Canadian Dimension
Canadian Dimension is a website that publishes articles and columns on politics, labour, economics, world affairs and art from a progressive perspective. It covers topics such as the Middle East, Indigenous issues, the Giller Prize, the JNF and more.
How did Trudeau’s performance stack up to his promises?
3 days ago · 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.
We’ve solved the housing crisis before. We can do it again
Oct 3, 2024 · To solve the housing crisis we need to turn away from neoliberal doctrines and look towards solutions that actually work. Our own history, as well as the experiences of our contemporaries abroad, teach us that the only way to restore housing affordability is to create non-market housing alternatives that anchor prices and push the investor class out of the …
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Palestinians stand amid the ruins of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Photo by Mohammed Hajjar/AP. A US-made precision-guided bomb manufactured by Boeing shreds a little girl and renders her body unrecognizable in the arms of her mother facing oblivion. Charred and limbless survivors writhe in inconsolable torment at a hospital that has been attacked so many times it …
Why the National Housing Strategy failed – Canadian Dimension
6 days ago · We are now seven years and tens of billions of dollars into the Trudeau government’s much vaunted National Housing Strategy (NHS) and things are worse than ever. Affordable housing is harder to come by than it was a decade ago, and homelessness is reaching historic highs. The NHS has failed, writes James Hardwick, and we need to understand why.
How our struggles are contained by those in power
Jul 15, 2024 · Different approaches are needed to counter today’s containment strategies. Governments are less likely to be moved by displays of our potential power. Huge rallies and days of action are an essential part of building movements and campaigns, but this is a period when ongoing social action and indefinite strikes will be needed to turn back attacks and win our …
Reprogramming the genocide deniers – Canadian Dimension
Oct 12, 2022 · Canadian society is generally uncomfortable acknowledging the state’s historic responsibility for acts of genocide perpetrated against Indigenous peoples. Yet, with a resurgent nationalist right and forms of residential school denialism undermining truth and reconciliation efforts, the need for a rigorous process of self-reflection is perhaps more important than ever.
An endgame in Ukraine may be fast approaching
Feb 22, 2024 · Even if Ukraine can somehow regain the initiative, it seems very doubtful that it could ever gain the degree of military superiority that it would need to achieve its stated political objective of restoring its 1991 borders. It would be unwise to say that that is impossible, but at present it’s very hard indeed to imagine how it could be done.
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 …
‘They attacked us after we packed up’: Calgary students speak out …
Jul 6, 2024 · Our encampment did not have to end in violence. Students from other institutions continue to maintain peaceful encampments on campuses across Canada. We cannot allow police impunity to embolden further acts of violence against student encampments. We demand accountability for the inexcusable acts of police brutality that took place that night.