Defy the Powerful

La démission d’Annamie Paul est la bonne décision pour le Parti Vert du Canada. La vie publique est un défi, et je suis encouragé par la détermination de Mme Paul à contribuer d’une [...]

Annamie Paul’s resignation is the right decision for the Green Party of Canada. Public life is challenging, and I am encouraged to hear of Ms. Paul’s determination to contribute in [...]

Today, I am pleased to announce the settlement of my defamation action against B’nai Brith Canada. As part of the settlement, the parties have agreed to delete the materials complained of [...]

(This article from originally published by Canadian Dimension.) On August 19, 2021, four days after the Trudeau government called a federal election, the Green Party of Canada (GPC) disclosed [...]

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Green Left Canada. We understand that capitalism is the core cause of the climate crisis and are deeply committed to an eco-socialist society [...]

Over the past several weeks, the Green Party of Canada (GPC) has experienced unprecedented turmoil, beginning on May 10, when the Green Party issued a statement which did not reflect the [...]

The primary responsibilities of the Green Party leader are to grow the party and act as a spokesperson for the policies the members have duly adopted. Greens across the country are deeply [...]

On May 14, 2021, as Israel’s military rained bombs down on the children of Gaza, Noah Zatzman, senior adviser to Green Party leader Annamie Paul, posted an explosive comment on his Facebook page.

En réponse aux crimes de guerre, le Canada doit exiger des sanctions dès maintenant contre Israël! La population canadienne, la société civile et les organisations de défense des droits humains [...]

In response to Israeli war crimes, Canada must call for Sanctions Now! Canadian individuals, civil society and human rights organizations are increasingly recognising  Israel’s actions for what [...]

Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that a federal agency’s justification for allowing “Product of Israel” labels on wines produced in Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements is woefully [...]

In 2020, I accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of Canadian Dimension (CD). CD describes itself as “the longest-standing voice of the left in Canada. For more than [...]

On March 7, 2021, the Palestinian Youth Movement – Vancouver hosted a panel discussion about the myriad ways in which Canada’s government is complicit in the oppression and suffering [...]

Britain’s leading ‘’centre-left’ newspaper just offered us a textbook example of the liberal media’s embrace of Pentagon propaganda. In an article entitled “US Navy to adopt ‘more assertive [...]

The National Post is apoplectic again. This time, the target of the Post’s ire is an online event held in November by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, the Canadian Peace Congress and the [...]

The Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC) has been embroiled in a legal dispute for two years. That dispute will come to a head at the ICC’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on December 13, 2020, when ICC [...]

This past week, I talked about eco-socialism and the Green Party of Canada leadership contest with Mike Palacek, former President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. As Mike and I discussed, [...]

(This article was originally published in Canadian Dimension.) In early 2008, as the subprime mortgage crisis laid waste to the American financial system, a young, charismatic, African-American [...]