Last week, Public Safety Canada tried to quietly redefine anti-Zionism as antisemitic. This marks the first time the Canadian government has explicitly stated that anti-Zionism — the rejection of Jewi...

Clashes between the SPLM-N rebel movement and the Otoro ethnic group have killed more than 500 people and displaced 25,000 around Kauda in Sudan's Nuba Mountains.

International attorney Jared Genser has taken on the case of Ruth López, one of El Salvador’s highest-profile political prisoners. “This will be an all-hands-on-deck operation,” he said. “We have alli...

What the rise of the super rich means for democracy, affordability, and Canada’s future

Trade disputes. Economic uncertainty. Growing separatist rhetoric in Alberta. Canada faces no shortage of pressing challenges, but one issue can’t afford to take a back seat: health care.Patients cont...

A review of Eddie Quitoriano’s new book, Deeper Ground, Darker Shadows.

A roadmap to a Canada made truly strong by its commitment to solidarity and dignity for all

Since 2024, the Sudan Working Group has been a forum for solidarity, exchange, and action for both WPSN-C members and non-members concerned with the ongoing and evolving situation in Sudan. The wor…

How Myanmar’s military regime tracks down dissidents abroad.

By Boaventura De Sousa Santos* - Meer Artificial Intelligence as a litmus test. The end of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe was hailed as the great universal consolidatio...

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I Have Organized Elections and Been Elected in China As a Canadian property owner in a Chinese neighborhood where we were dissatisfied with management, I organized elections in 2017 to establish a Property Owners' Committee. The required process was rigorous, first electing a committee to hold the elections. Candidates did not have to be party members, just property owners. Cajoled into standing for election myself, I was elected Director by the owners of 150 houses and served for six years.

La Moncloa. Address by the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, to the United Nations General Assembly | 23/09/2026 [Speeches]

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) say that essential assistance to refugees in Chad will be drastically scaled back even further in the coming months unle...

UN refugee agency says 400 people a day, about 20 times the previous daily rate, now cross from Sudan into eastern Chad.

This ambitious new book co-authored by Jenny Pearce and Juan David Velasco Montoya, offers the most comprehensive analysis of the history of Colombian elites since 1886, the date of a Constitution tha...

An Ontario Health Coalition report says operating rooms and diagnostic equipment are being underused in city hospitals like Ottawa.

Main Street Millionaires are every bit as greedy and as cunning as the so-called fat cats we’re accustomed to reviling.

London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - With major elections looming in both the US and Israel, fractures over Gaza are increasingly prominent on both sides of the American political spect...

Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working o…

The Trump administration is ramping up its hostile environment for journalists, from American streets to the corridors of the White House.

The move comes after the Trump administration restricted access to the White House for CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO.

The move comes after the Trump administration restricted access to the White House for CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO.

Australian consulting firm Nous Group profits from public-sector austerity by imposing corporatization across cash-strapped Canadian universities, and is now expanding into health care.

Rwanda’s covert operations and AI disinformation tactics are forcing journalists into exile.

Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditi...

Almost no one has seen NAZA, a chilling new documentary. That hasn’t stopped Israel from condemning it.

Betting the House is a pop-up collaboration of journalists reporting on what the climate crisis means for the places we call home. As extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, the questi...

Despite the formal dissolution of the SDF and the Kurdish-led autonomous zone, northeast Syria remains in a liminal state—not fully Syria, but not entirely separate, either.

Ten years of PROMESA in Puerto Rico

I have to admit surprise at the carefully constructed campaign to stop Canada developing stronger relations with Europe.

Costa Rica is in the midst of an intense period of political upheaval driven by the right-wing populist project of former President Rodrigo Chaves and his successor.

Elizabeth MacCallum, the Middle East specialist sidelined inside External Affairs, argued against partition. Lester Pearson, aligned with US strategy, made sure it passed.

The global war on terror, born from the ashes of the twin towers, perpetuates itself by constantly seeking new targets, writes Manuel Tufró. By Manuel Tufró Open Democracy Twenty-five years ago, f...

Rights groups say the Israeli government is forging ahead with a contentious settlement expansion plan that would effectively divide the occupied West Bank, long criticized as a threat to the viabilit...

More US troops have ​died during the ‌war with Iran than the Pentagon ​has publicly ​disclosed, the Washington Post ⁠reported on ​Friday, citing six ​US officials familiar with the Defense Department'...

After months of work, we are honoured to publish our latest report today: “The Damage of De-risking: How Canada’s Policies to Counter Terrorism Financing Drive Financial Exclusion.” Read the Executive...

Our cut-and-run approach to foreign aid goes beyond slashing funding to the lowest level since 1969, and includes closing missions in key regions, and withdrawing peacekeeping operations, argues forme...

Our cut-and-run approach to foreign aid goes beyond slashing funding to the lowest level since 1969, and includes closing missions in key regions, and withdrawing peacekeeping operations, argues forme...

Washington and Florida insiders are exploring lucrative deals for a post-communist Cuba crushed by ever-increasing US sanctions

“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have per...

A UN fact-finding mission also found that Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during their deadly crackdown on anti-government protests.

The documentary film NAZA is stirring outrage in Israel, prompting many to defend their military's actions in Gaza against accusations it approves strikes regardless of harm to Palestinian civilians, ...

OTTAWA - There's "a near-total absence" of effective recourse for non-profit organizations and individuals whose banking services are cut off due to alleged ties to terrorist financing, a new report