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Over the past three weeks Israel has killed over 8,000 Palestinians and injured 20,000 more. The more than 8,000 missiles Israel has launched into the Gaza Strip have destroyed around 20,000 buildings. Reportedly, the quantity of explosives that have been dropped on an area the size of Montréal exceeds 12,000 tons, which is equivalent to the... Continue Reading →
Jewish suffering matters to Canadian politicians. Palestinian suffering doesn’t. Soon after the resistance broke through their cage in Gaza, the leaders of Canada’s four main federal parties condemned the Palestinians. The same politicians who cheer on resistance to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine denounce Palestinian fighters who captured Israeli tanks, soldiers and bases, all instruments of... Continue Reading →
What do you call it when a Canadian ambassador justifies the placing of a bomb in a café to kill a prominent member of the media and which injures dozens of others? Diplomacy? Earlier this week Canada’s ambassador to the UN excused blowing up a Russian cafe to kill a pro-war commentator. Bob Rae’s statement... Continue Reading →
Apparently discussing the “path to peace” in Ukraine is hateful. After trying to ban a talk questioning Canada’s role in the NATO proxy war a Ukrainian student group smeared it. Two weeks ago, I spoke with Tamara Lorincz and Miguel Figueroa at a Carleton University event titled “The War in Ukraine: What is the Path... Continue Reading →
“We need to make sure that the solutions are driven by the people of Haiti themselves,” noted Justin Trudeau after meeting US president Joe Biden in Mexico City last week. In December Canada’s prime minister was quoted in a release saying Canada was working to “support a Haitian-led solution” to the country’s crisis while in... Continue Reading →
Ottawa’s Haiti sanctions are so surprisingly well targeted that one must ask, did the Liberals bid to lead a foreign military intervention drive them to target former allies? In recent weeks the Liberals have sanctioned former Haitian president Michel Martelly, Gilbert Bigio, the country’s richest man, and other politicians and members of Haiti’s light skinned... Continue Reading →
An important, if rarely mentioned, rule of Canadian foreign policy is the more impoverished a nation, the greater the gap is likely to be between what Canadian officials say and do. The primary explanation for the gap between what’s said and done is that power generally defines what is considered reality. So, the bigger the... Continue Reading →
If the Canadian government was really trying to “help” Haiti solve its political and insecurity crisis it would criticize police who kill protesters. In recent days Ottawa has aggressively taken up the Haitian cause. On Wednesday Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae met the president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, to talk... Continue Reading →
Should antiwar forces challenge power or praise government officials in the hopes of getting some crumbs for their pet issue? Douglas Roche’s recent Hill Times column suggests the latter. In an article extolling Canada’s new ambassador to the UN Roche writes: “When Canada lost its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council the... Continue Reading →
Last week the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), under pressure from Palestine solidarity activists, began an audit of the Jewish National Fund. The audit is significant. Beyond weakening the oldest Israel-focused charity in the country, it will put other Israeli charities in Canada on notice and reflects the growth of Palestine... Continue Reading →
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