Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue

The Canadian peace movement has just held a series of marches to mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq and to call on the Canadian government to end our military involvement in Afghanistan. A majority of Canadians want the troops home, and over sixty per cent oppose extending the mission past 2009. Yet, almost every Liberal MP lined up with the Conservatives on March 13 to support Stephen Harper’s plan to extend Canada’s mission in Afghanistan to 2011. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue

The earth moved. It was one of those rare moments in history when all that had been solid (and stultifying) seemed to melt into air. As William Wordsworth wrote of the epoch of the French Revolution, in 1805 — verse that also captured something of the spirit of the ’68: “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/ But to be young was very heaven!” (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, November/December 2007

Operation Objection

Operation Objection is a Canada-wide counter-recruitment campaign to reclaim education institutions for the cause of peace and to protect the interests of students from those who would co-opt them for war. The campaign was created by ACT for the Earth to counter Operation Connection, the Canadian military’s active and aggressive campaign to sign up more youth for military service in Afghanistan. Operation Objection includes War Free Schools, an organizing kit for Canadian students and peace activists. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail September 1, 2007

By John Allemang

Naomi Klein isn’t talking shopping now. The author-activist behind the 2000 hit No Logo has returned with a scathing attack on government and corporate exploitation of disaster, conflict and terror, from 9/11 to New Orleans, and Russia to Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. While critics scoff, she holds out hope that she can inspire the political left the movement she was born, raised and married into, to reclaim its courage and confidence. Before it’s too late. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail August 31, 2007 Labour Day weekend, 2007.

Canadian labour had a good moment two weeks ago at the Montebello protest. Union leader Dave Coles denounced three undercover cops posing as anarchists and cradling rocks to give the protest a bad name. They retreated behind police lines, not a normal anarchist tactic. But he went a step too far for my taste, in shouting, “This is a peaceful demonstration.” He sounded perhaps overeager to placate TV viewers or police or maybe the people who write editorials in places such as the Globe and Mail. To be sure, it was a peaceful protest, but radical movements such as labour have been most effective when they had a touch of menace. (Keep reading…)

Rabble.ca, August 28, 2007

Vastly exceeding the predictions of organizers, more than 5,000 people participated in the first Quebec Social Forum (FSQ) in Montreal last weekend. It was the largest gathering of the Left in the history of Quebec. (Keep reading…)

Rabble.ca August 27, 2007

On August 20, we were in Montebello, Quebec to voice our opposition to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), and to the secret meetings and agenda set by Stephen Harper, George W. Bush and Felipe Calderón. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, July/August 2007 Issue

With his May 22 election victory, Gary Doer is only the second premier in recent Manitoba history to win three consecutive majority governments. The first was Duff Roblin back in the 1960s. In fact, since the election of Ed Schreyer in 1969, the New Democratic Party has been in office for all but a dozen years of the past four decades — nearly enough to consider the NDP Manitoba’s natural governing party. (Keep reading…)

The B u l l e t
Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 48 April 18, 2007

Just less than a year ago in May 2006, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario unanimously passed in convention its pathbreaking Resolution 50 in support for the global campaign against Israeli apartheid. The resolution called on the union to educate its members on the apartheid nature of the Israeli state. It also mandated that education be undertaken on Canadian political and economic support for these practices. CUPE Ontario would also participate in the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until the realization of Palestinian self-determination and the right of return of Palestinian refugees. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, March/April 2007 Issue

Without the assent of the NDP, Harper’s Conservatives are unlikely to remain in power much longer. Chances are that, in the coming months, Layton & Co. will once again bring down a minority government, sending Canadians to the polls for the second time in a little over a year. (Keep reading…)