Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.

The Wynne Government is right to develop an ambitious strategy to tackle catastrophic climate change and rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the province’s $7 billion plan does not invest enough in public transit.

Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.

We're concerned that Metrolinx's plan to meddle with Toronto's fare structure will hurt Toronto transit riders.

Provincial agency Metrolinx and the TTC will discuss fare integration at a joint-board meeting from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. on Wednesday April 27 at 97 Front Street.   

Transit advocacy group, TTCriders’s newly released Vote Transit report card shows that Toronto’s 1.6 million daily riders are still waiting for a mayoral candidate to become a transit champion. 

Released this morning, the purpose of TTCriders' Vote Transit report card is help Toronto’s transit users easily understand how the mayoral candidates plan to fix their commute. 

Last month, the awesome folks at TTCriders organized a photo competition, where TTC users were encouraged to take a photo of their overcrowded commute (hence the sardines reference) and send it to us.  We then chose the best photo and converted it into an award to give to MPP Glen Murray for failing to fix transit in Toronto. Well, we actually chose four, because we couldn't decide which one was the best.  

See below for one of the winning photos. This photo was one of four award winning photos.

I just led a workshop on decision-making and structure for organizations.   Participants wanted to talk about accountability, and what you can do to make sure people do what they say they are going to do.

I have decided to publish this article in order to start the conversation around this important issue. 

Please post comments.  How do you deal with flakiness in yourself and others? 

This article explores the problem, causes, consequences and possible solutions to one of the bigger unspoken problems facing social change organizers -- flakiness.

Here is my (Jessica Bell's) take on the top 10 activist stories of 2013, in no particular order. Let these victories be an antidote to cynicism, hopelessness and apathy. Activism works. Activists win. Looking forward to seeing what's in store for 2014.   

1. Greenpeace's Campaign to Free the Arctic 30

Tools for Change wants you to fill in our survey so we can choose workshops that are useful to you and your group. We take your feedback and organize the most popular workshop topics.

Workshops range from a few hours to a day in length and are held in downtown Toronto. Please share this survey with other organizers and change makers.  Please submit your feedback by July 8, 2013. 

Fill in the survey.

At this year’s awesome George Brown College Labour Fair Conference, I shared five things I wish I knew when I first became politically active ten years earlier. What do you think of these things? What do you wish you knew when you started being politically active?

Here they are: 

1. Understand the political campaign

This blog post was written by Earthroots organizer and KI trip paddler David Sone. During August and September, a team of paddlers from KI Indigenous Nation paddled 350 km to raise awareness about their community's decision to protect their entire 13,025-square kilometre watershed under Indigenous Law.

----------

I will never look at a white rock in the same way again, at least not while camping in polar bear country.

At dusk after settling into camp on a large island in the Severn at the mouth of the Beaver River, Allan, who has been filming the far shore, calmly says "there's a polar bear over there."

Migration: An update from the KI Nation Paddlers, Sep., 3 2012

www.kilands.org

Peanut butter on Wassa crackers with honey for lunch again is getting maybe a little too familiar.

Our meal is interrupted by Ronald who points up river emphatically. We look but can't see anything new.

"Caribou," he whispers, "swimming."