Canadian Author and Activist
Canadians are living through a housing crisis. Prices have spiraled out of reach for millions and housing affordability is at the heart of the disenfranchisement many feel. Alongside millions who pay rents beyond their means, growing numbers live in abject misery on the streets. Every night in Canada, 60,000 people sleep on the streets and... Continue Reading →
On Tuesday foreign affairs minister Anita Anand condemned atrocities reportedly committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in western Sudan. She failed to mention a Canadian company’s involvement or Canada’s historical support for violence in the northeast African country. The Canadian-owned Streit Group has provided armoured vehicles to the RSF. Long based in southern Ontario,... Continue Reading →
The Breach has defamed my campaign’s fundraising success. But its finances are far more noteworthy and its willingness to punch down stems from a self-proclaimed “left’ and its political economy that is hostile to anti-imperialism. On a Breach podcast a week ago Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole spent 10 minutes maliciously lying about my campaign’s... Continue Reading →
How long will it take the NDP or other leadership candidates to criticize the US war on Venezuela? Pursued under same pretext that Trump initially targeted Canada, criticizing the Donald’s war ought to be easy if the party weren’t so steeped in imperialism. Donald Trump has recently bombed Venezuelan vessels. He’s also sent B-1 bombers... Continue Reading →
Tonight’s Canadian Labour Congress NDP leadership forum excluded the most outspoken candidate on Canadian complicity in Israel’s crimes. Considering the federation’s anti-Palestinian history, it’s no surprise. The CLC excluded me from the NDP Leadership Forum because I’ve yet to submit to the NDP’s anti-democratic ‘vetting’ process that has repeatedly blocked critics of Israel. My campaign... Continue Reading →
The Canadian Labour Congress should want to hear my campaign’s pro-working-class message and it’s not too late for the labour federation to allow the only fully bilingual candidate to participate in their NDP Leadership Forum. Tomorrow the CLC is hosting Workers Together. “This is your chance to meet the candidates who want to lead the... Continue Reading →
An upcoming event encapsulates why my candidacy upends the NDP leadership race. The talk raises essential, if controversial, ideas while displaying what could be described as important ‘establishment’ credentials. Next Monday I will be speaking with Alain Denault. Author of a dozen books, Denault came to prominence with a battle over his 2008 book Noir... Continue Reading →
Canadian media and politicians have been highly critical of Iranian governance. Few believe it’s democratic even though the country holds elections in which tens of millions participate. The reason, in part, is how candidates are vetted. A Canadian foreign affairs minister once labelled Iranian elections “effectively meaningless” because only “regime-friendly candidates” are allowed to run.... Continue Reading →
Incredibly, Canada’s most significant contribution to Palestinian dispossession is called “charity” and deemed worthy of deductions from tax owing. So, the Fifth Estate exposing the subsidized groups assisting the Israeli military and illegal settlements is important. Yesterday the CBC Fifth Estate released a 42-minute documentary “Investigating charities getting tax breaks for funding Palestinian displacement”.... Continue Reading →
Canada’s elbows are definitely not up. Instead, we are purposely passing the puck to their powerplay. Canada should stop assisting the US war on Venezuela. Over the past six weeks the US has blown up a handful of alleged drug boats in international waters near Venezuela. The US has also deployed 10,000 troops to the... Continue Reading →
The free trade Canadian capitalists weren’t disrupted by social justice activists. Instead, it was the US Commerce Secretary questioning their preferred economic model. But we should be proposing a more fundamental break from billionaire producing, ecologically damaging, capitalism. On Wednesday US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a BMO organized summit: “free trade not coming back.”... Continue Reading →
A rightist columnist just labeled me “repellent” while a left establishment commentator publicly proclaimed, “fuck Yves Engler”. Canada’s ideological apparatus is whipped into a frenzy over my multilayered challenge of Canadian foreign policy and my NDP leadership campaign’s activist anti-capitalism. On Friday, the ever reliable Israel-no-matter-what supporter Rosie Dimanno labeled me “the repellent Yves Engler”.... Continue Reading →
The influence of billionaires. First past the post voting. Corporate lobbyists. There are many obstacles to genuine political democracy in Canada. A significant, if little discussed, hurdle is the power party insiders have to determine who can run in election races. In the 2022 BC NDP leadership race, Anjali Appadurai was expelled from the race... Continue Reading →
Some in the NDP are once again up to their undemocratic shenanigans. A committee of three-party insiders is angling to suppress a campaign with a thousand volunteers proposing an eco-socialist alternative to our wealth-concentrating economic system. On Monday the NDP Chief Electoral Officer released a statement to the National Post and Toronto Star accusing me of lying. Éric Hébert-Daly stated, “It has... Continue Reading →
The NDP needs to rekindle the anti-capitalist thinking and activist energy that spurred its creation. That logic has shaped my campaign’s recently released platform. In July 1933 the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) met in Regina for its first national convention. About 130 delegates approved what became known as the Regina Manifesto. It said, “genuine international... Continue Reading →
A rookie Liberal MP defied the law and his government in service of a state committing a live streamed holocaust. Because it was on behalf of Israel it will likely pass with little uproar. A week ago, Toronto MP Vince Gasparro released an unusual video in which he announced that the anti-genocide Irish rap group... Continue Reading →
Mark Carney is slashing the public service as he boosts the war machine. Unfortunately, the NDP has been too supportive of militarism to effectively boost unions that want the federal government to focus on human welfare rather than corporate warfare. The Carney government is cutting tens of thousands of jobs from the federal public service.... Continue Reading →
The NDP has let an individual who applauded a Nazi, supported buying a tar sands pipeline, engaged with a CIA talk shop, sits on a NATO parliamentary body and praises Canada’s leading proponent of a state committing a holocaust to participate its leadership race. But they may block someone who has spent two decades challenging... Continue Reading →
“No CCF Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of the Cooperative Commonwealth.” — 1933 Regina Manifesto During two months of campaigning to lead the NDP we’ve questioned the foundation of our economic system more... Continue Reading →
Resistance to militarism is growing. Hopefully it can restrain Mark Carney’s extremism. In recent days we’ve seen messages from the Council of Canadians, Toronto District Labour Council and other established left groups questioning militarism. One of the five demands of the Draw the Line coalition that brought out tens of thousands Saturday was “End the... Continue Reading →
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