Palestinians inspect the ruins of a building destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, October 8, 2023. Photo by APA Images/Wikimedia Commons. It has taken decades, but Israel is finally reaping the whirlwind of the violence and terror that it has sowed.
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Canadian Dimension: “You’re what this war is all about”—or not
A boy looking at an Israeli soldier in front of the West Bank barrier. Photo by Justin McIntosh/Wikimedia Commons. While reading Focus. Click. Wind., a new Canadian novel by writer and theatre director Amanda West Lewis about Vietnam War resisters in Toronto in the 1960s, I came across the name
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: What have unions done for us? What could they do?
Photo courtesy United Steelworkers/Flickr Unions have given us the weekend. They have fought for the eight-hour day. They have agitated for improved health and safety laws. They have eradicated child labour. They have managed to get us paid holidays (a minimum of two weeks a year) and six paid public
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Fear and sorrow in Jenin
Israeli soldier during the July 2023 Jenin incursion. Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons. For two days beginning on July 3, Israeli helicopter gunships pulverized dozens of buildings, storefronts, and homes in Jenin’s refugee camp—an area half a kilometre square with more than 11,000 residents in the Occupied West Bank.
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Israeli soldier during the July 2023 Jenin incursion. Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons. For two days beginning on July 3, Israeli helicopter gunships pulverized dozens of buildings, stores, houses in Jenin’s refugee camp—half a kilometer square with more than 11,000 residents, and the town of Jenin, in the Occupied
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Paul Palango’s ‘22 Murders’ paints a bleak picture of RCMP inaction
The Portapique sign on Highway 2, which runs from Halifax to Fort Lawrence, was adorned with a Nova Scotia tartan sash following the mass shooting that began there on April 18, 2020. Photo by Joan Baxter/Halifax Examiner. 22 Murders: Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Nora Loreto’s ‘Spin Doctors’ is a book everyone in Canada should read
Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic Nora Loreto Fernwood, 2021 Rather than treading over ground that other journalists and writers have covered, Nora Loreto has done something very different with her new book, Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic. While others have
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Charting a course for the future of feminist organizing
Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age Nora Loreto Fernwood, 2020 In reading Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age, it dawned on me how important feminist and socialist voices are. Nora Loreto puts that front and centre in her new book. These voices
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Debriefing Elsipogtog: the Anatomy of a Struggle
Debriefing Elsipogtog: The Anatomy of a Struggle Miles Howe Fernwood Books, 2015 When is a journalist not a journalist? According to CBC New Brunswick’s Information Morning host Terry Seguin, and media guests Dan Leger and Philip Lee, it is when the journalist becomes an activist. Calling freelance journalist Miles Howe
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Misogyny at Dal: When we are sick of being forced down the middle road of apology and contrition
Photo by Anton Bielousov My mother was a Dentistry graduate at the University of Toronto in 1943. As I look at her class graduation photo, I count 44 men and three women. She practiced dentistry, then taught dental hygienists, for 40 years. When I was a child, she never attended
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Ghomeshi Redux: Where do we go from here?
Photo by Damien D. Now that Jian Ghomeshi has been charged with five criminal offences, including sexual assault and choking, what can we learn from this case, and more importantly – what can we do to make sure this does not continue to happen? We know that Ghomeshi was not
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Legacy of Henry Morgentaler
The count goes on. So far, out of 7 media reports on the death of Canadian Dr. Henry Morgentaler, 6 describe him as “heralded and vilified” (NY Times); “revered and hated “(Globe and Mail); “polarizing “(Toronto Sun); and a “mass murderer” (National Post). Only one, CBC.ca, offers a modicum of
Continue readingCanadian Dimension | Articles: The Legacy of Henry Morgentaler
The count goes on. So far, out of 7 media reports on the death of Canadian Dr. Henry Morgentaler, 6 describe him as “heralded and vilified” (NY Times); “revered and hated “(Globe and Mail); “polarizing “(Toronto Sun); and a “mass murderer” (National Post). Only one, CBC.ca, offers a modicum of
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