Canadian Author and Activist
Canada is directly supporting Donald Trump’s criminal blockade of Venezuela. It’s also assisting US violence that could spur unimaginable devastation. The US navy recently seized a tanker carrying oil from Venezuela to Cuba. A few days after this act of piracy, Trump announced a “total and complete blockade” of oil tankers the US has sanctioned... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis has driven his supporters down an authoritarian, anti-socialist, path. The NDP leadership candidate’s role in assisting the party establishment’s bid to crush an insurgent campaign doesn’t portend well for an individual whose family’s history is steeped in crushing the left. NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson has applauded an individual who fought for Hitler... Continue Reading →
Mark Carney is setting up a “people’s army”. The Former Goldman Sachs banker and chair of Brookfield Assets is turning Canada into socialist republic and anti-imperialist beachhead. If you believe Carney is setting up a “people’s army”, Charlie Angus has a bridge to sell you in Moose Jaw. The former NDP MP and member of... Continue Reading →
Ignoring our leader’s geopolitical belligerence towards Russia has cost Canadians greatly. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being wasted because we failed to restrain our leaders from ousting an elected government and promoting NATO expansion. A friend recently emailed saying Canada has funnelled $50 billion into Ukraine since the 2014 ouster of elected President Viktor... Continue Reading →
The NDP vetters are either comfortable with being anti-Palestinian or embarrassingly ignorant. As a rationale for rejecting my leadership application, the NDP’s unelected three person vetting committee asserted I “repeatedly called to abolish Canada’s list of terrorist organizations, which would remove a key national condemnation of groups that have violated international human rights law.” Yes,... Continue Reading →
The NDP’s almighty vetters are incompetent. As a reason for rejecting my leadership application, the unelected three person vetting committee wrote that I “expressed an intention to run for the Green Party of Canada” while campaigning for NDP leader. That’s odd. Is a Green Party leadership race taking place? Or maybe I announced early to... Continue Reading →
The unelected three person NDP vetting committee’s decision to block members’ right to choose who they want to lead has revitalized No Democracy Party claims. But if you read their rationale it gives oxygen to the No Activism Party descriptor. In the largest international focused protest movement in Canadian history, there have been several thousand... Continue Reading →
Heather McPherson has some strange ways of demonstrating she is pro-Palestinian and a foe of Israel’s genocide, apartheid and ongoing ethnic cleansing. Yesterday Heather McPherson introduced the NDP’s leading anti-Palestinian into the party’s gamed leadership race. She sent thousands an email from recently retired MP Randall Garrison. One of the party’s most prominent Zionists in... Continue Reading →
“Pro-Palestinian activist Yves Engler barred from running for NDP leadership”, noted the Canadian Press. The headline should have added “once again”. At the NDP’s recent leadership debate in Montreal there wasn’t a single question about the Canadian-backed slaughter in Gaza. And none of candidate on the debate stage raised the subject. Heather McPherson talked about... Continue Reading →
Up is down. Right is left. International law is whatever empire says it is. Democracy is following our rules. The audacity, chauvinism and absurdity of the NDP vetting committee is a sight to behold. To justify denying party members the right to choose whether they want me to lead the party, the three-person backroom committee... Continue Reading →
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 →
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