Category: Opinions and Debates

Canada’s Cold War

In its fifth installment of the webinar series Canada in the World, Peace Alliance Winnipeg invited Richard Sanders to discuss Ottawa’s long standing practice of supporting groups that celebrate the extreme right wingers in their histories. Richard founded the Coalition…

Webinar: Imperialism’s Defeat in Afghanistan

What is the world significance of the US defeat in Afghanistan? What are the prospects for peace and development there? What role could China, Russia and Iran have in Afghanistan’s reconstruction? How has Western hypocrisy over human and women’s rights…

“Neither Washington nor Beijing!”

While it is clear that the relationship between the US and China will come to define the geopolitical terrain for decades to come, many among the Western left are unsure about what their own positions and responsibilities should be. As…

Canada is my country, a poem

by Tamara Lorincz I live in a country that has increased military spending when Indigenous people live without the most basic security in dilapidated homes with dirty water. I live in a country that is spending $800 million more on…

The Curious Case of Alexei Navalny

by John Ryan The mainstream media considers Alexei Navalny to be Vladimir Putin’s main opponent. However, a “Levada Center poll from November 2020 — three months after Navalny’s poisoning — found that only 2% of Russians would vote for Navalny…