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Inside Canada’s Outsized and Under-Scrutinized Bid to Overthrow Maduro
VENEZUELAN COUP Inside Canada’s Outsized and Under-Scrutinized Bid to Overthrow Maduro Canada has been a major player in orchestrating repeated coup attempts in Venezuela since Juan Guaido declared himself president in January. OTTAWA — Canada’s foreign policy, under the auspices of Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, is bucking the country’s long standing tradition of generally staying out […]
Trudeau’s Climate Change Policy Is Strategically Inadequate
Trudeau’s Climate Change Policy Is Strategically Inadequate Approving a pipeline while declaring a climate emergency is ‘climate change denial with a human face.’ The Trudeau government’s recent actions — declaring a climate emergency and re-approving the Trans Mountain expansion project within two days — aren’t just hypocritical: they’re morally equivalent to climate change denial. The […]
Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency
Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency A five-point plan for mainstream media to cover fewer Royal babies and a lot more of our unfolding global catastrophe. To:Karyn Pugliese, president, Canadian Association of JournalistsMartin O’Hanlon, president, CWA CanadaFiona Conway, president, Radio Television Digital News AssociationJohn Hinds, president and chief executive officer, […]
Canada’s Meddling in Venezuela
Canada’s Meddling in Venezuela Why does the dominant media pay so much attention to Russian “meddling” in other countries, but little to Canada’s longstanding interference in the political affairs of nations thousands of kilometres from our borders? The case of Ben Rowswell illustrates the double standard well. The current Canadian International Council President has been […]
On Climate, Does Trudeau’s Canada Play Hero or Villain?
On Climate, Does Trudeau’s Canada Play Hero or Villain? The Tyee asked global experts, and got some surprising answers. How does Canada rate in fighting climate change? Better than most countries, especially ones where fossil fuels drive politics. Terribly for the world, because if every country copied Canada, that would ensure climate catastrophe. That’s the […]
Canada’s Minister of Defence is an Arms Pusher
Canada’s Minister of Defence is an Arms Pusher Would it surprise you to learn that Canada’s minister of defence is an arms pusher? Last Friday members of Mouvement Québécois pour la Paix interrupted a $135-a-plate luncheon to confront defence minister Harjit Sajjan. At an event sponsored by SNC Lavalin, Bombardier, Rio Tinto, etc., we called for cutting military spending, for Canada to […]
A “Cancer On Our Economy”: Report Finds Over $7 Billion Laundered Through British Columbia In 2018
A “Cancer On Our Economy”: Report Finds Over $7 Billion Laundered Through British Columbia In 2018 It may have taken a while, but now that housing prices are starting to crash in Vancouver, BC legislators are finally starting to get wise to the fact that the province has been a hot bed for money laundering. It was an easy […]
The Origins of the Deep State in North America
The Origins of the Deep State in North America Part one: The Rise of the Round Table Movement and the Sad Case of Canada (1864-1945). “Two systems are before the world; the one looks to increasing the proportion of persons and of capital engaged in trade and transportation, and therefore to diminishing the proportion engaged […]
Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta’s Dubious Climate Claims
Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta’s Dubious Climate Claims As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots. Trust us. That has long been the message from the oil sector to the Alberta public, which seems to have little choice in the matter. In a bizarre arrangement, the Alberta oil patch pays […]
Legal Weed In Canada Struggles To Compete With Black Market
Legal Weed In Canada Struggles To Compete With Black Market Six months after Canada became the first country in the developed world to legalize marijuana, legal sales of dried cannabis flower went up in smoke as consumers shifted to illicit markets. A marijuana shortage left the industry in shock earlier this year and caused concerns that Canadian cannabis producers […]
“Psychologically, They’re Ill-Prepared” – Canadian Chaos Looms
“Psychologically, They’re Ill-Prepared” – Canadian Chaos Looms Via Grant’s Almost Daily, I’m your huckleberry “U.S. hedge funds from time to time have appeared in this country over the last 10 years, with the same hypothesis of shorting Canadian banks, and it hasn’t worked out very well for them,” Brian Porter, CEO of the Bank of Nova […]
Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media
Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media Surveillance is going ahead without oversight or accountability, for one. You should care, even be scared, by The Tyee’s reports on the RCMP’s “Operation Wide Awake,” a secretive and unsupervised social media monitoring operation. We’re already deep into a new era. Police — and businesses […]
Both Notley and Kenney Hiding from a $260-Billion Cleanup Problem
Both Notley and Kenney Hiding from a $260-Billion Cleanup Problem The Alberta government may well leave taxpayers to clean up the oil and gas industry’s mess. The main thing Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley have in common, other than their affinity for pipelines, is their joint fear of the possible $260-billion cleanup bill for the […]
New Canadian Bonds Are Backed By Junk Rated Retailers And Consumer Loans Charging 40% Interest
New Canadian Bonds Are Backed By Junk Rated Retailers And Consumer Loans Charging 40% Interest In a unique twist on the excesses of the last credit bubble, Canada’s bond market is now issuing bonds backed by increasingly riskier assets, but that hasn’t stopped investors from jumping at the chance to buy them – because why would […]
Morneau is Flying Blind
Morneau is Flying Blind The Trudeau Government continues to resist calls for an overhaul of its complex tax regime. Yet Bill Morneau, Canada’s Minister of Finance, who was in town this week to address the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, wouldn’t name a single non-accountant that he knew who understands tax code. Pressed by local media, […]
