Nuclear industry selects site in northwestern Ontario for waste ...
Dec 3, 2024 · On November 28, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced it had selected Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation and the municipality of Ignace as “host communities” for all of Canada’s high-level nuclear waste. According to NWMO resident and CEO Laurie Swami, the decision to dispose of nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario “was driven by a consent-based siting process led by ...
From Kanehsatà:ke to Palestine – Canadian Dimension
Nov 29, 2024 · Ellen Gabriel was the spokesperson for the Kanien’kehà:ka defending “The Pines” from a proposed nine-hole golf course expansion in 1990. Nearly 35 years later, When the Pine Needles Fall offers a counter-history that retells the story of the conflict and situates the crisis as the latest entry in a centuries-long history of violent occupation and land theft that began in 1717.
The role of the pro-Israel lobby – Canadian Dimension
Dec 8, 2024 · The Canadian establishment doggedly enables Israel and finds it advantageous for supporters of the Palestinian struggle to be contained. However, the lobby’s role in equating Jewish identity with Zionism and labelling opposition to this colonialist ideology as antisemitic is a potent factor that we should not underestimate.
Ukraine rolls the dice on Kursk incursion – Canadian Dimension
Aug 9, 2024 · The Ukrainian attack on Kursk is a considerable gamble, driven perhaps by a sense that Ukraine’s weak military position left few other options other than a slow, grinding retreat. If it does induce the Russian government to negotiate, then it will have succeeded. But it could also end up extending the war rather than bringing it to a quicker end.
How did Trudeau’s performance stack up to his promises?
No government fulfils every promise it makes to voters at election time. Still, looking back on the Trudeau government’s performance over the past nine, sometimes chaotic years—with the exception of major policy achievements like child care, pandemic income supports and dental care—this government has consistently overcommitted and underdelivered.
Poverty rising in Canada as Ottawa boosts military spending
Jun 24, 2024 · In April 2024, the Canadian government released its updated military policy, Our North, Strong and Free: A Renewed Vision for Canada’s Defence.The document allocates an additional $8.1 billion to military spending, with a promise to increase the defence budget from the current $30 billion to $50 billion by 2029, bringing Canada closer to NATO’s two percent defence spending to GDP ratio.
Chris Hedges: the old evil – Canadian Dimension
Jul 15, 2024 · Israel’s settler colonial project is protean. It changes its shape but not its essence. It grinds forward with its deadly, perverted, racist logic. And yet, the Palestinians endure, refusing to submit, resisting despite the overwhelming odds, grasping at tiny kernels of hope from bottomless wells of despair. There is a word for this. Heroic.
Boomer landlords are holding housing hostage – Canadian …
Aug 27, 2024 · The word mortgage has its origins in medieval French jurisprudence. Roughly translated it means “deal unto death.” In the context of Canada’s housing market this etymological root has special resonance. As James Hardwick writes, our homes have been mortgaged by an aging generation hell-bent on carrying them into the grave.
Canada’s news media must be refashioned for the future
Nov 25, 2024 · Writing about all of the problems with the ownership of Canada’s news media, as I have done for the past quarter century, has become frustrating. From sky-high concentration of corporate ownership to our hare-brained millennium experiment with the “convergence” of newspaper and television ownership to massive foreign ownership by faceless hedge funds, the problems only keep getting worse.
The Hub trades increasingly in sponsored content
Dec 2, 2024 · Peter Menzies minces few words in voicing his disdain for Ottawa’s recent wealth redistribution efforts on behalf of Canada’s news media. If he’s not railing against the Online News Act, which put bureaucrats from the Canada Revenue Agency in charge of distributing its proceeds to news media, he’s railing against the Online Streaming Act, which put bureaucrats and political appointees ...