If the US does invade Canada, it won’t be the first time
Trump’s threats to take over Canada and Mexico (and elsewhere) have stirred up a shit-storm of push-back. Perhaps it’s a good time to remember some relevant history. That’s what the…
Canada
Canada Must Learn From the Green Backlash
TORONTO – As Canadians prepare to elect a new government, the rapid deterioration in relations with the United States will be front of mind. But the slow pace of decarbonization…
Does Canada uphold binding international law? The answer is No
The Canadian government repeatedly tells the world that Canada upholds an international rules-based order that is the basis of democracy. What the Canadian government says is not true. The evidence…
Stupidity and Depravity Can Be Mutually Exclusive
A question: Is it the case that an individual member of an organization who rejects participation in the wider group’s malefaction is to be held equally culpable in the wider…
Scandal of A Ukrainian Nazi Waffen SS Soldier Honored in Canada’s Parliament: Part Two
The still unanswered question in the latest twist of the war in Ukraine is whether or not the recent international scandal of a former Ukrainian Nazi Waffen SS soldier honored…
Canada’s Proclivity To White Wash Its Nazi Citizenry & Nazi Affiliation Past
This writer has spent the past year and a half, mostly on his own dime, ignored, ridiculed or dismissed by friends and colleagues alike, while nevertheless persisting to exhaustively-research any…
Canada‘s System of Social Welfare and We, the People Aspiring for Change and Social Justice
Reflections on Human Equality of Social Life The social welfare system includes applying the structures, ideologies, and approaches in the study of social welfare to real world challenges and issues.…
US Interference in Canada Far Greater than Alleged Chinese Interference
The US is a far bigger threat to Canadian sovereignty and democracy than China but you’d never know it from following the dominant media. In recent days a CIA-linked firm…
What Do an Apology, Reconciliation, and a Sacred Obligation to Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights of First Nations Look Like in Canada?
They send a hundred RCMP to go protect a pipeline and not protect people’s lives so we need to push back. They put industry, they put fracking, they put gas…
Shades of Green – Election Non-event
Canada’s recent election proved mostly that Canadians are more or less set within their provincial agendas. The ruling Liberals gained three seats, the Conservatives stayed the same, the Bloc Québecois…
Canada is Waging an All-Front Legal War Against Indigenous People
Canada is developing a new image: one of burning churches, toppling statues, and mass graves. There are thousands more unmarked graves, thousands more Indigenous children killed at residential schools, remaining…
‘Palestine is Still the Issue’: UN Vote Exposes, Isolates Canada
Co-Written by Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo The notion that ‘Canada is better’, especially when compared with US foreign policy, has persisted for many years. Recent events at the United…
Canada loses UN Security Council seat bid
With only one round of voting, Canada lost its bid to secure a Security Council (UNSC) seat at the UN today . (Wednesday, June 17, 2020). The result is what…
Freeland – Aimed At Putin? Or Trump?
The CBC today (Tuesday, January 10, 2016) presented the news concerning Chrystia Freeland’s new appointment as Foreign Affairs Minister for Canada's Trudeau government, noting mainly that she was on the…
Canada Goes To War – Trudeau Postures For The UN
Wow, the world gets crazier every moment! Stephen Lewis, former socialist NDP leader from Canada’s province of Ontario was asked about PM Justin Trudeau’s letter to the UN asking for…
Canada Goes To War, Pretending To Keep Peace
I heard the news today…. I caught the CBC news this morning (Thursday, October 13, 2016) as the French Prime Minister and Canada’s PM were talking to the media. From…
Trudeau – Following Harper’s Footsteps In Foreign Policy
Only half a year in power and it is apparent that Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, is essentially following Harper’s footsteps when dealing with Canada’s foreign policy - militarily, politically,…
Letter To Justin Trudeau On Canada Re-joining UNCCD
We, the CBD Alliance, the global platform of civil society and academic organisations working on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), congratulate your government for the decision to re-join the…
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