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1 week ago | 
links.org.au | Adam Hanieh |James Wilt
[Editor’s note: Marxist scholar Adam Hanieh will be speaking at Ecosocialism 2025, September 5-7, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. For more information on the conference visit ecosocialism.org.au.]First published at Canadian Dimension.
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1 month ago | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane |James Wilt
Under capitalism, envisioning a shift away from fossil fuels is more difficult by the day.
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1 month ago | 
canadiandimension.com | James Wilt
After six years of carbon pricing in Canada, the signature—and highly controversial—climate policy of the Justin Trudeau-led Liberals is on its last legs. Provincial and federal Conservatives have opposed the measure since its inception, launching legal challenges against carbon pricing legislation in the Supreme Court and foregrounding an “Axe the Tax” message as a core plank of Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for the looming federal election.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | James Wilt
By: James Wilt Posted: 2:00 AM CST Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025 Last week, the provincial government awarded Magellan Aerospace a combined $17 million in funding, with $8 million as grants and $9 million in the form of a loan to be repaid over 12 years.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Wilt
Magellan Aerospace builds the horizontal tail assemblies for the controversial aircraft War ZonesCanadian Business Of the more than 100 companies in Canada that produce components for the F-35 combat aircraft, Mississauga-based Magellan Aerospace is one of the largest. Notably, it is also majority owned and chaired by billionaire N. Murray Edwards, the 35th richest person in Canada, who controls oil sands giant Canadian Natural Resources Limited, or CNRL, and the mining company Imperial...
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Wilt
Under capitalism, envisioning a shift away from fossil fuels is more difficult by the day Economic CrisisEnvironmentGlobalization Many vital left-wing books about global oil politics have been published over the last 15 or so years: Mazen Labban’s Space, Oil and Capital, Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy, Matt Huber’s Lifeblood, and Simon Pirani’s Burning Up. Perhaps none have provided quite as sweeping and synthetic of an analysis as Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power,...
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Wilt
Many people now live in homes and rely on infrastructure that are owned by pension funds, insurance companies, and banks Economic CrisisGlobalization First published in early 2023, Verso Books just released a new paperback version of Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World, geographer Brett Christophers’ exhaustive account of what he describes as our growing “asset-manager society.” In it, he reveals how massive multinational investment firms like Blackrock, Macquarie,...
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
thewalrus.ca | James Wilt
If police kept working-class people safe, Winnipeg would be one of the safest cities in Canada, if not the world. The Prairie city of more than 800,000 people now spends more than one quarter of its operating budget on the Winnipeg Police Service—by far the highest share for any major city in the country. The police force is projected to spend more than $330 million in 2024 and $360 million in 2027.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Wilt
As the one-year anniversary of the Manitoba NDP’s October 2023 election victory nears closer, major question marks remain around Premier Wab Kinew’s priorities for his first term in office. After campaigning on fixing the health care system the Conservatives gutted in the years before the pandemic, provincial funding remains dismally insufficient.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | James Wilt
Alcohol use produces an estimated $6.3 billion in health care costs every year in Canada Canadian PoliticsLabour More than 9,000 unionized workers of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) have been on strike for almost two weeks against Premier Doug Ford’s privatization and union-busting campaign. Rather than return to the bargaining table in anything approaching good faith, Ford has continually attacked the Ontario Public Services Employee Union (OPSEU) and its members, most notably...
