Issues, ethics, memory
NATO leaders, including Canada, have agreed to spend 5.0% of Gross Domestic Product on the military. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will more than double its military spending. That will fuel the arms race and crowd out spending on much-need social programs.
NATO and the Trump regime in the US are demanding that Canada drastically increase military spending. We should, rather, apply a peace lens. It would include a greater emphasis upon diplomacy and peacebuilding in concert with military spending.
I will be voting for the NDP in the federal election. They have historically advocated for policies that improve the lives of Canadians, and continue to do so. They have a group of ethical and hard working MPs, as well as stellar new candidates. The Liberals may well win the election, but we need the NDP with party status in parliament to provide an social justice presence .
Russian media and U.S. Republicans continue to spread lies about Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. They say that he is a corrupt billionaire who owns a luxury villa in Florida. These claims have been fact checked and they are maliciously false.
Former NHL star Wayne Gretzky, a Canadian by birth, is a friend of Donald Trump's. He attended Trump's victory party in November 2024, and the presidential inauguration. Trump has repeatedly threatened to make Canada into the fifty-first U.S. state. It is high time for Gretzky to speak out against Trump's annex Canada rhetoric.
As COVID-19 spreads around the world, its trajectory is being accompanied by a stream of fake news. The two most prominent conspiracy theories are almost mirror-like in their presentation. One has it that the virus was created in an American military laboratory and spread to the Chinese city of Wuhan by visiting Americans. I received... Continue Reading →
Prominent evangelical leaders in the U.S. continue to provide succor to President Donald Trump even after his support for the militant neo-Nazis who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12. The event turned deadly when one of the white supremacists drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist counter protestors, killing Heather Heyer and injuring... Continue Reading →
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