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The Dominion: Canada's Grassroots Newspaper
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A list of frequently asked questions about the Dominion. If you have a question that isn't addressed on this site, please post it as a comment at the bottom of the page.
Our focus is on stories or issues that are marginalized, spun, or ignored by the mainstream press. We also hope to provide a venue where fundamental questions can be asked about Canadian institutions, policies, and events--the questions to which answers are often assumed to be obvious. In every story we cover, we aim to make understanding possible: of how things work, of why events happen, and what influences are at work. (For an elaboration, see our poster.)
In issue #3, the Dominion highlighted a series of readings about Canada's involvement in the US-proposed "National Missile Defense" (NMD) shield. By pointing to a few primary sources and highlighting one journalist's inquiry into Canada's defense industry, we established some little-discussed yet essential facts about the issue. Namely, that the Canadian defense industry stands to benefit from NMD, that NMD is--in US policymakers' own understanding--a mechanism of aggression, that NMD represents a major shift in the way nuclear power works globally, and that the Liberal government is justifying this in terms of appeasement to the Americans, and not in terms of sane decisionmaking.
