Canada

Laying bare the unpalatable truth about capitalism, red in tooth and claw. Proletarian writers Kamloops Indian residential school survivor Evelyn Camille. Some 150,000 Indian, Inuit and Metis children were forced into such schools, where students were physically and sexually abused by staff who stripped them of their culture and language. At least 4,100 students died from disease, malnutrition or neglect, according to the findings of the truth and reconciliation commission. This ‘assimilation’ project was in reality an attempt to separate the native people from their resource-rich land. The recent discovery in the grounds of a former Canadian residential school of an unmarked mass grave containing the remains of 215 indigenous children brings to a head years of painfull...

Canada Terrorist May Have Been ‘Decked out in IDF Combat Gear’ and Swastikas- Report By VT Editors The National Post, Toronto’s Jewish Newspaper: ” Veltman is a Christian…who simply had trouble steering his truck…” Other reports: “This guy got out of the car with a military helmet and armour on,” he said “He had a big bull bar on the front of the truck and tinted windows. It looked like he was prepared to do something fucking crazy.” (Toronto Star) The driver arrested in an alleged hate-motivated attack that killed four family members in London laughed as police took him into custody in a mall parking lot, a traumatized taxi driver who witnessed the arrest told his boss. The pickup driver was wearing what appeared to be a bullet-proof vest, a military-style helmet...

By VT Editor VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE NAME OF HUMAN RIGHTS First they came for the holocaust denialists and I did not speak out as I was not a holocaust denialist…. By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor In Europe and Canada, saying that any commonly held belief taught in Israel about the holocaust may be incorrect can land you in prison for up to 20 years.  If you say only 5,999,999 Jews died, you go to prison.  If you say they were shot, not gassed, you go to prison. In a world where the only part of the nightly news that can be believed is the sports scores, Americans are infamous for lying about the weather as are Italians, Ernst Zundel was sent from Canada to serve 5 years in prison in Germany for doubting the official version of the holocaust. ...

Unprecedented Debt Crisis in the Making By Michelle Rempel Garner and Mark Taliano There are several economic elephants in Canada’s room. One of them is neoliberal economic orthodoxy. Broadly speaking, neoliberalism can be defined in terms of a “trinity”: privatization, deregulation, the evisceration of the public sphere. It speaks to corporate power and public subservience. More expansively, neoliberalism is emblematic of these characteristics, as described by Joyce Nelson in her book, Bypassing Dystopia (1) Deregulation, open borders for capital, small government/big state, tax cuts for multinational corporations, austerity budgets, union-busting, privatization of public assets (recycling), corporate rights (“free trade”) deals, tax havens, no limits to growt...