Canadian Dimension magazine, May/June 2008 issue

Every street in every old Canadian industrial town has its own Gus Popadopolous. He’s the old timer on your block that stuck around when the abandoned factory morphed into gentrified condos. His mode of dress is a white undershirt, no matter what the weather. His all-purpose accoutrement is a shovel, not a cell phone. He might cheer you on at road hockey, but wouldn’t hesitate to yell at you if the ball went into his garden. You know him. You might even be him! (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2008

The Chávez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela
by Eva Golinger
Olive Branch Press, 2006 (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2008

Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore
Directed by Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine
2007, 96 min. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2008

We Don’t Play Golf Here! (and other globalization stories)
Directed by Saul Landau
2007, 33 min.
Available on dvd from roundworldproductions [at] gmail.com (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2008

They came by the hundreds, packing the Commodore, Vancouver’s big-band-era ballroom, with leopard-print leggings and neon arm bands to see the socially conscious rapper, M.I.A. Known for her political lyrics, her eclectic personal style and her culture-mashing sound — a raw fusion of dancehall reggae, favela funk and electro — M.I.A. has recently taken up the role of brash envoy for the Third World. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension, November/December 2007

This is the second in a series of interviews with science-fiction writers about the politics of their work and what “speculative fiction” offers us about doing progressive politics in different ways. (Keep reading…)

Ursula K. Le Guin on science fiction, capitalism and forgiveness

Canadian Dimension Magazine, September/October 2007 (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, July/August 2007 Issue

If society has an imagination to express its desires and fears, it is activated through art. If society is to experiment with change, with new forms, with its power structures, with ways of seeing and with language itself, it must be through art. If social change is the agenda, then art must make up a large part of the toolkit. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, July/August 2007 Issue

“The best thing you can do for New York right now is to go out and shop !” —Rudy Giuliani , September 13, 2001 (Keep reading…)

In the wake of HBO’s disappointing and history-deranging adaptation of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, American Indian actors, writers, aspiring directors and producers arrive at the end of the trail for their decades-long struggle to gain a footing in Hollywood:our cause is lost in the American film and television industry. (Keep reading…)