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Canadian Dimension teamed up with the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections department to create this digital register of CD’s past issues, going all the way back to our 1963 inaugural edition.
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Doug Ford is making cash bail the law of the land in Ontario. But this isn't bold new policy. It's a recycled idea from failed experiments in the United States, where cash bail deepened poverty, entrenched racial injustice, and weakened community safety.
Ontario’s cash bail playbook punishes the poor, and does not make us safer
The American experience is a warning. Cash bail deepened poverty, entrenched racial injustice, and weakened community safety. Ontario does not need to repeat those mistakes. But unless we resist this ...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Doug Ford is making cash bail the law of the land in Ontario. But this isn't bold new policy. It's a recycled idea from failed experiments in the United States, where cash bail deepened poverty, entrenched racial injustice, and weakened community safety.
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Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble
Any project aimed at restoring housing affordability must articulate a plan to reform the large swathes of the economy that depend on the commodification of our homes, argues James Hardwick. The time ...
canadiandimension.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble.
Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation.
Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation.
Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble
Any project aimed at restoring housing affordability must articulate a plan to reform the large swathes of the economy that depend on the commodification of our homes, argues James Hardwick. The time ...
canadiandimension.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble.
Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation.
Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation.
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I get this. My parents are late 60’s and want to sell but price is $300 000 lower than a few years ago and they’re stuck. I will never have a $200 000 down payment.
Average house in Canada being near a million is fucked.
Average house in Canada being near a million is fucked.
Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble
Any project aimed at restoring housing affordability must articulate a plan to reform the large swathes of the economy that depend on the commodification of our homes, argues James Hardwick. The time ...
canadiandimension.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I get this. My parents are late 60’s and want to sell but price is $300 000 lower than a few years ago and they’re stuck. I will never have a $200 000 down payment.
Average house in Canada being near a million is fucked.
Average house in Canada being near a million is fucked.
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Housing should be somewhere to live, not a financial market.
Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble
Any project aimed at restoring housing affordability must articulate a plan to reform the large swathes of the economy that depend on the commodification of our homes, argues James Hardwick. The time ...
canadiandimension.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Housing should be somewhere to live, not a financial market.
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The housing bubble had pretty much become the organizing principle of Canadian society, and as fundamental to the Canadian economy as the AI bubble is here, when I finally cashed in my born-in-the-USA chip four years ago for the, erm, very sane and reasonable NYC real estate market.
Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble
Any project aimed at restoring housing affordability must articulate a plan to reform the large swathes of the economy that depend on the commodification of our homes, argues James Hardwick. The time ...
canadiandimension.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The housing bubble had pretty much become the organizing principle of Canadian society, and as fundamental to the Canadian economy as the AI bubble is here, when I finally cashed in my born-in-the-USA chip four years ago for the, erm, very sane and reasonable NYC real estate market.
Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble
Any project aimed at restoring housing affordability must articulate a plan to reform the large swathes of the economy that depend on the commodification of our homes, argues James Hardwick. The time ...
canadiandimension.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
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"Colonizers of the Caribbean," @evincollis.bsky.social, 2025
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Colonizers of the Caribbean," @evincollis.bsky.social, 2025
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These alarming developments are described below by a leading Canadian civil rights lawyer who I know from my time working on the cash bail system in St. Louis after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Ontario’s cash bail playbook punishes the poor, and does not make us safer
The American experience is a warning. Cash bail deepened poverty, entrenched racial injustice, and weakened community safety. Ontario does not need to repeat those mistakes. But unless we resist this ...
canadiandimension.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
These alarming developments are described below by a leading Canadian civil rights lawyer who I know from my time working on the cash bail system in St. Louis after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Doug Ford's plan to require bail cash up front risks cementing a two-tiered justice system: freedom for those who can pay, detention for those who cannot.
Human rights lawyer Sima Atri of Toronto's Community Justice Collective on why false, fear-based narratives will not make us safer.
Human rights lawyer Sima Atri of Toronto's Community Justice Collective on why false, fear-based narratives will not make us safer.
Ontario’s cash bail playbook punishes the poor, and does not make us safer
The American experience is a warning. Cash bail deepened poverty, entrenched racial injustice, and weakened community safety. Ontario does not need to repeat those mistakes. But unless we resist this ...
canadiandimension.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Doug Ford's plan to require bail cash up front risks cementing a two-tiered justice system: freedom for those who can pay, detention for those who cannot.
Human rights lawyer Sima Atri of Toronto's Community Justice Collective on why false, fear-based narratives will not make us safer.
Human rights lawyer Sima Atri of Toronto's Community Justice Collective on why false, fear-based narratives will not make us safer.
NEW: Donald Trump didn’t broker a peace accord for Congo—he brokered a mining deal for Western elites.
As Judi Rever writes in her latest column, the pact greenlights Rwanda’s long-running mineral trafficking and deepens Congo’s exploitation.
As Judi Rever writes in her latest column, the pact greenlights Rwanda’s long-running mineral trafficking and deepens Congo’s exploitation.
No end in sight to Rwanda’s war in Congo, despite peace deal
A US-brokered agreement is set to legalize Rwanda’s export of Congolese minerals and reward Paul Kagame and his oligarchs for decades of violent trafficking. Meanwhile, secretive negotiations grant Am...
canadiandimension.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Donald Trump didn’t broker a peace accord for Congo—he brokered a mining deal for Western elites.
As Judi Rever writes in her latest column, the pact greenlights Rwanda’s long-running mineral trafficking and deepens Congo’s exploitation.
As Judi Rever writes in her latest column, the pact greenlights Rwanda’s long-running mineral trafficking and deepens Congo’s exploitation.
For nearly three decades Rwanda has waged war in Congo, committing systematic atrocities against civilians and using its military and proxy rebel groups to traffic Congolese gold and tungsten. After Trump's latest 'peace plan,' US political, military and financial elites are queuing up to profit.
No end in sight to Rwanda’s war in Congo, despite peace deal
A US-brokered agreement is set to legalize Rwanda’s export of Congolese minerals and reward Paul Kagame and his oligarchs for decades of violent trafficking. Meanwhile, secretive negotiations grant Am...
canadiandimension.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
For nearly three decades Rwanda has waged war in Congo, committing systematic atrocities against civilians and using its military and proxy rebel groups to traffic Congolese gold and tungsten. After Trump's latest 'peace plan,' US political, military and financial elites are queuing up to profit.
Ahmed al-Sharaa promised a new Syria after Assad’s fall. Instead, a year later, the country faces renewed repression, rising sectarian violence, and growing foreign control. The revolution’s hopes have been extinguished.
Ahmed al-Sharaa’s first year in power bodes ill for Syria’s future
Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former Islamist commander, toppled Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad on December 8, 2024. For a fleeting moment, Syrians flooded the streets in jubilation, believing decades of tyran...
canadiandimension.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Ahmed al-Sharaa promised a new Syria after Assad’s fall. Instead, a year later, the country faces renewed repression, rising sectarian violence, and growing foreign control. The revolution’s hopes have been extinguished.
Amid Winnipeg’s widening divides, airport-style checkpoints and police-driven safety strategies are reshaping key public spaces. Unions, caught between member safety and broader justice commitments, are becoming unlikely champions of securitization.
Austerity, anxiety and the making of a securitized Winnipeg
Amid Winnipeg’s widening divides, airport-style checkpoints and police-driven safety strategies are reshaping key public spaces. Unions, caught between member safety and broader justice commitments, a...
canadiandimension.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Amid Winnipeg’s widening divides, airport-style checkpoints and police-driven safety strategies are reshaping key public spaces. Unions, caught between member safety and broader justice commitments, are becoming unlikely champions of securitization.
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'To understand Smith’s ideology is to situate it within a long lineage of anti-central-planning and anti-welfare-state politics that have defined Alberta conservatism for more than 60 years.'
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'To understand Smith’s ideology is to situate it within a long lineage of anti-central-planning and anti-welfare-state politics that have defined Alberta conservatism for more than 60 years.'
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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The authoritarian nature of Smith's UCP government and its use of the Notwithstanding Clause.
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The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The authoritarian nature of Smith's UCP government and its use of the Notwithstanding Clause.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
From union-busting to anti-trans moves, Danielle Smith is reviving the notwithstanding clause as a reactionary tool.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
From union-busting to anti-trans moves, Danielle Smith is reviving the notwithstanding clause as a reactionary tool.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
From union-busting to anti-trans moves, Danielle Smith is reviving the notwithstanding clause as a reactionary tool.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
From union-busting to anti-trans moves, Danielle Smith is reviving the notwithstanding clause as a reactionary tool.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
The notwithstanding clause has been used almost exclusively to attack workers and LGBTQ+ people, enabling a form of state interventionism rooted in far-right politics. By invoking the clause, premiers including Danielle Smith masquerade as populists while serving only socially regressive interests.
The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The notwithstanding clause has been used almost exclusively to attack workers and LGBTQ+ people, enabling a form of state interventionism rooted in far-right politics. By invoking the clause, premiers including Danielle Smith masquerade as populists while serving only socially regressive interests.
Danielle Smith’s habitual use of the notwithstanding clause is not an accident. It reflects a deeper ideological shift in Alberta and across Canada toward authoritarian governance and reactionary social conservatism.
The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Danielle Smith’s habitual use of the notwithstanding clause is not an accident. It reflects a deeper ideological shift in Alberta and across Canada toward authoritarian governance and reactionary social conservatism.
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Smith's UCP is introducing legislation meant to appease the activist core of the party because she's more afraid of them than the rest of Albertans.
It's our duty to make sure she's more afraid of Albertans than of them. Whatever happens with recall petitions, we can't let up. #AbLeg
It's our duty to make sure she's more afraid of Albertans than of them. Whatever happens with recall petitions, we can't let up. #AbLeg
Danielle Smith has invoked the notwithstanding clause four times in five weeks. This authoritarian turn has targeted labour, trans youth, and basic human rights. As Ryan Kelpin writes, it should alarm everyone in Canada.
The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Smith's UCP is introducing legislation meant to appease the activist core of the party because she's more afraid of them than the rest of Albertans.
It's our duty to make sure she's more afraid of Albertans than of them. Whatever happens with recall petitions, we can't let up. #AbLeg
It's our duty to make sure she's more afraid of Albertans than of them. Whatever happens with recall petitions, we can't let up. #AbLeg
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My newest article for
@canadiandimension.bsky.social
unpacks Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause for her anti-trans and anti-labour reactionary politics in relation to a lineage of right wing uses of the NWC.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
@canadiandimension.bsky.social
unpacks Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause for her anti-trans and anti-labour reactionary politics in relation to a lineage of right wing uses of the NWC.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My newest article for
@canadiandimension.bsky.social
unpacks Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause for her anti-trans and anti-labour reactionary politics in relation to a lineage of right wing uses of the NWC.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
@canadiandimension.bsky.social
unpacks Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause for her anti-trans and anti-labour reactionary politics in relation to a lineage of right wing uses of the NWC.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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TRL but going from living most of my life without that clause rarely being invoked to it being invoked *all the time* is wild and alarming AF.
Danielle Smith has invoked the notwithstanding clause four times in five weeks. This authoritarian turn has targeted labour, trans youth, and basic human rights. As Ryan Kelpin writes, it should alarm everyone in Canada.
The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
TRL but going from living most of my life without that clause rarely being invoked to it being invoked *all the time* is wild and alarming AF.
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"While many institutional and liberal analyses have been published in daily papers and major news outlets regarding Smith’s repeated use of the NWC, they largely fail to grapple with the regressive and reactionary politics at the heart of her ideological project."
Danielle Smith has invoked the notwithstanding clause four times in five weeks. This authoritarian turn has targeted labour, trans youth, and basic human rights. As Ryan Kelpin writes, it should alarm everyone in Canada.
The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"While many institutional and liberal analyses have been published in daily papers and major news outlets regarding Smith’s repeated use of the NWC, they largely fail to grapple with the regressive and reactionary politics at the heart of her ideological project."
Danielle Smith has invoked the notwithstanding clause four times in five weeks. This authoritarian turn has targeted labour, trans youth, and basic human rights. As Ryan Kelpin writes, it should alarm everyone in Canada.
The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
canadiandimension.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Danielle Smith has invoked the notwithstanding clause four times in five weeks. This authoritarian turn has targeted labour, trans youth, and basic human rights. As Ryan Kelpin writes, it should alarm everyone in Canada.