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I recently travelled to Puerto Rico to examine the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. While there, I learned that, faced by an existential climate crisis, the Trump administration is exploiting the [...]

March 25, 2019 On March 24, 2019, I concluded a three-city speaking tour about my recent visit to Venezuela. My presentations were open to the public. There was no charge for admission. I was not [...]

(In the photograph above, John Tory and James Pasternak pose with 30 Israeli students visiting Canada in March 2015.) March 22, 2019 On March 21, 2019, I spoke at Toronto City Hall on behalf of [...]

March 21, 2019 In Puerto Rico, I spoke to environmental activist Juan Rosario about the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. As Juan explains, Puerto Rico’s government was warned that a monster [...]

On CIUT radio, the community radio station of the University of Toronto, I explain how Canadian Ministers Chrystia Freeland and Marie-Claude Bibeau peddled a lie about Venezuelan forces setting [...]

For The Real News Network, I recently spoke in Puerto Rico with economist Dr. José Caraballo-Cueto about the economic prospects for an independent Puerto Rico. Would Puerto Rico be better off if [...]

For The Real News Network, I speak to ecologist Francisco Sanchez-Bayo of Sydney University in Australia about a new study showing alarming rates of decline in insect populations. If current [...]

On February 3, 2019, Canadian Ministers Chrystia Freeland and Marie-Claude Bibeau published this statement in which they claimed that Venezuelan forces had burned ‘humanitarian aid’: [...]

Along with Yves Engler, I speak to Sharmini Peries of The Real News Network about the latest revelations in the SNC-Lavalin scandal. As I explain, Justin Trudeau’s argument that his [...]

On Rabble Radio, I speak with David Kattenburg of Green Planet Monitor about my recent fact-finding mission to Caracas. As I explain to David, Canada’s corporate media have greatly [...]