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Unmasking the “Good Intentions” of Canadian NGOs

"The NGO-mining corporation partnerships funded by the Canadian government are the latest example of how NGOs are used to put a “human face” on the inhuman, a tall order considering the trail of dead bodies and devastated ecosystems this sector of corporate capital has left in its wake."

NGOization: Depoliticizing Activism in Canada

"The wide variety of NGOs serves to confuse things. Depending on how one counts, there are hundreds or thousands of grant-dependent mission-oriented organizations in Canada. Many who work in NGOs insist that it is futile to make generalizations. There exist an undeniable plethora of NGOs. All of them, however, depend on a comparatively small pool of funders."

WATCH: Canadian Aid to Haiti Tied to Mining Interests

"Strategic objectives of Canadian aid are to strengthen a pro-elite police and advance Canadian commercial interests."

NGOs and Empire | Canadian Aid Agencies Take Empire Building Seriously

"Canada’s development NGOs, in other words, are not quite as non-governmental as they seem, and with politicians holding the purse strings, these NGOs face serious limits on what they can do and say. Harper’s cuts, however, did not provoke a sober reappraisal of the distortions and restrictions that accompany government funding. Instead, the cuts occasioned an attempt to breathe new life into old fantasies about Canadian benevolence and NGO independence."

NGOs Receive Funds from Canadian Government & Mining Companies

  “In the first phase of this new program, the World University...

How USAID Undermines Democracy in Haiti

The image above is from the article “Putting the Aid in Aiding...