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May/June 2013: The Battle for Canada’s North
Volume 47, Issue 3
The north remains a colony inside Canada. With its resources being pursued that much more fervently by mining and energy capital in recent decades, it has become even more a contested terrain as indigenous communities organize themselves to protect their traditional lands from being ripped apart by rapacious corporations.
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March/April 2013: 50th anniversary issue
Volume 47, Issue 2
The Canadian Dimension of 2013, is, in many ways, the same as the Canadian Dimension of 1963 — an alternative mirror of our life and times, a sharp stick in the eye of authority, a cry for justice, an attempt to illuminate the often murky way forward. But in 1963 we didn’t write about feminism, the environment, human rights, gay liberation, and the connection between the politics we espouse and the way we live our lives. Leftish thinking, and socialism for that matter, hadn’t considered these issues, much less understood their importance.
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January/February 2013: Youth Rising
Volume 47, Issue 1
Youth radicalism was a big part of Canadian Dimension’s first decade, 1963–1973. It asserted itself again after the “Battle of Seattle” at the end of the 1990s in the struggles against corporate globalization. With the Occupy movement and in particular the Québec Student strike, youth activism is once again a leading force for social change.
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November/December 2012: The Art of Protest
Volume 46, Issue 6
“If society has an imagination to express its desires and fears, it is activated through art….If social change is on the agenda, then art must make up a large part of the toolkit.”
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September/October 2012: Québec Students Teach the World a Lesson
Volume 46, Issue 5
“Following in the footsteps of the Chilean student protests, the mobilization of Québec students has ignited the fuse of a growing powder keg of popular anger against neoliberalism in Québec, in Canada and in other parts of the world. We are witnessing an unprecedented mobilization to defend public education and with it the very idea of the common good, against the privatization of social relations.”
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July/August 2012: The Limits of Medicine in a Sick Society
Volume 46, Issue 4
Medicare was born in conflict. The notorious Saskatchewan Doctors’ Strike aimed to abort it. That was 50 years ago. This issue of Dimension offers an historical perspective on that birth with an essay by Lorne Brown and Doug Taylor (who are preparing a book on the 50th anniversary of Medicare.) Ulli Diemer exposes “Ten Myths about Medicare,” and health economist Robert Chernomas discusses one of those myths in detail: the controversial sustainability question.
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May/June 2012: Labour and Austerity
Volume 63, Issue 3
Our traditional May Day issue, an issue devoted to the struggles and campaigns of working people in Canada and around the world. Additional focus is given to the Québec student movement, the epidemic of medical errors in addition to articles celebrating the lives of activist Madeleine Parent and This magazine co-founder Bob Davis.
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March/April 2012: The Degrowth Issue
Volume 46, Issue 2
A small but vibrant movement that began in France in 2001, and has now crossed the ocean into Canada, challenges the hitherto unquestioned belief that endless economic growth is sustainable, that any and all constraints can be overcome, and that producing and buying more is the road to happiness.
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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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