Canadian Politics

After Kinder Morgan issued a press release announcing the suspension of work at the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, Justin Trudeau convened an emergency cabinet meeting. In effect, a [...]

As Justin Trudeau’s government forges ahead with its climate-wrecking plan to facilitate expansion of tar sands infrastructure, resistance is mounting. In the past several days, dozens of [...]

On his recent town hall tour across Canada, Justin Trudeau encountered many Canadians who are indignant about his government’s support for tar sands pipelines. One of those Canadians was [...]

During the NDP leadership campaign, I had the opportunity to ask Jagmeet Singh, who subsequently won the NDP’s leadership contest, whether he supported sanctions on Israel. In this report [...]

During Canada’s 2015 federal election, Montreal-based supporters for the BDS Movement and local candidates of the Communist Party of Canada attempted to draw attention to Steven [...]

For the Real News, I speak to independent oil & gas researcher Regan Boychuk about the failure of governments in Canada to force the tar sands industry to clean up the vast toxic wasteland it [...]

In 2013, a deadly oil train explosion in the small town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec rocked the nation. Despite abundant evidence that the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway Company had placed [...]

Dr. Hassan Diab is a Canadian sociology professor. His academic career was interrupted about a decade ago when he was falsely accused of an attack near a synagogue in Paris, France in 1980. In [...]

On this evening’s Democracy North program which airs on Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5 fm, I discussed with Irwin Oostindie the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Our conversation touched on [...]

On CKUT radio’s program, Under the Olive Tree, I discuss the labelling of wines produced in Israel’s West Bank settlements. As I explain in the interview, those settlements constitute [...]