Rallies for Palestine Fail to Win Hearts and Minds

 In December, I attended the rally for the Jewish People on Parliament Hill and wrote about it here. At that point, Israel’s retaliatory attack on Hamas in the Gaza Strip had been underway for about two months. I readily admit that I am pro-Israel, and while the current suffering of

The ‘current thing’: Canada’s shallow foreign policy in Ukraine

 ABOVE: A Yazidi mass grave in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in 2015 (PHOTO: VOA, Public Domain) The twentieth century has seen its share of genocides. The Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian genocide under Stalin (the Holodomor), the Holocaust, Rwanda and the Bosnian genocide are perhaps the most well-known, along with the killing fields

Hypocrisy, language, and words matter in our relationship with China

 ‘Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones’ op-ed — The House of Commons vote on Monday Feburary 22, 2021 to approve a non-binding motion, brought forward by the opposition Conservatives, to recognize China’s actions in the north-western Xinjiang province as a genocide against Muslim Uighurs was misguided and

Nanjing Massacre victims not forgotten in Canada on anniversary

 Above: MP for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Jenny Wai Ching Kwan and Geng Tan, former Liberal MP for Don Valley North and member of the Confederation of Toronto Chinese Canadian Organizations, lay a wreath at the Nanjing Massacre Victims Monument located in Richmond Hill, Ontario. [Photo: Zou Zheng/Xinhua, VIA China Daily.com.cn] By Rena Li (Toronto)

The UN Security Council — What were the Liberals thinking

 It was not surprising that the Trudeau government did not win its coveted United Nations (UN) Security Council seat. Canada's role, presence and effectiveness on the world stage in the last five years has been so diminished by the Liberal government that there was never a chance for Canada to have the votes