There seems to be no political will in Ottawa to reform the laws that are still restricting aid to Afghanistan. The government’s current plan—to achieve “full operational capacity by late 2024”—reveals a total lack of urgency, and a glaring lack of interest in the lives of the same people whom Ottawa claimed for years we intervened in Afghanistan to defend.

While the US claims that Mali is turning the screws on the mining industry because it wants to hand lucrative gold mines to Russian interests, these reforms are part of a broader anti-colonial uprising sweeping the region. If Mali continues to put pressure on Canadian mining companies, it would not be unreasonable to assume Ottawa may involve itself in the dispute.

Ecuador has historically spurned investor-state dispute settlement, a provision that allows companies to sue countries for alleged violations of trade agreements. This means companies can take states to court if their profits are put at risk by government policies. Since 1986, Ecuador has been forced to pay $10 billion for alleged breaches of its obligations to foreign investors.

Israel’s Western backers know they are losing. They know that, despite the carnage the Israeli military is unleashing on Gaza, it is not any closer to defeating Hamas. They know that Israel is quickly becoming a pariah state, and as its global reputation sinks like an anchor, it’s dragging down Western credibility with it.

Canada’s role in West Africa was ostensibly a counterterrorism effort, but like the US and European presence it was meant to bolster, Canada failed to bring security or development to the region. In fact, the results of the ‘War on Terror’ have been catastrophic. Since 2002-2003, deaths in Islamist militant attacks in the Sahel have risen a shocking 50,000 percent.

On March 18, the House of Commons passed an opposition day motion put forward by NDP MP Heather McPherson. It called for a reconsideration of Canadian policy toward securing Middle East peace in the midst of Israel’s onslaught in the Gaza Strip. The initial NDP proposal was significantly stronger than the final version—though not nearly as strong as it should have been.

The emphasis placed on former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s opposition to apartheid—and the erasure of left-wing governments and movements that had supported the liberation fighters materially and for far longer—serves a deeper political purpose, writes Owen Schalk.. It is about more than Mulroney. It’s about Canadians’ perception of their own country on the world stage.

In the final years of his presidency, AMLO has faced opposition from Canada and the US, weathering legal challenges and diplomatic pressures from Ottawa and Washington over his efforts to increase the state’s role in his country’s energy and agriculture sectors. Likewise, Canada has vocally opposed AMLO’s measures to strengthen the Mexican state’s hand in mineral extraction.

Canadians deserve to know the extent of our government’s complicity in the destruction of Gaza, but the NDP is talking out of both sides of its mouth. While criticizing military exports to Israel, New Democrat leaders have largely adopted Israel’s framing of the war and condemned voices speaking out in support of Palestinians. This has occurred at both the federal and provincial level.

At a time when the Ecuadorian government’s social disinvestment has wrecked the country’s economy and security sector, Canada is arguing for its right to deprive Ecuador of even more public money. Ottawa’s main concern is Ecuador’s resources: how to access them, and how to ensure Canadians can bring home as much profit as possible while exploiting them.