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This opinion piece (republished from rabble.ca) argues that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos rhetoric about defending Canadian sovereignty masks a domestic and foreign-policy agenda — spanning military procurement and energy expansion — that the author contends reinforces racial capitalism and sidelines Indigenous rights and title.

Opinion: Journalists and union organizers face escalating legal harassment and violence as capitalist elites push back against critics, this column argues, citing at least 340 reporters killed worldwide from 2020-2024 (210 in Gaza, 150 in Ukraine) and the arrests of Canadian journalists Brandi Morin (2024) and Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano (2021).