No government fulfils every promise it makes to voters at election time. Still, looking back on the Trudeau government’s performance over the past nine, sometimes chaotic years—with the exception of major policy achievements like child care, pandemic income supports and dental care—this government has consistently overcommitted and underdelivered.

The Canadian Dimension Archive. Welcome to our history! Canadian Dimension teamed up with the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections department to create this digital register of CD’s past issues, going all the way back to our 1963 inaugural edition. The magazine was launched in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, with a …

Nov 4, 2024 · There is an unwillingness to entertain a future in which Canada Post’s role can evolve to serve the needs of Canadians. The degradation of delivery work by Amazon is accepted as a fait accompli, instead of something we can reverse if the government is prepared to defend workers’ rights against a company whose business model is geared towards undermining them.

Jan 9, 2025 · We are nationalists, not in the sense that we want to keep Canada forever out of all future mergers of nations, but in the sense that we want to keep Canada out of the United States in the foreseeable future. We are nationalists because we believe that something new can be created here, and that something new might be a social democracy.

A new online publication posted by the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet estimates that the current death toll from Israel’s brutal assault on the Gaza Strip—which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has described as “plausible genocide”—is at least 186,000. This would translate to nearly eight percent of Gaza’s population. The bombshell death toll estimate is roughly ...

Jan 8, 2025 · Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. This is a permanent, endless war designed not to destroy Hamas, or free Israeli hostages, but to eradicate, once and for all, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Nov 15, 2024 · Of the more than 100 companies in Canada that produce components for the F-35 combat aircraft, Mississauga-based Magellan Aerospace is one of the largest. Notably, it is also majority owned and chaired by billionaire N. Murray Edwards, the 35th richest person in Canada, who controls mining company Imperial Metals, responsible for the catastrophic Mount Polley tailings disaster.

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Jan 8, 2025 · In his January 2 op-ed in the Edmonton Journal, University of Alberta President Bill Flanagan explains why a coterie of senior administrators is ditching the “language” of equity, diversity, and inclusion, or EDI (to which “decolonization” had been added in the university’s strategic plan), and replacing it with “access, community, and belonging.”

Jul 27, 2024 · The financialization of housing is a result of policy choices made by successive federal and provincial governments over decades. The Federal Housing Advocate points to three major policy drivers: the retreat of the welfare state in Canada, the removal of rent control and tenant protections, and financial liberalization and deregulation.