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.

Jan 21, 2025 · 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 declaration that is even more germane today than it ...

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.

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.

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.

Jan 20, 2025 · Last month, the Globe and Mail published an article about “enforced disappearances” of Afghan prisoners by Canadian troops in Kandahar. So far, no other Canadian news outlet has reported on the serious allegations in the piece, which offer a rare peek through Ottawa’s wall of censorship at the actual functioning of Canadian military operations abroad.

5 days ago · Terrorism is defined as an act of violence, usually harming innocents, that is motivated by a political or ideological goal. By that standard, Amazon’s decision to shut all seven of its warehouses (euphemistically called ‘fulfilment centres’) in Québec, to avoid unionization at one of those warehouses, is an act of economic terrorism. The lives of …

5 days ago · Peter Beinart’s new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, says the maudlin story we Jews tell ourselves of our virtue and heroic endurance inoculates us from seeing Israel’s agency in creating the resistance it faces: “We must now tell a new story to answer the horror that a Jewish country has perpetrated… We are not history’s permanent virtuous victims.”

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.