Canadian Dimension
‘The green transition is a myth’: Adam Hanieh on the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism. James Wilt / November 14, 2024 / 16 min read. Many vital left-wing books about global oil politics have been published over the last decade: Mazen Labban’s Space, Oil and Capital, Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy, and Simon Pirani’s Burning Up. ...
How did Trudeau’s performance stack up to his promises?
No government fulfils every promise it makes to voters at election time. Still, looking back on the Trudeau government’s performance over the past nine, sometimes chaotic years—with the exception of major policy achievements like child care, pandemic income supports and dental care—this government has consistently overcommitted and underdelivered.
Canada’s UN ambassador supports Israeli expansion by peace …
Mar 19, 2024 · Bob Rae recently stated that “the ultimate responsibility for the conduct of the [Gaza] war lies with the parties who are fighting.” In so doing, Rae, a former Rhodes scholar, ignores the United States’ pivotal role in providing Israel with weapons, money and diplomatic support. Of course, Rae’s official rhetoric must reflect …
Selina Robinson didn’t just abuse her position—she abused the …
Feb 12, 2024 · What was done to our relatives, our families, and our culture must not be allowed to happen again. But it would be disrespectful to the memory of all those lost to suggest that edict be limited to Jews: it must not happen again to anyone. Our people’s history of oppression isn’t a license to oppress, it’s a call to dedicate our lives to creating a world without oppression.
Crisis in Cuba: a role for Canada? – Canadian Dimension
Jun 10, 2024 · Cuba is facing its most significant humanitarian crisis in more than 60 years. Where to start in describing the many shortages faced by the average Cuban? The much-vaunted health care system in Cuba is facing major challenges.Medicine production is down by 40 percent, and 12,000 doctors have left the system in the last two years, either working in the private sector outside medicine, or having ...
Events in Iraq and Niger put spotlight on Canadian troops abroad
Jan 11, 2024 · In the latest episode of On Contact, Scott Taylor’s video series for Esprit de Corps military magazine, the journalist and former infantryman drew attention to two ongoing Canadian deployments abroad, of which most Canadians know little to nothing: Iraq and Niger. “There were two news stories out last week which served as a reminder that Canada still has combat soldiers deployed to two ...
Scandal grows around BC NDP minister Selina Robinson
Feb 3, 2024 · Beside exceeding the bounds of her position, and beside interfering in the democratically-run internal affairs of a post-secondary institution, and beside capitulating to the demands of an external propaganda group, NDP MLA Selina Robinson revealed both abysmal ignorance and a fundamentally racist and colonial conception of an oppressed people.
The Online News Act has been like MAiD for emerging media in …
Mar 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 ...
The insanity of spending two percent of GDP on the military
Jul 23, 2024 · Instead of prioritizing the unhoused and undoctored, and responding to the mounting climate challenge, the government of Justin Trudeau recently committed to a massive boost in military spending. As Yves Engler writes, the security of Canadians would be better served by allocating resources to housing, health, and mitigating the climate crisis.
Clayton Ruby was a shining example of ‘how much one person can …
Aug 7, 2022 · For over half-a-century Clay answered the call. From victims of injustice and of human rights abuses, to animal rights activists and environmentalists, those who knew that if they had Clay Ruby on their side, they had the best. Brilliant, compassionate, progressive—Clay represented advocacy at its finest. He was in a league of his own, a giant in the legal profession and in the progressive ...