Canadian Dimension
Oct 2, 2024 · Browse all articles. Founded in 1963, Canadian Dimension is a forum for debate on important issues facing the Canadian Left today, and a source for analysis of national and regional politics, labour, economics, world affairs and art.
Is the West finally seeing sense on Gaza? – Canadian Dimension
3 days ago · These conditions, says Axios, amount to “the most wide-ranging and comprehensive list of US demands from Israel since the beginning of the war.”. Noting that IDF evacuation orders have forced 1.7 million Palestinians into Mawasi, a narrow strip of land on the Gaza coast where they are prey to dangerous diseases, at the same time as recent ...
Gaza and Canada’s refugee double standard – Canadian Dimension
Jan 24, 2024 · The different treatment of Ukrainian and Palestinian refugees exposes a clear double standard. The Trudeau government’s response to Ukraine was swift and comprehensive. There was no cap on how many could apply and they did not need to have Canadian relatives. Ottawa eventually received 1,189,320 applications from Ukrainians and approved 936,293, with 210,178 arriving in Canada.
Why the National Housing Strategy failed – Canadian Dimension
3 days ago · In 2017, the Trudeau government launched the National Housing Strategy (NHS), a massive 10-year, $72 billion program to restore housing affordability and eliminate homelessness by the end of the decade. By 2023, funding for the program ballooned to $89 billion, and even more money was earmarked in Budget 2024. The official NHS website describes ...
Reprogramming the genocide deniers – Canadian Dimension
Oct 12, 2022 · A march from Queen’s Park to Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto to demand action on the 215 children found in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School, June 2021. Photo by Michael Swan/ Flickr. At the end of the Second World War, the Allies instigated a broad program of de-Nazification coupled with a wider policy of enforced ...
The state of our moral disengagement – Canadian Dimension
Oct 7, 2024 · A decade before his death in 2021, the Canadian-born professor who taught at Stanford University studied the mechanisms through which people selectively engage and disengage their morality. One of the most powerful mechanisms that he explored was moral justification, which involves using moral and worthy ends to sanctify destructive behaviour.
Canada should support ICJ ruling on Israel’s genocide
Jan 8, 2024 · Last week, South Africa requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague make an urgent order declaring Israel in breach of its obligations under the Genocide Convention. Canadians should support this non-violent bid to curtail the apartheid state’s well-documented and undeniable war crimes in Gaza.. On January 11 the ICJ will begin hearing South Africa’s urgent appeal ...
The global order and the value of human life – Canadian Dimension
Oct 2, 2024 · This long-established hierarchy in the value of human life, rooted as it is in colonial history, must be countered with a clear and determined anti-racism and the most robust forms of international solidarity. John Clarke is a writer and retired organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). Follow his tweets at @JohnOCAP and blog ...
How our struggles are contained by those in power
Jul 15, 2024 · Both struggles were met with increased levels of intransigence. And the limited forms of action they employed, although they might have been effective once, were simply faced down by those in power. Different approaches are needed to counter today’s containment strategies. Governments are less likely to be moved by displays of our potential ...
Our dead don’t seem to count the same way – Canadian Dimension
Oct 1, 2024 · On September 27, Israel dropped US-supplied 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on the Dahiya residential area of Beirut, flattening six apartment blocks and killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The cost of Nasrallah’s scalp was likely several hundred Lebanese civilian lives. The Palestinian journalist got it right. Their dead don’t seem to count the same way.