Canadian Dimension
WEBSep 11, 2024 — Founded in 1963, Canadian Dimension is a forum for debate on important issues facing the Canadian Left today, and a source for analysis of national and regional politics, labour, economics, world affairs and art.
Indigenous resistance challenges Ontario’s ‘mining boom’
WEBAug 3, 2023 — As Canada’s governments hungrily scour domestic and foreign territory in search of critical minerals—an essential part of Ottawa’s new Cold War on China—Ontario Premier Doug Ford is attempting to spin demand into a provincial mining boom.. Ontario’s first-ever Critical Minerals Strategy (CMS), announced alongside a federal initiative of the same name, proclaims that the province is ...
The National Post should be the last to lecture anyone about …
WEBJan 15, 2024 — There is something profoundly ironic about the National Post lecturing anyone about media bias, as it did on Saturday in a package complete with a distorted front-page picture of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre under the headline “A more damaging media bias.”. Its teaser to the story inside read “Why conservatives think distortion is ...
The NDP is incoherent on Gaza genocide – Canadian Dimension
WEBFeb 16, 2024 — Canadians deserve to know the extent of our government’s complicity in the destruction of Gaza, but the NDP is talking out of both sides of its mouth. While criticizing military exports to Israel, New Democrat leaders have largely adopted Israel’s framing of the war and condemned voices speaking out in support of Palestinians. This has occurred at both the federal and provincial level.
The world will not mourn the decline of US hegemony
WEBMar 1, 2018 — The biggest costs have fallen on the many millions killed and maimed by the US military and allied and proxy forces in the last seven decades and before. The victims include the many US military veterans who have killed themselves, many of them haunted by their own participation in sadistic attacks and torture on defenseless people at the distant command of sociopathic imperial masters ...
The future of dental care in Canada – Canadian Dimension
WEBMar 18, 2023 — The book examines the history of dentistry in Canada, demonstrating how private business interests have prevailed over public health. It is scheduled to be released in April 2023. For more information, visit www.fernwoodpublishing.ca. Canada’s dental care system does not have common-sense priorities because the right incentives are not in …
Canadian Armed Forces impinge on Okinawa
WEBJul 21, 2022 — Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are now regularly using the US-controlled Kadena Air Base and White Beach naval port on Okinawa for their operations in the Asia Pacific. Not only have such operations exacerbated tensions in the region, the CAF have become complicit in the ongoing dispossession of uchinanchu (Indigenous Okinawans) who, for the past ...
The Online News Act has been like MAiD for emerging media in …
WEBMar 11, 2024 — The hare-brained Online News Act has only been in effect for a few months, but already it has proved a disaster for small and emerging news media in Canada, with the country’s Indigenous media perhaps the hardest hit. Just last month, Saskatchewan’s Eagle Feather News, which once covered Indigenous affairs across the province, announced that it was pressing pause after almost 27 years of ...
Ghada Alatrash: I almost lost my life waiting for emergency care in …
WEBApr 22, 2024 — Four weeks ago, I almost lost my life while waiting for emergency care in a Calgary hospital. The ironic part of the story is that I always thought of Canada as having saved my life from the brutal Syrian dictatorship I fled more than 30 years ago. But never would I have thought that my life would be threatened in Canada—and certainly not in a Canadian emergency room.
Revisiting our secret role in Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution
WEBMar 17, 2022 — MacKinnon documented Canada’s role in an investigative piece for the Globe titled “ Agent Orange: Our secret role in Ukraine.”. Beginning in January 2004, wrote MacKinnon, Canadian ambassador Andrew Robinson “began to organize secret monthly meetings of western ambassadors, presiding over …