Owen Schalk Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Canada’s relationship with the kingdom is based solely on cold economic calculations On March 11, online media outlet The Breach published a document that shines a light on Ottawa’s usually secretive policies toward Saudi Arabia and the wider West Asian region. The document illustrates that Canada’s cozy relationship with the…
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12 Years Ago NATO Bombed Libya to “Protect Civilians”, Leaving Tens of Thousands Dead and a Country in Ruins
Moussa Ibrahim The Western war machine only served its own interests in destroying a nation that could liberate Africa On the 19th of March 2011, the NATO bloc began a violent 8-month long military onslaught of Libya, a sovereign African-Union founding member state, which had enjoyed four decades of stability, prosperity and one of the…
Canada: Multiculturalism is Over as Sinophobia Returns
Justin Podur How a rogue spy and two reporters are breaking the fragile system for integrating immigrants Breaking Canada-China science connections as prologue The death throes of Canadian multiculturalism began on February 2023 over China-Canada science connections. Canada’s Innovation Minister said Canadian universities shouldn’t do research with China’s military, as 50 of them have since…
How Canadians Lost Medicare
Dr. Susan Rosenthal Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a death blow to public medicare. The provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector. While defenders of public medicare blame Conservative Premier Doug Ford, British Columbia, Quebec, and Saskatchewan are going down the same road. If we hope…
‘Rigorous’ Maidan Massacre Exposé Suppressed by Leading Academic Journal
Kit Klarenberg A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world’s top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers. The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev’s…
State-Sanctioned Violence in Peru and the Role of Canadian Mining
Kirsten Francescone Protests against the Tía María copper mining project in Islay, Arequipa Region, Peru. Photo by Diario Correo. Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment. On January 18, 2023, as thousands of Peruvians were taking to the streets in Lima to denounce the…
How the U.S. and Canada are Wooing Latin America and the Caribbean to Front for their Plan to Invade Haiti
Travis Ross U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly hold a press conference on Oct. 27, 2022 in Ottawa to both hide and signal their desire to militarily intervene in Haiti. Photo: Blair Gable/AP Photo Part I On Jan. 23-24, 2023, heads of state and government met at the seventh…
Commission Reveals that Trudeau Government Lied About Nature of Truckers Protests in Ottawa Last February to Justify Invocation of Emergencies Act
Ray McGinnis Anti-vaccine mandate protesters were falsely accused of being rapists, white supremacists and violence-prone by a liberal prime minister who endangers Canadian freedoms. A year ago Canadian mainstream media and politicians described an unruly mob headed for Ottawa. On January 26, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadians there was a “fringe minority” with…
Tamara Lorincz: Canada’s Support for Ukraine’s War on the Donbass & Canada’s Anti-Russia Policies
Eva K Bartlett I spoke with Canadian researcher and writer,Tamara Lorincz, about Canada’s militaristic foreign and defence policies, Canada’s belligerent NATO role in bombing sovereign nations, Canada’s role in fomenting the Maidan protests which preceded the (2014) illegal coup in Ukraine, and, among other things, Canada’s support to Ukraine’s war on the Donbass. Tamara has…
It’s Time to Get Canada Out of Tanzania
Adisa Owusu Canadian mining company, Barrick Gold, the second biggest gold mining company in the world, is being sued by Tanzanian residents for hiring local police killings, torture, and other violence. The violence is arguably financed and sponsored by Barrick Gold as they house, feed, and pay the local police of North Mara Acacia, Tanzania. They…
Canada’s Role in the War in Syria
Steven Sahiounie Canadian Forces Syria. August 18, 2015. (Canadian Forces) Canada has blood on its hands in Syria. Canadian intelligence would have provided its government with the facts concerning the Syrian uprising in Deraa in March 2011. That information would have allowed the Canadian government to determine whether to support the US-NATO attack on Syria for regime…
Facts are Subversive: How Canada’s Mainstream Media Spreads Disinformation about the Conflict in Ukraine
Peter Biesterfeld This is part one of Biesterfeld’s TCF series: A Case for anti-war and anti-imperialist journalism. Read before you write Once asked to explain his role as reporter preeminent investigative journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989) answered: “To write the truth as I see it; to defend the weak against the strong; to fight for justice;…
Canada’s Regime Props Up Peru’s and Helps Canadian Mining Companies Exploit Crisis
Camila Escalante Canadian Ambassador to Peru and Bolivia, Louis Marcotte, shaking hands with Peruvian Mining Minister, Oscar Vera Gargurevich. Image credit: Ministry of Energy and Mines of Peru. Two months on from the coup against Peru’s democratically-elected President, Pedro Castillo, Canada is providing key support for a regime responsible for the deaths of 58 civilians…
In Canada’s Parliament, Voices of Peace Have Been Silenced
Dimitri Lascaris Green Party of Canada co-leaders Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault at a press conference. Image credit: Toronto Star From the outset of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, only one of the five political parties in Canada’s Parliament had opposed the transfer of lethal aid to Ukraine. Until now, the only opponent of…
Haiti: Neocolonial Model Country
Stephen SeftonHaiti’s history and current situation closely mirror the political and economic realities of the history of Latin America and the Caribbean since independence. Patterns of foreign intervention and the sell-out collaboration of national elites to impose their rule over impoverished majorities still persist. Sooner or later, popular rebellion has always arisen by those majorities,…
Canada: One of the ‘Biggest Gangsters in Haiti’
Catherine Hughes and Jackie McVicar Canadian Soldiers in Haiti. Photo courtesy Combat Camera/DND/Flickr. We have failed to respect the Haitian struggle for justice and self-determination The Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), founded in 1981, works in solidarity with people standing up for self-determination, social justice and for the Earth in the Americas. We have been following Canada’s…
$70+ Billion for a Failing Warplane: A Dubious Canadian Project
Barbara Waldern Demonstration by the Hamilton Stop the War Coalition in Burlington, ON, on January 8, 2023 as an event of the cross-Canada set of actions to protest the F-35 program. It disrupted MP Karina Gould, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development at her levee at the Art Gallery. [Photo by Graham Paine of…
Peace Not War! Canada: A Voice for Peace Outside of NATO
Michael Welch, Rick Rozoff, Dimitri Lascaras, and Ken Stone “NATO is a defensive Alliance. NATO is there to prevent a conflict, to prevent a war. And therefore, we have strengthened our deterrence to send a very clear message to Russia that we are there to protect and defend all Allies.”[1] – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (Oct 12,…