Doug Saunders
@DougSaunders
International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, Maximum Canada, etc.
New edition! New cover! New content! New low price! Out this week. The history you never learned in school; the argument you never thought you’d make
Debunking the myth of polarization: a year ago, everyone started describing “this age of political polarization” as the cause of all the craziness. But only one side became polarized. There has been no general shift to the extremes theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
What's stunning about this hunger crisis in Gaza is that it is not unfolding in some remote part of the world, allowing leaders to feign ignorance; no, this starvation is in the headlines, on television and much discussed -- yet still the world shrugs and the US is complicit.
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
My parents were murdered on October 7th, and if anyone is slapping us in the face, it's people like you, who for the past 20 years have failed to prevent violence and bloodshed in Israel-Palestine, whilst making inflammatory remarks. Your administration could stop the war…
The United States strongly rejects @EmmanuelMacron’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state at the @UN general assembly. This reckless decision only serves Hamas propaganda and sets back peace. It is a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th.
An actual US president steps to the plate
While a lasting resolution to the crisis in Gaza must involve a return of all hostages and a cessation of Israel’s military operations, these articles underscore the immediate need for action to be taken to prevent the travesty of innocent people dying of preventable starvation.…
finally, the perfect time to use this meme
So, nothing really happened to those people who refused to take Covid-19 vaccine.
This is important reporting No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say nytimes.com/2025/07/26/wor… via @NYTimes
This is why we prefer to use the more prescriptive dictionaries
'Irregardless' is a word.
The UK does have levers to pull. This is not what that looks like
The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting. The UK will pull every lever we have to get food and lifesaving support to Palestinians, and we will evacuate children who need urgent medical assistance. This humanitarian catastrophe must end.
It would be wild if he recognized it before Starmer or Carney did
A prominent Palestinian-American says that US President Donald Trump had informed him he would accept the establishment of a Palestinian state. ara.tv/v8um6
Let me get this straight. They brought an actual murderer over from Venezuela and put him on the streets of America. And they’re taking thousands of non-criminal Venezuelans—less prone to crime than Americans— off the streets of America and deporting them nytimes.com/2025/07/24/wor…
If you engineered a policy specifically to drive up the violent-crime rate, you would not do better than the Trump immigration policies
With Trump’s apparent full blessing, Israel will now intensify even more its campaign in Gaza. The worst-case scenario for Gazans, already the most likely, will haunt everyone.
Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff got it right. Hamas is the obstacle to a hostage release deal. Together with our U.S. allies, we are now considering alternative options to bring our hostages home, end Hamas’s terror rule, and secure lasting peace for Israel and…
The most mysterious and inexplicable invention of the far right, in my mind, is the notion that drag queens and otherwise gender-bending images are somehow dangerous or obscene or harmful to children and to be banished from sight and banned from public places. Drag queens!
Meanwhile in Canada, the right-wing premiers are *begging* the Liberal prime minister to let them issue work permits to asylum seekers theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
The number of Canadians moving to the United States was declining sharply and the number of Americans moving to Canada was increasing *even before Trump came along* and dramatically increased both incentives
StatsCan: Recent trends in #immigration from Canada to the United States multiculturalmeanderings.com/2025/07/24/sta… via @Andrew_Griffith Important study highlighting retention issues for high skilled immigrants to Canada