Gaza and Canada’s refugee double standard – Canadian Dimension
Jan 24, 2024 · The different treatment of Ukrainian and Palestinian refugees exposes a clear double standard. The Trudeau government’s response to Ukraine was swift and comprehensive. There was no cap on how many could apply and they did not need to have Canadian relatives. Ottawa eventually received 1,189,320 applications from Ukrainians and approved 936,293, with 210,178 arriving in Canada.
Saltwire takeover would give Postmedia a coast-to-coast monopoly
Jul 29, 2024 · Here’s how bad things have gotten in Canada’s troubled newspaper industry: one bankrupt chain is now being taken over by a chain that is effectively bankrupt. Believe it or not, there is a high-finance method to this madness, but as CD media columnist Marc Edge explains, it takes a vulture capitalist mindset to wrap your brain around it.
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Anatomy of a soccer scandal. Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva / October 18, 2024 / 7 min read. Even as the Canada Soccer drone spying scandal dominated news at the Olympics and apparently raised the most fundamental questions about ethics and harm, the Israeli national soccer team was still permitted by FIFA to compete in the Games.
Eby says the true part about Big Media out loud
Feb 11, 2024 · If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took his lead from BC Premier David Eby, he might actually win points with the public. A series of blunders on his watch has made a mess of our media, which already needed a lot of cleaning up, so a very hard line against behemoths such as Bell may be needed now more than ever.
An endgame in Ukraine may be fast approaching
Feb 22, 2024 · Even if Ukraine can somehow regain the initiative, it seems very doubtful that it could ever gain the degree of military superiority that it would need to achieve its stated political objective of restoring its 1991 borders. It would be unwise to say that that is impossible, but at present it’s very hard indeed to imagine how it could be done.
Canada may be on a path to digital totalitarianism
Mar 22, 2023 · Another breadcrumb has landed which suggests that Canadians may be on a path to digital authoritarianism, or even totalitarianism, if some politicians in Ottawa get their way. First the standing committee of Canadian Heritage began a legislative spree to regulate the Internet. Now the committee’s MPs want digital giants Google and Facebook to hand over their private communications with ...
‘Police Wife’: the secret epidemic of police domestic violence
Oct 31, 2015 · Domestic violence takes place in up to a staggering 40 percent of law enforcement families, but police departments mostly ignore the problem or let it slide, write ex-police wife Susanna Hope and award-winning investigative journalist Alex Roslin in their new book Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence. The following excerpt is …
Asper’s legacy of media control lives on in HonestReporting Canada
Feb 8, 2024 · Much of our US hedge fund-owned right-wing news media bash Palestinian sympathizers, and such publications now vastly out-number our few remaining liberal media outlets, which are constantly harassed by groups like HonestReporting Canada, a billionaire-funded organization founded in 2003 to “control the narrative” on …
Israel’s tent camp massacre in Rafah is a heinous war crime
May 29, 2024 · For over eight months, Palestinians in Gaza have been sharing live videos of their daily executions, pleading with the world to stop the carnage. But the Western political class has remained silent, piping up only to offer platitudes about human rights and international law, while refusing to rein in Israel’s unhinged barbarity, let alone impose sanctions on a genocidal state.
Ottawa sides with Peruvian right-wing amid social uprising
Dec 17, 2022 · Ottawa’s response to the ouster of left-wing Peruvian President Pedro Castillo last week matches its reaction to similar crises throughout Latin America, in which the right-wing earns Canada’s complete support and progressive forces, be they political leaders or popular social movements, are either demonized or ignored.