Canadian Dimension
Oct 7, 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. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. Founded in 1963, Canadian Dimension is a forum for debate on ...
Corporate ownership of media has failed Canadians
Feb 19, 2024 · Postmedia Network, which owns 15 of our 21 largest dailies, has been laying off journalists relentlessly for the past 14 years in order to drain the company of more than $500 million in debt payments. The owners and shareholders of our gigantic telecom companies demand greater and greater profits to feed their ever-increasing dividends.
Why we need to nationalize health care in Canada
Jan 13, 2023 · The time has come to nationalize health care in Canada. The experience of the pandemic has provided ample evidence that the provinces are wholly incapable of handling major public health emergencies.Indeed, the cumulative effect of decades of provincial budget cuts, downsizing, mismanagement, and a corporate ‘do more with less’ mentality (coupled with exorbitant executive compensation has ...
Debunking Black Ribbon Day – Canadian Dimension
August 23 is Black Ribbon Day, recognized by the Government of Canada as an official day of remembrance. It is intended to commemorate the victims of both communism and Nazism in Europe, and as such falls on the anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a 1939 non-aggression treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.. In 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the ...
Educators and critical pedagogy: an antidote to authoritarianism
Oct 16, 2022 · Critical pedagogy. Given the current crisis of politics, agency, history, and memory, educators need a new political and pedagogical language for addressing the changing contexts and issues facing a world in which anti-democratic forces draw upon an unprecedented convergence of resources–financial, cultural, political, economic, scientific ...
Far-right influencers the biggest dupes of foreign interference
Sep 16, 2024 · Russia isn’t creating these divisions in the West, they’re attempting to exploit them for geostrategic purposes. But what the Tenet indictment exposes is that the far-right is where the money is. They’re the ones calling the shots. Anyone who suggests both ends of the political spectrum are equally susceptible to foreign exploitation is obscuring this reality.
Reprogramming the genocide deniers – Canadian Dimension
Oct 12, 2022 · A march from Queen’s Park to Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto to demand action on the 215 children found in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School, June 2021. Photo by Michael Swan/ Flickr. At the end of the Second World War, the Allies instigated a broad program of de-Nazification coupled with a wider policy of enforced ...
To build solidarity with Palestine, Canada’s labour movement must …
Sep 27, 2024 · One of the key challenges facing us today is not only that unions neglect international solidarity outright, but that there are increasingly fewer spaces where members can talk about international issues and practice solidarity. Advancing the struggle for Palestine in our unions then is also critical to building a more democratic labour movement.
Canada should support ICJ ruling on Israel’s genocide
Jan 8, 2024 · Last week, South Africa requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague make an urgent order declaring Israel in breach of its obligations under the Genocide Convention. Canadians should support this non-violent bid to curtail the apartheid state’s well-documented and undeniable war crimes in Gaza.. On January 11 the ICJ will begin hearing South Africa’s urgent appeal ...
Gaza and Canada’s refugee double standard – Canadian Dimension
Jan 24, 2024 · The different treatment of Ukrainian and Palestinian refugees exposes a clear double standard. The Trudeau government’s response to Ukraine was swift and comprehensive. There was no cap on how many could apply and they did not need to have Canadian relatives. Ottawa eventually received 1,189,320 applications from Ukrainians and approved 936,293, with 210,178 arriving in Canada.