Canadian Dimension
WEB5 days ago · 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 ...
Believing women, believing Palestinians – Canadian Dimension
WEBDec 7, 2023 · Kristin Raworth and Ariella Kimmel are the authors of a blog post published on November 17, entitled “Believing almost all women.”. Jespersen billed their viewpoint as calling out the “hypocrisy of so-called feminists for questioning (or denying) claims of sexual violence in Israel on October 7.”.
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 …
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.
Europe at the ‘hot gates’ – Canadian Dimension
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Some 2,500 years ago, so the myth goes, 300 Spartans faced a much larger Persian force at Thermopylae, a small mountain pass in central Greece. Thermopylae is the Latin word for “hot gates,” as there were hot springs in the area. In European history, the “hot gates” battle ended with the 300 Spartans ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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