Canada

Defriending Canada: Natural Disasters and Facebook’s Information Scrub

Australia experienced this in February 2021.  Facebook had gotten nastily stroppy, wishing to dictate public policy to the Commonwealth government.  To teach Canberra mandarins a lesson, it literally unfriended the entire country, scrubbing all news platforms of content and making any posted links through the platform inaccessible.  It mattered not that the content involved the […]

Jordan Peterson: Canada is Trampling on My God-Given Right to Free Speech

Justin Trudeau's Government is at the forefront of the woke assault on our essential human liberties, says Jordan Peterson, as the psychologist faces the loss of his professional licence over tweets.
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Trudeaumania Unravels as Canada Grows Disillusioned With Liberals

Facing economic challenges, personal controversies and divisive policy decisions, the popularity of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has plummeted; his Liberal Party is on course to lose the next election.
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Does Canada have Political Prisoners?

In the 1970s, Canada held American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier and turned him over to the U.S. Feds; Now the Coutts Four have been denied bail and have been in prison for more than 500 days without trial. The threat of domestic terrorism by right-wing groups is being invoked to justify shredding of […]
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Paper of Record tells Tall Tale of Canada Pushing Democracy 

 Globe and Mail omissions enable its wild foreign policy claims. By failing to mention crucial history Canada’s ‘paper of record’ can claim the military spreads the “democratic gospel” in Africa. A recent front page Globe story headlined “Honduran women risk death and imprisonment as they try to access reproductive care” discussed the plight of women […]

Gussying up Colonialism?

Colonialism has as its aim gaining ownership/control of the land and its resources regardless of whether or not the land was already populated by an Indigenous people. Morality aside, colonialism has been very successful in the context of Turtle Island. This is also true in northwestern Turtle Island, where the colonies designated “Vancouver Island” and […]

Canada Should be Ashamed of its Shambolic and Authoritarian Covid Response

Canadian public health officials are reeling following the publication of an investigation in the BMJ criticising Canada's Covid response, though its criticisms aren't necessarily the ones sceptics would agree with.
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Democracy vs. Repression: Guess What Ottawa Supports in Peru?

Last week tens of thousands took to the streets of Lima. Thousands traveled from across the country to Peru’s capital to participate in the Third Takeover of Lima since elected president Pedro Castillo was overthrown in December. The protesters are calling for the removal of deeply unpopular usurper president Dina Boluarte. Eight months since Castillo’s ouster demonstrations continue despite significant state violence. About 70 […]