Recently added articles from Canadian Dimension:

Festival of anarchy.(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Mackintosh, Karen ... May is a month of anarchy in Montreal, with diverse anarchy-themed events occurring at different venues in the city. The Anarchist Theatre Festival runs from May 12 to 14, and will feature plays and monologues with anarchist themes. The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair is on Saturday, May 17, ...

Support the right to choose.(CROSS-CANADA Action FOR PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE)(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Mackintosh, Karen ... The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada is asking people to oppose The Unborn Victims of Crime Act. The bill passed second reading in Parliament this past March 5. The bill is seen as a key step towards re-criminalizing abortion by giving fetuses a ...

Uranium mining protestor jailed in Ontario.(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Mackintosh, Karen ... Ardoch Algonquin First Nation spokesperson Robert Lovelace was sentenced to six months incarceration and thousands of dollars in fines by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for his role in protests against uranium exploration on Algonquin homeland. Additional fines were levied against ...

Faulty environmental assessment of Tar Sands Project.(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Mackintosh, Karen ... Environmentalists have won a landmark lawsuit against the Kearl Tar Sands Project north of Fort McMurray. Ecojustice filed a federal lawsuit in 2007 challenging a federal-provincial report that concluded the project is ...

Labour solidarity with Palestine.(Labour for Palestine )(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Mackintosh, Karen ... Labour for Palestine is a group of rank-and-file labour activists working to educate the community and workers about the exploitation of Palestinians. The group has organized a conference to bring together workers to explore strategies for furthering the international movement for ...

No two-tier workplaces.(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Mackintosh, Karen ... Canadian and U.S. auto-industry workers and activists are calling for the elimination of two-tier wage and benefit structures in unionized workplaces. In the most heavily unionized industries in the U.S., corporations are demanding permanent two-tier wage structures where new hires earn ...

Get onto community and Campus Radio.(National Community and Campus Radio Conference )(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Mackintosh, Karen ... This year's National Community and Campus Radio Conference will take place from June 9 to 14 in Windsor, hosted by CJAM 91.5 FM. The annual gathering of community radio broadcasters has been going on every summer since 1981. The ...

Ecofilms in Winnipeg.(Manitoba Eco-Network )(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Mackintosh, Karen ... Manitoba Eco-Network presents a monthly film series the last Wednesday of the month at Winnipeg's Park Theatre. Tickets are $8, with a moderated discussion following each film ....

Save 600 jobs in Montreal.(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Mackintosh, Karen ... Moores, the men's apparel company, has announced the closure of its Montreal manufacturing factory, which will involve layoffs of some 600 workers. UNITE HERE, the union ...

B.C.'s carbon tax: a regressive hoax.(Editorial)(Editorial)

May 01, 2008 ... H.L. MENCKEN once wrote, "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." British Columbia's recently announced carbon tax is a case in point. It won't reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and it will have no impact on global warming--but it will hurt ...

Toronto Labour Council unveils action agenda for CLC.(Labour Report)

May 01, 2008; Bickerton, Geoff ... "Canada's labour movement needs to have a frank and detailed discussion about what it will take to build power in the 21st century." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Indeed it does. That is the challenge laid down to the delegates of the 2008 Canadian Labour Congress ...

Philosophy of Tomatoes via the Death and Life of Bones.(Poetry)(Poem)

May 01, 2008; Valiani, Salimah ... <Pre> Philosophy of Tomatoes via the Death and Life of Bones philosophy is the ability to Take a distance (more than a step back) and Say something complex about the simplest of the every day just as the ...

Canada Steel: warning; This theatre may give you calluses.(Canada Steel by J. Karol Korczynski )(Theater review)

May 01, 2008; McWhinnie, Scott ... Every street in every old Canadian industrial town has its own Gus Popadopolous. He's the old timer on your block that stuck around when the abandoned factory morphed into gentrified condos. His mode of dress is a white undershirt, no matter what the weather. His all-purpose accoutrement ...

Strike action!(Theater review)(Brief article)

May 01, 2008; Coodin, Freda ... Strike!--The Musical, by Winnipeg's Danny Schur and Rick Chafe, continues its march across the media. After premiering as a live, outdoor spectacle in May, 2004--on the 85th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike (the event on which this social-justice drama is based)--the musical was ...

Bill Stapleton: People's Artist.(Interview)

May 01, 2008; Grande, John ... In a park in Toronto, far from the fashionable art galleries, Bill Stapleton sketched ordinary people. Now 91 years of age, Stapleton still believes that art can communicate real-world situations that reflect the universals of the human condition. Over the years Stapleton has dedicated his ...

Workers arts and heritage centre.

May 01, 2008; Wetselaar, Renee ... WORKERS ARTS AND HERITAGE CENTRE is a national cultural institution dedicated to preserving and celebrating the arts, culture and heritage of working people in Canada. It is the only such institution of its kind in North America, and one of only seven such sites around the world. WAHC owns ...

Campaigning for immigrant worker justice.

May 01, 2008; Hanley, Jill ... SINCE ITS FOUNDING in 2000, the Immigrant Workers' Centre (IWC) has both initiated and supported a number of campaigns to improve the conditions of migrant workers. Often these campaigns are launched in response to problems that workers bring to the centre. The campaigns we discuss below ...

The politics of asbestos in Canada.

May 01, 2008; Sass, Bob ... Asbestos is a potent carcinogen associated with respiratory disease and lung cancer, as well as a fatal cancer of the pleural lining called mesothelioma. This disease results in such excruciating pain that families often pray for death to relieve their loved ones from the unbearable ...

Nudging the Free-Market Fairy.(Not Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge)(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Angus, Ian ... Not Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers McClelland & Stewart, 2007 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE CHURCH OF the Free Market Fairy is divided into two denominations. The ...

No glory: one Communist's struggle in difficult times.(James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928)(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Roediger, David ... James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 by Bryan D. Palmer University of Illinois Press, 2007 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The extraordinary British radical historian Edward Thompson described one of his goals as ...