Yves Engler

His 2009 book The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy was short-listed for the Quebec Writers' Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction.

In June 2005, Engler interrupted a press conference being held by then-Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew. Engler poured a bottle of cranberry juice onto Pettigrew and said, "Pettigrew lies, Haitians die." The juice was meant to represent the blood Engler said was on the hands of the Canadian government due to its alleged involvement in the 2004 coup and subsequent United Nations peacekeeping mission.

Engler was critical of Canada's role in the 2004 Haitian coup d'état. He co-authored a reported entitled Canada in Haiti: Waging War Against the Poor Majority and helped establish a group called the Canada-Haiti Action Network.

Engler moved to Montreal to study at Concordia University in the early 2000s, where he was elected a vice president of the Concordia Student Union. Engler was suspended by the university after the administration said he had been involved in a riot surrounding a visit to campus by then-former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which a Holocaust survivor and a rabbi were assaulted. Engler's suspension was later made permanent when he violated a ban on political activity imposed by the university in the aftermath of the riot.

Yves Engler (born 1979 in Vancouver) is Montreal-based writer and political activist. In addition to eleven published books, Engler's writings have appeared in the alternative press and in mainstream publications such as The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and Ecologist.