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January/February 2012: Inuit Focus and Occupy Movement
Volume 46, Issue 1
This year’s “Indian Country” theme issue of Canadian Dimension deals with the Inuit, the oft-overlooked occupants of the northernmost parts of Canada and Québec. Jim Stanford, Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Sam Gindin answer some basic questions about the Global Economic Crisis put to them by the Dimension collective. And we dissect the Occupy movement.
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November/December 2011: Stepping up for the Planet
Volume 45, Issue 6
This special feature of Canadian Dimension was inspired by the forthcoming COP17 UN Conference on Climate Change occurring in Durban, South Africa in November/December 2011. This is a collaboration between CD, the South African Magazine Amandala and Patrick Bond. The focus starts with an analysis of what is likely to come out of the Durban conference and what is unlikely to come out of the conference. From there we go to the opposition forces in the city of Durban itself and the alternative summit planned for COP17. Finally we explore specific grassroots resistance movements in both South Africa and Canada-Québec.
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Sept/Oct 2011: Canada’s Criminal (Justice) System
Volume 45, Issue 5
The expansion of the criminal justice system has become a central part of political and economic restructuring in Canada and it demands attention.
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July/August 2011: The Food Issue
Volume 45, Issue 4
Food sovereignty, animal welfare, the global land grab, how food speculation works to spike prices, and the limits of the local food movement from the vantage point of accessibility.
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May/June 2011: Precarious labour: a special issue
Volume 45, Issue 2
A special focus on precarious work, by far the fastest growing category – comprising 35-40 percent – of all jobs in Canada.
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March/April 2011: Indian Country and Climate Change
Volume 45, Issue 2
CD’s latest presents a dual focus on issues related to climate change and Aboriginal inequality. From a lack of running water in Northern reserves to the proposed Engridge pipeline, many if these issues are compounded by these two intertwined forces.
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January/February 2011: Canadian mining companies invade the global south
Volume 45, Issue 1
This issue of CD explores in some depth the role of Canada’s giant mining companies as they join other invaders and occupiers of the Global South.This has been a mainly recent development, taking off in the 1990’s but really accelerating over the past decade. Today, Canada’s metal mining industry accounts for about 12 percent of all direct investment abroad, second only to financial services.
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November/December 2010: The New Feminism
Volume 44, Issue 6
Today in Canada, where womyn’s rights are under attack, where funding to feminist and womyn’s organizations has been cut, where indigenous people are still not respected, immigrant and refugee womyn are not valued, where womyn still do not have full control over our bodies or reproduction, where womyn and girls are hypersexualized and face obscene amounts of violence, where the environment is threatened to the point where humanity itself is in peril, where the only national feminist umbrella group, the National Action Committee (NAC), has dissolved, and when womyn are still being oppressed and exploited because we are womyn, yes, we certainly do need feminism.
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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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