According to Yves Engler, the NDP’s upcoming convention will likely feature attempts by the party hierarchy to suppress two key resolutions on Palestine solidarity. Photo from Flickr. It’s heating up.…
PetroCaribe Challenge protestors in Haiti, August 19, 2018. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Domination by multinational corporations and “light-skinned” local capitalists—that’s the story of Haiti as illustrated by one recent event.…
One of the many internally displaced persons (IDP) tent camps that sprang up around the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Photo courtesy Haiti Liberté. Global Affairs Canada,…
Jovenel Moïse with Justin Trudeau, April 14, 2018. Photo courtesy the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru/Flickr. Sunday will be bittersweet for many Haitians. February 7 is usually a day…
Texas-based ExxonMobil has discovered more than five billion barrels of oil and gas off Guyana’s shores, sparking a renewed territorial dispute with Venezuela. Photo courtesy JWN Energy Why is Canada…
Protest against investments in nuclear weapons, Melbourne, April 2012. Photo by Tim Wright/Flickr. It’s time to nuke the nukes. The Trudeau government needs to live up to its rhetoric and…
President Donald Trump introduces Juan Guaidó during the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, February 4, 2020. Official White House Photo by D. Myles…
An artist’s rendering of the new Canadian Surface Combatant. Image courtesy of BAE Systems. The job of the opposition in Parliament is to hold the government accountable, in part by…
Activists mobilize to prohibit nuclear weapons, October 22, 2020. Photo by Aude Catimel/ICAN. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” ―Frederick Douglass To win…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned recently that ‘vaccine nationalism’ is moving at full speed, threatening the health of billions in the Global South. Photo from Shutterstock. The World Trade…
Flag of the People’s Republic of China during the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing, August 7, 2008. Photo by Philip McMaster/Flickr. According to the Globe and Mail, foreign influence in…
Millions of Canadians wear red poppy pins in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Day. Photo from Pixabay. As we approach the 11th hour of the 11th day of the…
No nuclear weapons have been based in Canada since 1984, but we actively participate in the nuclear defense of North America not only through membership in NATO, but also in…
A supporter of Bolivian President Evo Morales outside the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia, after a first round presidential election, Sunday, October 20, 2019. Photo by Juan Karita. The…
The Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv hosted a party with Canadian “lone soldiers” in the Israel Defense Forces on January 16, 2020. Photo from the Embassy of Canada to Israel/Twitter.…
Nigerien troops stand in formation prior to the start of the opening ceremony of Flintlock 2018 in Niamey, Niger, April 11, 2018. United States Army Photo by Sgt. Heather Doppke/Flickr.…
Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, speaks at a United Nations office in Geneva, January 18, 2017. United Nations Photo by Jean-Marc Ferré/Flickr. On September 9, Georgia…
Components of a wheel excavator used to move sand onto conveyor belts at one of Alcan’s bauxite mines near MacKenzie, British Guyana. Photo by Henry Hamilton/Flickr. Reflecting an extreme imbalance…
Haitian police officers handcuff lawbreakers in Port-au-Prince’s severely damaged downtown area, January 19, 2010. Photo by Logan Abassi/United Nations/Flickr. An important component of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s international branding has…
A woman stands near a burning barricade holding the national flag of Nicaragua, April 20, 2018. Photo by Voice of America/Wikimedia Commons. Which side is Canada on? In Central America,…
