Amidst Donald Trump’s belligerence Canada continues to assist the US military and arms industry. In response to the president’s hostility, writes Canadian Dimension columnist Yves Engler, Canada should cancel the Lockheed Martin F-35 contract, end officer exchanges, and cease our participation in NORAD’s missile defence program.

I was recently arrested for social media posts critical of Israel and spent five days in jail to win the right to respond to Dahlia Kurtz, the Zionist influencer who pursued harassment charges against me. My experience fits in with a long history of Canadian police and intelligence services targeting critics of Israel—and includes close ties to their Israeli counterparts.

Congo has been wracked by more than a century of violent colonization and imperialism resulting in millions of deaths—and Canada has supported it all, or at best stayed silent while watching it happen. The federal government’s strong support for the Kagame government today contradicts Canada’s purported principles and should be seen as a stain on our global reputation.

The regrettable reality is that there is almost no room for an honest debate about Canada’s role in perpetuating the Russia-Ukraine conflict, or on how the war can end, writes CD columnist Yves Engler. We are too busy banning films that dare to portray ordinary Russian soldiers as human beings.

While it’s strange that anyone claiming to be a journalist would boast about working with the intelligence agency of a foreign state, National Post columnist Adam Zivo is certainly not the first international correspondent to have flouted journalism ethics by directly engaging in counterintelligence operations while on the job.

Instead of prioritizing the unhoused and undoctored, and responding to the mounting climate challenge, the government of Justin Trudeau recently committed to a massive boost in military spending. As Yves Engler writes, the security of Canadians would be better served by allocating resources to housing, health, and mitigating the climate crisis.

Instead of negotiating with pro-Palestinian protesters whose demands have broad support among the university community, the administration wants to force the police to intervene. As Yves Engler writes, perhaps the McGill administration should listen to the cops: talk to the students. Negotiate. Compromise. Settle peacefully.

Last week, South Africa requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague make an urgent order declaring Israel in breach of its obligations under the Genocide Convention. As Canadian Dimension columnist Yves Engler argues, Canadians should support this non-violent bid to curtail the apartheid state’s well-documented and undeniable war crimes in Gaza.

The unspeakable horrors Israel has unleashed on Gaza since October 7 has stirred the most sustained anti-war and internationalist mobilization since the Vietnam War. This popular uprising has pressured Ottawa to shift its usual stance and vote against Israel at the UN. Yet, symbolic gestures only go so far. Here are 11 ways for Canada to materially end complicity in Israel’s crimes.

Over the past three weeks since it launched its brutal military bombardment of Gaza, Israel has killed more than 8,000 Palestinians and injured 20,000 more. While our government and political establishment continue to enable Israel’s extreme right-wing government, more and more Canadians are saying no to genocide.