Canadian Dimension
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.
Will a landmark war crimes trial usher in an era of corporate ...
2024年5月2日 · A groundbreaking criminal case against a company accused of war crimes in South Sudan is now underway in Sweden, drawing parallels with the corporate complicity trials of Nuremberg in 1949. The trial in Stockholm against executives of the Swedish oil giant Lundin is expected to change the landscape of corporate accountability for international crimes.
Remembering Canada’s support for the Greek military dictatorship
2022年11月17日 · Last week, tens of thousands of Greeks marched in remembrance of the Athens Polytechnic massacre, a student uprising against the fascist military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.Protests were also held outside the US embassy, with some protestors carrying a bloodstained Greek flag to draw attention to Washington’s support for the seven years of trauma that occurred under the ...
‘They attacked us after we packed up’: Calgary students speak out …
2024年7月6日 · 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.
Debunking Black Ribbon Day – Canadian Dimension
August 23 is Black Ribbon Day, recognized by the Government of Canada as an official day of remembrance. It is intended to commemorate the victims of both communism and Nazism in Europe, and as such falls on the anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a 1939 non-aggression treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.. In 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the ...
Canada may be on a path to digital totalitarianism
2023年3月22日 · Another breadcrumb has landed which suggests that Canadians may be on a path to digital authoritarianism, or even totalitarianism, if some politicians in Ottawa get their way. First the standing committee of Canadian Heritage began a legislative spree to regulate the Internet. Now the committee’s MPs want digital giants Google and Facebook to hand over their private communications with ...
Why poverty reduction under capitalism is a myth
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Canada’s whitewashing of Africa’s most ruthless regime
2024年7月8日 · Using an African country as a political and economic tool is as old as colonialism itself. If this is what Canada’s new politics are on the African continent, it is indeed retrograde. Canada should not be engaging with, or buttressing a nation that has inflicted so much harm on innocent people. We should not be aiding and abetting crimes abroad.
Reprogramming the genocide deniers – Canadian Dimension
2022年10月12日 · 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.
How Black Panther liberalizes black resistance for white comfort
2018年2月21日 · This article contains spoilers. Black Panther didn’t have to be a “political” film.. Its trailer didn’t have to feature Gil Scott-Heron’s legendary poem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” The opening scene didn’t have to take place in an apartment littered with Public Enemy posters, in Oakland (the home of the Black Power movement), in …