Despite sanctions, threats from France, and foreign pushback against the nationalist reclamation of resource wealth, West African states are charting a new course, one of increased economic and security sovereignty. As Owen Schalk explains, this means increasing control of key resources and the forcible end of French military and economic dominance in the region.

War has so many variables that attempting to predict its every twist and turn is somewhat foolish. At some point, the balance of power in any given conflict may shift so overwhelmingly in favour of one side or another that one can safely put one’s head above the parapet and predict the outcome. But in the case of Ukraine, we are far from reaching that point.

A new generation of women around the world is learning from and speaking out against this cruel and catastrophic Israeli violence. For these women, the assault on Gaza will be among their formative political experiences, a vital lesson in how racial-gender violence organizes the international order, how it shapes the workings of international politics and law.

“China” is often the subject of Western ire, or at least the exaggerated “China” we’re sold by mainstream Western media, explains Jack Daniel Christie, but few in this part of the world ever turn their attention towards South Korea, a nation that seems to get by in the popular Western imagination with a cursory identification as a “liberal democracy.”

Despite highlighting the role of investors in artificially increasing the cost of housing across Canada, “Housing Hell,” Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s mini-documentary on the housing crisis, ends up proposing measures that will further enrich the same property developers and investors who already own a massive chunk of the country’s housing stock.

Even if producing a record supply of housing units could guarantee solving the affordability issue, actually building that much housing with viable density comes with a steep price tag. Even advocates of mass housing admit as much. If we don’t go after the land value itself, we are essentially trying to deflate a balloon by blowing on it.

The Internet was just a pipe dream back when Canadian Dimension was born in 1963 as a magazine. Our old bones might be starting to creak a little bit now, and our hair has mostly gone gray, but we think we have a lot to offer this new generation of progressive “muckrakers” and their brand-new aggregator, Unrigged—and they seem to agree.

The unspeakable horrors Israel has unleashed on Gaza since October 7 has stirred the most sustained anti-war and internationalist mobilization since the Vietnam War. This popular uprising has pressured Ottawa to shift its usual stance and vote against Israel at the UN. Yet, symbolic gestures only go so far. Here are 11 ways for Canada to materially end complicity in Israel’s crimes.

The contrast in coverage of this important media story could not be more marked between our beleaguered public broadcaster, which ironically faces massive cutbacks due to its plunging advertising revenue, and the highly profitable yet seemingly insatiable Bell. The lack of transparency by CTV is shocking but understandable given its corporate demands.

US hegemony is by no means as robust as it used to be, threatened as it is by the rising power of China. Though the global empire can rely on an unrivalled military power and a great capacity for economic coercion, a functioning Washington Consensus requires a minimum level of acquiescence and stability and this is being threatened by the present situation.