug Ford’s strategy is clear: defund health care, generate public resentment over its inefficiency, and then privatize. While unfavourably comparing Canada’s health care system to those in Cuba and North…
A farm worker holds bell peppers during a harvest in Cubiro, Venezuela. Photo from Shutterstock. Seeds are an often-overlooked political battleground in industrialized countries like those of North America and…
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez. The Juan Guaidó farce has, finally, come to an end. The hardline Venezuelan opposition, which has long sought the overthrow of…
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World Jonathan Crary Verso, 2022 At this point, it is a commonplace that the techno-optimist promises of the Internet’s early proponents…
The Canadian-owned Cobre Panamá mine. Photo courtesy First Quantum Minerals Ltd. In Panama, a dispute has emerged of a type that is common to countries in Central and South America:…
Afghan refugees near the Pakistan border. Photo courtesy One Free World International. As Afghanistan struggles to manage the manifold social and economic crises resulting from decades of war and subsequent…
Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo. Photo by Juan Carlos Guzman Negrini/Flickr. Pedro Castillo was never allowed to govern. That is the unavoidable truth. Elected president in April 2021 after running…
Justin Trudeau addresses a crowd at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference. Photo by UN Biodiversity/Flickr. The United Nations Biodiversity Conference, also known as COP15, opened on December 7 in Montréal.…
A man walks past a mural depicting Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chávez, Latin American independence hero Simon Bolivar and Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. Photo by Marco Bello. One…
A tank taking up position in Athens during riots in which nine people died when students demonstrated against NATO and the rule of the Greek dictatorship, November 20, 1973. Photo…
Members of the Royal Canadian Air Force instruct members of HMCS Winnipeg during Operation Neon, November 27, 2020. Photo by Sailor 1st Class Valerie LeClair/MARPAC Imaging Services. At this year’s…
Image by Viperagp/Bigstock With commodity prices high following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Europe looking for alternatives to Russian energy resources, many leading politicians in the West have been championing…
