Canadian Author and Activist
Is it a wariness toward activism, hesitance around Palestinian solidarity, or partisan instinct that’s pushing Avi Lewis supporters to advance misleading claims? While the NDP’s position has greatly improved on the lawless genocidal apartheid state, the recent debate exposed its limitations. According to multiple Avi supporters and opponents of my NDP leadership bid, all... Continue Reading →
Despite few promoting socialism Canadians are open to anti-capitalist messages. According to a mid-November Spark Insights online survey of 2,895 adults, 43% of Canadians believe capitalism “is doing more harm than good today.” Also asked, “How do you feel about capitalism and socialism?” 29% of respondents said socialism is a better approach while 28% said... Continue Reading →
Donald Trump’s anti-Somali racism is ugly. US violence there, with Canadian support, is uglier. The US president recently declared (repeatedly) that Somali immigrants are “garbage.” He’s also claimed they “contribute nothing” to the US and “have taken billions of dollars’’ to Somalia. One of Trump’s Canadian acolytes took up their anti-Black, Islamophobic anti-Somali rhetoric. Yesterday... Continue Reading →
A factory in Brampton is set to deliver 20 armoured vehicles to ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Canadian camera systems were used in recent US strikes on Venezuelan boats. Montreal-made artillery propellant and bullets have been ordered by the Pentagon to assist Israel’s genocide. Every year Canada sells over a billion dollars in arms... Continue Reading →
More than half of Canadians now view Isreal as genocidal. Yet Zionists groups still have the power to suppress, block and even arrest critics of the lawless apartheid state. Over the weekend the University of Guelph was set to host the People's Conference for Palestinian Solidarity. But the administration canceled it days before an event... Continue Reading →
Is it illegal to promote an email petition to state officials? Does it become “harassment” if successful? Or is it only a crime if the emails go to the police? Nearly 50 people joined me in court Friday as I faced charges for promoting an email petition campaign. The Action Network campaign called on supporters... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow night there will be a large rally against Canadian racism. Craig Mokhiber, Vijay Prashad, Carmen Rodriguez and many others will speak at “Internationalism Belongs in NDP Leadership Race”. The online rally is a reaction to the three-person backroom NDP vetting committee possibly blocking a campaign and candidate that has aggressively challenged racist Canadian foreign policy.... Continue Reading →
Canadian forces are learning from the génocidaires, directly assisting the US/Israeli occupation of Gaza and will likely help build a colonial Palestinian force. Canadian troops have been taking tips from the Israel occupation forces. According to a series of reports, Canadian troops participated in IOF seminars this week to learn about its war crimes... Continue Reading →
The Liberal government just passed an unprecedentedly militaristic peacetime budget. And they did so with barely a murmur from the parliamentary opposition. On Monday Mark Carney passed his radical militarist budget, which devotes extraordinary sums to submarines, surface combatants, armoured vehicles, drones and other weaponry. The budget adds $82 billion to a military budget that... Continue Reading →
Would it be racist for the NDP to exclude a white cis male who played Junior A hockey from its leadership race? Maybe so, if one considers it from a Haitian or Palestinian perspective. On November 10, I formally submitted to NDP vetting. It’s now up to the three-person vetting committee to decide if party... Continue Reading →
Canadians opposing Israel’s holocaust continue to be unjustly targeted while security officials fail to charge those who fought in Gaza. My upcoming trial highlights the crass double standard. On Friday former United Nations special rapporteur Richard Falk was interrogated by border authorities for four hours at the airport on route to speak at a conference... Continue Reading →
Canada will try to defeat Venezuela in a football friendly Tuesday. For its part, the NDP has worked to undermine the South American country for years away from the soccer pitch. As I’ve recently written, NDP MPs and leadership candidates have stayed mum about Donald Trump’s escalating war on Venezuela. Despite polls showing that over... Continue Reading →
Ben Mulroney doesn’t like me. Should the NDP like that? On Wednesday the son of the former Conservative party leader ripped into me on his radio program. He began the four-and-a-half-minute discussion by calling me an “agitator extraordinaire, troublemaker, rabble rouser, generally unproductive member of society, antisemite of the highest order.” Ostensibly about my submitting... Continue Reading →
NDP MPs and party leadership candidates are more cautious than Paris and London in challenging Trump’s war on Venezuela. Even the admiral in charge of the US violence appears more willing to buck the Donald. On Tuesday the largest aircraft carrier in the world, USS Gerald Ford, arrived in the Caribbean as part of Trump’s... Continue Reading →
Zohran Mamdani would likely have been blocked by the NDP’s three person vetting committee. Fortunately, the Democratic Party doesn’t “vet” candidates seeking to participate in the New York City mayoral primary. According to New York election rules, to participate in the primary one has about a month to gather 3,750 signatures from registered voters. “At... Continue Reading →
A new book on Canada’s role in the destruction of Libya should embarrass the NDP and prompt members to ask tough questions of leadership candidates. Would Avi Lewis, Rob Ashton or Heather McPherson have promoted the destruction of the North African nation? Targeting Libya: Canadian Dams, Canadian Bombs is the definitive account of Canada’s significant... Continue Reading →
Mark Carney is fear mongering about faraway countries while downplaying a security threat driving an ever-greater number of Canadians from their homes. In the recently released federal budget “defence” is mentioned 148 times while “climate change” is cited 20 times (the document includes 40 more mentions of “climate” in an ecological sense and an equal... Continue Reading →
Amidst the smears, my insurgent left NDP leadership campaign continues to rack up wins. Our positions are shaping a race that many have sought to exclude us from. Yesterday Heather McPherson sent a message to the NDP list describing “my plan to call a national emergency on housing — to marshal resources, build more co-op... Continue Reading →
The dearth of NDP pushback to Mark Carney’s radical military turn is remarkable. As the signs of Liberal warmongering grow, there’s barely a murmur of opposition from the party to this threat to the world and Canadian social programs. On Friday the Ottawa Citizen reported on the military’s plan to expand the reserve by a... Continue Reading →
Yesterday Mark Carney visited a South Korean shipyard as part of a plan to spend $100 billion on attack submarines. The prime minister is pursuing one of Canada’s largest ever discretionary purchases as he prepares an austerity budget for the working class. In an unprecedented level of direct prime ministerial involvement in military procurement, Carney... Continue Reading →
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