How did Trudeau’s performance stack up to his promises?
Jan 28, 2024 · 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.
Charles Taylor: Nationalism and independence – Canadian …
Jan 9, 2025 · The alternative to Canadian nationalism is not a far-seeing policy of rational welfare on an international basis, but instead a gradual slide into satellite status, which will make it more and more difficult to solve even our problems of economic development with the full measure of freedom we require. The alternative is a policy of paralytic continentalism.
In Canada’s housing policy circles, the land crisis remains ...
Aug 23, 2024 · Let’s be clear: while we might be able to make some improvements here and there through clever initiatives, we almost certainly cannot solve the housing crisis without dealing directly with the land question. The private extraction of land value doesn’t just produce a crisis for housing, but virtually everything across the political spectrum that can be useful.
Arundhati Roy: ‘No propaganda on Earth can hide the wound that …
Oct 13, 2024 · Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024, an annual award established by English PEN in memory of playwright Harold Pinter. Shortly after having been named for the prize, Roy named British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah a Writer of Courage, with whom she would share her award.
Mounds and memories, landfills and lost lives – Canadian Dimension
Apr 5, 2024 · Manitoba’s quandary. The rates of violence perpetrated against Indigenous women in Canada greatly exceeds that for non-Indigenous women. In 2022, a man was charged with the murders of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and an unidentified individual given the name “Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe” (Buffalo Woman). His modus operandi was to dispose of his victims in garbage bins ...
The old evil – Canadian Dimension
Jul 15, 2024 · Israel’s settler colonial project is protean. It changes its shape but not its essence. It grinds forward with its deadly, perverted, racist logic. And yet, the Palestinians endure, refusing to submit, resisting despite the overwhelming odds, grasping at tiny kernels of hope from bottomless wells of despair. There is a word for this. Heroic.
Saltwire takeover would give Postmedia a coast-to-coast monopoly
Jul 29, 2024 · Here’s how bad things have gotten in Canada’s troubled newspaper industry: one bankrupt chain is now being taken over by a chain that is effectively bankrupt. Believe it or not, there is a high-finance method to this madness, but as CD media columnist Marc Edge explains, it takes a vulture capitalist mindset to wrap your brain around it.
Canada and the new world disorder – Canadian Dimension
Dec 12, 2024 · It has been almost 40 years since there was major debate in Canada about our relations with the United States. While the FTA was implemented after the 1988 election, a majority of voters supported a more active role by governments in shaping economic development. Today we are confronted with the very serious probability that the free trade era has come to an end.
News pollution is more dangerous than news poverty in this small …
Oct 6, 2024 · Write what you know best, aspiring writers are often told. For Lauren Watson, that was once a road tale worthy of Kerouac that she penned as a freelancer for the National Post in 2013 about her rock climbing adventures while living out of her old Volvo station wagon. Writing was something Watson aspired to after graduating from the University of Guelph in 2009 with a degree in geography, and ...
Sidelined in Mali, Barrick turns Tanzania mine into ‘armed …
Jan 13, 2025 · Three months ago, Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold received some good news. A case filed against the company by Tanzanian villagers, alleging Barrick’s complicity in extrajudicial killings by mine security, had been tossed out by an Ontario court. It was the third case brought against Barrick in ten years on the same issue: alleged company involvement in the maiming and killing of ...