Canadian Dimension magazine, January/February 2008

To live under external ownership and control has been the common fate of Canadians, and has powerfully conditioned our lives and our politics. Aboriginal people were so treated from early on by the settlers who, in turn, embraced their own lot as imperial subjects. As formal sovereignty shifted over time to the margin of empire, the tendency nevertheless was to welcome foreign capital to Canada, even to proclaim loudly that Canada was “open for business.” The rising American corporation of the late nineteenth century spilled over the border into Canada to the applause of Canadians. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension

Linda McQuaig’s new book Holding the Bully’s Coat: Canada and the US Empire is far better than most on the subject of Canadian foreign policy. Unfortunately, that is damning with faint praise indeed. (Keep reading…)

from Rabble.ca

The founding of the new party would not have been possible or worthy of interest were it not for the backdrop of a revival of protest and dissent stretching back to the mid-1990s and speeding up early in the new century. (Keep reading…)

from Rabble.ca

The founding of the new party would not have been possible or worthy of interest were it not for the backdrop of a revival of protest and dissent stretching back to the mid-1990s and speeding up early in the new century. (Keep reading…)

January/February 2005 Issue of Canadian Dimension