Why is the US spending more than half a billion dollars on a facility near Montreal?

 

The US Army is gearing up for a massive $682 million upgrade to the General Dynamics facility in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. The upgrade is set to increase production capacity from 6 to 16 million pounds of munitions and ordnance. This facility is of great importance as it is the sole supplier of the M31A2 propellant used in 155mm artillery ammunition. Investigations have revealed this propellant to have been actively used in Gaza by Israel.

On this episode of Local 514, host Kalden Dhatsenpa speaks with two activists organizing against this planned expansion. The #StopGDExpansion campaign is organizing a protest in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield this coming Saturday, May 30th, in conjunction with concerned residents who believe the expansion will negatively affect their health, the environment around Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, and who have qualms about the end use of the facility’s output.

Canada Exported $14.6 Million Of Military Goods To Israel In 2025

 

A total of 50 military export permits were utilized to sell goods to Israel in 2025.

Canada exported $14.6 million worth of military goods directly to Israel last year, according to a report published today by Global Affairs Canada.

A total of 50 military export permits were utilized to sell goods to Israel in 2025, the report says.

The military goods were shipped despite the Liberal government stating that it paused approvals of some new military export permits on January 8, 2024 and suspending dozens of existing permits for goods that it believed could be used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Under the Export and Import Permits Act, the Minister of Foreign Affairs is legally obliged not to authorize military export permits if there is a substantial risk the goods could be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian or human rights law.

The report states that two new military export permits to Israel were issued in 2025.

The Maple revealed last year that these permits were for parts related to Israel’s Iron Dome missile system, which allows Israel to inflict massive civilian casualties at a scale that dwarfs its own losses. The two permits were valued at $37.2 million.  (more...)

Canada Exported $14.6 Million Of Military Goods To Israel In 2025

Zionist liars, cheats, racists defend sanctioned Israel minister

 

As Israel continues its slaughter, Canadian Zionist groups and politicians are defending a fascist Israeli politician. Itamar Ben-Gvir publishes photos of himself torturing activists and wears a pin celebrating hanging Palestinians, but some Canadians claim activists shouldn’t hang an effigy of the murderous fanatic because he’s Jewish.

On Sunday a Montreal 4 Palestine march included effigies of a handful of political leaders. A photo circulating shows Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben Gvir all lined up together in a mock hanging. But Rebel News videographer Guillaume Roy circulated a somewhat hard to make-out video with only the Ben-Gvir effigy, which has his trademark large white kippah, under the tagline “The pro-Hamas group Mtl4Palestine displays the [Montreal] Canadiens flag next to what appears to be an effigy of a Jew wearing a kippah, hanged with a rope.”

Several local Zionist politicians like National Post columnist Leslie Roberts shared it suggesting some type of criminality. Liberal MP Anthony Housefather quote tweeted Roy noting, “hanging an image of a Jew wearing a kippah in effigy is disgusting, antisemitic, and a clear incitement to hatred.” Conservatives Melissa Lantsman and Pierre Poilievre as well as Liberals Evan Solomon, Gary Anandasangaree and Leslie Church all echoed the defence of Ben-Gvir who has been sanctioned by Ottawa for his extreme right wing actions and words.

A few days ago the Israeli National Security Minister posted footage to social media of him mocking activists being tortured after being illegally detained in international waters in a bid to break the genocidal blockade of Gaza. Three weeks ago Ben-Gvir celebrated his 50th birthday with a cake ‘decorated’ by a death penalty noose in reference to a new death penalty law for Palestinian detainees. Decades ago he was blocked from joining the Israeli military because of his violent extremism.

But protesters in Montreal shouldn’t hang Ben-Gvir in effigy, say these Israel supporters. Inciting hatred of Ben-Gvir is a moral baseline.  (more...)

Zionist liars, cheats, racists defend sanctioned Israel minister

Ricochet denied press access to CANSEC

 

Defence trade show bars outlets it suspects may produce critical coverage

“With the government of Canada’s renewed focus on defence, […] CADSI is receiving a significant uptick in requests for service, advice, and assistance. Rest assured that your message has been received, and a member of our team will reply as soon as possible.” — Excerpt from CADSI’s general email autoresponse

CANSEC is a global defence and security trade show, and Canada’s largest defence convention. The event, held annually in Ottawa, brings together representatives of private defence companies and dozens of delegations from foreign governments to showcase “leading-edge technology, products and services for land-based, naval, aerospace and joint forces military units.” 

On the CANSEC homepage, the convention reports that attendees will also include 45 MPs, senators and cabinet ministers.The convention was founded in 1998, and is hosted by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). 

This week, Ricochet Media’s request for a press pass to cover the event was declined on the basis that our organization “does not meet the CADSI Eligibility Requirements.”

CANSEC’s media accreditation page states: “New media applicants are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and the accreditation decisions are final. CANSEC is a private event and organizers reserve the right to deny accreditation.”

Just hours after the portal for media accreditation opened, this reporter applied for status on assignment for Ricochet Media. After following up, we received the following response by email. 

“Thank you for registering for CANSEC 2026. We have reviewed your application and have declined it for the following reasons:

Your media organization does not meet the CADSI Eligibility Requirements.”

CADSI’s only eligibility criteria regarding media organizations is that applicants must be “a member of an established local, national or international media organization with relevant identification.”  (more...)

Ricochet denied press access to CANSEC

Montreal Protests and Manufacturing Antisemitism in Canada

 

Don't believe your lying eyes and ears

How Palestine Activists Eked Out a Win at the Canadian Labour Congress

 

Canada's biggest labour body agreed to cut ties with its Israeli counterpart

The largest labour organization in Canada has committed to cutting ties with Israel’s trade federation, the Histadrut.

A resolution passed at the constitutional convention of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) in Winnipeg earlier this month also calls on the Canadian government to support a two-way arms embargo, suspend the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement and condemn Israeli settlement expansion.

Kevin MacKay, who attended the convention as a delegate from the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), told PressProgress that, when it came time for the vote, “We had a lot of the biggest labour leaders in the hall lining up at the mic to either speak or show support for the resolution.”

“It’s amazing to have leadership on board,” said MacKay, an anthropology professor at Mohawk College. “That’s not always the case.”

Until the eleventh hour, delegates like MacKay weren’t sure if they would be voting on a resolution to cut ties with the Histadrut — after a resolution to declare trade, services and relationships with Israel to be “hot cargo” was disqualified altogether.

MacKay is a member of Labour For Palestine (L4P), a volunteer-run effort made up of workers from across Canada. The group has been organizing to pass hot-cargo resolutions at provincial labour federations that would instruct workers to refrain from handling all goods produced by, or going to, Israel.

Less than a week before the convention began, activists with L4P got word that the resolution they spearheaded, which would have committed the CLC to issuing a hot-cargo declaration and cutting ties with the Histadrut, had been given a “non-concurrence” decision by the CLC’s General Resolutions Committee, meaning it wouldn’t be presented to delegates for a vote.

“We believe that this is a political discussion and a political decision,” Hassan Husseini, a member of L4P’s national steering committee, told PressProgress just ahead of the convention.  (more...)

How Palestine Activists Eked Out a Win at the Canadian Labour Congress

Canada needs to stop being America’s doormat

 

When an Ebola-linked flight bound for Detroit got dumped in Montreal, Canada once again showed how reflexive deference to the US still works

Know what I’m getting really sick of as a Canadian? Harmful deferentiality towards the US that persists despite all the “elbows up” rhetoric.

In the latest example, an Air France fight took off from Paris, heading for Detroit. Do you see anything Canadian in that at all? Canada does!

The airline had royally messed up and let a passenger board from the Congo, the current global headquarters of Ebola. American authorities refused to let the plane land in their territory since they had recently banned all passengers from the Congo, specifically due to the viral outbreak. So, Canadian authorities let the plane land in Montreal. Then they let everyone off and put the passenger in question on the next flight back to Paris.

Why couldn’t they have done all that in Detroit? Is a plane considered to be inside a country the moment it decides it has feelings about the flight? No passenger is technically inside any country until they go through customs anyway. Why did they have to dump it all on Canada? I’ll tell you why. Because they had a choice, and Canada is far too nice.

The answer should have just been “no.” Not “no, but let us convene an interagency working group to explore the emotional implications of saying no.” Just “no.” No getting into the intricacies of Ebola infection risk or whose fault it all is, either. Or whether the guy is actually infected or not. Forget dedicating any bandwidth to any of that.

Perhaps Canada figured that it was doing its buddy, France, a favor, saving it from its own vetting screwup. Again, not Canada’s problem. Let them fight it out with the US. Tell France to threaten to just land the plane on Lake Erie and wish them luck.

It would have actually been the perfect time for Canada to propose, “Hey guys, you know that Gordie Howe International Bridge that Canada paid to build, running from Windsor to Detroit, that Trump insists on blocking? How about we get that sorted out in time to land this plane? Then maybe Canada will be compelled to lift a finger to help out. Otherwise, looks like this is a ‘you’ problem.”

Canada needs to stop doing any and all favors for America that aren’t a net benefit.  (more...)

Canada needs to stop being America’s doormat

Former foreign minister heckled over Israel support

Chrystia Freeland was recently challenged for supporting genocide at an event hosted by a Jewish supremacist group held in a Zionist community centre.

After our Capitalism Can’t be Fixed conference concluded Sunday, a few participants interrupted Freeland’s speech. In Toronto from BC, one protestor labelled the former foreign affairs minister and deputy prime minister a “Zionist Nazi dog.” The disruption has gone viral on multiple social media platforms. Al Jazeera and other international media have reported on it.

Freeland is deeply anti-Palestinian. In the first year of slaughter in Gaza she attended multiple genocide rallies. As Israeli officials ramped up their genocidal rhetoric, Freeland declared that “Canada stands with Israel”. After the International Criminal Court announced it would seek arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and defence minister as well as Hamas leaders in late 2024, Freeland said it was “entirely inappropriate to equate the terrorist leaders of a terrorist organization [Hamas] with the democratically elected leaders of a democracy [Israel].” When I asked Freeland a year into the slaughter if she condemned Israel’s killing of 14,000 Palestinian children she declined to respond.

During her three years as foreign affairs minister Freeland promoted the genocidal, apartheid state. Canada’s voting record at the United Nations during that time was deeply anti-Palestinian. In December 2017, for instance, Canada sided with the US, Israel and some tiny Pacific island states in opposing a UN resolution supporting Palestinian statehood that was backed by 176 nations.  (more...)

Former foreign minister heckled over Israel support

Canada demands Israel flotilla abuse probe

 

Ottawa appears to be the first government to formally seek an independent investigation into the May 18-19 detentions

The Canadian government has called for an independent investigation into Israel’s “appalling” treatment of activists aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday that “the protection of all civilians and respect for human dignity must be upheld everywhere, at all times,” according to a government readout of his call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Israel’s denial of consular access to detainees violated the Vienna Convention, an international treaty requiring countries to allow detained foreign nationals to contact their diplomatic officials. Ottawa had provided West Jerusalem with evidence of abuse and expected “those responsible to be held accountable,” she wrote on X on Monday.

The diplomatic clash follows Israel’s interception of the flotilla in international waters on May 18-19 and the detention of hundreds of activists attempting to deliver aid to Gaza. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir later released footage showing detainees kneeling with their hands restrained behind their backs while he mocked them on camera.  (more...)

Canada demands Israel flotilla abuse probe

CANSEC Arms Fair Bars Multiple Independent Journalists From Attending

 

“Your media organization does not meet the CADSI Eligibility Requirements.”

Canada’s largest arms fair has refused media accreditation for multiple independent journalists and media outlets, including The Maple.

The CANSEC trade show, hosted by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI) at Ottawa’s Cohere Centre this Wednesday and Thursday, is an annual event that attracts hundreds of arms companies and dozens of Canadian politicians as attendees.

Keynote speakers at this year’s event include Defence Minister David McGuinty and Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, as well as former United States president Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan.

The organizers state that they work with the Canadian government “to engage a diverse global community” and list the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces as their “strategic partners.”

The Maple applied for media accreditation for this year’s CANSEC, but received an email from CADSI’s press team explaining that: “We have reviewed your application and have declined it for the following reasons [...] Your media organization does not meet the CADSI Eligibility Requirements.”

CADSI did not respond to questions from The Maple asking for details about its eligibility requirements and why it believes The Maple did not meet them. The Maple requested the decision to be reviewed, but heard nothing further from CADSI.  (more...)

CANSEC Arms Fair Bars Multiple Independent Journalists From Attending

Demand That UofT Revoke Its Sponsorship of the Weapons Conference CANSEC

 

🚨URGENT ACTION 🚨 

Go to the link in @torontostudentsforpalestine bio to send an email TODAY to U of T to demand that they revoke their sponsorship of the weapons conference CANSEC. 

CANSEC is a weapons trade show that hosts numerous weapons manufacturers and governments accused of war crimes and human rights abuses. A few of the weapons manufactures exhibiting at CANSEC that are complicit in war crimes and/or human rights violations include Elbit Systems, Roshel and Lockheed Martin.

This year U of T became the first university to ever sponsor CANSEC.

On May 12th U of T students, workers and faculty published an open letter demanding that the University of Toronto revoke its sponsorship of CANSEC. This letter was signed by 20 U of T student, worker and faculty groups and unions, but has so far been ignored by U of T administration. Additionally, on May 13th the U of T denied a student the opportunity to express concerns about the sponsorship of CANSEC at the University of Toronto Governing Council meeting despite the student following all proper procedures to speak.

These actions are in direct violation of U of T’s mission statement that commits to the “vigilant protection for individual human rights, and a resolute commitment to the principles of equal opportunity, equity and justice”.

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Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines

 

By fast-tracking critical minerals, Canada is not simply building a green economy. It is being further integrated into the U.S. war industry

Even as Prime Minister Mark Carney touts his plans to protect Canada’s economic sovereignty, the country’s critical minerals are making their way into U.S. weapons. 

According to legal experts, the U.S. is taking “possibly unprecedented” measures to secure ownership over Canadian mines, turning Canada—and the First Nations from whose lands the minerals are sourced—into a U.S. mining territory. All the while, the Canadian government is helping fund and fast-track these projects. 

From the provincial to the federal levels, Canada has been on a tear of expediting the extraction of critical minerals from its far north. These minerals were branded as “urgently necessary”—first for the transition to clean energy, and then, amid U.S. annexation threats, for Canada’s national security. 

Nickel, copper, graphite, cobalt, tungsten, chromium, and rare earth elements are not just inputs for batteries and wind turbines. They are also needed to build fighter jets, drones, missiles, radar systems, submarines, armour, and ammunition.

As I explain in a policy paper for the Transition Security Project, Canada has long been a reliable supplier of inputs for the United States’ wars. From Canada’s underbelly came the uranium for the U.S.’s nuclear bombs, nickel for armoured plates on its battleships, and aluminium for its warplanes. 

But when Canadian minerals are being earmarked for foreign military manufacturing, is that really in Canada’s national interest?  (more...)

Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines

US political operatives built a surveillance app for Alberta separatists, a coordinated attack to destabilize Canada

 

The Centurion Project's voter surveillance tool was built by US political operatives with direct ties to the Trump regime

The data on 2.9 million Albertans was loaded onto an app built with US funding, shaped by US political strategists, and deployed by a Canadian separatist organizer who spent nearly two years cultivating US partners before launching the Centurion Project. The question is not whether there is a US connection to what lawyers have called potentially the most significant privacy breach in Canadian history. The question is how deep the operation goes, who in the Trump orbit knew about it, and how far are they willing to take it.

On the night of 29 April 2026, David Parker stood in front of supporters at the Edmonton Oilfield Technical Society and unveiled the Centurion Project app, describing the technology as the same tool that "helped Trump win Michigan." Minutes after Parker finished speaking, an Elections Alberta investigator arrived with Edmonton police officers to inform organisers they were under investigation for improperly accessing and using the province's list of electors. Parker had already loaded the names, addresses, and voter identification numbers of every judge, every lawyer, every politician, every domestic abuse victim, every First Nations chief, every journalist, every senator, and every elections investigator in the province onto that app. Former premier Jason Kenney, on learning his home address had been shown to meeting participants, retained legal counsel and said he had previously received threats from people involved with the separatist, anti-vaccine, and far-right movements in Alberta. The database was accessible to anyone with the link, with no identity verification required.

Parker is a former Harper PMO staffer and the founder of Take Back Alberta, the political machinery credited with installing Danielle Smith as leader of the United Conservative Party. Smith attended Parker's wedding in 2023. UCP caucus staff attended an online Centurion Project meeting in April 2026, though the UCP says staff believed the data being presented had been legally obtained. Smith says she learned about the breach through media reports.

Elections Alberta confirmed the list came from the Republican Party of Alberta, a registered provincial party that advocates for independence, which had lawful access to the data. Investigators use fictitious "salt" names seeded into lists distributed to parties to identify the source of any leaked copy. Those salt names appeared in the Centurion database. Parker has not denied this. He has described the database as "like a phone book" and said it was intended to help volunteers search for friends and acquaintances they could canvass. He has also said he obtained the list on what he described as the black market for $45,000. Both things cannot be simultaneously true.  (more...)

US political operatives built a surveillance app for Alberta separatists, a coordinated attack to destabilize Canada

Why won’t Canadian military cut Trump-led US ties?

 

As Trump once again threatens to destroy all of Iran, Canadian politicians won’t even condemn the US president’s rhetoric, let alone push to reduce military ties. And in an embarrassing turn, the annexationist president is the one who has paused a major bilateral military accord.

Just before speaking with an Israeli Prime Minister pushing to restart a full-scale war against the country of 93 million, Donald Trump posted on Sunday “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!” A week ago, the leader of the only country ever to have employed nuclear arms suggested he might employ these horrific weapons again saying, “If there’s no ceasefire you’re just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran.”

In a prior example of rhetoric even supporters of the US/Israeli aggression ought to denounce, Trump said, “If they don’t sign this deal, the whole country is going to get blown up.” That same day the president posted to Truth Social, “the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” A week beforehand Trump threatened “a whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again” and then declared “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”

To the best of my knowledge the last time any Canadian politician directly condemned Trump’s unhinged rhetoric was after he threatened to destroy “a whole civilization”. And even then, it was mostly NDP representatives who didn’t demand any concrete action.  (more...)

Why won’t Canadian military cut Trump-led US ties?

Scandal boosts efforts to stop tax subsidies for Israel

 

The Kars4Kids scandal comes at a difficult time for the genocide lobby and boosts rapidly growing efforts to curtail Canada’s most important contribution to Palestinian dispossession.

On The National Friday CBC reported on a legal ruling in California to ban the Kars4Kids jingle for violating false advertising laws. The registered charity operates a car donation service supposedly “to fund educational, developmental, and recreational programs for low-income youth.” In fact, the money is used by an Orthodox Jewish group running camps exclusively for Jewish youth in New Jersey and Israel as well as Middle East lobbying efforts and sending US teenagers to Israel.

According to CBC, Kars4Kids Canada transferred $12.6 million to the US and Israel in the 2024-25 fiscal year. In October Just Peace Advocates submitted a formal complaint to the CRA regarding Kars4Kids’ registered charity (Oorah Charitable Organization). It notes that there’s “no indication of any funds to Canadian programs despite advertising suggesting helping children. Donors would expect their donations to be used in Canada and certainly would not expect the funds to go to one religious group.” The submission ads that the “funds going to Israel are not for children but for post-secondary programs” and questions whether they are being used to support illegal West Bank colonies and the Israeli military.

The publicity about Kars4Kids comes at an inopportune moment for the genocidal Jewish supremacist lobby. Over the past two weeks they’ve been screaming about how they are victims because there’s been an effort to press the CRA to apply its rules to 11 school charities assisting the Israeli military. In response to a report/email campaign submitted to the CRA calling for an investigation into 11 schools, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, B’nai Brith and others claimed applying the rules would “erase Jewish life in Canada.” Liberal MP Anthony Housefather even stood before Parliament to demand his government intercede to ignore the law.

After two weeks of complaining, CIJA instigated an email campaign to the CRA responding to the Just Peace Advocates led report/email campaign. The CIJA letter doesn’t say “don’t investigate charities potentially violating CRA rules”, but that is effectively their message.  (more...)

Scandal boosts efforts to stop tax subsidies for Israel

The money from Kars 4 Kids all went to a Jewish organization called “Oorah.”

This is a REAL video on the REAL “Oorah” YouTube channel, lol. https://t.co/D9xMhcTQz5 pic.twitter.com/2hdbCPGX29

— Vincent James (@davincentjames) May 19, 2026

Mark Carney Should Call For Prosecution of Israeli Minister: Expert

 

“If Canada believes that such behaviour is ‘unacceptable’ it should prove it.”

Canada and its allies should sanction Israel and call for the prosecution of its minister who posted a video of himself tormenting detainees arrested for trying to deliver aid on board a flotilla to Gaza, human rights experts say.

“If Canada believes that such behaviour is ‘unacceptable’ it should prove it,” Mark Kersten, an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice who has written a book about the International Criminal Court (ICC) told The Maple by email.

“That means actually doing something, not just saying something. Too often in the wake of such events, Canadian officials denounce them and then move on,” he said.

On Wednesday, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, posted a video to X with the caption, “Welcome to Israel.”

The clip shows a female activist shout, “Free, Free Palestine.” A man in a mask then grabs the activist by the back of her head and pushes her to the ground.

Ben-Gvir walks by, smiling. The minister also waves the Israeli flag while the activists kneel on the ground with what appear to be zip ties bounding their wrists.

Ben-Gvir is also shown chanting “Am Yisrael Chai,” or “the nation of Israel lives,” at a detainee who has his hands bound.

The video also shows Israeli troops pulling and dragging detainees, who are hunched over facing the ground.

According to a statement from the flotilla organizers, 12 Canadians were among those captured by Israeli forces.  (more...)

Mark Carney Should Call For Prosecution of Israeli Minister: Expert

ככה אנחנו מקבלים את תומכי הטרור

Welcome to Israel 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/7Hf8cAg7fC

— איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) May 20, 2026

U.S. Pauses Key Defence Accord Despite Carney’s Military Spending Hike

 

U.S. undersecretary claimed Canada “has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments.”

United States President Donald Trump’s Undersecretary of War Elbridge Colby announced yesterday that the Americans will be pausing a joint defence policy board because he claimed Canada “has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments.”

This is despite the Mark Carney government’s promises to spend an additional $81.8 billion on the military over the next five years and to reach the Trump regime’s demand that all NATO members spend 5 per cent of their GDPs on the military by 2035.

For Canada, that figure amounts to $150 billion in annual spending on the military and related infrastructure.

Writing on X, Colby said: “A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.”

“We can no longer avoid the gaps between rhetoric and reality. Real powers must sustain our rhetoric with shared defense and security responsibilities,” he added, including a link to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos in January, in which he spoke of the fading “rules based order.”

The Permanent Joint Board on Defense was established during the Second World War in 1940 and constitutes a key piece of Canada’s deep military integration with the U.S.  (more...)

U.S. Pauses Key Defence Accord Despite Carney’s Military Spending Hike

By hosting a global weapons bank, Carney is setting up Canada for war profiteering

 

Organizer Rachel Small explains how NATO-aligned bank will make Canada’s economy reliant on endless war

Canada has won its bid to host a new NATO-aligned bank that will fuel a weapons-building frenzy.

Organizer Rachel Small explains how the bank fits into Mark Carney’s militarization agenda and would further tie Canada’s economy to war profiteering.

You've got war memorials to the SS in Canada

 

The Babi Yar massacre was carried out by the very people you are defending, George tells caller Boris. You've hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian fa*cists who went to Canada. And your parliament honoured an SS veteran who fought against Russia in WW2.

Authoritarian Zionists take dramatic turn to the absurd

 

The authoritarianism of the genocidal Jewish supremacist movement is stunning. According to Israel supporters it is antisemitic that Canada hasn’t criminalized a non-existent social justice group.

As Israel kills hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians during ‘ceasefires’, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B’nai Brith have launched a push for Palestine Action Canada to be listed a terrorist organization. Last week The Canadian Jewish News reported, “Canadian Jewish groups call on government to designate Palestine Action as ‘terrorist entity’ Palestine Action Canada published a ‘target map’ identifying numerous institutions in Canada, Europe and the United States for ‘direct action.’”

Except Palestine Action Canada doesn’t seem to exist. An online search found little and there’s no evidence the group has carried out any action in Canada. On a global Palestine Action site there’s a “target map” with information on several hundred arms firms in dozens of countries across the world. There are ten firms listed in Canada. This appears to be the basis for which CIJA and B’nai Brith are calling for state authorities to ban Palestine Action Canada. A terror listing is supposed to require a thorough assessment by relevant security agencies (in practice, listings are highly political).

In the UK, Palestine Action was listed a terror group last year. Activists with the non-violent organization spray-painted facilities, disrupted activities and destroyed equipment at numerous arms firms. The listing by the British government was highly controversial. Some 3,000 people have been arrested opposing the ban on Palestine Action. In February the High Court ruled the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful and disproportionate (but did not immediately lift the listing, giving the government the right to appeal or rescind it.)

Despite its listing being legally overturned in the country in which it has been labelled a terror group and little sign of any operations in Canada, CIJA, B’nai Brith and others are demanding the banning of Palestine Action Canada. A paid ‘consultant’ of the genocidal Jewish supremacist lobby, Warren Kinsella, published a recent Toronto Sun column that begins “Why is Palestine Action allowed to operate in Canada? Why? It’s an important question…. For reasons that have not been explained by anyone in authority, Palestine Action are not considered a terror group by our government.”

Posting Kinsella’s article, Veterans For The Conservative Party of Canada Facebook group noted, “Of all the things I dislike about Carney and his government … his antisemitism has to be near the top. I am completely ashamed of his inaction against ‘Palestine Action’. It needs to be designated a terrorist group and routed out of Canada before something terrible happens.”  (more...)

Authoritarian Zionists take dramatic turn to the absurd