In Canada’s housing policy circles, the land crisis remains ...
Aug 23, 2024 · As Thom Armstrong, the CEO of the Cooperative Housing Federation of BC, said subsequently: “we certainly wouldn’t approve any new co-op developments on private land.”. In recent decades highly-concentrated BC residential wealth has climbed from $400 billion to $2.1 trillion, about $1.5 trillion of which is in land.
From vilification to criminalization – Canadian Dimension
Jan 21, 2024 · According to Global News, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw stated that “many, particularly members of Toronto’s Jewish community, are feeling increasingly unsafe amid the ongoing protests.”. He, therefore, took it upon himself to ban pro-Palestinian protest actions at the Avenue Road overpass over the highly trafficked Highway 401.
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Oct 28, 2024 · Browse the Archive. 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. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. Founded in 1963, Canadian Dimension is a forum ...
Debunking Poilievre’s housing ‘documentary’ – Canadian Dimension
Dec 28, 2023 · Poilievre’s thesis. Poilievre narrates the “Housing Hell” video and begins with an appeal to young people who have seemingly given up on ever owning a home. This rhetoric has been effective for the Conservative leader, and has seen the Tories “ rejuvenated ” by gains among millennials and younger Canadians. For example, in the 2015 ...
Selina Robinson didn’t just abuse her position—she abused the …
Feb 12, 2024 · What was done to our relatives, our families, and our culture must not be allowed to happen again. But it would be disrespectful to the memory of all those lost to suggest that edict be limited to Jews: it must not happen again to anyone. Our people’s history of oppression isn’t a license to oppress, it’s a call to dedicate our lives to creating a world without oppression.
On CBC media capitulation and HonestReporting Canada
May 27, 2024 · CBC’s repeated caving to a highly biased pro-Israel advocacy group like HonestReporting Canada takes up a place within the larger context of right-wing populism on the rise in Canada today. According to a perceived bargain, CBC’s decision to appease Israel’s defenders is a trade-off for a de-escalation of existential threats to the public broadcaster. Yet, in this, CBC is making a dire ...
Ukraine rolls the dice on Kursk incursion – Canadian Dimension
Aug 9, 2024 · The Ukrainian attack on Kursk is a considerable gamble, driven perhaps by a sense that Ukraine’s weak military position left few other options other than a slow, grinding retreat. If it does induce the Russian government to negotiate, then it will have succeeded. But it could also end up extending the war rather than bringing it to a quicker end.
Did Mulroney really ‘lead the fight’ against apartheid?
Mar 4, 2024 · While Mulroney did oppose apartheid in the 1980s, it is disingenuous to claim that he “led” international efforts that dismantled institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa. As prime minister, Mulroney spoke out against South African apartheid and leveraged his political and personal power to effectively lobby for sanctions in ...
Asper’s legacy of media control lives on in HonestReporting Canada
Feb 8, 2024 · Much of our US hedge fund-owned right-wing news media bash Palestinian sympathizers, and such publications now vastly out-number our few remaining liberal media outlets, which are constantly harassed by groups like HonestReporting Canada, a billionaire-funded organization founded in 2003 to “control the narrative” on …
Scandal grows around BC NDP minister Selina Robinson
Feb 3, 2024 · BC NDP MLA Selina Robinson speaks during a public Zoom call hosted by B’nai Brith on January 30, 2024. She referred to Gaza as a “crappy piece of land” in her remarks that were delivered among other Jewish politicians. Writing about this series of interlocked scandals, so much has happened so rapidly to shift the point of gravity that it ...