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The fight over AI data centres is a fight over local democracy

The fight over AI data centres is a fight over local democracy

Municipalities are pushing back against the erosion of their autonomy, with data centres the most visible flashpoint

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Canadian Dimension

Nick Tsergas

Notwithstanding rights and freedoms

Notwithstanding rights and freedoms

Section 33 abuses expose limitations of democracy in Canada

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Canadian Dimension

Cassandra Jeffery

Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency

Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency

UPCs cause harm through deception, disinformation, and other traumatizing strategies meant to turn people away from abortion

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Canadian Dimension

Ashna Hudani

Who is Carney’s industrial policy really for?

Who is Carney’s industrial policy really for?

The LNG industry is an economic loser for Canadians that deepens our economy’s structural problems rather than resolving them

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Canadian Dimension

Nick Gottlieb

Campus antisemitism report is based on fundamentally flawed methodology

Campus antisemitism report is based on fundamentally flawed methodology

To make definitively broad generalizations grounded in a small, biased selection sample is an unacceptable error

30.09.2026 4

Canadian Dimension

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Digging a deeper hole: AI and critical minerals will not benefit most Canadians

Digging a deeper hole: AI and critical minerals will not benefit most Canadians

Canada’s push for ‘AI sovereignty’ is entrenching dependence on extractive industries, reproducing a familiar set of harms

30.09.2026 10

Canadian Dimension

Caroline Stitt

Residential school denialism and the backlash against reconciliation

Residential school denialism and the backlash against reconciliation

Read an excerpt from Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair’s new edited collection, Truth Before Reconciliation

29.09.2026 20

Canadian Dimension

Sean Carleton

Carney promised to protect Canada from Trump. Why does his agenda look so much like Reaganomics?

Carney promised to protect Canada from Trump. Why does his agenda look so much like Reaganomics?
28.09.2026 6

Canadian Dimension

Christopher Holcroft

My landlord is a billionaire. Why can’t I breathe in my apartment?

My landlord is a billionaire. Why can’t I breathe in my apartment?
28.09.2026 20

Canadian Dimension

Tj Thorne

Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it

Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
28.09.2026 20

Canadian Dimension

Seniors For Climate Action Now!

Building movements for the long haul

Building movements for the long haul
28.09.2026 20

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Review By John Clarke

When private equity buys the home team

23.09.2026 30

Canadian Dimension

James Adair

Public ownership and booze: Raise a glass to the LCBO

21.09.2026 10

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Willy Marz

Carney’s airport privatization is a looming disaster: ‘Highway 407 of the skies’

16.09.2026 30

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Christo Aivalis

Trickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again?

16.09.2026 30

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Jared A. Walker And Silas Xuereb

Escaping the Canadian polycrisis

15.09.2026 20

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Dennis Raphael And Toba Bryant

Why did the AfD win in Saxony-Anhalt?

14.09.2026 10

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Anika Taschke

Canada’s role in the disastrous ‘War on Terror’ should not be celebrated

14.09.2026 30

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Owen Schalk

Whose violence counts as terrorism?

11.09.2026 10

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Morgan Duchesney

Congo is at the centre of a critical minerals race between China and the West

11.09.2026 30

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Judi Rever

Failure in Iran and the Potemkin option

10.09.2026 20

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John Duncan

Climate disruption and the nationalist turn

03.09.2026 20

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Gerard Toal

Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog

03.09.2026 20

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Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete

The university is the crisis

02.09.2026 20

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Rinaldo Walcott

A room for the truth? The Nakba at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

27.08.2026 20

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Dyala Hamzah

How not-for-profits make the housing crisis worse

27.08.2026 30

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Laurence Braun-Woodbury

Remembering the radical promise of Canada’s New Left

Bryan Palmer reviews a new collection tracing the lives and legacies of Sixties radicals

25.08.2026 20

Canadian Dimension

Bryan D. Palmer

Time is running out to demand the Carney government locate its elbows

As trade talks intensify, Canadians must resist further concessions and deeper integration with the United States

18.08.2026 30

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Christopher Holcroft

Putting truth and respect before reconciliation

How a recent editorial from Canada’s paper of record creates space for residential school denialism to take root

18.08.2026 50

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Sean Carleton

Transparent citizens, opaque state

Bill C-22 is a step toward merging corporate and state surveillance, exposing citizens while shielding power from scrutiny

17.08.2026 20

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Daniel Horen Greenford

The context missing from the CMHR Nakba debate

Understanding the Nakba requires confronting the political ideas and ambitions that made Palestinian dispossession possible

16.08.2026 40

Canadian Dimension

Mark Libin

Carney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the table

The world’s largest investors are coming to Toronto, with airports and other public infrastructure potentially up for grabs

15.08.2026 30

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Bianca Mugyenyi

New Brunswick’s energy contradictions

The province is expanding fossil fuel generation while weakening renewables incentives

13.08.2026 40

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Andrew Nurse

For Iranian Kurds, war is not liberation

Opposed to Iran’s regime but wary of Washington, Kurdish communities are facing attacks at home and growing hostility abroad

10.08.2026 40

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Diary Marif

Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation

Feds plan to instead throw more taxpayer dollars at a media clamoring for increased subsidies

10.08.2026 40

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Marc Edge

Europe’s summer is a preview of what’s coming

Deadly heat, wildfires, and drought are a preview of the escalating catastrophe to come

10.08.2026 60

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Christopher Logstrup

Canada’s ultra-rich are no friends of democracy

Tobi Lütke’s remarks reflect a long tradition of elite hostility to democratic equality

05.08.2026 50

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Dennis Pilon

Why is Spain in Africa?

Perspectives on Ceuta’s humanitarian crisis

04.08.2026 30

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Nashwa Lina Khan

How social media invented the World Cup’s villain

Algorithmic outrage recast Argentina as football’s villain, overshadowing FIFA’s rank hypocrisy and greed

31.07.2026 40

Canadian Dimension

Rob Rolfe

The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy

This government’s economic agenda is being built on a growing architecture of legal exceptions and deregulation

30.07.2026 60

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Shiri Pasternak

Has Iran given new life to the Ukraine war?

A new strategic narrative is encouraging escalation over negotiation

29.07.2026 30

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Paul Robinson

Defying despair in the face of climate catastrophe

We must push back against ideological containment that blocks the development of rebellious thinking and movements of resistance

29.07.2026 60

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John Clarke

Buying access is not the same as implementing treaty rights

The federal government still confuses economic inclusion with treaty implementation

28.07.2026 40

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Joshua W.j. Brown

Radio workers hope to resurrect stations axed by Big Media

Co-op ownership might prove a more sustainable model than corporate rapaciousness

27.07.2026 40

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Marc Edge

Drawing the line on surveillance pricing

Personalized grocery pricing is not yet widespread in Canada, giving governments a chance to act before it becomes entrenched

27.07.2026 40

Canadian Dimension

Sarah-Louise Ruder

The postal bargaining round unlike any other

A look back at the unprecedented 2024-26 Canada Post negotiations—and the lessons CUPW should take from them

23.07.2026 40

Canadian Dimension

Geoff Bickerton

The Ontario wildfires and Doug Ford’s record on climate change

A capstone on a portrait of policy failure

22.07.2026 60

Canadian Dimension

Mark Winfield

A new great game for Uzbekistan’s critical minerals

Privatization and diplomacy are drawing Tashkent closer to Washington, but at what cost?

21.07.2026 40

Canadian Dimension

Lital Khaikin

Mexico is solving its housing crisis. Why aren’t we?

Claudia Sheinbaum’s reversal of decades of market-driven housing policy offers an important lesson for Canada

20.07.2026 40

Canadian Dimension

Laurence Braun-Woodbury

Alberta separatism’s dangerous new allies

A century-old grievance meets a darker political current

17.07.2026 40

Canadian Dimension

Kim Wilson