Canadian Politics

On April 4, just before Trump’s attack on the Syrian government, I interviewed Yves Engler for the Real News. The question which Yves and I discussed was whether Canada truly has an [...]

For The Real News Network, I interviewed this week Canadian author and activist Nora Loreto about the leadership contests in the Conservative Party and the NDP. The interview can be viewed here: [...]

[A slightly modified version of this op-ed first appeared in The Gazette, the student newspaper at Western University in London, Ontario.] In June 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israel began its [...]

In 2012, NASA scientist James Hansen wrote in the New York Times that, if Canada continues to exploit the vast oil reserves in its tar sands, then it’s “game over for the [...]

NEWS RELEASE March 1, 2017 A second batch of results from an EKOS survey of Canadians’ attitudes towards Israel reveals a dramatic schism between Canadian government policy and Canadians’ deep [...]

On the Real News, with Earl Washburn of EKOS Research Associates, Dimitri explains why the Canadian government’s lavish support for Israel is undemocratic: [...]

(This op-ed was originally published in Ricochet Media) In the first all-party leaders’ debate in Canada’s 2015 federal election, Stephen Harper, arguably the most pro-Israel Prime Minister in [...]

Following the first meeting between Trump and Trudeau, I discuss with Canadian author and social activist Nora Loreto whether the economic integration of Canada and the United States is a [...]

On The Real News, I discuss with Emma Gilchrist, Executive Director of Desmog Canada, the dangers posed by the Trans Mountain pipeline project. Emma explains that claims by the federal and [...]

On the Real News, I discuss with Sharmini Peries the decision to replace Foreign Minister Stephane Dion with International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, and the implications that [...]