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  •  | In 2023 peaceful activists involved in the pro Palestine movement pasted posters and splashed red paint on the windows of an Indigo bookstore in downtown Toronto Screenshot courtesy CP24YouTube | MR Online

    Political policing in Canada

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on April 16, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The attack on the Indigo 11 is part of a systematic effort to disrupt and contain the growing Palestine solidarity movement.

  •  | US President Donald Trump in the White House Rose Garden Photo by Daniel Torok | MR Online

    Democracy dies in daylight

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on April 7, 2025 by Derek Sayer (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Apr 09, 2025)

    The great institutions of liberal America are falling to Trump like dominoes, one by one.

  •  | Cholla Power Plant near Joseph City Arizona Photo by PDTillmanWikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Canada’s support for LNG is support for Trump’s new form of fossil-fuelled fascism

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on April 4, 2025 by Nick Gottlieb (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2025)

    Trump is bringing the contradictions of Canadian climate policy clearly into view.

  •  | Montréal based writer and political activist Yves Engler is a long time contributor to CD | MR Online

    Free Yves Engler

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on February 23, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is enough to land you behind bars.

  •  | Fck Big Book | MR Online

    F*ck Big Book

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on February 20, 2025 by Amanda Crocker (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Feb 22, 2025)

    The ‘Big Five’ publishing houses wield enormous global power, controlling 80% of the English-language trade publishing market.

  •  | Amazon | MR Online

    Amazon closures an act of economic terrorism

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 28, 2025 by Jim Stanford (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jan 31, 2025)

    These closures are a cruel, anti-democratic attack on all workers that demand a strong response from unions across Canada.

  •  | The Athabasca oil sands in northwest Alberta Photo by Kris KrügFlickr | MR Online

    To respond to Trump’s tariffs, Canada should nationalize its oil industry

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 29, 2025 by Nick Gottlieb (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jan 30, 2025)

    We need to build our own resilience against the increasingly unpredictable acts of our belligerent neighbours to the south.

  •  | Political cartoon published in July 1870 depicts Canada as a child with Great Britain represented as Mother Britannia holding out her protective arms Uncle Sam representing the United States stands on the other side ready to grab the child if it falls Image from Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Why be a doormat?

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 2, 2025 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Canadian leaders are falling over themselves to placate the incoming Trump administration. It doesn’t have to be this way.

  •  | Notre Dame and Navy line up on scrimmage during the NCAA Emerald Isle Classic college football season opener Photo by Peter D LawlorUS NavyWikimedia Commons | MR Online

    There is a mental health crisis in U.S. college football

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on December 26, 2024 by Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2024)

    “If college football is defined by anything, we might say that it is trauma”.

  •  | Lee Mordechai is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Photo supplied | MR Online

    Israeli historian accuses Canadian media of enabling Gaza war crimes

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on December 14, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Lee Mordechai says Israel’s war has been “enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse” in the West.

  •  | A detail from Diego Riveras Exploitation of Mexico by Spanish Conquistadors 1929 1945 which is located in the Palacio Nacional Mexico City Image from Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Can a global history of humans be a people’s history?

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on December 5, 2024 by Alvin Finkel (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Dec 09, 2024)

    In his new book, Alvin Finkel tells the story of the 99% who have constantly sought to live in a society of equals

  •  | Photo by Stephen Sizer | MR Online

    Truth takes a side

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on November 7, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Understanding and truth are our best weapons against an exploitative society based on lies.

  •  | Brookfield Place Toronto Photo by Matt WiebeFlickr | MR Online

    Brett Christophers on our growing ‘asset-manager society’

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on November 4, 2024 by James Wilt (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Nov 08, 2024)

    Many people now live in homes and rely on infrastructure that are owned by pension funds, insurance companies, and banks.

  •  | Albert Einstein in his office at Princeton University New Jersey 1942 Photo by Roman VishniacMagnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeFlickr | MR Online

    Einstein opposed Zionist colonization in Palestine and predicted the current catastrophe

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on November 5, 2024 by Robin Philpot (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2024)

    His views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades.

  •  | An IDF soldier prepares to launch a Skylark drone manufactured by Elbit Systems an Israel based international military technology company and defense contractor Photo courtesy the Israel Defense ForcesFlickr | MR Online

    The dangerous acceleration of remote-controlled warfare

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on November 1, 2024 by Judi Rever (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Nov 05, 2024)

    AI is creating a bonanza for tech companies and is being cast as a cleaner way to wage war, but the human cost is devastating.

  •  | Malis Assimi Goïta Nigers General Abdourahamane Tchiani and Burkina Fasos Captain Ibrahim Traoré at the first summit of heads of state and governments of the Alliance of Sahel States AES in Niamey Niger July 6 2024 Photo courtesy Agenzia Nova | MR Online

    In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on October 22, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    An increasingly assertive group of African nations are constraining the ability of Canadian companies to profit from resources.

  •  | Arundhathi Roy accepts the PEN Pinter Prize 2024 while holding a portrait of British Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah named this years Writer of Courage with whom she shared the award El Fattah remains imprisoned and arbitrarily detained in Egypt Photo courtesy English PEN | MR Online

    Arundhati Roy: ‘No propaganda on Earth can hide the wound that is Palestine’

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on October 13, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The full text of her PEN Pinter Prize acceptance speech.

  •  | French embassy in Niger Relations between the two countries have broken down since a July coup détat overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum Photo courtesy France24 | MR Online

    As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on January 2, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    Over the past few years, numerous West African states have taken steps toward greater economic and security sovereignty, often in opposition to Western (specifically French) designs on the region.

  •  | Torontos Regent Park in 1968 Canadas oldest social housing project Photo by Graham BezantToronto Star | MR Online

    We’ve solved the housing crisis before. We can do it again

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on October 3, 2024 by James Hardwick (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Oct 05, 2024)

    Pierre Trudeau made housing an instrument of economic justice. Fifty years later his son remade it as an engine of inequality.

  •  | TIFF Lightbox in Toronto Photo by RaysonhoWikimedia Commons | MR Online

    When ‘disinformation’ control becomes government censorship

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on September 22, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The Trudeau government is playing a dangerous game with its latest censorship push.

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