The NDP is incoherent on Gaza genocide – Canadian Dimension
WEBFeb 16, 2024 · Canadians deserve to know the extent of our government’s complicity in the destruction of Gaza, but the NDP is talking out of both sides of its mouth. While criticizing military exports to Israel, New Democrat leaders have largely adopted Israel’s framing of the war and condemned voices speaking out in support of Palestinians. This has occurred at both the federal and provincial level.
Misinformation on Cuba, again – Canadian Dimension
WEBMay 15, 2024 · And no. In fact, Cuba has been the victim of terrorism since the early 1960s: over 3,000 Cubans were killed and 2,000 wounded in terrorist acts on the island. Moreover, in April 2020 a Cuban exile fired 32 shots from an AK-47 rifle at the Cuban embassy in Washington, and in September 23 two Molotov cocktails were also thrown at the embassy.
History contradicts claims that October 7 attacks unprovoked
WEBMay 25, 2024 · Mainstream editors claim that Israel’s ongoing Gaza campaign is completely justified by Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack. The Hamas attack killed approximately 1,200 Israelis and resulted in over 200 hostages taken and retained. Unfortunately, this “unprovoked” assault was entirely predictable given occupied Palestine’s tragic history.
Canada Post issues mass suspension for workers exercising their …
WEBApr 3, 2023 · On February 16, over 40 CUPW members at a Canada Post processing plant in Edmonton exercised their right to complain at a pre-scheduled meeting with management, who initially refused to give them five minutes to read their prepared statement and threatened them with discipline. Then those members were served with five-day consecutive suspensions and final warnings. Brett McKay reports.
Canadian Dimension
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Indigenous resistance challenges Ontario’s ‘mining boom’
WEBAug 3, 2023 · As Canada’s governments hungrily scour domestic and foreign territory in search of critical minerals—an essential part of Ottawa’s new Cold War on China—Ontario Premier Doug Ford is attempting to spin demand into a provincial mining boom.. Ontario’s first-ever Critical Minerals Strategy (CMS), announced alongside a federal initiative of the same name, proclaims that the province is ...
The world will not mourn the decline of US hegemony
WEBMar 1, 2018 · The biggest costs have fallen on the many millions killed and maimed by the US military and allied and proxy forces in the last seven decades and before. The victims include the many US military veterans who have killed themselves, many of them haunted by their own participation in sadistic attacks and torture on defenseless people at the distant command of sociopathic imperial masters ...
Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians or more killed in Gaza
WEBJul 9, 2024 · A new online publication posted by the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet estimates that the current death toll from Israel’s brutal assault on the Gaza Strip—which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has described as “plausible genocide”—is at least 186,000. This would translate to nearly eight percent of Gaza’s population. The bombshell death toll estimate is roughly ...
Corporate ownership of media has failed Canadians
WEBFeb 19, 2024 · Postmedia Network, which owns 15 of our 21 largest dailies, has been laying off journalists relentlessly for the past 14 years in order to drain the company of more than $500 million in debt payments. The owners and shareholders of our gigantic telecom companies demand greater and greater profits to feed their ever-increasing dividends.
How Canada’s support for NATO expansion led to the Ukraine …
WEBMar 1, 2022 · Eighteen Canadian CF-18 jets dropped 530 bombs during the 78-day assault, which deepened Kosovo’s separation from Serbia. The former Yugoslavia’s division into ethnic states was attractive to NATO because it diminished Russian influence in the Mediterranean. Canada continues to provide logistical support to NATO’s Kosovo Force.