Ottawa—it is Saturday morning on Wellington Street and a large advertisement is staring at me from within the bus shelter. I have seen the ad before, but it looks much more appealing now that the slogan is covered with a black permanent marker an…
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Canadian Dimension Feed: Cuba changing; US stuck
President Obama and his advisers share with most of the mass media the same visual weakness when it comes to Cuba: they don’t see the obvious, the crucial facts and context that stare them in the face.
As Cuba begins to undergo basic changes to…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: On a Blue Sea Burns an Orange Fire Lily
Don’t be poor. Don’t be gay. Don’t be a woman; we own your womb.
Don’t be an artist. Don’t be a river or a tree.
Don’t struggle; there is no oppression. Don’t seek asylum in our country.
Don’t ask q…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The federal NDP’s electoral breakthrough in Quebec: A challenge to progressives in Canada
If Jack Layton’s election-night speech to his Toronto supporters is an indication of what lies ahead, the NDP is going to have a hard time coming to terms with a parliamentary caucus now composed of a majority of MPs from Quebec.
To a crowded ro…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Assassination of bin Laden: Its Use and Abuse
The assassination of bin Laden has been celebrated as a great strategic victory by the White House, the European capitals and all the major mass media outlets throughout the world. The killing has served as a major propaganda tool to enhance the standi…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Skyrocketing Crime Rates and Imperial Wars
Imperial interventions in civil wars have a devastating effect on countries that last for decades and affect the entire economy and society. One indicator of the long-term consequences of imperial military intervention is the tremendous increase of vi…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Finding a place for politics in the new Parliament?
Through a late surge of support that has redrawn the parliamentary battlelines, Canada’s brand of social democracy has been announced the official ideology of opposition for the first time. It came on the back of an understated election that seem…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Canada has come down in the world
All politics is local. Dooley was right when he said that.
When we look at the leaders of the parties in an election we ask ourselves, even unconsciously, would we want them as neighbours. Would they borrow my lawnmower and bring it back? Would the…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Canadian Elections and the Substantial Class
The 2011 federal election shares compelling parallels with an earlier time in Canadian history. A British colonial official, T.L. Wood, expressed a popular sentiment of the time in a speech to the Legislative Assembly in 1870, shortly after the British…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Conservative Deficit
Economist’ is just a Greek word for ‘household manager.’ We all have households of one sort or another. Managing them is not rocket science. You don’t spend money you don’t have (or aren’t guaranteed to get). Consist…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Puebla workers at Johnson Controls sign first collective bargaining agreement
A long and dramatic struggle at the Johnson Controls Interiors (JCI) factory in Puebla, Mexico, has finally resulted in the expulsion of a sham “protection union” and the signing of a real collective bargaining agreement with Mexico’s…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: View from the Middle East: Libya—the horrific destruction of Misurata
Anyone following the conflict in Libya will be well aware of the battles
raging in Eastern Libya between pro-Gaddafi forces and anti-government
rebels in that part of the country. Less front-page has been the tremendous
struggle for Misurata, in the W…
Canadian Dimension Feed: The Parliament of Fouls
Why ‘Contempt of Parliament’ is a serious offence
Not long before St. Valentine’s Day in 1380, or thereabouts, Geoffrey Chaucer, himself the Member of Parliament for Kent, wrote The Parliament of Fowls. The poet dreams of a great ass…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Cochabamba +1 live feed
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Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Unwelcome election
Hostility to electoral democracy and who do we think of? These days its Omar Gadhafi of Libya, Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire or, if you are really daring, maybe the Saudi royal family. But the discourse of our current election campaign here in …
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: ‘Beyond capitalism’? QS launches debate on its program for social transformation
MONTRÉAL—At a convention held here March 25-27, Québec solidaire concluded the second round in the process of adopting its program. More than 350 delegates from party associations across the province debated and adopted the party’…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: To Libya with God on our side
“The United States should not try or be widely perceived as trying to manipulate religion in pursuit of narrowly drawn interests.”
~ The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, February 22, 2011 Task Force report [Engaging Religious Communi…
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