A mural depicting Simon Bolivar painted by Carlos Zerpa, 26, of the Guerrilla Communications Collective in Catia, a slum in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo from VenezuelaSolidarity.ca. Justin Trudeau requires an intervention.…
President Donald Trump introduces State of the Union gallery guest Juan Guaidó (pictured), Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Tuesday, February 4, 2020. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Join the Canadian Foreign Policy…
Demi Lovato at We Day 2012, Vancouver. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The most concerning element of the WE Charity scandal is not that Justin Trudeau and his finance minister, Bill…
Police station in Cité Soleil, located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. Photo by James Emery/Flickr. One way to evaluate the seriousness of the Trudeau government’s stated objectives in…
US troops oversee a marching band within the Haitian Gendarmerie. Image taken from Monograph of Haiti, assembled by United States Marines during the US occupation of that country, 1915-1934. Courtesy…
The Meridian Gate, front entrance to the Forbidden City, Beijing. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Canada is locked in a hostage standoff with China that doesn’t look likely to end anytime…
Toronto eatery Foodbenders has courted significant controversy from pro-Israel advocates and lobby groups for denouncing Zionism and standing up for Palestinian rights and racial justice. Photo courtesy of Foodbenders. The…
Canadian Armed Forces personnel serving on the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission listen as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to them in Gao, Mali, Saturday December 22, 2018. It…
China is currently preparing for a stronger pushback from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance including Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and the United States. Image from Flickr. In…
The Essakane Mine pit in Burkina Faso. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Should Canadian foreign policy continue to be enmeshed with mining interests abroad? That is one of ten questions put…
June 17, 2020 – Canada lost its high-profile bid for one of the rotating seats on the United Nations Security Council. A total of 128 votes were needed to secure…
Acacia Mining (formerly African Barrick Gold plc) is Tanzania’s biggest gold producer and operates three major mines in the country—Bulyanhulu, Buzwagi (pictured) and North Mara. Image courtesy of Acacia Mining.…
People march during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on February 13, 2019. Photo by Hector Retamal. Do black lives in Haiti matter to the Canadian government? At the time of…
A Canadian soldier takes part in a simulated battle during Exercise Maple Resolve 17 at Camp Wainwright in Alberta, Canada, May 16, 2017. Photo by Sgt. JF Lauzé. The #NoUNSC4Canada…
Justin Trudeau speaks with Colombian President Iván Duque at the United Nations, Tuesday, September 25, 2018. Photo from the Twitter account of Justin Trudeau. One week ago, a former Canadian…
President Trump delivers remarks with Justin Trudeau, and then Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto at the signing the USMCA trade agreement on the margins of the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in…
Heavy industry in Suzhou, China. Photo by DaiLuo/Flickr. While governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have proven that significant resources can be marshalled quickly in a crisis, there is little…
Canadian light armoured vehicles, developed by General Dynamics, move in a convoy in the Wainwright Garrison training area during Exercise Maple Resolve. Photo by Sgt. Jean-Francois Lauzé/Garrison Imaging Petawawa. As…
In this July 7, 2006 file photo, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is shown after it was unveiled in a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas. Photo by LM…
Canadian Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan meets with Prime Minister of Kuwait, Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, December 2019. As parents often warn their children, real friends do not encourage stupid,…
