How Canada’s support for NATO expansion led to the Ukraine …
WEBWhile Moscow’s violation of international law must be unequivocally condemned, we also need to be honest about the origins of this crisis, the most significant conventional warfare operation in Europe since the Second World War. Doing so is not to downplay Putin’s clear act of aggression, but to understand the geopolitical realities at play.
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.
Canadian Dimension
WEB2 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.
Misinformation on Cuba, again – Canadian Dimension
WEBMay 15, 2024 — It appears as though Fox Nation, a subscription-based video service and companion to Fox News Channel, is soon to present a documentary on Canada-Cuba relations, emphasizing the close ties between the Trudeau family and Fidel Castro—and in particular the theory that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau …
Canadian Armed Forces impinge on Okinawa
WEBJul 21, 2022 — The fight to reclaim Okinawa continues despite ferocious opposition from the ruling parties in Japan who take advantage of their power and the fact some Okinawans’ livelihoods depend on base-related employment or business. This resistance is part of a larger movement for Indigenous rights, peace, and justice across the Asia Pacific region.
Revisiting our secret role in Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution
WEBMar 17, 2022 — To understand the present, one must study the past. One of the wealthier parts of the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s GDP per capita is now less than half of Russia’s and far below its other neighbours.Every year since 1993 its population has declined and an eight-year-old war in the east of the country has killed some 14,000 people. Three weeks ago, Russia launched a brutal invasion that has ...
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 ...
States of exception – Canadian Dimension
WEBAug 28, 2024 — As a response to a terrorist attack from an occupied territory, Israel’s Gaza campaign is wholly exceptional, at least among Western democracies that claim to be governed by international law. Israel exists in a state of exception, to use the German jurist Carl Schmitt’s concept, in which the rule of law is …
Criminal law ejects Indigenous peoples from the frontiers
WEBMay 5, 2017 — The book breaks from the constant examination of Indigenous peoples and instead rests its gaze on settler society and the system that upholds their material privileges. The focus on the justice system and its use of criminalization in the private property protection of the settlers reveals something important about the dominant economic systems operating in these two countries: there is, in ...
History contradicts claims that October 7 attacks unprovoked
WEBMay 25, 2024 — Mainstream editors claim that Israel’s ongoing Gaza campaign is completely justified by Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack. The Hamas attack killed approximately 1,200 Israelis and resulted in over 200 hostages taken and retained. Unfortunately, this “unprovoked” assault was entirely predictable given occupied Palestine’s tragic history.