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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · Jan 21
INTRODUCING THE CD ARCHIVE!

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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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 6d
Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza isn’t peace—it’s an ultimatum. Palestinians are told to disarm, abandon legal claims of genocide, and accept foreign control, while Israel retains the right to “finish the job.” A ceasefire that erases justice is no peace at all, writes @coastsofbohemia.bsky.social.
The rewards of terror
Almost two years after October 7, Gaza lies in ruins. Western governments have condemned the slaughter but continue to shield Israel, while Trump and Netanyahu push a “peace plan” critics see as surre...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 5d
The Trump–Netanyahu “peace plan” rewards Israel for two years of civilian slaughter and genocide while demanding that Palestinians disarm and surrender their rights. This isn’t compromise—it’s coercion disguised as diplomacy.
The rewards of terror
Almost two years after October 7, Gaza lies in ruins. Western governments have condemned the slaughter but continue to shield Israel, while Trump and Netanyahu push a “peace plan” critics see as surre...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 22h
What October 7 and the ensuing genocide forced back onto the world’s agenda is now impossible to ignore: Israel’s legitimacy is crumbling, not because of propaganda, but because its actions have radicalized even the previously apolitical.
The changing tide of public opinion threatens Israel’s crumbling legitimacy
Public opinion across the West is shifting decisively against Israel as polls show growing recognition of its campaign in Gaza as genocide. Once dismissed as fringe, sympathy for Palestinians is now m...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 23h
The West may now be finally waking up to the full enormity of the horrors Israel has inflicted in Gaza. It is time we started listening to Palestinian voices, while there are still Palestinians left alive to speak truth to power.
A graveyard of liberal illusions
The West may now be finally waking up to the full enormity of the horrors Israel has inflicted in Gaza. It needs also to wake up to the evils it has nurtured not just for the last two years, but for o...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 2d
Canadian governments have poured $63M in subsidies into mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory, helping Kinross Gold push a project that threatens the Wabigoon River. Tax breaks for investors are undermining Indigenous rights and local waters while the province collects little in return.
Millions in subsidies for mineral exploration undermine Indigenous rights
Millions in government subsidies are fuelling risky mining projects on Grassy Narrows’ ancestral lands, enriching investors while threatening the First Nation’s water and health. Despite Indigenous op...
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 1d
Read and share this article by Prof. Stanley highlighting how the government has subsidized mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory that helped Kinross

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 2d
Canadian governments have poured $63M in subsidies into mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory, helping Kinross Gold push a project that threatens the Wabigoon River. Tax breaks for investors are undermining Indigenous rights and local waters while the province collects little in return.
Millions in subsidies for mineral exploration undermine Indigenous rights
Millions in government subsidies are fuelling risky mining projects on Grassy Narrows’ ancestral lands, enriching investors while threatening the First Nation’s water and health. Despite Indigenous op...
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Deborah Leão 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @deborahleao.bsky.social · 1d
o que os EUA estão fazendo no Caribe é coisa de pirata de desenho animado. e é mais um capítulo da interferência estadunidense na América Latina.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 1d
Interventions framed as anti-drug operations often mask the pursuit of resources like oil. Washington’s “law and order” rhetoric echoes a long history of exploiting Latin America under the guise of security while ignoring international law.
US acts like pirates in the Caribbean
The United States is acting less like a global guardian and more like a Caribbean pirate—launching drone strikes, flouting international law, and pursuing oil under the guise of fighting drugs. From P...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 1d
Interventions framed as anti-drug operations often mask the pursuit of resources like oil. Washington’s “law and order” rhetoric echoes a long history of exploiting Latin America under the guise of security while ignoring international law.
US acts like pirates in the Caribbean
The United States is acting less like a global guardian and more like a Caribbean pirate—launching drone strikes, flouting international law, and pursuing oil under the guise of fighting drugs. From P...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 1d
Means-tested programs divide the working class, create barriers, and reinforce inequality. Progressives must embrace universal social programs that are truly accessible and build solidarity, not just paper over capitalism.
Why progressives need to abandon means-testing and embrace universality
Reducing barriers to dental care and other medical services not covered by Canada’s meagre and underfunded health care system is an improvement over the status quo. But if the NDP or any other party w...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 2d
Canadian governments have poured $63M in subsidies into mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory, helping Kinross Gold push a project that threatens the Wabigoon River. Tax breaks for investors are undermining Indigenous rights and local waters while the province collects little in return.
Millions in subsidies for mineral exploration undermine Indigenous rights
Millions in government subsidies are fuelling risky mining projects on Grassy Narrows’ ancestral lands, enriching investors while threatening the First Nation’s water and health. Despite Indigenous op...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 6d
If academic institutions won’t divest from companies fuelling genocide, what does that say about their commitments to human rights, or to the very idea of knowledge in service of the public good?
Blood in the endowment
The University of Manitoba proclaims commitments to human rights and academic integrity, yet invests in arms manufacturers supplying Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This essay exposes the contradiction, fr...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 6d
The University of Manitoba holds over 13,000 shares in General Dynamics—the maker of bombs that have levelled refugee camps in Gaza. As those shares rose by $2.14M and paid $206K in dividends, the university chose profit over principle, making itself complicit. Divestment is the only credible path.
Blood in the endowment
The University of Manitoba proclaims commitments to human rights and academic integrity, yet invests in arms manufacturers supplying Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This essay exposes the contradiction, fr...
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Unrigged @unrigged.bsky.social · 5d
Writing @canadiandimension.bsky.social Jonathan Jenner unpacks The University of Manitoba’s complicity in genocide and the collapse of academic integrity.

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Blood in the endowment
The University of Manitoba proclaims commitments to human rights and academic integrity, yet invests in arms manufacturers supplying Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This essay exposes the contradiction, fr...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 5d
The Trump–Netanyahu “peace plan” rewards Israel for two years of civilian slaughter and genocide while demanding that Palestinians disarm and surrender their rights. This isn’t compromise—it’s coercion disguised as diplomacy.
The rewards of terror
Almost two years after October 7, Gaza lies in ruins. Western governments have condemned the slaughter but continue to shield Israel, while Trump and Netanyahu push a “peace plan” critics see as surre...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 5d
The United States is waging drone strikes in the Caribbean under the banner of fighting drugs—but history tells a different story. From Panama to Venezuela, Washington’s interventions look less like justice and more like piracy, plundering resources while ignoring international law.
US acts like pirates in the Caribbean
The United States is acting less like a global guardian and more like a Caribbean pirate—launching drone strikes, flouting international law, and pursuing oil under the guise of fighting drugs. From P...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 6d
Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza isn’t peace—it’s an ultimatum. Palestinians are told to disarm, abandon legal claims of genocide, and accept foreign control, while Israel retains the right to “finish the job.” A ceasefire that erases justice is no peace at all, writes @coastsofbohemia.bsky.social.
The rewards of terror
Almost two years after October 7, Gaza lies in ruins. Western governments have condemned the slaughter but continue to shield Israel, while Trump and Netanyahu push a “peace plan” critics see as surre...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 6d
The University of Manitoba holds over 13,000 shares in General Dynamics—the maker of bombs that have levelled refugee camps in Gaza. As those shares rose by $2.14M and paid $206K in dividends, the university chose profit over principle, making itself complicit. Divestment is the only credible path.
Blood in the endowment
The University of Manitoba proclaims commitments to human rights and academic integrity, yet invests in arms manufacturers supplying Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This essay exposes the contradiction, fr...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 6d
If academic institutions won’t divest from companies fuelling genocide, what does that say about their commitments to human rights, or to the very idea of knowledge in service of the public good?
Blood in the endowment
The University of Manitoba proclaims commitments to human rights and academic integrity, yet invests in arms manufacturers supplying Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This essay exposes the contradiction, fr...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 6d
The housing crisis will not be resolved by increasing supply, but by increasing the right kind of supply. Constructing more homes will only lower costs if they are kept out of reach of investors and paired with significant non-market alternatives.
The supply and demand myth of housing
It is clear that supply and demand curves are not sufficient for understanding the housing crisis. We can build all we want, but if we are building houses as financial assets prices are going to stay ...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · Sep 5
Mark Carney presents himself as the steady hand Canada needs, but his politics amount to neoliberalism with a friendlier face. Canada needs more than tinkering around the edges of capitalism—we need a government willing to confront capital itself.
I read Mark Carney’s book so you don’t have to
Fortunately, we don’t have to rely on campaign literature to discern Mark Carney’s vision for the future. The decades he’s spent in both the private sector and the public service, as well as his 2021 ...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 23d
The US massacre of 11 civilians in the Caribbean drew condemnation across Latin America. Canada’s Mark Carney offered none. His silence follows a history of undermining Venezuela, from blocking its gold reserves at the Bank of England to aligning with Washington’s regime-change agenda.
Mark Carney’s silence on Venezuela reveals complicity
On September 2, the US military bombed a boat in the Caribbean, killing 11 civilians. Regional leaders denounced the attack as murder, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney remained silent. His stan...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 20d
Canada’s “elbows up” nationalism may look like resistance to Trump, but it risks repeating the colonial violence it claims to oppose. Ellen Gabriel and @seancarleton.bsky.social warn that patriotism built on erasing Indigenous struggles makes real reconciliation impossible.
Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism
Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patr...
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Dave Zeglen @culturemarxist.bsky.social · 20d
"Canada’s “elbows up” plan for asserting sovereignty looks less like defending against American aggression and more like doubling down on the denial of Indigenous rights in the service of short-term economic gain."

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Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism
Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patr...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 16d
Behind the sleek promises of AI is a thirst for water. Data centres consume huge amounts, straining supplies and fuelling clashes with farmers and Indigenous communities. In Canada, dozens of facilities are clustered near the Great Lakes, raising questions about how much more the ecosystem can bear.
Water woes from data centres
As artificial intelligence grows, data centres are consuming vast amounts of water for cooling and electricity. Often hidden behind corporate secrecy, this demand strains local supplies, pits tech gia...
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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 13d
It is unfathomable to me that, in a rapidly and *dangerously* overheating world, we are allowing a destructive technology to guzzle this much water. And governments are making *people* ration their water use so that these miserable companies can use more.
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Although precise figures are seldom available on a consistent basis, evidence already shows major impacts on local water availability. One study estimated that seven data centres in Utah’s Great Salt Lake region consumed 600 million gallons of water in 2023. To put that into perspective, this is roughly equivalent to the annual consumption of over 100,000 beef cattle—an industry that is Utah’s top agricultural sector, generating nearly $500 million in 2019. Other examples suggest even higher consumption. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Google used 980 million gallons of drinking water in 2023, accounting for nearly a quarter of the city’s total water use that year. In The Dalles, Oregon, another Google facility consumed 302 million gallons out of 1.5 billion gallons used by the city, or about 20 percent of its drinking water supply. These cases make clear that data centres can have significant local impacts.
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