NOVANEWS Yves Engler Self-described Africa scholar Gerald Caplan’s recent praise of Canada’s relations with Uganda is superficial and misleading. He ignores Canada’s support for imperialism in East Africa that goes back to the days of […]
NOVANEWS Yves Engler Despite a long list of abuses by Canadian mining companies in Africa – and elsewhere – it’s very difficult to hold them accountable at home. Will the new government of Justin Trudeau […]
NOVANEWS Yves Engler Unlike the US or France, Canada is not a leading military force in Africa. But Ottawa exerts influence through a variety of means including training initiatives. Canadian Forces have trained hundreds of […]
NOVANEWS ccirn.qc Yves Engler The Canadian mining magnate is just one in a long line of Westerners who ask the world to believe what they say but ignore the actual results of what they do […]
NOVANEWS A bill to blacklist supporters of the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement was handily defeated in the parliament of Ontario on Thursday. Lawmakers in Canada’s most populous province rejected it by 39 votes […]
NOVANEWS dailytrust.com Yves Engler Few Canadians are familiar with pre-colonial African cities, and even fewer know a Canadian military leader helped sack one of West Africa’s great metropolises. When the British and Canadians took part […]
NOVANEWS By Yves Engler “Anti-Semitism” may be the most abused term in Canada today. Almost entirely divorced from its dictionary definition – “discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews” – it is now primarily […]
NOVANEWS By Morgan Lee/Christianity Today Canada Thinks It Has a Better Way to Defend Religious Freedom New government shuts down Office of Religious Freedom modelled after US version. [Editor’s Note: Liberal foreign affairs minister Stéphane Dion […]
NOVANEWS Once a great metropolis, Benin City is today a forgotten city, destroyed without a trace By Yves Engler Few Canadians are familiar with pre-colonial African cities and even fewer know a Canadian military […]
NOVANEWS By Carl Bronski Global Research Leaders of the Pimicikamak Cree First Nation in Northern Manitoba declared a state of emergency on their Cross Lake reserve last week after the suicide of fourteen-year-old Finola Muswaggon. Muswaggon […]