The dust has still not settled on October 7 and there are many conflicting reports of what did and did not take place, but let us for the sake of argument take the reports of Hamas’s alleged acts at face value. Does it not stand to reason that Israel would find itself in the position of being beyond condemnation for the crimes it commits? It would not.

Canada has long profited from West Africa’s gold resources. In fact, every year, these firms extract billions in revenue from the region. Right now, however, Canadian companies in West Africa are quarreling with an increasingly independent bloc of states determined to constrain the ability of foreign corporations to profit from African resources.

Conservative MPs have tarred pharmacare as a “radical plan” that will rob unionized workers of their existing workplace coverage, trying to whip up hysteria about health benefits disappearing and private insurance plans being abolished. Since the Pharmacare Act became law, Poilievre and his party have doubled down on these scare tactics.

Even as the Canada Soccer drone spying scandal dominated news at the Olympics and apparently raised the most fundamental questions about ethics and harm, the Israeli national soccer team was still permitted by FIFA to compete in the Games. This, despite the fact that Israel was then (as it is now) conducting a genocidal assault against Palestinians in Gaza.

No government fulfils every promise it makes to voters at election time. Still, looking back on the Trudeau government’s performance over the past nine, sometimes chaotic years—with the exception of major policy achievements like child care, pandemic income supports and dental care—this government has consistently overcommitted and underdelivered.

We all are losing something even more important as cartoonists head out the door and newspapers continue to disappear. One of de Adder’s most popular cartoons these days, judging by how often it pops up on X, trenchantly depicts a row of newspaper coin boxes toppling like dominoes headed toward the watchtower of democracy. It’s enough to make you think, and that’s the whole point.

According to a recent report by Axios, for the first time, the Biden-Harris administration is explicitly threatening to suspend military aid to Israel unless some very specific conditions are met. These conditions amount to “the most wide-ranging and comprehensive list of US demands from Israel since the beginning of the war.”

We are now seven years and tens of billions of dollars into the Trudeau government’s much vaunted National Housing Strategy (NHS) and things are worse than ever. Affordable housing is harder to come by than it was a decade ago, and homelessness is reaching historic highs. The NHS has failed, writes James Hardwick, and we need to understand why.

Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024, an annual award established by English PEN in memory of playwright Harold Pinter. Shortly after having been named for the prize, Roy named British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah a Writer of Courage, with whom she would share her award.

Somewhere in Western newsrooms and political backrooms, there must be an instruction manual or playbook entitled “How to make accusations of antisemitism with hardly any facts.” I imagine that Steve Paikin got hold of it and employed it to write his latest column. I am afraid that the piece is seriously lacking in intellectual honesty.