Canadian Dimension: The Canada Infrastructure Bank and the perversities of predatory capital

Photo by Chris Wattie In their election platform and in ministerial mandate letters, the federal Liberals promised they would “establish the Canada Infrastructure Bank to provide low-cost financing (including loan guarantees) for new municipal infrastructure projects.” This had the potential to be a positive initiative. The federal government can borrow

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Canadian Dimension: Alain Deneault in Conversation with Canadian Dimension

Jethro Tulin, an Indigenous Ipili from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and leading organizer of resistance against the mining bosses. Here Tulin is speaking outside Barrick Gold’s 2009 Annual General Meeting. Photo by Allan Lissner (allan.lissner.net); posted by the Porgera Alliance (porgeraalliance.net). Québec author Alain Deneault has a research

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