Palestinian-Canadians initially took encouragement from the support that the Trudeau government offered to Ukrainians in 2022.

Now they feel betrayed, as a federal immigration program has failed to bring even a single person trapped in Gaza to Canada. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Refugees are not a burden, and should not be scapegoated for a myriad of problems that are not of their making. They are people fleeing for their lives and seeking safety and opportunity, just like the famine Irish did. Their rights need to be protected. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

corporations have set up local news operations in the U.S. to exert political influence . . . our news media may be on a fast track to oblivion, but no news at all might be preferable to a dystopian info-hellscape of pink slime posing as news #cdnmedia

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Great article and campaign.

The fight over the fate of 230 Sherbourne in Toronto’s Downtown East points to the desperate need to reverse the rampant commodification of housing that has caused so much damage in Canada and internationally. John Clarke OCAP canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

A great piece on Russian antiwar dissident and leftist Boris Kagarlitsky, by my friend Andrea Levy (for Canadian Dimension). Kagarlitsky has a new book coming out with Pluto Press, 'The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left.'

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The international community covered up Paul Kagame’s massive crimes in 1994 and from then on. The United Nations’ refusal to prosecute Kagame has only emboldened his regime and fed the cycle of violence in Central Africa over the last three decades. My latest in Canadian Dimension…

The international community covered up the massive crimes of Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994 and from then on. As Judi Rever writes, the UN’s refusal to prosecute Kagame has only emboldened his regime and fed a cycle of violence. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Mounds and memories, landfills and lost lives
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#MMIW #MMIW G2S
#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP
Canadian Dimension

Palestinian-Canadians initially took encouragement from the support that the Trudeau government offered to Ukrainians in 2022.

Now they feel betrayed, as a federal immigration program has failed to bring even a single person trapped in Gaza to Canada. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Boris Kagarlitsky, antiwar political prisoner in #Russia , gets calls for his liberation. One notable fact is that he was imprisoned already by the Soviet regime. An example of how harsh life can be for leftists both in the USSR and under Putin. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Andrea Levy reviews the broad western soldarity with Russian anti-war activists, and highlights our petition which already attracted 13,500 signatures in more than 40 countries.

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Canadians who are unable to file their taxes miss out on over $1 billion annually in government benefits and social supports like the Canada Child Benefit.

Erica Shiner of Canadians for Tax Fairness on how the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Automatic tax filing by CRA would give elderly, the disabled and others (~10% of Canadians) millions in refunds...yet H&R Block, Thomson Reuters et al lobby against it. I wonder why....

.Canadian Dimension has republished our analysis of the provincial budget's huge funding increases to policing!

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Supporting dissidents. “Leftists worldwide rally around Boris Kagarlitsky, call for liberation of all Russian anti-war political prisoners – Canadian Dimension” canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

“Yet whatever differences of opinion with #Kagarlitsky may persist in certain quarters, there is broad agreement across the spectrum of left opinion that he is the victim of a campaign of political repression..” canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Leftists worldwide rally around Boris Kagarlitsky, call for liberation of all Russian anti-war political prisoners
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Canadian Dimension

Andrew Jackson on Canada’s productivity problem

Capital investment, innovation and productivity is how we drive up wages and the Canadian standard of living

But if all we aspire to do is export unfinished goods, it’s clear why productivity is collapsing canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…