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 [...]
I’m honoured to the have endorsement of Roger Waters in the Green Party of Canada’s Leadership race. Roger is not only an extraordinary musician, he is also admired around the world [...]
This morning, I learned that my application to participate in the Green Party of Canada leadership race has been accepted following a successful appeal from a decision of a vetting committee. My [...]
In this week’s episode of Dimitri Live, I and my co-hosts Lia Tarachansky, Wendy Goldsmith and Atul Bahl discussed how we can build a more caring society as we emerge from the pandemic. We [...]
Last month, in a letter to the Hill Times, I responded to an op-ed by Phil Gurski, a former senior strategic analyst with Canada’s spy agency (CSIS), in which Mr. Gurski raised the spectre [...]
In the latest episode of Dimitri Live, Wendy Goldsmith and I spoke to domestic violence expert Maureen Reid about the ways in which we can provide vital support to victims of domestic violence [...]
On May Day 2020, I participated in a Webinar on the COVID-19 crisis. As I explained, now more than ever we need international solidarity, but if anything, the world’s major powers seem to [...]
To date, on a per capita basis, Canada and the United States have suffered far more COVID19-related deaths than Cuba. This week on Dimitri Live, I asked Cuba-based, British journalist Ed Augustin [...]
