Noor Azrieh

The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History | The Walrus There was satellite imagery, survivor testimony, and mass graves. Still, the world looked away from Sudan

The genocide in Sudan hasn’t been ignored or overlooked, it has been willfully ignored. My dispatch from the region …

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Carney Cuts The Scientists Who Test For Toxins More than 24,000 federal public servants have received notices that their jobs could be at risk. That is on top of the 9800 public service employees who were already let go last year.

We take you inside a lab at Environment and Climate Change Canada that could go from 9 scientists to 1, thanks to PM Carney's public service cuts.

This lab makes sure our water isn't slick with oil, and our fish aren't infested with plastics.

NDP: the Quest for Relevance Sparks were markedly absent from the final NDP leadership debate, replaced instead by “violent agreement” amongst candidates. Meanwhile, the federal Liberals’ rightward shift leaves a wide gap on the left side of the political spectrum. What does the NDP need to do to shake off the sleepies, and meet the current political moment?

Canadian media hit the snooze button on the final NDP leadership debate. How can the NDP save itself from fading into further obscurity?

@lukewsavage.bsky.social joins host James Nicholson to discuss.

Carney Brokers a "Mega Anti-Trump Alliance" Mark Carney is busy trying to Trump-proof Canada with a flurry of trade deals and whispers of a mega anti-Trump alliance linking Europe and the Indo-Pacific. Trade researcher Stuart Trew joins host Noor Azrieh to argue that more free trade isn’t a master plan; it’s diminishing returns with nicer branding.

Mark Carney might be building a MEGA MIDDLE-POWER trade bloc to Trump-proof Canada. But what if more free trade… isn’t the answer?

And on Friday I chatted with @noorazrieh.bsky.social about Canadian media's response to the tragedy

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#1315 The Bishnoi Gang’s Extortion Campaign in BC Surrey, BC has already recorded 51 extortions this year. 11 of them ended with shots fired.

51 extortions in Surrey.
And we’re barely into the year.
There were 133 in all of last year.

The RCMP think they know who's behind it: the Bishnoi gang.

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#625 How to Score Cheap Political Points off a Mass Shooting In the aftermath of the mass school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., a race was underway online to expose and weaponize the identity of the suspect. 

Why the tragedy of Tumbler Ridge was immediately weaponized by anti-trans bad actors.

@noorazrieh.bsky.social hosts with @melwoods.me

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

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A Love Letter to Tumbler Ridge | The Tyee The northern community faces some of its darkest days ahead, but is famously resilient.

“For those who are just learning about Tumbler Ridge for the first time, know that it is so much more than the events of this week. The town is a portrait of resiliency. It has survived against the odds and emerged stronger.”
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Couldn’t have done it without you!

#167 I Recorded a Right-Wing Influencer Party at Poilievre's Convention Pierre Poilievre just cruised through his leadership review, but is the party really buying what he’s selling?

Listen to @noorazrieh.bsky.social condense 72+ hours of insanity into 30 minutes of gold.

Masterful distillation. Sometimes you just gotta hear it.

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#167 I Recorded a Right-Wing Influencer Party at Poilievre's Convention Pierre Poilievre just cruised through his leadership review, but is the party really buying what he’s selling?

I spent 3 days at the Conservative Convention talking to MPs, staffers, delegates, AND the cowboy-hatted face of the Alberta separatist movement.

Somehow, I also ended up inside the biggest right-wing influencer party in Canada.

Listen to the episode:
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#166 Does Carney Want a Spring Election? We’re back in the middle of another Donald Trump tariff tantrum—this time over Canada’s trade relationship with China.

Listen to today's episode on @canadaland.com to hear NYT Canada Bureau Chief Matina Stevis-Gridneff say the word bitch 3 times back to back to back, plus her other really smart (& blunt) takes on Trump-Carney.

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Given what's happening at Davos right now, this interview is way more timely than I had hoped.

Guns N’ Hosers When the Liberals announced the national gun buyback program in 2019, it was supposed to be a simple and clear choice. A popular policy that made for an easy political win. 6 years later, it's looking more like the gun buyback program backfired on the Liberals. How did we get here?

The Liberal gun buyback program: clear, moral public policy — or a costly political sunk cost?

@noorazrieh.bsky.social with Noah Schwartz

Carney Has a Lot to Lose in China Host Noor Azrieh sits down with Vina Nadjibulla and asks if it's even possible to play nice with China? Or whether this whole trip is a waste of time. Plus, we hear from Kelly Ann Shaw, a key architect of the Trump administration’s trade, investment, energy and national security policies in his first term, about the future of CUSMA.

Mark Carney is in China today at the request of President Xi Jinping. What could we possibly get out of China? And why does China want from us?

The Year of the Elbows Consider this your 2025 political yearbook. Honorable mentions include: pop stars, masked singers, Question Period fever dreams, elbow-themed merch, biological clocks (obviously), Ruby Dhalla, the taboule or fattoush debate, and much (much) more.

Consider this your 2025 political yearbook.

Honorable mentions include: pop stars, masked singers, Question Period fever dreams, elbow-themed merch, biological clocks (obviously), Ruby Dhalla, the taboule or fattoush debate, and much (much) more.

Trump’s Plan to Dominate the Americas (Canada included) Podcast Episode · CANADALAND · 2025-12-16 · 42m

With today's blockade, the U.S. is now at war with #Venezuela.
The war is illegal, by design, as the U.S. no longer accepts any constraint on its ability to use force against neighbours in the Americas.
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Trump’s Plan to Dominate the Americas (Canada included) United States Attorney General Pam Bondi is flexing the US’s military seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker as the Trump administration deploys warships — and even nuclear submarines — off Venezuela’s coast.

What is a middle power like Canada supposed to do when its closest ally goes rogue?

With @noorazrieh.bsky.social & @benrowswell.bsky.social

U.S. seizing Venezuelan oil tank is attempt to ‘demonstrate dominance’: former Venezuela ambassador YouTube video by CTV News

The images the U.S. leadership promoted to the world tell the story of a government that wants to dominate all its neighbours, law be damned
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First time in the host seat. Gotta bring out the "trade war with a chance of flurries" take

When Carney Met Smith-y Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been pressuring Prime Minister Mark Carney for months on a new pipeline to the BC coast, and after a new MOU, she’s closer than ever. Host Noor Azrieh unpacks this deal with The Hub’s Falice Chin.

Carney replaces one Trudeau-era Minister with another Trudeau-era Minister. Plus, we go behind the velvet rope of the Hill’s most “exclusive” celebrity party. Oh, and Carney makes Smith’s pipeline dream come true.

Alberta UCP delegates reject key provisions of Smith-Carney deal At the party's AGM, resolutions passed that position the ruling party against emissions regulations and net-zero policies, EV mandates and greenwashing laws, while embracing coal power and new oil pip...

NEW from me in @nationalobserver.com:

UCP members voted overwhelmingly against net-zero targets and cooperating with the feds on industrial carbon pricing this weekend.

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Five (Delusional? Brave?) NDP Leadership Candidates on WTF They Plan to Do We spoke to all five NDP leadership candidates ahead of their debate. Here's what they each had to say.

The NDP is in the fight of its life: 7 seats, debt, infighting, and vibes of a group project gone wrong.
Tonight, 5 people who want to inherit this chaos hit the debate stage.

Here’s who they are and why they think they can fix things:
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For anyone interested in the federal NDP leadership race…

Every NDP Leadership Candidate on WTF They Would Do The federal NDP leadership race is officially on. Five candidates want the job, and each of them thinks they know how to rescue a party that's been drifting into irrelevance

We sat all five NDP leadership candidates and asked them how they plan to bring their party back from the dead.

The Fu*kit Budget Noor talks to immigration expert Rupa Banerjee about whether this is a fix… or the start of Canada’s next crisis.

The Liberals say they’re “taking back control” of Canada’s immigration system by cutting study permits and temporary residents by half.

But what happens to the 3 million people already here?

John Nater: “I will ask the Honourable Members who have taken picture to immediately delete the pictures”

Deputy Speaker John Nater has ordered members of parliament on both sides of the aisle to delete selfies taken on the floor of the House of Commons after Carney’s budget passes

Our Own Jewish-Arab Peace Talk It’s no secret that Jesse Brown and Canadaland have had more than a few struggles, online and in the office, since October 7. But, eventually, Jesse Brown swore off Twitter and then the dust (and the office) settled, mostly. Now Jesse is about to launch a new series where he travels across Canada, mic in hand, to talk with rabbis, activists, politicians, scholars, artists, Muslims, and Jews. People whose lives haven’t been the same since October 7.

Noor Azrieh talks to Jesse Brown about his new Canadaland series, “What Is Happening Here?”

Elizabeth May on Holding the Balance of Power There’s chaos in Ottawa! Green Party leader Elizabeth May doesn’t want to ruin Christmas with an election… but she says she will if Mark Carney doesn’t budge. And in B.C., a court ruling is throwing private property rights —and maybe even Canada’s map — into question. Host Noor gets the story from The Tyee’s Andrew MacLeod.

Elizabeth May says she doesn’t want to ruin Christmas with an election, but she will if Mark Carney doesn’t budge.

And a B.C. court ruling that could redraw Canada’s map.