Asper’s legacy of media control lives on in HonestReporting Canada
Feb 8, 2024 · Much of our US hedge fund-owned right-wing news media bash Palestinian sympathizers, and such publications now vastly out-number our few remaining liberal media outlets, which are constantly harassed by groups like HonestReporting Canada, a billionaire-funded organization founded in 2003 to “control the narrative” on …
Scandal grows around BC NDP minister Selina Robinson
Feb 3, 2024 · BC NDP MLA Selina Robinson speaks during a public Zoom call hosted by B’nai Brith on January 30, 2024. She referred to Gaza as a “crappy piece of land” in her remarks that were delivered among other Jewish politicians. Writing about this series of interlocked scandals, so much has happened so rapidly to shift the point of gravity that it ...
From vilification to criminalization – Canadian Dimension
Jan 29, 2024 · According to Global News, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw stated that “many, particularly members of Toronto’s Jewish community, are feeling increasingly unsafe amid the ongoing protests.”. He, therefore, took it upon himself to ban pro-Palestinian protest actions at the Avenue Road overpass over the highly trafficked Highway 401.
How the West brought war to Ukraine – Canadian Dimension
Feb 16, 2023 · The following is an excerpt from How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe, by Benjamin Abelow, published in July 2022 by Siland Press. For more information, visit www.benjaminabelow.com. For almost 200 years, starting with the framing of the Monroe ...
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Independent media group chosen by Google to distribute news …
Jun 10, 2024 · Google’s secretive News Showcase is a global initiative it launched in 2020 with a budget of US$1 billion ($1.37 billion) to license content from news media. “We will be maintaining some Google News Initiative (GNI) programming in Canada,” it added. “This includes a range of collaborative tools and resources that can support the ...
Ukraine’s ‘victory plan’ faces sobering realities
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on September 26, 2024. Photo courtesy Volodymyr Zelensky/ X. “ Next year in Ukraine, expect the unexpected,” I wrote in Canadian Dimension at the end of last year. And indeed, the past nine months have been full of ...
Broad front or false front? – Canadian Dimension
Feb 22, 2023 · In April 1965, at the height of the Vietnam War, 25,000 protestors took to the Capitol—as many gathered in opposition to the war as were deployed abroad in its service. During the Gulf War in 1991, 75,000 anti-war protestors descended on the capital. In February 2003, in an internationally coordinated day of protest, hundreds of cities in the ...
Debunking Poilievre’s housing ‘documentary’ – Canadian Dimension
Dec 28, 2023 · Poilievre’s thesis. Poilievre narrates the “Housing Hell” video and begins with an appeal to young people who have seemingly given up on ever owning a home. This rhetoric has been effective for the Conservative leader, and has seen the Tories “ rejuvenated ” by gains among millennials and younger Canadians. For example, in the 2015 ...
Selina Robinson didn’t just abuse her position—she abused the …
Feb 12, 2024 · What was done to our relatives, our families, and our culture must not be allowed to happen again. But it would be disrespectful to the memory of all those lost to suggest that edict be limited to Jews: it must not happen again to anyone. Our people’s history of oppression isn’t a license to oppress, it’s a call to dedicate our lives to creating a world without oppression.