Robin Philpot and Phil Taylor
Robin Philpot is a graduate of the university of Toronto and founder of Baraka Books in Montreal.
He is author of A People’s History of Quebec, with Jacques Lacoursière (Baraka Books, 2009); and Rwanda and the New Scramble For Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction (Baraka Books, 2013), among other works.
Robin can be reached at philpotrobin@gmail.com.
Phil Taylor is the host of The Taylor Report, CIUT 89.5 Toronto and on line. He is a superannuated radio kid who grew up listening to William Mandel and Kenneth Rexroth on KPFA Berkeley. Ex-Marine; an investigator at Roach & Schwartz, several years at UN Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. Phil can be reached at p.s.taylor68@gmail.com
When history repeats itself, it is not always a farce.
When Justin Trudeau headed off to London on the invitation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the summit on the war in Ukraine, Canada’s soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister, in spite of himself, brilliantly recalled Canada’s British colonial and military history....
In order to buy a 30-day reprieve from Trump tariffs on Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a few concessions: Canada would name a drug-fighting “czar” and put extra border watchers in place. Nothing surprising, though disappointing and humiliating.
Giving way to U.S. bullying will only bring more, as everyone understands....
