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Engler: Killing Communities
Commentary, May, 01 2013
Yves Engler
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Cars kill — millions of humans and animals around the world every year — but do they also destroy our sense of community and solidarity
Engler: Postering Revolution! An Ode To Wheat Pasting
Commentary, March, 14 2013
Yves Engler
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Posters help make ideas that the dominant media marginalizes seem reasonable
Engler: Quebec's Maple Spring Shows Grassroots Movements Can Force Social and Environmental Change
Commentary, October, 01 2012
Yves Engler
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Beyond politicizing a generation, the protests have spurred a more socially and ecologically progressive political climate
Engler: Cars and Class
Commentary, August, 24 2011
Yves Engler
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The more cars in a community the worse it is for poor people, especially those in debt
Engler: The Wastefulness of the Automobile
Commentary, July, 06 2011
Yves Engler
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Automotive reliance has meant massive waste
Engler: Canada, Israel & Palestine
Commentary, September, 20 2010
Yves Engler
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Current peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials are unlikely to end, let alone reverse, Palestinian dispossession. The power imbalance between the sides is simply too great. While Canada could be part of the solution, so far i...
Engler: CSIS/MOSSAD
Commentary, August, 31 2010
Yves Engler
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Is the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) trying to intimidate and spy on pro-Palestinian Canadians? Do they share this information with Mossad?
Engler: 6 Months After Haiti Earthquake
Commentary, July, 15 2010
Yves Engler
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Six months ago a devastating earthquake killed more than 230,000 Haitians. About 100,000 homes were completely destroyed, alongside a thousand schools and many other buildings. The scenes of devastation filled TV screens around the world.
Engler: Haiti
Commentary, June, 27 2010
Yves Engler
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Three weeks ago, the front page of Haiti Liberté showed a picture of President René Préval next to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and two Canadian soldiers. Part of the caption below read, "Préval under the surveillance of the occupying forces."
Mugyenyi: China & Cars
Commentary, April, 26 2010
Bianca Mugyenyi
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Did you know GM sells more cars in China than the U.S.?
Engler: Canada & Israel
Commentary, March, 20 2010
Yves Engler
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In my new book Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid I argue that the trajectory of this country's foreign policy has been clear: The culmination of six decades of one-sided support, and four years into the Stephen Harper government, Canada is (at...
Engler: Canada & Venezuela
Commentary, February, 18 2010
Yves Engler
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The government of Hugo Chavez was correct last week when a representative said Ottawa supports "coup plotters" and "destabilizers" in Venezuela.
Engler: Canadian Armed Forces
Commentary, October, 06 2009
Yves Engler
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Reducing the size of the Canadian Armed Forces should be a priority for those of us that want a more peaceful world. It should also be a priority for anyone concerned about the environment.
Engler: Anti-Semitism in Canada
Commentary, September, 20 2009
Yves Engler
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Despite a loud chorus claiming otherwise, anti-Semitism is a mere fig leaf of its former oppressive character. Six decades ago "none is too many" was the order of the day in Ottawa, which rejected Jewish refugees escaping Nazi concentration camps....
Engler: The dominant Canadian media's coverage of the coup in Honduras has been atrocious.
Commentary, August, 16 2009
Yves Engler
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Even a close observer of the Canadian press would know almost nothing about the ongoing demonstrations, blockades and work stoppages calling for the return of elected President Manuel Zelaya. Since Zelaya was overthrown by the military on June 28 ...
Engler: Canada & Honduras
Commentary, July, 06 2009
Yves Engler
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At Saturday's special meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Canada's minister for the Americas, Peter Kent, recommended that ousted President Manuel Zelaya delay his planned return to the country. Kent said the "time is not right" p...
Engler: Canada & the Caribbean
Commentary, May, 15 2009
Yves Engler
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On Sunday military forces trained by the Canadian Special Operational Regiment subdued a hijacker who took command of a Halifax-based CanJet plane at an airport partly run by Vancouver Airport Services. While Canadian companies and institutions pl...
Engler: Canadian Mining
Commentary, April, 27 2009
Yves Engler
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Three weeks ago, the Harper government rejected a proposal to make diplomatic and financial support for resource companies operating overseas contingent upon socially responsible conduct. Under popular pressure, the Mining Association of Canada ag...
Engler: Canada & Eastern Europe
Commentary, April, 13 2009
Yves Engler
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At the end of February Stephen Harper referred to Russia as "aggressive." In a throwback to the Cold War, two weeks ago Defense Minister Peter MacKay added that Ottawa will respond to Russian flights in the Arctic by flying Canadian fighter jets n...
Engler: Myths for Profit
Commentary, March, 28 2009
Yves Engler
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A major obstacle for anyone organizing to "right" a Canadian foreign policy "wrong" is the widely held notion that this country acts benevolently on the world stage. "Myths for Profit," a recently released documentary written and directed by Amy M...
Engler: Canada & Latin America
Commentary, March, 18 2009
Yves Engler
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During the first half of the 20th century, Toronto-based Brazilian Traction (or Brascan) dominated the Brazilian economy. At its high point in the 1940s, the company employed nearly 50,000 Brazilians.
Engler: Haiti
Commentary, February, 28 2009
Yves Engler
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From the grips of the most barbaric form of plantation economy sprung probably the greatest example of liberation in the history of humanity. The 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution was simultaneously a struggle against slavery, colonialism and white sup...
Engler: Canada is Israel
Commentary, February, 13 2009
Yves Engler
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The Harper government publicly supported Israel's brutal assault on Gaza and voted alone at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel's actions. Now Canada has taken over Israeli diplomacy. Literally.
Engler: Canada in Africa
Commentary, January, 31 2009
Yves Engler
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In mid December, Robert Fowler, a career Canadian diplomat who is currently the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Niger, and his aide Louis Guay, an official at Foreign Affairs, were abducted in Niger. They were kidnapped not long after visi...
Engler: Canada & Israel's Occupation
Commentary, January, 15 2009
Yves Engler
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The Canadian Left has taken a major step forward in opposition to Zionism. On Saturday Montréal held probably the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in Canadian history. Despite some ridiculous media reports, I estimate that there were between...
Engler: Canada in Afghanistan
Commentary, January, 08 2009
Yves Engler
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Are highly secretive Canadian Joint Task Force 2 commandos assassinating Afghanis during night raids?
Engler: Peru
Commentary, November, 05 2008
Yves Engler
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Canadian resource companies are under fire in Peru. On October 21, Cesar Zuniga, the president of the Achuar indigenous group FENAP, told a local radio: "We, as indigenous people, reject the Canadian company Talisman. We do not want them working i...
Engler: Canada & Iran
Commentary, September, 13 2008
Yves Engler
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In early July, a National Post reporter on board a Canadian naval vessel explained: "The usual tense games were played this weekend as this Canadian warship responsible for refueling and replenishing a coalition task force in the Indian Ocean pass...
Engler: Canada Congo Olympics
Commentary, September, 01 2008
Yves Engler
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The mainstream media's hypocrisy during the Olympics would have been funny if it weren't so ignorance-producing.
Engler: Canadian Aid
Commentary, May, 09 2008
Yves Engler
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Canadian foreign aid has been widely derided as ineffective. But that's simply not true. Commentators have just been looking in the wrong places. Canadian aid has been highly effective at transforming taxes into profits for major Canadian corpora...
