Arundhati Roy: ‘No propaganda on Earth can hide the wound that …
Oct 13, 2024 · Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024, an annual award established by English PEN in memory of playwright Harold Pinter. Shortly after having been named for the prize, Roy named British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah a Writer of Courage, with whom she would share her award.
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.
Charles Taylor: Nationalism and independence – Canadian …
Jan 9, 2025 · The alternative to Canadian nationalism is not a far-seeing policy of rational welfare on an international basis, but instead a gradual slide into satellite status, which will make it more and more difficult to solve even our problems of economic development with the full measure of freedom we require. The alternative is a policy of paralytic continentalism.
News pollution is more dangerous than news poverty in this small …
Oct 6, 2024 · Write what you know best, aspiring writers are often told. For Lauren Watson, that was once a road tale worthy of Kerouac that she penned as a freelancer for the National Post in 2013 about her rock climbing adventures while living out of her old Volvo station wagon. Writing was something Watson aspired to after graduating from the University of Guelph in 2009 with a degree in geography, and ...
Waiting for Poilievre – Canadian Dimension
4 days ago · The decline of the Liberals is part of an international trend where the political centre finds it harder and harder to hold off challenges from the populist right. The inability of the Biden-Harris administration to forge an effective alternative to Trump is an obvious case in point. The Conservatives in Canada are poised to benefit from Trump’s victory.
Greenwashing NATO – Canadian Dimension
Dec 13, 2024 · This is a crucial period during which countries must rapidly reduce emissions to limit global mean temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Instead, Canada is ramping up military spending and munitions production to meet NATO targets. Allied nations that are the most responsible for global warming have not paid their fair share to address the problem, and are heaping fuel on the fire.
Sidelined in Mali, Barrick turns Tanzania mine into ‘armed …
5 days ago · Three months ago, Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold received some good news. A case filed against the company by Tanzanian villagers, alleging Barrick’s complicity in extrajudicial killings by mine security, had been tossed out by an Ontario court. It was the third case brought against Barrick in ten years on the same issue: alleged company involvement in …
Mounds and memories, landfills and lost lives – Canadian Dimension
Apr 5, 2024 · The estimated millions it would cost to search for and recover the remains of three slain Indigenous women buried in a Manitoban landfill would be much better spent on regenerating the site to create a national memorial to murdered and missing Indigenous women. As Robert France explains, “the site must become a double place: the unnamed healed and the named re-named.”
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.
‘Goliath versus Goliath’ media battle being fought between Big …
Dec 15, 2024 · A new form of convergence is roiling Canada’s media. Our media were ravaged at the millennium by the convergence of ownership between newspapers and television which has left both on life support. A quarter century later, a new form of media convergence sees Canada’s big telecom companies engaged in a turf war with global tech firms.