Canadian Dimension

Instead of ensuring our sovereignty, the Carney government is auctioning off more and more control over Canada’s economy to whichever foreign oligarch has the deepest pockets. If Canada wants to increase investment and safeguard our sovereignty, we should start by using our own massive stores of capital to invest here at home.

A tiny, non-permanent exhibit on Palestine at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has sparked a firestorm. Dyala Hamzah examines the historical dispossession at the heart of Israel’s founding and takes on calls for “contextual integrity,” arguing that hardly anything is less complicated than settler-colonial domination.

The recent firestorm over Tobi Lütke’s call for greater political influence for the wealthy blew up because he said out loud what many of his class seldom admit, says Dennis Pilon. His comments offer an opportunity to scrutinize how wealth affects Canadian political participation and decision-making, and why it wields so much influence in Canada today.