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NOVANEWS Robert Parry, Consortium News In an interview on Wednesday, Ben-Menashe, 61, said he did not want to speculate about who was behind the attack. However, he noted that he has accumulated a number of enemies over the years after going public with information about his work for Israeli intelligence from 1977 to 1989 and exposing secret dealings by the Reagan administration with Iran and Iraq. In more recent years, as an international consultant often working in global hotspots, Ben-Menashe has been involved in other controversies, including a role blowing the whistle on a questionable 2010 business deal by Arthur Porter, who was then in charge of overseeing Canadian intelligence services and who ran the McGill University Health Centre. Porter resigned both posts, and the scandal ...

 NOVANEWS Contributed by blackandred on Sun, 2012/12/02 - 1:27pm In sections: By Karl Nerenberg The Minister of Immigration, Jason Kenney, had some pretty tough words on Friday for a country he has, in the past, described as a “liberal democracy” that “respects human rights.” At a news conference in Ottawa on Friday, Kenney said that during a recent visit to that country he noted “a very disturbing rise of xenophobic extremism.” He told reporters he was very disturbed to hear accounts from members of ethnic and religious minority communities about “expressions of hatred and xenophobia” and was “deeply concerned” about the actions of neo-Nazi political extremists he referred to as “crazy and hateful xenophobic nutbars.” The Minister added, pointedly, that he “had very blunt discussions wit...

NOVANEWS thestate.com Canada’s foreign affairs minister said Friday he is reviewing the country’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority and temporarily recalling senior diplomats from Israel, the West Bank and the United Nations missions in New York and Geneva to assess the implications of Thursday’s U.N. General Assembly vote to recognize the Palestinians as a non-member observer state. John Baird said in a statement he is deeply disappointed by the U.N. vote, in which Canada joined Israel, the United States and a few other countries in voting “no.” He said the only way to peace in the Middle East is through negotiations, not what he called unilateral actions. Recalling the diplomats will “inform Canada’s response” to the vote, he said. Baird, whose Conservative government is a st...

NOVANEWS Even though there are many in the Canadian Jewish community who are active opponents of Zionism, they are rarely given media coverage in order to conceal Israel’s illegitimacy among the Jewish people.Braving cold winds, Canadians, many of them of Jewish background, picketed outside the Metro Convention Centre on November 18 to protest Israel's brutal war against Gaza. The Jewish National Fund was holding its annual Negev Gala at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.The picket was announced barely a day before the event. It was organized by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) and endorsed by Women in Solidarity with Palestine (WSP), Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), Not In Our Name (NION), Jews Opposing Zionism, Palestine House, Coalition Against Israeli A...

NOVANEWS BY RUSSELL DIABO http://intercontinentalcry.org/harper-launches-major-first-nations-termination-plan-as-negotiating-tables-legitimize-canadas-colonialism/    On September 4th the Harper government clearly signaled its intention to:1) Focus all its efforts to assimilate First Nations into the existing federal and provincial orders of government of Canada;2) Terminate the constitutionally protected and internationally recognized Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights of First Nations.Termination in this context means the ending of First Nations pre-existing sovereign status through federal coercion of First Nations into Land Claims and Self-Government Final Agreements that convert First Nations into municipalities, their reserves into fee simple lands and extinguishment o...

NOVANEWS On this week's episode of Progressive Voices, I speak with Yves Engler, award winning author and activist, on his latest book entitled "The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy." From opposition to the democratic uprising in Egypt, to support for a military coup in Honduras, to lobbying for the Tar Sands and environmental destruction, Harper has taken Canadian foreign policy to unprecedented lows. BY RIAZ SAYANI-MULJI    NOVEMBER 5, 2012  Title: Yves Engler The Ugly Canadian Length: 10:39 minutes (9.75 MB) [ED NOTES;ALSO SEE.. Palestine turning into crucial issue for Canadians  On this week's episode of Progressive Voices, I speak with Yves Engler, award winning author and activist, on his latest book entitled "The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper's Foreign...

NOVANEWS Allege ‘bias’ against special investigator on human rights in occupied Palestinian territories Associated Press The UN special investigator on human rights in the Palestinian territories called Wednesday for a boycott of all companies that have dealings with Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem until they adhere to international rights standards and practices. Israel, the U.S. and Canada all rejected Richard Falk’s report, accusing the UN special rapporteur of bias against Israel and calling for his removal. In a report presented to the UN General Assembly, Falk said a number of Israeli-owned and multinational corporations headquartered in the U.S., Europe and Mexico appear to be violating international human rights and humanitarian laws by exploiting Palestin...