Defy the Powerful

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 [...]

In August 2016, on the eve of the Green Party of Canada’s biannual general meeting, B’nai Brith Canada, a “staunch defender” of the state of Israel, published an article [...]

On my own behalf and on behalf of the passionate, inspiring and dedicated members of our campaign team, I am writing to thank you for your support in the Green Party of Canada leadership race.   [...]

Recently, I spoke with Jack Etkin of Citizen’s Forum in Victoria, B.C. As I discussed with Jack, for me, Eco-Socialism means simply that all members of society, without exception, have a [...]

Yesterday, at the General Dynamics plant in London, Ontario, I joined with Amnesty International and dozens of human rights activists to condemn the Trudeau government’s sale of weaponized [...]