Canadian Dimension
WEBAug 20, 2024 · BC Conservatives adopt election strategy of attacking the media. Marc Edge / September 16, 2024 / 6 min read. Before our next federal election comes in the next year or so, and even before November’s pivotal US presidential vote, British Columbians will go to the polls next month, and if the ugliness already being seen out here on the so-called Left Coast is any indication, reporters could ...
The National Post should be the last to lecture anyone about …
WEBJan 15, 2024 · There is something profoundly ironic about the National Post lecturing anyone about media bias, as it did on Saturday in a package complete with a distorted front-page picture of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre under the headline “A more damaging media bias.”. Its teaser to the story inside read “Why conservatives think distortion is ...
Canadian Armed Forces impinge on Okinawa
WEBJul 21, 2022 · Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are now regularly using the US-controlled Kadena Air Base and White Beach naval port on Okinawa for their operations in the Asia Pacific. Not only have such operations exacerbated tensions in the region, the CAF have become complicit in the ongoing dispossession of uchinanchu (Indigenous Okinawans) who, for the past ...
The future of dental care in Canada – Canadian Dimension
WEBMar 18, 2023 · The book examines the history of dentistry in Canada, demonstrating how private business interests have prevailed over public health. It is scheduled to be released in April 2023. For more information, visit www.fernwoodpublishing.ca. Canada’s dental care system does not have common-sense priorities because the right incentives are not in …
Believing women, believing Palestinians – Canadian Dimension
WEBDec 7, 2023 · Kristin Raworth and Ariella Kimmel are the authors of a blog post published on November 17, entitled “Believing almost all women.”. Jespersen billed their viewpoint as calling out the “hypocrisy of so-called feminists for questioning (or denying) claims of sexual violence in Israel on October 7.”.
The Online News Act has been like MAiD for emerging media in …
WEBMar 11, 2024 · The hare-brained Online News Act has only been in effect for a few months, but already it has proved a disaster for small and emerging news media in Canada, with the country’s Indigenous media perhaps the hardest hit. Just last month, Saskatchewan’s Eagle Feather News, which once covered Indigenous affairs across the province, announced that it was pressing pause after almost 27 years of ...
Ghada Alatrash: I almost lost my life waiting for emergency care in …
WEBApr 22, 2024 · Four weeks ago, I almost lost my life while waiting for emergency care in a Calgary hospital. The ironic part of the story is that I always thought of Canada as having saved my life from the brutal Syrian dictatorship I fled more than 30 years ago. But never would I have thought that my life would be threatened in Canada—and certainly not in a Canadian emergency room.
Europe at the ‘hot gates’ – Canadian Dimension
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Some 2,500 years ago, so the myth goes, 300 Spartans faced a much larger Persian force at Thermopylae, a small mountain pass in central Greece. Thermopylae is the Latin word for “hot gates,” as there were hot springs in the area. In European history, the “hot gates” battle ended with the 300 Spartans ...
Revisiting our secret role in Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution
WEBMar 17, 2022 · MacKinnon documented Canada’s role in an investigative piece for the Globe titled “ Agent Orange: Our secret role in Ukraine.”. Beginning in January 2004, wrote MacKinnon, Canadian ambassador Andrew Robinson “began to organize secret monthly meetings of western ambassadors, presiding over …
Nigel Wright’s Testimony Is Insulting to Canadians
WEBAug 14, 2015 · Nigel Wright’s obligations were to the prime minister and through him, to the people of Canada. He was part of a structure of responsibility in our parliamentary system. We should all be offended that someone in that position decides that because he happens to belong to the 0.1 per cent, he can reach into his pocket to personally solve ...