Nuclear industry selects site in northwestern Ontario for waste ...
Dec 3, 2024 · On November 28, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced it had selected Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation and the municipality of Ignace as “host communities” for all of Canada’s high-level nuclear waste. According to NWMO resident and CEO Laurie Swami, the decision to dispose of nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario “was driven by a consent-based siting process led by ...
How did Trudeau’s performance stack up to his promises?
No government fulfils every promise it makes to voters at election time. Still, looking back on the Trudeau government’s performance over the past nine, sometimes chaotic years—with the exception of major policy achievements like child care, pandemic income supports and dental care—this government has consistently overcommitted and underdelivered.
Ukraine rolls the dice on Kursk incursion – Canadian Dimension
Aug 9, 2024 · The Ukrainian attack on Kursk is a considerable gamble, driven perhaps by a sense that Ukraine’s weak military position left few other options other than a slow, grinding retreat. If it does induce the Russian government to negotiate, then it will have succeeded. But it could also end up extending the war rather than bringing it to a quicker end.
From Kanehsatà:ke to Palestine – Canadian Dimension
Nov 29, 2024 · Ellen Gabriel was the spokesperson for the Kanien’kehà:ka defending “The Pines” from a proposed nine-hole golf course expansion in 1990. Nearly 35 years later, When the Pine Needles Fall offers a counter-history that retells the story of the conflict and situates the crisis as the latest entry in a centuries-long history of violent occupation and land theft that began in 1717.
Poverty rising in Canada as Ottawa boosts military spending
Jun 24, 2024 · In April 2024, the Canadian government released its updated military policy, Our North, Strong and Free: A Renewed Vision for Canada’s Defence.The document allocates an additional $8.1 billion to military spending, with a promise to increase the defence budget from the current $30 billion to $50 billion by 2029, bringing Canada closer to NATO’s two percent defence spending to GDP ratio.
Mounds and memories, landfills and lost lives – Canadian Dimension
Apr 5, 2024 · The estimated millions it would cost to search for and recover the remains of three slain Indigenous women buried in a Manitoban landfill would be much better spent on regenerating the site to create a national memorial to murdered and missing Indigenous women. As Robert France explains, “the site must become a double place: the unnamed healed and the named re-named.”
Decriminalization is only half the story – Canadian Dimension
Dec 9, 2024 · British Columbia began a three-year experiment with drug decriminalization at the beginning of 2023. After some adjustments to the law earlier this year (the use of drugs in public has been recriminalized, in alignment with legislation around public alcohol consumption) adults can now legally possess up to 2.5 grams of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine or methamphetamine in their homes without being ...
The old evil – Canadian Dimension
Jul 15, 2024 · Israel’s settler colonial project is protean. It changes its shape but not its essence. It grinds forward with its deadly, perverted, racist logic. And yet, the Palestinians endure, refusing to submit, resisting despite the overwhelming odds, grasping at tiny kernels of hope from bottomless wells of despair. There is a word for this. Heroic.
Boomer landlords are holding housing hostage – Canadian …
Aug 27, 2024 · The word mortgage has its origins in medieval French jurisprudence. Roughly translated it means “deal unto death.” In the context of Canada’s housing market this etymological root has special resonance. As James Hardwick writes, our homes have been mortgaged by an aging generation hell-bent on carrying them into the grave.
Genocidal president, genocidal politics – Canadian Dimension
5 days ago · When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel’s defense.” Following the reports last month from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch concluding that Israeli actions in Gaza are genocide, Biden’s decision was a ...