At this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, held in Thailand, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the Canadian military presence in the Pacific will be deepened once more. Leading officials in Ottawa have stated that the increase in Canadian military personnel in the “Indo-Pacific” is aimed at countering China’s role in the region.

Despite endless cries of Russian “interference” and “meddling” in US elections, comparatively little attention is paid to much larger foreign movers and shakers in American political life. In 2018 alone, Israel spent at least $22 million on lobbying and campaign donations during that year’s election cycle. Where are the anxious reports on “Israelgate”? They’re nowhere to be found.

Joe Burns’ new book, Class Struggle Unionism, reads like pamphlet, with a clear call to transform the union movement. The model for change is one that has deep roots in the radical socialist and anarchist traditions of working class movements from early in the 20th century that has continuously raised it head over the past 120 years.

Instead of plugging the holes in a sinking newspaper ship with successive bailouts, Ottawa should formulate a long-term national news media strategy that doesn’t undermine public trust in journalism, according to a former senior journalist and media regulator. Ottawa’s latest cash injection and its attempt to shake down the tech platforms will only make matters worse.

It can’t last. When you see an unfair arrangement balanced totally on massive military and financial advantage and power politics, but unbearable to the subjugated people, history tells you it can’t last. Even the State Department acknowledges this when they say “the status quo is unsustainable.” When and how it falls who can say. But it can’t last.

Seven empty lots that could be used to create desperately needed housing in a poor community have been left sitting empty in Toronto’s Downtown East. For years, anti-poverty activists and community members have been demanding that the city expropriate the vacant lots at 214-230 Sherbourne Street and build affordable housing on them. Now, they’re gearing up for a fight with developers.

With the federal government planning to deliver a regularization scheme that would provide a path to permanent residency for up to 500,000 undocumented migrants, we need to acknowledge the struggle of the migrants’ rights organizers who have brought us to this point. Brett McKay investigates the movement fighting to improve the livelihoods of people who live in Canada with precarious status.

Those following the Senate and Parliamentary hearings into Bills C-11 and C-18 might think Canadian media are wasting away while foreign digital giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix are replacing them. But big telecom companies like Rogers and Bell continue to take the lion’s share from subscription revenues for cable, Internet access, and wireless services.

When it comes to foreign policy, no matter what party is in power, it’s more of the same. The Liberals came to office promising to back away from the Conservative’s low-level war against Iran. With the prime minister joining a chorus calling for the removal of the Iranian regime, Canada has again ramped up tensions with the Western Asian nation.

The lesson of the world wars was supposed to be that our victory came at tremendous cost, and that it should never be repeated. What was learned, unfortunately, was the misguided belief that might makes right. And so the political class commits to obsolete alliances that seek to justify themselves, and to maintaining the illusion of a constant and shifting enemy.