Written by: Aidan Jonah

It’s been a rather remarkable 2021 for The Canada Files. This news outlet switched to an investigative focus, from a previous focus on fast releases which led to multiple articles per day occasionally. We broke numerous key stories through critical investigations. Once we broke the story of how a Canadian parliament sub-committee on Xinjiang was flooded with groups funded by the CIA-front National Endowment for Democracy, and directly led to a Canadian parliament vote falsely declaring a genocide in Xinjiang, we never looked back.

We had Daniel Xie join as an Associate Editor early this year and had award-winning journalist and three-time author Arnold August join as a Contributing Editor a month ago. We launched a fundraising campaign this August, and as of today, we’ve reached $1105 Canadian per month in support. We gained more than 700 Facebook followers, 800 newsletter subscribers, and 2000 Twitter followers during the year! We even hit our two-year anniversary since our founding, on November 28, 2021.

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It’s really been quite the year, so we’ve chosen 10 articles that The Canada Files is proud to have published in 2021. Check them out below!

Subcommittee report declaring “Uighur Genocide” dominated by researchers and groups funded by CIA cut-out, National Endowment for Democracy | Written by: Aidan Jonah
Michael Kovrig and Spavor are spies, despite obfuscations of Canada's mainstream media | Written by: Daniel Xie, Aidan Jonah and William Dere
Inside Cuban dissidents’ November 15 plot: Unpacking the Archipiélago Facebook Group | Written by: Arnold August
Canadian-backed “parallel parliament” and local group manufacturing consent for imperialism against Afghanistan | Written by: Daniel Xie
Belarusian 'journalist' Roman Protasevich trained by Canadian Armed Forces, while with neo-Nazi Azov Battalion (an updated version of a UN Human Rights Council report by the author) | Written by: Aidan Jonah
Macdonald-Laurier Institute launches "anti-disinformation" project run by senior fellow who defends Estonian Nazi collaborators | Written by: Aidan Jonah
How Canadian resource companies & our foreign ministry drove Colombians towards mass resistance to violent neoliberalism | Written by: Daniel Xie
Exclusive: How the NED, Open Society Foundations and NATO collectively fund institutions driving development of Canadian political thought | Written by: Aidan Jonah
Canada's 'Banderite' Ukrainian Lobby Cancels Russian Professor | Written by: Moss Robeson
Conservative elites join up for campaign to force Canada to violate the “One-China” principle | Written by: William Dere

A final note, we’re also listing our articles this year which focus on, or mention the plight faced by Julian Assange, for the crime of doing journalism. The Canada Files is proud to have consistently opposed the US empire’s efforts to persecute Assange, ever since our founding in November 2019.

Press Forward board of directors member Rachel Pulfer refused to resist persecution of Julian Assange, as JHR executive director | Written by: Aidan Jonah
Canada should apply its Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention to free Meng Wanzhou | Written by: William Dere
Cape Verde follows in Canada’s treatment of Meng Wanzhou: illegally extradites Alex Saab to the USA | Written by: John Philpot and Roger D. Harris

Editor’s note: The Canada Files has spent two years doing critical investigative reporting on Canada's imperialist foreign policy. We’ve established a clear track record of exposing the truth Canada's political establishment hides from you. There's so much more we can do, but only with your financial support.

When TCF's monthly support reaches $1250 CAD per month, up from $1105 per month at present, we'll introduce the #uponfurtherinvestigation initiative! Check out this thread for more details.

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Aidan Jonah is the Editor-in-Chief of The Canada Files, a socialist, anti-imperialist news outlet founded in 2019. Jonah has broken numerous stories, including how the Canadian Armed Forces trained neo-Nazi "journalist" Roman Protasevich while he was with the Azov Battalion, and how a CIA front group (the NED) funded the group (URAP) which drove the "Uyghur genocide" vote in parliament to pass this February. Jonah recently wrote a report for the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

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