Canadian Dimension
Oct 28, 2024 · 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.
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 ...
Housing is the only solution to homelessness - Canadian Dimension
Jul 22, 2024 · In a recent political ad dubbed “Real change.The one promise he kept,” Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre contrasted still images of empty city streets from 2015 with photos of those same streets populated by homeless encampments in 2023.Every cut to a new image is marked by a thunderclap and the voice of …
In Canada’s housing policy circles, the land crisis remains ...
Aug 23, 2024 · Let’s be clear: while we might be able to make some improvements here and there through clever initiatives, we almost certainly cannot solve the housing crisis without dealing directly with the land question. The private extraction of land value doesn’t just produce a crisis for housing, but virtually everything across the political spectrum that can be useful.
Independent media group chosen by Google to distribute news …
Jun 10, 2024 · With Google’s latest financial contribution, Canada’s emerging online news media have some hope for a change. As Marc Edge explains, with the money being doled out by the Canadian Journalism Collective instead of Big Media, there is a better chance for them to compete for it on a level playing field. The twist is just the latest in the long-running soap opera that has been the Online News Act
The bankrupt morality of Canada’s political class
Oct 24, 2023 · The situational morality of our leaders at home and aboard is not just worth noting, it is the very terrain on which we must launch our struggles for the remaking of this world. That means thinking differently about what constitutes living a life, what constitutes caring as a refusal of others’ marginalization, exclusion, death, and genocide.
The state of our moral disengagement – Canadian Dimension
Oct 7, 2024 · 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 is barely functioning. Every moment of every day in Gaza, …
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 ...
Debunking Poilievre’s housing ‘documentary’ – Canadian Dimension
Dec 28, 2023 · Despite highlighting the role of investors in artificially increasing the cost of housing across Canada, “Housing Hell,” Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s mini-documentary on the housing crisis, ends up proposing measures that will further enrich the same property developers and investors who already own a massive chunk of the country’s housing stock.
Neoliberalism is Canada’s real productivity problem
Apr 3, 2024 · It is rare for the Bank of Canada to say that we face a national economic emergency. But that is exactly what Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers did on March 26. She was referring to Canada’s dismal record on labour productivity, which is indeed a major, albeit long-standing issue. Her widely publicized speech put a sharper focus on very weak Canadian economic performance, especially relative to ...