Political Education – Canadian Mythology w/ Richard Sanders and Yves Engler

Join us Canada Day – July 1st 2026 at 3:30pm PT/6:30pm ET with Yves Engler as we break down the popular myth of Canadian peacekeepers.

Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author who has published 13 books including his latest Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy (co-authored with Owen Schalk).

Richard Sanders is an anti-war activist and writer in Canada. In 1984, he received an MA in cultural anthropology and began working to expose Canada’s complicity in U.S.-led wars. In 1989, he founded the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT), which led to a 20-year municipal ban on Ottawa’s arms bazaars. He continues to produce COAT’s publication, Press for Conversion! Its latest issues examine how Canadians are captivated by state myths: * Captive Canada: Renditions of the Peaceable Kingdom at war, from narratives of WWI and the Red Scare to the mass internment of civilians; * Fictive Canada: Indigenous slaves and the captivating narratives of a mythic nation; * Cold War Canada: Ongoing state support for East European émigré groups with deep, fascist roots. He is writing a book (for Baraka Books) on Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s prime minister in waiting, which details her grooming as a Liberal war hawk in the Pearsonian tradition. His research has revealed that Freeland began her journalism career with pro-fascist Ukrainian-Canadian publications for which her grandfather—the Nazi’s top Ukrainian-language news propagandist—also worked.

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