All You Ever Needed to Know About America’s Sleazebag in Chief
One photo captures the grotesque sleaze who serves as America’s president. Donald Trump and Melania using a baby orphaned in the El Paso massacre as a prop for a ‘thumbs…
August 2019
Is Complacency Our Achilles Heel?
Over the years I’ve watched as any number of really important reports and studies are published then broadly reported across the mainstream news outlets only to disappear down the Memory…
THE CAREGIVING CHALLENGE THAT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT
There’s a huge upheaval that many caregivers experience but hardly never talk about. It’s when caregivers leave their own families in order to move in with aging parents. Or, they…
Eating Ourselves To Death
If you want to read a comprehensive report about another dire crisis humanity is facing, be sure to check out this post from the Mound. There is something of a…
Planet of the Humans Coming Film Release
Jeff Gibbs, a close associate of Michael Moore, has directed a new doc about the problems with green solutions to climate change. The doc isn’t out yet, but the promotional…
Review: Turn This World Inside Out
This book has its origins in an online essay by Nora Samaran called "The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture" that went viral when it...
Review: Turn This World Inside Out
This book has its origins in an online essay by Nora Samaran called “The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture” that went viral when it was first published, and…
A Dream Worth Fighting For
The arc of history may bend towards justice, but there is nothing inevitable about progress. Societies can and do regress as well as progress. They can be dragged backwards by…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Robinson Meyer writes about the latest IPCC report on how our climate crisis endangers the land we rely on. And George Monbiot responds…
Running Against the Trend
In every election there always seems to be a handful of ridings where the overall national narrative doesn’t really apply. That is usually the case due to a minor party…
His Own Set Of Facts
Doug Ford lives in a world of his own. Rob Benzie reports in The Toronto Star that: Premier Doug Ford is discounting public-opinion polls suggesting he is unpopular because some…
Slicing and dicing Justin Trudeau.
You should always remember the plaint of the writer that what you write in haste, you might regret for the rest of your life. It might not be fair to…
First They Came For The …
New FBI rules concerning tracking conspiracy theorists will be a serious blow to free speech in the US.
Postmedia seeks new editor for Edmonton Journal – what became of the old one?
Postmedia is now advertising for a new editor-in-chief for the Edmonton Journal and the Edmonton Sun. It may come as something of a surprise to Edmonton readers that English Canada’s…
August 08: Last Call…..
Of course we’re getting a lot of violence mixed in with our politics these days.That happens when politicians play the race card – and when so many of our politicians…
Compassion as social policy
Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy Alvin Finkel Red Globe Press, 2019 Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy is the latest and most ambitious work of Canadian historian…
“A world of people without a people”
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press, 2018 Quinn Slobodian’s masterful exegesis, an old term befitting his subject, tells of the ur…
Turning the page: CD goes digital
Illustration by Jason Reed With this issue of Canadian Dimension, we draw the curtain on 56 years in print. This decision – the result of perpetual penury due to debt,…
Dishonouring the “Treaty Bundle”
No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous Sheldon Krasowski University of Regina Press, 2019 Historian and Indigenous Studies scholar Sheldon Krasowski makes a sterling contribution to the dialogue about treaty negotiations…
Murder Bay: Investigations into the deaths of Indigenous youth
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City Tanya Talaga House of Anansi Press, 2017 Thunder Bay Ryan McMahon Canadaland, 2018 Investigative journalist and Toronto Star…