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About Owen Schalk

Owen Schalk is a writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and a columnist at Canadian Dimension magazine.
  • Parliamentarians gave a standing ovation to Yaroslav Hunka, a former member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, the military wing of the Nazi Party, during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Ottawa. Photo courtesy CBC News. / SS chief Heinrich Himmler addresses a group of Waffen SS soldiers in the “eastern territories,” 1942. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

    World War II revisionism on full display in Nazi’s visit to Parliament

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on September 24, 2023 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Schalk: We are cynically rewriting history to serve contemporary political interests

  • Protesters display the flags of Niger and Russia during a protest in Niamey, Niger. Photo by Efe Issifou/Flickr.

    Niger coup will have global ramifications for the U.S., France, and Canada

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on August 9, 2023 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    This isn’t what Western countries wanted to sow in West Africa, writes Owen Schalk.

  • Norwegian politician and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Photo courtesy NATO/Flickr.

    Jens Stoltenberg’s global vision encourages conflict, militarization, and historical amnesia

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 14, 2023 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Recent Foreign Affairs article unmasks NATO’s view on the shifting tides of global power.

  • A sign outside the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) headquarters in Ottawa. Photo by Chris Wattie.

    The ‘Chinese interference’ story is rooted in xenophobia, economic decline

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on March 30, 2023 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Ottawa’s anxieties about a power to the East are neuralgic, irrational, and grimly familiar.

  • A farm worker holds bell peppers during a harvest in Cubiro, Venezuela. (Photo: Shutterstock/Canadian Dimension)

    Venezuela’s Seed Law should be a global model

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 16, 2023 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    For peasant farmers, the battle over seed rights is critical to their livelihoods.

  • “If there is to be a livable future, it will be a future offline”

    “If there is to be a livable future, it will be a future offline”

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 1, 2023 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Jonathan Crary’s new book excoriates the digital world of late capitalism.

  • Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Quebec - Canada

    Ecological imperialism and the Canadian mining industry

    Owen Schalk

    In 2013, Edward Snowden’s leak of documents pertaining to the inner workings of National Security Agency (NSA) sparked international revelations about the reach and unaccountability of Washington’s international surveillance apparatus. One series of documents that remain understudied, however, concern similar activities orchestrated by the Canadian government.

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  • Ruy Mauro Marini’s Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism
    Torkil Lauesen

    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

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