Magazine

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. First Nations scholar Peter Kulchyski introduces us to the Inuit peoples and relates the history of their struggles with the colonial Canadian state. Peter Irniq, a founding father of Nunavut, tells us about his life and sheds light on the impact of residential schools on his generation. A non-Inuit graduate student at York University, Warren Bernauer, writes about resistance by the small community of Baker Lake to an international corporate bid to mine the uranium deposits found in the inland of the Kivalliq region.

To offer our readers insight into the continuing global economic turmoil, CD invited three prominent economists to reflect on the roots of the crisis and what lies ahead, and to advance some progressive options. Jim Stanford, Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Sam Gindin answer some basic questions put to them by the Dimension collective.

  • Regulars

  • 7 Billion or 1 per cent
    Ian Angus
  • The Occupy Moment
    Editorial
  • Around the left in 60 days
    compiled by Karen MacKintosh
  • Occupy and Labour
    Herman Rosenfeld
  • Occupy the Patriarchy!
    Leah Horlick
  • The Québec Student Movement
    Roger Rashi
  • Food and Water: Don’t Underestimate the Problem
    Judy Deutsch
  • Splash: the Sequel
    Maurice Dufour
  • The Green Teens of Aamjiwnaang: Make the Connection
    Dayna Nadine Scott and Adrian A. Smith
  • The Global Economic Crisis

  • The Global Economic Crisis:A Canadian Dimension Roundtable
    Jim Stanford, Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Sam Gindin
  • Inuit Country

  • Inuit Country
    Peter Kulchyski
  • Mending the Past: Memory and the Politics of Forgiveness
    Peter Irniq
  • The Uranium Controversy in Baker Lake
    Warren Bernauer
  • All that’s Left

  • On Penn State
    Simon Black
  • Media as Insurgent Art
    Chris Webb
  • Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class Updated
    Devin Penner
  • Capitalism is Working Just Fine…
    review by Aaron Leonard
  • Canada’s Mainstream Media: Voice of the 1 Percent
    Lesley Hughes

James Petras, professor and author

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