Canadian Author and Activist
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 →
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 →
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