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 …

Jan 31, 2025 · The recent national panic over alleged foreign influence on our elected officials has seen politicians and journalists alike issue calls to name the suspected “traitors,” but it turns out that the worst traitors of all may actually be in our own news media.“While allegations of interference involving elected officials have dominated …

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.

5 days ago · The rise of the populist right in deindustrialized areas, like the US Rust Belt, is a legacy of neoliberalism and free trade. We need to break this cycle. If we want to turn the tide of deindustrialization and create manufacturing jobs for the economy of the future, we need to be bold. And it starts now, not in some distant future.

Jan 27, 2025 · 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.

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.

Jan 24, 2025 · From gasoline to housing to groceries to concert tickets to fertilizer, the average Canadian can no longer afford a comfortable life, and everyone knows it. Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar expose the details of the current crisis in a new book, The Big Fix, and propose solutions to bring the country back to a more inclusive economy that …

Jun 10, 2024 · With Google’s latest financial contribution, Canada’s emerging online news media have some hope for a change. As Marc Edge explains, with the money being doled out by the Canadian Journalism Collective instead of Big Media, there is a better chance for them to compete for it on a level playing field. The twist is just the latest in the long-running soap opera that has been the Online News Act

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.

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.