Canada Archives - Page 12 of 36

21Jun

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Canada

Canadian government to buy stalled Trans Mountain pipeline project

NOVANEWS By Eric Buerk Sept. 9, 2017 protest against Kinder Morgan Pipeline, Vancouver, B.C. By William Chen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62555725 On May 29 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans for the federal government to spend $4.5 billion to acquire the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project from Texas-based oil corporation Kinder Morgan should the government fail to find a buyer for the massive project before July 22. In the process, he has pledged unequivocally that his government is committed to seeing the process through to completion- at a total cost of $7.4 billion, according to Kinder Morgan estimates. The promise amounts to a bailout for the stalled project, which had been abandoned after meeting with dogg...

27May

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Canada, North Korea, South Korea

Canada, the Corean Dispute and Foreign Policy Mythology

NOVANEWS By Yves Engler Repeat after me: Canada is seldom a force for good in the world, Canada is seldom a force for good in the world. Thomas Walkom’s “Canada should board Korean peace train” is yet another example of how the progressive end of the dominant media has been seduced by Canadian foreign policy mythology. The leftist Toronto Star columnist offers an astute analysis of what’s driving rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula. He points out that the two Koreas are moving the process forward and that Pyongyang believes “complete denuclearization” of the Peninsula includes the US forces in the region aiming nuclear weapons at it. But, Walkom’s column is cloaked in naivety about Canada’s role in the geopolitical hotspot. He ignores the international summit Ottawa and Washington orga...

23May

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Canada’s Shameful Hypocrisy on Display!

NOVANEWS By Marion Kawas | Canada Palestine Association Six weeks after Israeli snipers started killing and maiming Palestinians, including children, journalists, and medical workers, Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau finally released a carefully worded statement regarding the situation. The statement came only after the wounding of a Canadian doctor on the ground in Gaza, Tarek Loubani. Activists familiar with the long history of complicity and duplicity of successive Canadian governments cautioned that the statement missed the mark on two main points. Firstly, it studiously avoided any mention of the culpability of the Israeli government by name, anywhere in the statement. Secondly, although there was a call for an independent investigation, it was worded this way: “Canada calls for an immed...

16May

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Confronting Anti-Palestinianism in Canada’s NDP

NOVANEWS By Yves Engler This is the final article in a four-part series on the NDP leadership’s suppression of debate on the Palestine Resolution. Here are the first, second and third installments on the topic. To effect change people need to know what and who they are up against. By nakedly suppressing debate on the Palestine Resolution at its recent convention the NDP leadership did internationalist minded party members the favour of clarifying that. They demonstrated the need to directly confront anti-Palestinianism within the party. Over the next year NDPers who support Palestinian rights and care about party democracy should hound the leadership over their suppression of the Palestine Resolution. Every single elected representative, staffer, riding association executive and party ac...

14May

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Confronting Anti-Palestinianism in Canada’s NDP

NOVANEWS by Yves Engler This is the final article in a four-part series on the NDP leadership’s suppression of debate on the Palestine Resolution. Here are the first, secondand third instalments on the topic. To effect change people need to know what and who they are up against. By nakedly suppressing debate on the Palestine Resolution at its recent convention the NDP leadership did internationalist minded party members the favour of clarifying that. They demonstrated the need to directly confront anti-Palestinianism within the party. Over the next year NDPers who support Palestinian rights and care about party democracy should hound the leadership over their suppression of the Palestine Resolution. Every single elected representative, staffer, riding association executive and party acti...

13May

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Welcome Home! Canada’s Trudeau Government Welcomes Confessed ISIS Terrorist back to Toronto

NOVANEWS By Mark Taliano Global Research Dear Canada: Your government supports al Qaeda and al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists. It supports all of the terrorists in Syria. Some of these terrorists are coming home to Canada. As a Canadian you can do little about this since you have supported these terrorists yourselves with your silence and your support for your government’s terrorist-supporting foreign policy. . . According to Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi, and confirmed by “multiple intelligence agencies”, Abu Huzaifa “al-Kanadi” has been a member of ISIS in Syria. Reportedly, he fought for ISIS in Manbj Syria. Now, he has returned home to Canada, and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale refuses to provide details on his status.[1] None of this is surprising to informed Canad...

27Feb

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Canada, Palestine Affairs

Montreal Gazette’s anti-Palestinian bias

NOVANEWS By Yves Engler Shame on the Montréal Gazette. Shame on Dan Delmar. Even when McGill’s uber-Israeli nationalist administration dismisses allegations of “anti-Semitism” the paper and its writer uses them to smear freedom promoting students. In October Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee activist Noah Lew cried “anti-Semitism” after he wasn’t voted on to the Board of Directors of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU). At a General Assembly Democratize SSMU sought to impeach the student union’s president Muna Tojiboeva. The ad-hoc student group was angry over her role in suspending an SSMU vice president and adopting a Judicial Board decision that declared a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions resolution unconstitutional. While they couldn’t muster the two thirds o...

11Feb

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Canada, Palestine Affairs

At Canada’s New Democratic Party Convention, Palestine Is Set to Be Major Flashpoint

NOVANEWS By Yves Engler | Palestine Chronicle At next week’s New Democratic Party convention in Ottawa Palestinian rights are set to be a major flashpoint. The NDP Socialist Caucus has submitted a resolution calling on the party to “actively campaign in support of the demand of Palestinian unions, civil society and unions across Canada and around the world which call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against the Israeli state until it dismantles the apartheid wall, allows refugees to return home, ends its demolition of Palestinian homes and olive groves, lifts the siege of Gaza, ends its occupation of Palestinian lands, and terminates its apartheid practices.” A more moderate “Palestine Resolution: renewing the NDP’s commitment to peace and justice” has been endorsed by two dozen ri...

18Jan

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Canada, USA

Canada Embraces US War Threats against North Korea. “Epic Fail” of Vancouver Group

NOVANEWS By Jim Miles Global Research Yesterday (2017-01-16) Canada hosted a meeting of Foreign Ministers to discuss the situation concerning North Korea and nuclear weapons. What it amounted to was a bunch of U.S. sock puppets gathering to display subservience to the incredible double standards and lies promulgated by the U.S. It should be noted that the 20 invitees were the countries that had militarily supported the UN vote as the U.S. took advantage of a boycott by the USSR and the absence of China in order to start the international part of the war in the first place. Except of course, Russia and China, who also participated in the war, with the latter handing the U.S. one of its largest battlefield defeats in the process, were not invited. As host of the event, Canada’s ...

14Jan

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Canada, South Korea

Canada Should Play Conscientious Role in Korea

NOVANEWS By Prof. Graeme McQueen and Christopher Black Global Research Featured image: A family eats ice cream in North Korea (Source: Eva Bartlett) Lawyer Chris Black and Prof. Graeme MacQueen are helping build a revitalized peace movement. Part of that involves standing up to the barrage of propaganda on North Korea, and demanding that our government play a more positive role in defusing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. We discuss their recent op-ed article in the Toronto Star, the less-known reality of Korea, and the U.S. as a stopping block to peace.