Wealthy companies often use the governments of rich countries to enact rules on poorer countries to squeeze more profits out of them. Corporate mining interests in Canada are partnered with…
IDF Soldier in the Golan Heights. Photo from Flickr. Last month the Canadian embassy in Tel Aviv held an event to celebrate Canadians fighting in the Israeli military. The embassy…
Self-proclaimed Interim President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, speaks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. Photo by Dave Chan/AFP. Last week, Venezuelan politician Juan Guaidó was fêted in Ottawa. The…
Prime Minister Trudeau speaks to media about the fatal plane crash in Iran. Still image from YouTube. While the current Liberal government claims to be progressive and in favour of…
A woman prays amid the wreckage of Notre Dame de l’Assomption—the main cathedral in Port-au-Prince—on January 9, 2011. Image by Allison Shelley. Ten years ago Sunday an earthquake devastated Haiti.…
Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel participate in a training exercise as part of Operation REASSURANCE in Central and Eastern Europe. Photo courtesy of the Government of Canada. Most Canadians would…
Bolivian President Evo Morales speaks from the presidential hangar in El Alto, Bolivia, Sunday, November 10, 2019. Photo by Enzo De Luca/AFP. In yet another example of the Liberals saying…
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians take to the streets in February, 2019 to demonstrate in response to the economic crisis sweeping the Caribbean nation. Photo courtesy of the Associated Press.…
Justin Trudeau addresses a crowd at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Photo by UN Women/Ryan Brown (Flickr). During a federal election campaign rally before the September 27…
Yves Engler and Dimitri Lascaris were blocked from attending a talk by the prime minister at the Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal. Still image from YouTube. On Tuesday two RCMP agents…
Photo by Munk Debates It is great that Elizabeth May wants to debate foreign policy issues, but why would the Green Party leader want to participate in an event designed…
Chrystia Freeland and Unifor President Jerry Dias Inviting Chrystia Freeland to address this week’s Unifor convention undermines the union’s claims of international solidarity. As Foreign Affairs Minister, Freeland has pursued…
Paul Kagame with Masai Ujiri at the NBA Africa Summit (Flickr) Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri claims to be an ambassador for Africa, but his embrace of the most bloodstained…
Parliament will soon hear a petition criticizing the only explicitly racist registered Canadian charity. Oddly, this important event will occur without help from self-declared anti-racist organizations. Recently Independent Jewish Voices…
Photo by John Geoffrey Walker One side is playing for keeps. They oust elected representatives and block members from voting on efforts to challenge a brutal occupation. On the other…
Photo by Joseph Morris The modern way to overthrow a government the capitalist world doesn’t like is by claiming to do it in the name of supporting ‘human rights’. This…
Porfirio Lobo • Photo by Eduardo Verdugo In 1901, US author O. Henry coined the term “banana republic” to describe Honduras, which was dominated by the US-based United Fruit Company.…
Allan Culham, Permanent Representative of Canada to the OAS The brazenness of Ottawa’s intervention in the South American country’s affairs is remarkable. Recently Global Affairs Canada tendered a contract for…
Chrystia Freeland and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Ottawa faces a dilemma. How far are Trudeau’s Liberals prepared to go in squeezing Cuba? Can Canadian corporations with interests on the…
Photo by Natacha Pisarenko Not only has Canada financed and otherwise supported opposition parties in Venezuela, Ottawa has allied itself with some of its most anti-democratic, hardline elements. While the…
