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Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
5d ago
If the carbon tax is a dead corpse that keeps on dying, let’s make livelier offers. The transition to a sustainable energy system should have been rooted in class from the start. Let’s stop playing rhetorical tricks on ourselves, and fill the political void with actionable proposals. Along the way, we might even heal social wounds as well as environmental ones ..read more
Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
2w ago
With this budget, the NDP has maintained a long-standing right-wing trajectory by increasing funding to policing at the expense of things that actually keep people safe. The “justice” budget is a shameful expansion of criminalization that—regardless of the government’s supposedly progressive bluster—will result in even more Indigenous people being policed, jailed, and criminalized ..read more
Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
2w ago
The estimated millions it would cost to search for and recover the remains of three slain Indigenous women buried in a Manitoban landfill would be much better spent on regenerating the site to create a national memorial to murdered and missing Indigenous women. As Robert France explains, “the site must become a double place: the unnamed healed and the named re-named ..read more
Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
3w ago
Climate change is the most visible, most threatening expression of a larger, planetary ecological crisis. Our approach must be commensurate with the structural challenge that crisis poses to the way society is organized if we are to halt and reverse the ecological catastrophe toward which we are now hurtling—and which is fueled by our dependency on fossil fuels ..read more
Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
1M ago
Big Media in Canada, which are ruthlessly squeezing every last loonie out of our once-profitable news media, used their remaining political influence to shake down the digital giants with the in hopes of cashing in big on the runaway success of the platforms. In the process, they have put Canada’s emerging online media and niche publications in the emergency ward ..read more
Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
1M ago
While not a market-worshipper of Danielle Smith’s ilk, Québec Premier François Legault has a vision of the province that still revolves around a profit-driven market economy with growth-oriented goals. For an increasingly large body of environmental opinion, however, the very nature of such an economy undermines efforts to ‘save the planet ..read more
Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
1M ago
Much deserved praise has been heaped on Brian Mulroney’s legacy, but the universal lauding of NAFTA misses the mark. Mulroney made major contributions by pushing Washington to cut acid rain wafting across the border, was key to fixing the ozone layer in the Montréal protocol and took international leadership in helping end apartheid in South Africa ..read more
Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
1M ago
Until February 2024, Canada did not have a pharmacare program. Earlier federal interest in a universal drug program seemed to be fading, ostensibly on cost grounds. Just in time, the Trudeau government announced a rather weak and diluted pharmacare proposal a few days before the deadline to save the supply-and-confidence agreement between the Liberals and NDP ..read more
Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
1M ago
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 Canada’s deference to US Middle East policy ..read more
Canadian Dimension » Canadian Politics
1M ago
The emphasis placed on former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s opposition to apartheid—and the erasure of left-wing governments and movements that had supported the liberation fighters materially and for far longer—serves a deeper political purpose, writes Owen Schalk.. It is about more than Mulroney. It’s about Canadians’ perception of their own country on the world stage ..read more