Canadian Dimension

CHOMSKY SAYS -- "At a Latin American strategy development workshop at the Pentagon -- just a year ago, which involved noted academic specialists and others... they concluded that current relations with Mexico... are extraordinarily positive. That means...

Montreal Reader's letter to Canadian Dimension (Jan./Feb. 1993) shows the kind of unexamined nationalism that has made adequate discussions of Quebec almost impossible for the Canadian Left. The Left has treated nationalism largely as axiomatic...

Abrogation of the Canada-US and North American free trade agreements "constitutes a fundamental challenge to capital," Canadian Dimension editorializes in its first issue of 1993. Abrogation "is not just another policy issue. It is much more fundamental,...

The troubles faced by "Greens" in Canada, Britain, Europe and elsewhere, look terminal. Mind you, this claim depends on what one means by "The Greens." If "The Greens" are a movement, then I suspect (and hope) they are here to stay. If we are talking...

With three NDP premiers joining other government leaders making debt reduction their priority, the Globe and Mail is chortling with glee. The "Left", it says, has finally capitulated on this issue. We beg to differ. We do so for reasons we do...

Has the Ontario NDP succumbed to the power of capital? Has the Rae government capitulated to the corporate agenda? Will the NDP continue to avoid challenging the FTA by not introducing a public auto insurance plan? Social democrats are asking themselves...

The Russian Communist Party banned by decree of President Boris Yeltsin a year and a half ago, confounded the predictions of pundits by voting itself back into existence at a Congress on February 13-14. Six weeks later it was officially registered...

Silent beneath a canopy of centuries-old spruce trees, a cluster of Innu blocked the first dozer dispatched to blaze a trail into a loggers' paradise. The developers had appeared with the first warnings that Newfoundland's infested and over-harvested...

I am an organizer who is obsessed with developing organizations and leaders that bring out the co-operative, loving parts of human beings so we can live in harmony with other creatures and the earth. Through almost thirty years of eclectic experience,...

The Winnipeg Bear Clan Patrol is modelled after the AIM Patrol (also known as the Peace Makers Patrol) based in Minneapolis. It came about as a result of the ongoing need to assume our traditional responsibility to provide security to our Aboriginal...