Recently added articles from Canadian Dimension:
Biology and utopia.(epigenetics and social change)
May 01, 2009; ... What are the limits of social change? That is the question I contemplated as I watched one group of chimpanzees brutally attack another group, murdering and devouring some of the losing group's young, on the excellent BBC series, Planet Earth. In watching the violent behaviour of our ...
In this Dim.(This Dimension)
May 01, 2009 ... Welcome to CD's second annual Mayworks issue. Many thanks to the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union for their grant enabling us to distribute free copies of the issue at Mayworks events. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Our cover story by Ian Angus takes on one of ...
Kulchyski versus Widdowson.(Peter Kulchyski's book review on the book Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry, and the author Frances Widdowson's reaction on her letter to the editor)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... No, it's not a wrestling match. It's CD Bush Doctor Peter Kulchyski duking it out with Frances Widdowson, co-author with Albert Howard of the book Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry (McGill-Queen's, 2008). Widdowson, it seems, did not like the Bush Doctor's review of her book in our last ...
Upcoming CD events.(Canadian Dimension plans)(Brief article)(Calendar)
May 01, 2009 ... During the next few months, CD is sponsoring a number of events across the country. As a part of May-works Winnipeg, on May 4 we will be hosting a film screening of Capitalism Hits the Fan, by Richard Wolff (see his article in this issue). A panel discussion with Cy Gonick, Henry Heller ...
CD website redesign.(Canadian Dimension )(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... By the time you get this issue, we will have a fresh new website courtesy of Derek Hogue at Amphibian Design. It has been four years since the last redesign, and we felt the site needed an upgrade. We were feeling that it had become more of a ...
Digital-only issues.(Magazines Canada, Zinio and Canadian Dimension's digital-only editions )(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Magazines Canada, Zinio and Canadian Dimension have partnered in a project for digital-only editions of CD. That means that if you no longer want to receive the paper issue you can now opt ...
Reader survey.(This Dimension)
May 01, 2009 ... We want to make sure our content is relevant to you! We want to know what we should change, and what you think about us. Many of you will have received a thirty-question survey in the mail with our last issue. This is our tool ...
Actually, it's the system, president Obama.(global capitalism, and President Barack Obama's economic policies)
May 01, 2009; ... GLOBAL CAPITALISM'S DETERIORATION is fast outrunning the disorganized, uncoordinated patchwork of too-little-too-late government "programs." Nothing illustrates this sorry spectacle better than the twists and turns of U.S. monetary policy to be executed by the Federal Reserve, and ...
May works across Canada.(calendar of events)(Calendar)
May 01, 2009 ... WINNIPEG mayworks.org APRIL 28 Day of Mourning Room 2C, Union Centre, 275 Broadway, 6 p.m.) APRIL 30 May Day Banquet (Concert Room, 7th floor. Fort Garry Hotel, doors: 6 p.m., dinner: 7 p.m., $25) MAY 1 May Day March--Organize the Unorganized! ...
Whose crisis is it? Dork times bring perils and possibilities for Canadian labour.(labor unions, labor movements, and the economic crisis)
May 01, 2009; ... I WILL ADMIT to being somewhat daunted by the escalating rhetoric from left analysts that everyday fills my in-basket with more descriptions of the crisis. It is not that I underestimate the failures of capitalism. The problem with crisis theory is that, in order for a good crisis not to ...
Get out of jail free card: rewards and consequences of bad-faith bargaining.(York COllege's labor relations management)
May 01, 2009; ... THE LONGEST UNIVERSITY strike in English Canada came to an unhappy end on January 29, 2009, in a manner that should send a wake-up call to an entire labour movement already on the defensive. After 85 days on the picket line in an effort to reverse the trend towards casualized teaching in ...
Dissent in a time of crisis: Windsor workers' action centre opens new spaces for progressive organizing.(WORK)
May 01, 2009; ... IN 1946, WINDSOR'S WORKING CLASS was at the epicentre of dramatic changes to Canadian workers' lives, organizations and relationships to employers. The settlement of the UAW's 1945 Ford strike established a key element in the post-war labour-management relationship; the automatic dues ...
Media as insurgent art.(rock group Propagandhi's new album, 'Supporting Caste')
May 01, 2009 ... "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." --Bertolt Brecht JUBILANT RESISTANCE: PROPAGANDHI For twenty years, Winnipeg's secular hard rockers Propagandhi have offered a radical political perspective to fans of fast, aggressive ...
From Mothers to Activists.(Disability, Mothers, and Organization: Accidental Activists)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Disability, Mothers, and Organization: Accidental Activists by Melanie Panitch Edited by Nancy A. Naples Routledge, 2008 Disability, Mothers, and Organization: Accidental Activists, by Melanie Panitch, looks specifically at the development of the community ...
Against the pieties of the age.(The Corvin Russell Paragraph)
Mar 01, 2009; ... LIBERALS OF THE AGE hold these pieties to be self evident: that all violence is equal, and must be condemned equally; and that non-violent civil disobedience is everywhere a more effective tactic in achieving social and political justice. U.S. Democratic Party Senator Dianne Feinstein, who ...
Cuba Si!(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009 ... FOR FIFTY YEARS progressives, socialists and radicals from around the world have looked to Cuba as the place in which socialism might actually both survive and blossom in its magnificent possibilities. For this reason, Cuba also has to meet higher moral standards. We expect more from its ...
The great recession.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009 ... CAPITALISM is currently enmeshed in its most calamitous economic crisis since the Great Depression. And, just as in that earlier historic conjuncture, while visiting enormous trauma and privation upon working people, this crisis pried open the seams of the system in a way that opened up ...
Gaza defiant city: spirit from ashes strength from rubble.
Mar 01, 2009 ... This is not a war. It is a slaughter--Dresden 2009. So far, over 1,300 Palestinians have been killed, a third of them children. Thirteen Israelis are dead, most of them victims of friendly fire. As we have seen on our television screens, all of Gaza has been turned into rubble with the ...
Mother meet Crone.(Feminist Ramblings)
Mar 01, 2009; ... MY MENSTRUATION'S out of whack. I missed my cycle last month. And my breasts are very tender. That hasn't happened to me since I became pregnant with my son. He's now fifteen. I'm closer to fifty than to forty. A friend is fifty and the mother of a two-year-old. It's her right, ...
Quebec solidaire: enters the National Assembly.(Quebec Communique)
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE DECEMBER 8 Quebec general elections marked a historic event for the Left in Quebec, namely the election of one of its spokes-persons, Amir Khadir, in the Montreal riding of Mercier. This event was the culmination of the gathering and unifying the Quebecois Left, a long-term process ...