DELHI – It’s only fitting that a conference dedicated to the eradication of smoking tobacco would be held in a city caked with smog pollution. Last week in Noida, a southeastern suburb of New Delhi, delegates from over 180 countries filed out of tour buses for the World Health Organization’s seventh Conferences of the Parties […]
Tobacco Monitoring First Step To Increased Sin Industry Scrutiny
By Yaël Ossowski | Huffington Post Canada Using the image of a puppet pulled by strings from above by a mysterious figure, the World Health Organization is pulling out all the stops in its effort to turn public opinion against the tobacco industry. The oft-used trope is a popular one in modern conspiracy theories, that […]
The libertarian-minded Conservative who could give Justin Trudeau a run for his money
Source: YouTube His name is Maxime Bernier and he has all the great qualities of a small-town politician. He makes a point of visiting every part of his constituency while he’s in office. He saves resources by not printing up posters at election time, and he gets elected with higher and higher margins each time, […]
David Clement Targets Harper’s Fiscal Underbelly in Libertarian Candidacy
Is Classical Liberalism the Fix for Canada’s Disgruntled Conservatives? By Yaël Ossowski | October 7th, 2015 | PanAm Post How often do you find a Canadian politician willing to criticize both intervention in the Middle East and the Dairy Commission in the same breath? At least for the Libertarian Party of Canada, they’re two issues […]
I Tried to Reach Liberland, and Here’s What I Learned
By Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post Just 20 seconds after crossing the Croatian border, our car was already being tailed by a police sedan. I gripped the wheel a bit tighter and tried to issue a hand signal to the group behind us. 5-0 on our tail. He followed our cars for a good 10 […]
The Difference between Expats and Immigrants? It’s Passports, Not Race
Immigration Restrictions Create Distinctions, Not Skin Color Yaël Ossowski | March 26, 2015 | PanAm Post Is classifying white westerners as “expats” and others as “immigrants” when they live outside their home countries racist? That’s the question put forward by Mawuna Remarque Koutonin on the Guardian website last week: “Why are white people expats when […]
About-Face: Canada’s Shift from Peacekeeper to Bomb-Dropper
Maple Muscle at the Beck and Call of Military Allies Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post January 22, 2015 Canada’s reputation as a peacekeeping nation has drastically changed in the last decade. (Gopixpic) “Canadians want to live in peace,” declared Prime Minister John Diefenbaker to the nation in 1960 in the midst of the ongoing Cold War. […]
Canada, Don’t Be Duped into US-Style Anti-Terrorism Laws
Civil Liberties Hang by a Thread in Western World Yaël Ossowski | December 18, 2014 | PanAm Post Within hours of the October 22 shootings in Ottawa’s Parliament, which killed one Canadian soldier, the Canadian population, still reeling from the brazen attack, braced for a new round of anti-terrorism legislation. It was to be expected. […]