Canadian Politics

After militarized RCMP officers arrested 14 land defenders on the sovereign territory of the Wet’Suwet’en people, solidarity protests erupted across Canada. For The Real News, I attended one of [...]

During the recently concluded United Nations 24th Climate Change Conference (COP24), the environmental organizations Stand.earth and Environmental Defense issued a report criticizing the Canadian [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Dave Bleakney, Second National Vice-President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Dave explains that Justin Trudeau’s government has shown little [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Mike Palecek, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, about Justin Trudeau’s attempt to deprive postal workers of the right to strike. Mike [...]

In Quebec, a massive class action has been launched against Justin Trudeau’s Government for its failure to act on the climate crisis. The action has been brought on behalf of 3.5 million [...]

For the Real News, I speak to Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta about a recent, stunning revelation that Alberta’s Energy Regulator (AER) has grossly misrepresented to the public the true costs to [...]

There is a moment in Henry Kissinger’s memoirs — do not buy the book — when Nixon and Kissinger are looking out at tens of thousands of anti-war protesters who have surrounded the [...]

In January 2017, Dr. David Kattenburg of Winnipeg, Canada filed a complaint with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) about two wines produced in Israel’s illegal settlements. Those [...]

This week, I talked with Marc Steiner​ of The Real News Network about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent Twitter attack on me. The genesis of Trudeau’s attack was a deceptive [...]

For The Real News, I speak with Hamza Shaiban, founder of the Yemeni Community in Canada, about Canadian arms sales to the brutal Saudi autocracy. After describing the appalling conditions in [...]