Canada: The Case Against Iran Sanctions

Greg ShupakA mural in the holy city of Qom depicts Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, on the left and Ali Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of Iran, on the right. Photo by David Stanley “We hear the pleas of the Iranian people and we commend them for their bravery and resilience,” Minister…

The Simple Reason Why the US Wants ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ of the Earth

Roger McKenzie US troops on patrol in Iraq in 2006 (Photo: US Department of Defense) The United States demands that the world bow down to its leadership. A failure to do so is met with the full force of the international military-industrial complex controlled by the US The guardians of capital are highly organized and…

Russia-China Leaders Meeting: A Sign of a Rising Alliance or a Threatening Challenge to the West? North America’s Perspective

Dr. Nivedita Das Kundu The key dynamics at play in the evolving global order are that Russia and China have been advocating a shift away from a system led by Western values and rules, challenging the traditional dominance of Western powers in the international system. However, as per North America’s perspective, the notion that the Chinese and Russian alliance is growing faster may be overstated,…

As Lasso Flails, Ottawa Pushes for More Canadian Mining in Ecuador

Owen Schalk Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso. Photo courtesy Presidencia de la República del Ecuador/Flickr. The proposed Canada-Ecuador FTA would greatly expand the power of Canadian mining companies in Ecuador As embattled Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso faces public disdain, struggles against potential impeachment, and foments regional divides, Ottawa is quietly negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with his extremely…

Canada: RCMP Targets Québec Chinese Community Associations with Baseless Electoral Manipulation Claims

Daniel Xie On March 9, 2023, it was reported that the RCMP had launched an investigation into suspected “police stations” operated by the Chinese government in the province of Quebec. organization. The RCMP claimed to have received 15 tips that allegedly confirmed the presence of Chinese police stations in Montreal. It is suspected by the…

Haiti, Syria and Beyond: How Canada’s Fourth Estate Fails to Serve the Public’s Right to Know

Peter Biesterfeld CF Editorial Note: This is part two of Peter Biesterfeld’s series for The Canada Files: Facts are Subversive: How Canada’s Mainstream Media Spreads Disinformation about the Conflict in Ukraine. It focuses on how Canada’s mainstream media is failing Canadians with its foreign policy coverage. What follows is a critical examination of the reliability…

Canada: More Rogue CSIS Spies Revealed Amidst Anti-China Psy-op

Aidan Jonah On March 16, 2023, on the CBC’s Power & Politics show, ex-Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart said two Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agents visited him in May 2022 and alerted him to supposed Chinese election interference out of frustration in hopes of him taking action. Stewart said the agents did this because they…

Canada and Anti-China Propaganda

Christopher Black Canada, with the UK, Australia, Germany and Japan, is one of the most loyal lieutenants of the American empire, an empire that is weakening and crumbling faster than the American attempts to shore it up. Blinded by ideology, racism, colonialist attitudes, corrupted by American influence, ignorant of history and the forces of history,…

Documents Reveal True Motives Behind Canada’s Support for Saudi Arabia

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…

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…