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.

Canada and the US are continuing their pressure campaign on Mexico’s widely popular Morena government. While in the past Ottawa and Washington targeted President AMLO’s progressive mining, energy, and agriculture policies, this time, they slammed a judicial reform plan that would allow Mexican voters to elect their own judges, including to the Supreme Court.

In its many forms, the global protest against the continued genocide of Palestinians—the refusal to be silenced, even against threats of arrest, deportation, and physical violence—not only challenges the national collective myth of the Israeli settler state, but also enacts a refusal to be complicit in violence carried out in its name.

Before our next federal election comes in the next year or so, and even before November’s pivotal US presidential vote, British Columbians will go to the polls next month, and if the ugliness already being seen out here on the so-called Left Coast is any indication, reporters could be in for a bumpy ride.

Russia isn’t creating these divisions in the West, they’re attempting to exploit them for geostrategic purposes. But what the Tenet indictment exposes is that the far-right is where the money is. They’re the ones calling the shots. Anyone who suggests both ends of the political spectrum are equally susceptible to foreign exploitation is obscuring this reality.

What if the value of a mortgage could be collected today? What if the bank could sell your debt on the open market? They could use the cash to lend out even more money and collect even more interest on even more mortgages. Thanks to the National Housing Act, they can do exactly that. James Hardwick on how federal housing policy has turned our mortgage system into an engine of inequality.

The concept of a mitzvah goes well beyond good deeds and, given current circumstances, has come to encompass some very ugly deeds. How and whether Jews observe these obligations are intricately bound up in one’s sense of what it means to be a Jew. And in fact, as the tragedy in Gaza and the West Bank intensifies, no less than the soul of Judaism is at stake.

Coming so close to November’s US presidential election, not to mention Canada’s pending federal election, the Russian disinformation revelations could have an effect similar to that of the 2016 Wikileaks dump of Hilary Clinton’s hacked campaign emails. This time the revelations could instead taint Trump and help to cement perceptions that he is a Russian asset.

One policy terrain on which Wab Kinew’s NDP has been unambiguous is law and order. Building on its already dubious legacy on this file—both during its time in power between 1999 and 2016 and while in opposition between 2016 and 2023—the Manitoba NDP is accelerating a reactionary program of policing and jailing driven largely by the interests of cops and the city’s business community.

Across Canada and abroad, the commercial forest industry has created monoculture conifer plantations of lodgepole pine, spruce and Douglas fir. It’s common practice to use glyphosate and brush saws in forests to destroy broadleaf species—such as aspen, birch, cottonwood, willow and alder—which are crucial for biodiversity and sequestering carbon.