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September/October 2010: Ecosocialism
Volume 44, Number 5
The division within the environmental movement between market ecologism and ecosocialism has become increasingly clear with the failure of Copenhagen and the promise of Cochabamba. This issue focuses on the rising tide of ecosocialism. We also examine the events of the G20 from many angles: the protest tactics of the black bloc and the resulting political violence by the state; the assault against women protestors; how mainstream media handled coverage of the protests; and the role of social media.
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July/August 2010: Queer 2
Volume 44, Number 4
In leading the opposition to Queers Against Israeli Apartheid presence in Toronto’s gay pride parade, Martin Gladstone, self-proclaimed gay-rights activist, argued that issues unrelated to gay rights have no place in Pride. But as Tim McCaskell shows in the lead article of Queer 2, “queer liberation has always been bound up with the liberation of others.” Our second Queer issue focuses on queer’s radical political edge not only by challenging “the remaining forms of heterosexual hegemony” but by demonstrating the many ways queer oppression is “bound up with capitalist class, patriarchal, racializing relations.”
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May/June 2010: Mayworks
Volume 44, Issue 3
As the value of individual pensions diminish or altogether disappear, workers across the country are all asking the same question: Have we lost our right to retire? In this year’s Mayworks issue, we examine the perils of a pension system that is intimately tied to a failing financial system. We also look at the state of unions, the labour movement, and the Canadian Left in 2010, and determine what can be done to strengthen worker solidarity and mobilize the Left.
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March/April 2010: Indian Country
Volume 44, Number 2
“What does it mean to be an Indian?” asks indigenous writer Richard Wagamese in our Indian Country Focus issue. For many indigenous people across Canada it means dealing with the legacy of forced relocations, residential schools, environmental destruction and embedded racism. But these dire problems have also given rise to remarkably mobilized and creative political and artistic movements. Defenders of the land gatherings; the art of David Garneau; and indigenous authors confronting the legacy of colonialism in their writing are all inspiring examples of political resistance and an ongoing process of decolonization. Our latest issue confronts Canada’s colonial legacy through the resilience and energy of emerging indigenous movements.
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January/February 2010: Our Winnipeg
Volume 44, Number 1
What’s so special about Winnipeg? Why would we dedicate an entire issue of our magazine to this melancholy metropolis—a frigid blip on the Canadian landscape? Despite Winnipeg’s relative isolation and subzero clime, it has bred some of the most avant-garde art and rebellious politics. We explore the urban lore of this contradictory city in our latest issue. Guest editors on our urban trek include esteemed filmmakers Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg), Noam Gonick (Stryker), and former Winnipegger and writer Ria Julien. Winnipeg’s radical heroes (not Burton Cummings) are also immortalized in eight collectible Winnipeg alternative celebrity baseball cards available in this issue.
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November/December 2009: End Times in Copenhagen
Volume 43, Number 6
We planned this issue in the months leading up to the December UN climate change conference to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Besides our focus of articles by Joel Kovel, Danny Harvey, Tom Goldtooth, Keith Stewart and Larry Lohmann all commissioned for this issue our editorial and book reviews are devoted to the climate crisis.
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September/October 2009
Volume 43, Number 5
There’s nothing wrong with the Canadian immigration system, right? Well, not exactly. In this issue of Dimension we show you how the spatial restructuring of capital is shifting Canadian immigration policy away from humanitarian grounds and towards economic necessity. This comes, of course, without accompanying benefits, rights, equal pay or job security for any of the migrant workers, refugees or immigrants. We also profile the struggle of working people in Canada against the damages of the economic crisis, giving you more reason to continually press for workers’ rights.
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July/August 2009: The queer issue
Volume 43, Issue 4
Canadian Dimension is finally out of the closet! In fact, we’ve always been queer and proud of it. Challenging capitalism and standing up to bosses, politicians and patriarchy for nearly a half-century is queer indeed. So why a queer issue? Why now? As guest editors Shannon Bell, Noam Gonick and Dan Irving point out: “Queer gets its meaning and its politics from its oppositional relation to the norm. It is at odds with the normal, the dominant. To queer something is to disrupt it, to put it under scrutiny and to attempt to change it.” Expect some vital disruption from the Canadian Dimension queer issue.
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May/June 2009: Mayworks: A special issue celebrating and debating labour
Volume 63, Issue 3
Ninety years ago Winnipeg workers shut down the city in Canada’s largest and best-known strike. At stake were the rights of collective bargaining, higher wages, and improved working conditions. In the midst of the largest economic crisis in decades many of these same demands are on—and quickly falling off—the table. In the May/June issue of Canadian Dimension we explore the perilous state of the Canadian labour movement and the possibilities for fight back in these difficult times.
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March/April 2009: The Great Recession
Volume 43, Number 2
Do you recognize this man? His balding head, piercing blue eyes and knowing grin? If not, start paying attention because his economic theories have come back from the grave to guide the future of our dismal economic system. The man is Keynes, John Maynard Keynes and his theories once dominated economic discourse. Deregulation, privatization and free trade buried him, but when the financial giants fell Keynes was chic once again.
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January/February 2009: Indian Country (in the city)
Volume 43, Number 1
A sacred fire of Indigenous Canadian activism, education, art, and politics burns bright in the latest special double issue of Canadian Dimension. Featuring a cover by world renowned Indigenous artist Rebecca Belmore, the latest issue of Canadian Dimension looks at the achievements and challenges facing Canada’s urban and rural Indigenous communities.
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