André Gorz: a signal legacy
André Gorz and his wife Dorine Kain in the early 1950s. The following is a digitized version of an article from Canadian Dimension’s print archive, which is available through the…
Andrea Levy
Leftists worldwide rally around Boris Kagarlitsky, call for liberation of all Russian anti-war political prisoners
Boris Kagarlitzki (second from right) appears at a hearing during his trial. Photo courtesy TASS. Below this article we have included Kagarlitsky’s most recent prison letter to his daughter in…
Utopian musings on an endangered world
Seen off the road near Murdo, South Dakota. Photo by Susan Lueck/Flickr. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan To Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Drew Pendergrass and…
Holding Pattern: The 2019 Canadian Election
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Montreal’s Palais des Congrès after winning the Canadian election for the second time, October 22, 2019. Photo by Stéphane Mahé/Reuters. In the parlance of the…
No Deal without Nature
Relentless reports of the escalating climate emergency have given impetus to appeals for a Green New Deal. Most recently in Canada, a coalition of NGOs, activists and celebrities has rallied…
Polymer perversity
I am reminded by everything from my computer keyboard to the more recent fillings in my teeth that there are few substances more ubiquitous than plastic. It litters the land,…
The People’s Pipeline
Photo by Kinder Morgan In an era of neoliberal privatization when governments the world over are hastening to sell off state owned assets and public services for a mess of…
Noxious weeds: The growth of the far right in Canada and Québec
Cartoon by Michael Kountouris, Greece; Cagle Cartoons. The Global North has been witnessing the recrudescence of the rabid right for decades now. The advancing victories at the ballot box —…
Tick Talk
Painting by Jan van Kessel (1626–1679) Human knowledge will be erased from the world’s archives before we possess the last word that a gnat has to say to us.” -Henri…
Trumping nature
Photo by Luis Sinco “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists this year advanced the hands…
In conversation with Bhaskar Sunkara
Illustration by Max Fleishman How can we gauge the implications for the American Left of the election of Donald Trump? What dangers does the Trump presidency pose and what opportunities,…
Taking Basic Income beyond the market: The Unconditional Autonomy Allowance
“Gears” by Eric Drooker. A collection of the artist’s works can be seen at ericdrooker.com. French Social Theorist André Gorz predicted that as technology rendered a growing portion of living…
A friendly disagreement
CGT demonstration in Marseille, May 26, 2016, part of nationwide strikes and protests against Hollande Socialist government’s antiunion labour bill. Posted on theguardian.com; By Bertrand Langlois/ AFP/Getty Images. One of…
Introduction: Basic Questions
Photo by Russell Shaw Higgs, March 3, 2013; posted on Basic Income U.K. Facebook page. What do Erik Olin Wright, Yanis Varoufakis, Hugh Segal, Elizabeth May and the Liberal Party…
Malice in Harperland
Stephen Harper; photo posted on brunchnews.com, March 23, 2015 It is difficult to take the measure of the destruction Stephen Harper and his fellow Conservatives have wrought during the last…
Polluted People
In 1935 the DuPont Corporation ran an ad campaign under the slogan “Better Things for Better Living… Through Chemistry.” Many of the vast number of synthetic chemicals introduced by industry…
Vanishing Point
A Dinosaur named Sue. Photograph: Oscar Shen. Used under creative commons. flickr.com/photos/oscar_shen/ More than half of all the wild animals on Earth have been annihilated within my lifetime. The number…
Gnawing questions
There are few more convincing illustrations of the mean-spirited and brutalizing ethos of neoliberalism than bans on feeding the homeless, such as those introduced recently in US cities. Here in…
Calling Foul on Canada
When it comes to environmental neglect, Canada is outdistancing the competition. We have earned six consecutive “Fossil of the Year” awards, a dishonour bestowed by a coalition of 700 NGOs…
Pipeline to Perdition
The photo ops of the Canadian prime minister petting panda bears and cuddling kittens have all been calculated to humanize Stephen Harper and project an image of someone who gives…