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INTRODUCING THE CD ARCHIVE!
Canadian Dimension teamed up with the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections department to create this digital register of CD’s past issues, going all the way back to our 1963 inaugural edition.
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At a time when there is an intense drive to privatize public services and assets, the LCBO makes the inconvenient case that public ownership can be efficient, profitable, innovative, and serve the public interest. canadiandimension.com/articl…
The Carney government is using legal tricks to chip away at workers’ hard-won rights. The right to strike is being systematically enfeebled through legal manoeuvring. The working class has had tougher enemies. It will fight back.
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Carney is selling his “productivity mega deduction” as a way to boost investment. But decades of corporate tax cuts have failed, fuelling record profits, rising dividends, and historic wealth inequality, write @JAWalker and Silas Xuereb of @FairTaxCanada. canadiandimension.com/articl…
Carney’s airport privatization gambit risks becoming “Highway 407 of the skies”: selling out public infrastructure for private gain, privatizing profits while leaving risks public, and opening the door to higher costs for Canadians, writes @christoaivalis. canadiandimension.com/articl…
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My NEW article for @CDN_Dimension, where I explore Carney's looming airport privatization disaster:
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All "elbows-up" nationalism amounts to is selling everything in Canada off to the highest bidder—inviting billionaires from around the world to buy up vital public infrastructure like airports—while cutting services and attacking workers, Indigenous people and the environment.
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Carney has lived experience in th UK and knows fully well what privatisation does to the public sector...yet he's still going ahead with it.
He can never claim he couldn't foresee the consequences of such decisions.
The benefits of privatization are routinely asserted with confidence, though rarely with any proof. The evidence suggests it costs us dearly while eroding public control over key parts of our economy—and with it, our collective power and democracy. canadiandimension.com/articl…
The benefits of privatization are routinely asserted with confidence, though rarely with any proof. The evidence suggests it costs us dearly while eroding public control over key parts of our economy—and with it, our collective power and democracy. canadiandimension.com/articl…
Canada’s role in Afghanistan is nothing to celebrate. Canadian troops bombed civilians, killed children, and delivered Afghans to torture chambers. Our government and media should reckon with that history, not commemorate it, writes Owen Schalk. canadiandimension.com/articl…
Congo sits at the heart of the global race for critical minerals. After 30 years of war, it should use that leverage with China and the West to defend its sovereignty—and demand the removal of Rwandan troops & proxies from eastern Congo, says @JudiRever. canadiandimension.com/articl…
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As China and the West compete for critical minerals, the DRC has a historic opportunity to turn its resources into security, industry, infrastructure and prosperity.
China wants secure access to Congo’s minerals. The United States and its allies want diversified supply chains that reduce their dependence on Chinese processing. Global technology and automotive companies need the cobalt, copper, lithium and tantalum found beneath Congolese soil.
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This analysis draws on arguments advanced by Montréal journalist @JudiRever in “The US and China want Congo’s minerals. Kinshasa should demand peace in return,” published by @CDN_Dimension.
Rever is the author of In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and Rwanda’s 30-Year Assault on Congo: The Crimes, the Criminals, and the Cover-Up.
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Congo is uniquely able to provide raw materials for the world’s green energy and tech revolution. After 30 years of war, the country should use this resource leverage with China and the West to protect its sovereignty and people. The precondition for any current and future mineral deals should be the immediate removal of Rwandan troops and their proxies from eastern Congo. My latest feature in @CDN_Dimension canadiandimension.com/articl…
Trump’s illegal war on Iran has failed to achieve its strategic goals. But rather than admit defeat, Washington is pursuing a “Potemkin option”: prolonging the conflict to rack up hollow tactical wins and manufacture the appearance of victory. canadiandimension.com/articl…
Canada’s future should not be shaped through an invite-only gathering of the ultra-wealthy. It should be determined democratically by the people who live here, with the public good and long-term sustainability taking precedence over private profit. canadiandimension.com/articl…
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Rinaldo Walcott's urgent piece on how the neoliberal university is a 'battlefield' & Jason Arday’s death is 'a high-profile global symptom of its prolific killing': Multiple wars are being waged - incl. attacks on pro-Palestinian students, faculty & staff canadiandimension.com/articl…
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“Whatever the truth of Arday’s death, racisms of various sorts shaped the development of the Arday affair and contributed to his demise. It should also be clear that the university as an institution remains a significant player in what happened.” canadiandimension.com/articl…
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Rinaldo Walcott wrote an Arday article that is not stupid. Very difficult to do. Truly.
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“The neoliberal university is a killing field. It kills in many ways. Arday’s death is a high-profile global symptom of its prolific killing. And sadly, any of us who work in its “mines” are parties to that killing. The net of complicity is wide and deep.” Crucial essay.
"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis."
Rinaldo Walcott argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition. canadiandimension.com/articl…
Canada has scrapped its only dedicated federal mechanism for reviewing allegations of human rights abuses by Canadian companies abroad—while its new free trade deal with Ecuador grants sweeping protections to Canadian mining investors. @MiningWatch canadiandimension.com/articl…
