Canadian Author and Activist
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 →
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 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 →
It doesn’t matter how many crimes Israel commits, Zionist authoritarianism marches on. The bid to shut down my NDP leadership campaign, the barring of Kneecap from Canada and the Carney government’s new “hate” legislation highlight the staying power of Zionist authoritarianism two years into a live streamed holocaust. From the moment I announced my bid... Continue Reading →
Anglicans should apologize for their role in Zionist dispossession, not embolden genocidal fanatics. On Monday St. Paul’s Bloor St. Anglican church in Toronto succumbed to pressure from genocide lobbyists and cancelled the room for my NDP leadership event with Rabbi David Mivisair, student encampment organizer Sara Rasikh and former Canadian Union of Postal Workers president... Continue Reading →
Amidst Israel’s live streamed holocaust, its advocates in this country can still get public events cancelled. And on the day a United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, incited these acts, Mark Carney is about to further empower genocide... Continue Reading →
As most of world concludes Israel is a rogue terrorist state, Canadian media give prominent positions to Zionist activists. The appointment of Ben Mulroney to anchor Global New’s The West Block highlights the genocidal character of the media establishment. Yesterday Al Jazeera noted, “Israel has attacked six countries in the past 72 hours” while antiwar.com... Continue Reading →
Challenging power is never easy and if you have success backlash is certain. But we won’t be deterred in our bid to oppose genocide, militarism and capitalism. Over 1000 NDP members, covering all the party’s regional, equity and age requirements, have signed my nomination form to participate in the leadership race. That’s twice the number... Continue Reading →
It’s time to draw a line. We need to derail Mark Carney’s militarist and capitalist agenda. On September 20, a coalition of more than 100 organizations are planning protests across the country to challenge Carney’s support for genocide, attacks on collective bargaining and sell-out to Donald Trump. Draw the Line’s website states: “We refuse to... Continue Reading →
Heather vs Avi. That’s how the liberal media and NDP brass would like to frame the leadership race but, unfortunately for them there’s an anti-genocide, anti-military and anti-US insurgent left campaign promoting economic democracy, degrowth and land back policies, which is already shaping the debate. In “Heather McPherson, Avi Lewis prepare NDP leadership bids”... Continue Reading →
Recent events illustrate the geopolitics of political prisoners and are a lesson for us all about how the system favours certain ways of looking at the world. Marwan Barghouti has been locked up for nearly a quarter century. One of 10 000+ Palestinians kidnapped by occupation forces, Barghouti has been labeled the “Palestinian Nelson Mandela”... Continue Reading →
Genocide advocates are whipped up by my call to defend Canadians’ civil liberties and a colonized people’s internationally enshrined right to resist a brutal occupation. The panic highlights just how weak the NDP’s opposition to a live-streamed holocaust has been. On Sunday I told a Montreal 4 Palestine demonstration that as part of my bid... Continue Reading →
Canadian officials and commentators continue to justify the unspeakable horrors inflicted on people who have endured 22 months of a live-streamed holocaust in Gaza. After Israel assassinated six Palestinian journalists last week, CBC commentator and former Stephen Harper communications director Dimitri Soudas openly applauded the “elimination” of what he claimed was a “member of a... Continue Reading →
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