Magazine

March/April 2011: Indian Country and Climate Change

Volume 45, Issue 2

Our cover story, “No Running Water” by Helen Fallding, former reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press and new manager of the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Human Rights Research Initiative, exposes the horrendous situation on northern reserves where Canadian citizens have no running water in their homes, putting them at increased risk for a host of health problems usually associated with the world’s poorest countries.

BC journalists Dawn Paley and Sandra Cuffe share the results of their investigation into the resistance that is growing against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline that would transport tar sands oil across the territories of 30 First Nations crossing hundreds of rivers and streams through to the northern coast of BC to be shipped onto oil supertankers across the Pacific Ocean.

Zoe Blunt and Chris Johnson explore the ideas of the controversial writer and ecological activist Derrick Jensen. Jensen dismisses the mainstream environmental movement that takes the continued existence of industrial capitalism as a given and looks to market incentives to alter business behaviour, to silver bullet new technologies and to changing personal consumption patterns.

Environmental philosopher Gregory Mikkelson argues that there is a strong connection between rapidly growing loss of biodiversity and growing income inequality. And Canadian Dimension collective members provide a short but handy and insightful guide to both false solutions to the climate crisis and to roads for renewal.

Dimension also invites some of David Noble’s students to write a few words in memory of this CD friend and frequent contributor. The much beloved professor at York University on December 27, 2010. He was only 65 years old.

• Regulars

• The CD Paragraph: Corruption on Reserves
  Peter Kulchyski
• Editorial: Support Wikileaks, Support Free speech and Free Press
• Around the left in 60 days
  complied by Karen MacKintosh
• David Noble
  Charles Graves, Marcelo Vieta, Dan Freeman-Maloy
• Exchange
• One Native Life: the Company of Bears
  Richard Wagamese
• The Labour report: Right-wing populism and Unions
  Herman Rosenfeld
• Ecoside: BioMass Delusions
  Andrea Levy
• Bubble-Bath for the Queer Soul
  Barbara Legault

• Focus: Indian Country

• No Running Water
  Helen Falding
• Resistance to Pipelines Heats Up in Northern BC
  Dawn Pawley and Sandra Cuffe
• Derrick Jensen: Uncivilized
  Zoe Blunt and Chris Johnson

• Focus: Climate Change

• The Garden Path: Spurious Schemes for Combating Climate Change
  Terisa E Turner, Leigh Brownill, Cy Gonick. Dylan Roberts and Ashley Titterton
• Roads to Renewal
  Judy Deutsch
• Why Bolivia Stood Alone in Opposing the Cancún Climate Agreement
  Pablo Solon
• Equality Isn’t Just About the Economy
  Gregory M. Mikkelson
• Media as Insurgent Art: Software as a Weapon
  Chris Webb

• Reviews & Bookmarks

• Gasland
  reviewed by Chris Webb
• The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Always Do Better
  reviewed by Simon Black
• Climate Cover-Up
  reviewed by Dylan Roberts
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
  reviewed by Ashley Titterton
• Aboriginal, Northern, and Community Economic Development: Papers and Retrospectives
  reviewed by Ashley Titterton
• Great Multicultural North
  reviewed by Dylan Roberts
• About Canada: Health Care
  reviewed by Ashley Titterton
• About Canada: Childcare
  reviewed by Ashley Titterton
• Neoliberalism and Everyday Life
  reviewed by Dylan Roberts

• Poetry

• Salut Quebec
  David Fennario
• I am Tired, So I Stole this Poem
  Len Wallace

• On The Edge

• Speaking Truth is a Revolutionary Act
  Lesley Hughes