Ottawa wants Canadians to believe that a new era of strategic independence is underway, but the trade measures increasingly look performative, while the surge in military spending risks doing little to reduce Canada’s underlying dependence on the United States. Image via Prime Minister of Canada, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Umer Azad, Common Dreams There is something almost admirable about the Canadian government’s ability to respond to an American provocation with pr

A Rightwing March On The Constitution Danielle Smith in August -- image via Danielle Smith on X By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With only 14 days to go before the Smith MAGA ballot, The DNA Report resumes its review of the regressive referendum with a rundown of the four constitutional questions being peddled to electors. These innocent queries are an addition to the five ‘get-the-immigrant’ questions taken up by this journal on September 25th as well as the ‘separ

This Week In Annexation II.4 Carney and Danielle Smith making the announcement -- image via Mark Carney on X By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With only 16 days to go before the Smith MAGA ballot, The DNA Report concludes This Week in Annexation with a crowning piece of federal electioneering in Alberta’s pre-annexation referendum. “The Canadian taxpayer is going to make a lot of money on this pipeline.” With that assessment on October, banker-PM Mark Carney official

This Week In Annexation II.3 Carney and Eby -- Image via David Eby on X By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 17 days to go until the Alberta pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report continues a second round of This Week in Annexation thanks to heavy double-barrel electioneering from Canada CEO Mark Carney as he rolled out a mega-project announcement each day either side of the Reconciliation holiday. This post covers the first Carney intervention on September 29.

This Week In Annexation II.2 J.D. Vance at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, 2025 -- public domain image By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 19 days to go until the Smith MAGA ballot in Alberta, The DNA Report concludes a second round of This Week in Annexation with a quick review of signs that a Trump-USA takeover threat is not a figment of anyone’s imagination. A Chilling Admission More interesting than PM Mark Carney’s shuttle diplomacy to Europe this month was

This Week In Annexation II.1 By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 20 days to go until the Smith MAGA ballot in Alberta, The DNA Report begins a second round of This Week in Annexation with a post on banker-PM Mark Carney’s sanctified quest for membership in Fortress Europe, aka the European Union (EU). In a gambit to apparently ‘strengthen’ Canadian sovereignty, Carney has run with the suggestion from European Commission President, Ursula Von der Leyen, that the co

Trump Lends A Hand In Siccing Anger Against Immigrants By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 24 days until Alberta’s pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report is taking a first look at the regressive ballot by reviewing the five anti-immigrant questions cooked up and launched by the Governor Smith cabinet on March 31. This review comes as Herr Trump snarled a ‘Truth Social’ statement on September 23 pushing immigrant scapegoating in Canada. The Orange Ogre’s putativ

Canadians Are In Deep Denial Of The American Annexation Operation. Trump shows Carney a model of the proposed “Independence Arch” in the White House, October, 2025 -- public domain image By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report This is only the beginning of the Trump Troubles in Canada. The Orange Menace has gone trade-war apeshit only weeks before Albertan Governor Danielle Smith holds a far-Right pre-annexation referendum on October 19th. Canadians are currently enduring

While Simon Bolivar has been right for 200 years, the US is not doomed to act this way forever. Trump and allied leaders at the Shield of the Americas summit in March, 2026 -- public domain image By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Common Dreams Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For 200 years, US leaders have never prov

Carney with Trump at the White House in May, 2025 -- public domain image Via the Communist Party of Canada The trade war with the United States is already causing devastation for workers across Canada. Despite doing the right thing and walking away from a bad deal on tariff negotiations, the response from the Carney government has been to make working people pay for the deepening trade war and to show a willingness to make profound concessions that will hurt working people. T

The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer looks at how so-called Black Ribbon Day is nothing more than far right anti-communist lies and propaganda that serve to advance the new McCarthyite wave by Trump-Rubio in the USA and historical revisionism in Europe. It is also widely supported by western liberals and social democrats playing their role as facilitators of fascism. References: The Left Chapter: Secrets and Lies -- Chrystia Freeland's grandfather and collaborating with th

The contribution of the Communist Party of Canada to the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP) held in Havana from August 7 to 8, 2026. On behalf of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada, I bring fraternal greetings to the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties. We thank the Communist Party of Cuba for hosting this important gathering in Havana. We salute the heroic Cuban people and their socialis

At a press conference on Wednesday, July 29, Drew Garvie, leader of the Communist Party of Canada denounced what he described as a "corporate coup" unfolding in Canada as the Carney government uses the threat to Canadian sovereignty posed by the Trump administration as cover for a a corporate agenda. "We're here today because the federal government is using the attacks on Canadian sovereignty and independence by the United States government to carry out a corporate coup, a co

Trump and Carney at the NATO summit, July 8, 2026 -- public domain image As the NATO summit draws to a close in Ankara, Turkey, the Communist Party of Canada reiterates its condemnation of this offensive, warmongering alliance, which – now more than ever – is fulfilling its role as the global army of the United States. Today, NATO is pushing us further toward the abyss of a world war that could turn nuclear. Flashpoints are multiplying. From Ukraine, caught between the Wester

The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer looks at how Con Man Carney's BS about "Elbows Up" is a total farce as the Canadian government capitulates to Trump. Con Man Carney's cowardice has never been more on display than in recent days as he backed Trump's renewed attacks on Iran and, even more shamefully, abstained in the vote at the UN to allow a debate around the intensified, genocidal blockade of Cuba.

Why Cuba is so special is all the little things they don't even know are special. To this people, everyone is always entitled to full human dignity. Cubans rally in defense of the Revolution, April 2 -- image via Granma on Facebook By Macdonald Stainsby Getting off the plane in late February to arrive in la Habana was an exercise in apprehension. The American attempt to completely choke and starve the country of Cuba had just been given its greatest assist by the Carney gover

The Left Chapter's editor Michael Laxer looks at the neo-liberal ideological assault on public services like Canada Post within the context of the broader right-wing, corporate ideological assault on the very idea of government and public services. An ideological assault that it is essential for the Left to counter and fightback against. Further reading: The so-called “crisis” facing Canada Post is entirely ideological CUPW petition: CUPW - 2000-03-31 - Take Action: Stop Cana

The amazing shrinking federal NDP is the fallout from a deepening rightwing political consensus the party signed onto long ago. Lori Idlout endorsing Avi Lewis -- image via the Avi Lewis campaign on Facebook By Gabriel Haythornthwaite The Ides of March came a little early to Ottawa this year with the defection of Nunavut MP Lori Idlout from the NDP to the Mark Carney Liberals on March 11. That day, as the banker-PM paraded the newly minted Liberal MP Idlout to a caucus meetin

Statements from Communist and workers' parties in South Africa, Swaziland, Mexico, Sudan, Ireland and Canada. Image from a women's rally in Los Angeles, USA, 2017 -- public domain image South African Communist Party Statement on International Working Women’s Day Sunday, 8 March 2026:- The South African Communist Party (SACP) joins the millions of women in South Africa and around the world in celebrating the international working women’s day. We recognise that this day is an o

Communist Party of Canada Statement Trump and Carney in 2025 at the White House -- public domain image No to the new imperialist war against Iran! End Canada’s complicity! The Communist Party of Canada condemns the illegal and reckless bombing of Iran launched this weekend by the United States and Israel. This murderous aggression flagrantly violates international law and the United Nations Charter, risking catastrophic escalation. This attack rests on false pretexts. The cla