Canadian Dimension
WEBSep 27, 2024 · Browse all articles. 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 ...
To build solidarity with Palestine, Canada’s labour movement must …
WEBSep 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.
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.
Misinformation on Cuba, again – Canadian Dimension
WEBMay 15, 2024 · And no. In fact, Cuba has been the victim of terrorism since the early 1960s: over 3,000 Cubans were killed and 2,000 wounded in terrorist acts on the island. Moreover, in April 2020 a Cuban exile fired 32 shots from an AK-47 rifle at the Cuban embassy in Washington, and in September 23 two Molotov cocktails were also thrown at the embassy.
Criminal law ejects Indigenous peoples from the frontiers
WEBMay 5, 2017 · In Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada, Amanda Nettlebeck, Russel Smandych, Louis Knafla and Robert Foster describe this process in heartrending detail as they compare the use of criminal law as a tool of Indigenous removal on the 19th-century frontiers of both countries.
Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians or more killed in Gaza
WEBA new online publication posted by the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet estimates that the current death toll from Israel’s brutal assault on the Gaza Strip—which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has described as “plausible genocide”—is at least 186,000. This would translate to nearly eight percent of Gaza’s population. The bombshell death toll estimate is roughly ...
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 …
How Canada’s support for NATO expansion led to the Ukraine …
WEBMar 1, 2022 · Eighteen Canadian CF-18 jets dropped 530 bombs during the 78-day assault, which deepened Kosovo’s separation from Serbia. The former Yugoslavia’s division into ethnic states was attractive to NATO because it diminished Russian influence in the Mediterranean. Canada continues to provide logistical support to NATO’s Kosovo Force.
Canada Post issues mass suspension for workers exercising their …
WEBApr 3, 2023 · On February 16, over 40 CUPW members at a Canada Post processing plant in Edmonton exercised their right to complain at a pre-scheduled meeting with management, who initially refused to give them five minutes to read their prepared statement and threatened them with discipline. Then those members were served with five-day consecutive suspensions and final warnings. Brett McKay reports.