Canadian imperialism shaken by US debacle in Afghanistan
Outside Washington and Wall Street, the collapse of the Kabul regime has arguably dealt no imperialist ruling elite a bigger blow than Canada’s.
•Roger Jordan, James Clayton
Canada's role in Afghanistan
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Canada’s military seeks to cover its tracks following damning report on Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
In response to the release of a report exposing Australian military atrocities in Afghanistan, the Canadian Armed Forces has doubled down on its long-running efforts to cover up its own war crimes in the region.
•Penny Smith
Canada’s ruling elite applauds Liberals’ military spending hike
The effusive praise exposes the bogus character of the Liberals’ “progressive” credentials, which have been boosted by the trade unions, the NDP and a host of campaign organizations.
•Roger Jordan
Canadian prime minister endorses Japanese position on South China Sea ahead of G7 summit
Canada is deeply implicated in the US-led “pivot” to Asia, and is determined to deepen economic and security ties with Japan.
•Roger Jordan
Canada preparing to join US ballistic missile defense
Its name notwithstanding, the US BMD program is anything but defensive. It is aimed at realizing Washington’s goal of developing the means to wage a “winnable” nuclear war.
•Roger Jordan
Canada’s defence policy review prepares major expansion of militarism and war
The review “consultation” document argues Canada should expand its close strategic partnership with the US, the most aggressive imperialist power on the planet.
•Roger Jordan
Canada’s parliament endorses expanded role in Mideast war
The Liberal government’s expansion of Canada’s role in the Mideast war underscores the fraudulent character of its anti-war pose in last year’s election.
•Roger Jordan
Canadian election: Militarism and reaction dominate foreign policy debate
The leaders of Canada’s three main parties used Monday’s foreign policy debate to stake their claim as the most capable and determined defenders of Canadian imperialism.
•Roger Jordan and Keith Jones
Harper government to criminalize Canadian Pacific railway strike
Canada’s Conservative government is set to introduce legislation today outlawing a two-day-old strike by 3,300 CP Rail workers.
•Carl Bronski
Canadian prime minister praises troops as military clashes escalate in Iraq
The growing involvement of Canada’s armed forces in ground combat makes a mockery of the government’s claim that the deployment in Iraq is purely a training and assistance mission.
•Roger Jordan
Media magnate Péladeau seeks Parti Québécois leadership
Presenting himself as the “sovereignty candidate,” Péladeau is focusing his campaign around the claim that independence is the best vehicle for the Quebec ruling class to enrich itself.
•Laurent Lafrance
Oil price plummet roils Canadian economy
Plummeting oil prices are causing Alberta and several other provinces to initiate new austerity drives and Canadian oil producers to slash investments and jobs.
•Dylan Lubao
Canada’s government tables bill to expand intelligence agency powers
Canada’s Conservative government tabled legislation yesterday to significantly strengthen the powers of the CSIS.
•Roger Jordan, Keith Jones
Canada’s government continues to persecute “child soldier” Omar Khadr
Canada’s Conservative government is continuing the decade-long vendetta Canadian and U.S. authorities have mounted against Omar Khadr, the “child soldier” who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for the past decade.
•Ed Patrick
Canada: How the NDP facilitates imperialist war
The trade union-based New Democratic Party has played a pivotal role in rallying popular support for Canada’s participation in the NATO war against Libya—a war whose transparent purpose has been to effect the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime and replace it with one even more subservient to North American and European imperialism.
•Graham Beverly
Canada: How the NDP facilitates imperialist war
The NDP’s role in supporting the NATO war against Libya conforms with a long pattern of facilitating Canadian overseas military interventions and Canadian imperialism’s ever more rapacious role on the world stage.
•Graham Beverly
Canada to expand its role in imperialist assault on Libya
Canada’s Conservative government has announced that the Canadian Armed Forces will play a leading role in the imperialist assault on Libya for weeks, possibly months, to come.
•Keith Jones
Canada’s Speaker rebukes government for withholding Afghan detainee documents
The Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons ruled Tuesday that Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government has violated parliament’s constitutional rights by refusing to obey a Common’s order to hand over all documents concerning the fate of Afghans captured by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
•Keith Jones
US troops attack Afghan bus, killing four and wounding 18
US troops opened fire on a passenger bus travelling on a highway in the Zhari District of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province early Monday morning, killing at least four people, including a woman and a child.
•Keith Jones
Canada’s Supreme Court strikes down order to repatriate Guantánamo detainee
Canada’s Supreme Court has unanimously overturned a Federal Court decision ordering Canada’s Conservative government to seek the repatriation of Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo Bay detainee and Canadian citizen.
•Keith Jones