From Ottawa, a piece on the Canadian government’s International Development Agency (CIDA) cutting off NGO’s for saying the wrong thing.
Aid groups say the federal government is casting a chill over advocacy work that takes positions on policy or political issues – and one claims a senior Conservative aide warned them against such activities….
Another aid NGO, the left-leaning Montreal-based Alternatives, can’t get CIDA to return its calls since the National Post – citing unnamed government sources – reported that the organization’s long-standing $2.1-million funding proposal would be rejected because of its political advocacy. Its most recent aid funding ran out last March.
Alternatives produces a newspaper that has published left-wing commentators and, for example, a piece that made a controversial argument for a “united Israel” and against Israel’s status as a Jewish state – rather than the internationally endorsed “two-state solution” of Israel existing beside a separate Palestinian state.
“Everything we hear is that Alternatives’ advocacy work is the main reason we’ll eventually be cut,” said the organization’s executive director, Michel Lambert.
The National Post is Fox News in print and is/was owned by the Asper family. Daddy Izzy Asper died of old age, and the kids ran the rest of his papers into bankruptcy in no time, whereupon the papers were saved at the last moment, actually as I write:
link to winnipegfreepress.com
Izzy was an ultra-Zionist who bankrolled the Likud party, and supported the Canadian Liberal party during the 80s and 90s. They set the play to have newspapers flex their muscles at any perceived infraction against the marvel of Israel. Eastern Canada — Ontario and Quebec — has a strong right-wing, now bordering on extremist, faction of Zionists. The current PM is a school friend of David Frum and a right-wing non-Jewish Zionist himself.
Jonathan Kay is the author of the latest Newsweek hit piece on the tea party fiasco in which he lumps all opposition to the Dominant Minority as “kooks”. Kay is the managing editor of The National Post.
The Aspers are also pals with the Goldman Sachs mob.
“NGOs are being positively invited to remain silent on key questions of public policy,”
great caption for a cartoon
Canada is taking a strong position against free speech on many issues, not just Israel. The thought police have totally surrounded the issues related to the current Olympics.
It is a disturbing trend. I have family connections in Canada and used to consider emmigrating there, but no longer.
link to bccla.org
Canadian censorship of Olympics.
Ottawa under Stephen Harper has joined the western ZOGs (the US, France, Germany, Britain, Denmark, etc.). Earlier, Canadian Christian aid organization KAIROS thanks to Canada’s immigration minister Jason Kenney, one of several Israel Looby in Harper’s government. Jason while in Israel in December to attend “Anti-Semitism Conferece” was informed that KAIROS was throwing some dollars in Gaza.
However, the largest numbers of charities being targetted by the US are those listed by Israel. According to Timesonline (September 5, 2008) – Zionist regime has listed 36 major Muslim charities as supporters of so-called ‘terrorism against Israel’ – meaning providing some humantarian aid to 1.5 million Palestinian, 60% of whom are children, jailed inside Gaza by Israel or helping Lebanese, whose homes and fields were destroyed by Israeli thugs in 34-day attack in 2006 or providing helping hands to Muslim refugees, who are victims of western wars and their puppet-regimes in the Muslim world……
link to rehmat1.wordpress.com
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Thank you for this insightful post about an incredibly important issue; I definitely think that peace requires us to revisit many options, a one-state solution being one of them. I have included your piece in this week’s Thor’s Day Roundup, a carnival of NGO and non-profit blog posts, hosted at my blog.
Enjoy!