CUPE members celebrates te defeat of Doug Ford’s anti-worker Bill 28. Photo courtesy CUPE National/Twitter. For a response to this article, see “A first post-pandemic political victory—hardly a ‘general strike that could have been’” by Herman Rosenfeld, published in Canadian Dimension on November 11, 2022. When the OSBCU strike started
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Canadian Dimension: What the Emergencies Act reveals about civilian policing in Ottawa
Police officers in Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy occupation. Photo by Franklin McKay/Shutterstock. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to deal with the fascist “trucker” convoy has been met with a mix of support, criticism, and confusion. While Trudeau and his government claim that this is
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The little-known Ontario tribunal standing in the way of defunding the police
A recent Ipsos poll showed 51 percent of Canadians support defunding the police, and yet there is no means by which this can be translated into policy in Ontario. Photo by Bobb Barratt/OPP/Flickr. The police murder of George Floyd in May of this year sparked what is likely the largest
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