China is a predator, not a partner. It is helping sustain Russia’s war against Ukraine while working with Russia on anti-satellite weapons + systems designed to penetrate NATO/NORAD defenses. Charles Burton and I argue that Canada cannot ignore the Russia-China alliance.
National Post@nationalpost.bsky.social · 5d agoMarcus Kolga and Charles Burton: National security must come before greater economic engagement nationalpost.com/opinion/opin...
More reckless, clownish foreign policy from Trump. Backtracking on Ukraine’s ability to produce Patriots will only embolden Putin and leave countless Ukrainian civilians at even greater risk from Russia’s relentless attacks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump backtracks from promise to let Ukraine build Patriot missiles
US president tells reporters during Camp David cabinet meeting technology ‘a hard thing to give away’
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Things you can’t make up: Dugin retweets Simonyan promoting a Tucker Carlson interview with an American turncoat and a senior Russian RT propagandist, in which he gushes about Putin’s Russia.
Putin’s repression extends well beyond Russia’s borders and into Western democratic countries, including Canada. Grateful to Alex Shprintsen, Terry McKenna and the CBC team for giving survivors the opportunity to share their experiences -and my own- with Canadians. youtu.be/teckdoLF0Kc?...
How Putin goes after his enemies outside of Russia
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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Must-read: For DFRLab, JHR-Europe's Marcus Kolga (@marcuskolga.bsky.social) tells the stories of 2 Belarusian-Canadian activists working in support of a free #Belarus, targeted by the Lukashenka regime, even on Cdn soil, through family & property they have back in Belarus: dfrlab.org/2026/07/13/d...
Distance won’t protect you: Belarusian transnational repression in Canada
Property seizures, family interrogations, and digital surveillance show how Belarus punishes its diaspora on Canadian soil.
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The Lukashenka regime is seizing property of Belarusian Canadians, harassing relatives + monitoring activities in efforts to intimidate them into silence. My new Atlantic Council DFRLab report on Belarusian transnational repression in Canada is featured in today’s Globe. dfrlab.org/2026/07/13/d...
Russians are increasingly realizing that Putin has dragged their country into hopeless economic + social peril through an unwinnable, strategically pointless, criminal war. That realization is becoming a threat to the regime itself. Let’s help Ukraine finish the job nationalpost.com/opinion/marc...
Marcus Kolga: Putin’s Russia is at a dead end — Canada must help Ukraine finish the job
Putin’s war has failed to erase Ukraine or break the west. Instead, it's exposed the weakness, corruption and fear of his regime
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Canada’s Foreign Influence Transparency Registry takes effect on August 4. So what do these operations look like in practice — and who may need to register? We created this DisinfoWatch video primer to explain:
Trump's fair has been opened for 20 minutes today and there is still not a single soul there!
Canada’s Foreign Influence Transparency Registry comes into force August 4. By Oct 2, Canadians acting on behalf of foreign states or collaborating with RT, Kremlin-linked think tanks + groups like the Canada Eurasia Russia Business Assc must be registered. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Canada’s foreign influence registry to come into force in early August
People working on behalf of foreign governments or entities to influence domestic politics will have to report their activities or face fines of up to $1-million
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Disgraceful. Spotted just north of Barrie Ontario on Canada Day. There’s nothing patriotic about defacing our national symbols.
“…if Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn too” - President Zelensky, June 18, 2026.
X, Meta, Google +TikTok shape what millions of Canadians see every day. We cannot not rely on their goodwill. My new Balsillie paper argues for a Canadian DSA, aligned w/ Europe, to demands transparency, accountability + action against information manipulation. balsilliepapers.ca/bsia-paper/d...
Defending Canada’s Information Sovereignty: Aligning with the EU’s Digital Services Act - Balsillie Papers
Marcus KolgaJust as Canada works with its allies to defend its physical borders and national sovereignty, it must also cooperate with them to protect the integrity and sovereignty of its information s...
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The Kremlin is now threatening Canada over support for Ukraine’s defence industry and partnership with Ukrainian drone manufacturers. The tactic is familiar: invert blame, call Ukraine’s self-defence “terrorism,” and intimidate Canadian firms and workers. disinfowatch.org/disinfo/russ...
Russian Spokeswoman Threatens Canada Over Drone Manufacuring - DisinfoWatch
Russian state media outlet TASS published a June 10 statement by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova targeting Canada over a recently announced Canada-Ukraine drone production arrang...
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If sanctions ‘do not work’, as FIMI outlets frequently claim, Moscow has built an impressive infrastructure to avoid them.
On June 14, we remember the tens of thousands of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians forced from their homes at gun point, forced into cattle cars + sent to Gulag camps in 1941. We must never forget + must demand justice for these Soviet Russian crimes. macdonaldlaurier.ca/perpetrators...
We must hold the perpetrators of Soviet crimes to account: Marcus Kolga in the Toronto Sun | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Canada needs to identify the few remaining Nazi German and Communist Soviet collaborators who have escaped justice for the past 80 years.
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RWCHR's Brandon Silver and Sr Fellows Vladimir Kara-Murza and Marcus Kolga have all appeared before Parliament in support, building on the Magnitsky legacy championed by Irwin Cotler. Read more: www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2026... @marcuskolga.bsky.social, @vkaramurza.bsky.social
Even Russia’s playgrounds are now being weaponized by Putin’s regime. Children are being surrounded by vulgar militarist propaganda that glorifies war, normalizes violence, and conditions them to accept aggression as patriotism. www.rferl.org/a/russia-pla...
Militarized Playgrounds Emerge In Russia As War Pushed Into Children's Spaces
Playgrounds recently installed across Russia are being constructed with an overtly militarized theme amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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Canadian businessman whose company sells armoured trucks to repressive authoritarian regimes, including Russia, has been sanctioned by EU but both he and his UAE based company escaped Canada’s sanctions list. Why? www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Canadian businessman accused of aiding Russia sanctioned by EU, but not Ottawa
The government hasn’t said why it hasn’t imposed sanctions on Guerman Goutorov or his company, Streit Group
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Russia’s “Merchant of Death,” Viktor Bout, threatens nuclear war + strikes against NATO with Alex Jones. Classic Kremlin escalation propaganda that frames Russia as victim, NATO as aggressor, and support for Ukraine as reckless. disinfowatch.org/disinfo/russ...
Vladimir Kara-Murza and Bill Browder will be appearing at the committee in the first hour. @marcuskolga.bsky.social is appearing in the 2nd hour. #cdnpoli #russiaIsATerroristState
Great to see Canada’s MFA, Anita Anand, in Tallinn tomorrow to inaugurate Canada’s embassy in Estonia. It was an honour to help lead the advocacy to establish the embassy + I remain grateful to @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social for her leadership in advancing it. arvamus.postimees.ee/8473865/marc...
MARCUS KOLGA ⟩ Kanada kohalolek Tallinnas on võit eestlastele mõlemal pool Atlandi ookeani
Kui Kanada välisminister Anita Anand külastab sel nädalal Tallinna, et avada Kanada saatkond Eestis, ei tähista see üksnes uue diplomaatilise esinduse avamist, kirjutab Marcus Kolga, kes on asutanud k...
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Posted over on FB by disinformation scholar @marcuskolga.bsky.social. Russia's interest in Alberta separatism. #cdnpoli #ableg
Russia has no “right” to attack NATO. This narrative is designed to intimidate Western publics and weaken support for Ukraine. disinfowatch.org/disinfo/russ...
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A post by a RT commentator Glenn Diesen falsely claims that Russia has a right to attack NATO. This narrative fits a recurring Kremlin-aligned one that portrays NATO as the...
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Russkaya Obshina is Putin’s version of the Nazi SA: a violent, Kremlin and ROC aligned group whose members carry out vigilante raids + physical attacks against migrants, ethnic minorities, the LGBTQ community, and those opposed to Vladimir Putin. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Brutal raid on woman's birthday party highlights rise of Russian vigilante group
The Russkaya Obshina group stages raids to look for activities contravening "traditional Russian values".
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A warning to Canadians that foreign adversaries, petty hucksters and MAGAsphere influencers are seeking to exploit the Alberta separatist and 51st state issues. We must prepare for an intensification of this threat. disinfowatch.org/foreign-inte...
Decision Making and National Unity Under Threat - DisinfoWatch
Download the PDF version of the report HERE. Marcus Kolga, Jennie Phillips, Brian McQuinn, Bartel Van de Walle EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Foreign adversaries are exploiting the Alberta separatist debate...
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This report from @marcuskolga.bsky.social is very much worth a full read. It also challenges our understanding of foreign interference, because US engagement with Alberta separatism is overt (not covert) and yet is still detrimental to Canada's interests. 🤔 disinfowatch.org/wp-content/u...
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Missing from the headline and lede: “Russia has been running what CSIS describes as a combination of espionage, attempted sabotage and disinformation” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
China, India among countries active in foreign interference and spying in Canada, CSIS says
The agency also identified Russia, Iran and Pakistan as nations that engage in meddling
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Brand new Canadian Senate report on Russian information and influence operations finds "Russia’s disinformation poses an urgent threat to Canada’s national security, democratic institutions and social cohesion." Thank you Senators Kutcher, Yussuff and Dasko. sencanada.ca/en/info-page...
Russia's Disinformation: Understanding the Challenge, Strengthening Canada's Response
Russia’s disinformation poses an urgent threat to Canada’s national security, democratic institutions and social cohesion.
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