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rabble.ca series - Hill Dispatches

Karl Nerenberg joins rabble to cover news for the rest of us from Parliament Hill. Karl has been a journalist for over 25 years including eight years as the producer of the CBC show The House. He has written scripts for documentary films and long-form television reports for such shows as Le Point and Actuel on Radio Canada television and The Journal on CBC-TV. Karl also founded and, for five years, edited the magazine Federations: What's new in federalism worldwide.

Karl has been awarded a Gemini award, a Best International Documentary Series award (from "la communauté des televisions francophones"), a CBC Radio Award for Best New Series (C'est la vie) among others. As a broadcaster, Mr. Nerenberg produced and directed television series and documentaries in a wide range of genres and on a great variety of subjects -- from civil war in Central America, to the crisis in South Africa's Apartheid system.

Karl works in both English and French, and can be reached at karl@rabble.ca

 

Image: Flickr/World Bank Photo Collection
Trudeau's do-nothing approach to electoral reform risks Canada's future
Feb 10 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | The PM's warning that an extremist party could gain some seats in parliament under a proportional system ignores the fact that the extreme right can win a majority under the current system.
PMO Photo by Adam Scotti
Keeping first-past-the-post is a gift to the right
Feb 6 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | Conservatives are thrilled we're keeping first-past-the-post. It gives them a chance of repeating 2011: winning a majority, even though most voters would choose anybody but them.
Image: Flickr/Justin Trudeau
Trudeau provides weak justification for breaking electoral reform promise
Feb 2 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | Trudeau calculates that he can get away with breaking his electoral reform promise. Maybe so. Many who encouraged strategic voting for him are now bitterly disappointed. They should have known better.
PMO Photo by Adam Scotti
Trudeau should rescind safe country status for U.S., and all others
Jan 31 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | Amnesty has suggested rescinding the status of safe third country of origin for the U.S. The government should go further and scrap Harper's safe designated country of origin provision.
Image: Flickr/Michael Vadon
Quebec massacre shows that Canada must stand up to Trump
Jan 30 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | It appears the attack in Quebec City was motivated by hatred of Muslims. That should be a wake-up call to all Canadians.
Quebec flag
Does a Canadian federal party leader need to speak French?
Jan 25 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | There are serious candidates or potential candidates for the leadership of both the Conservatives and the NDP who do not speak French. Does that make sense in 2017?
Photo: Martha Plaine
Canadian marchers push back against Trump; politicians get on his train
Jan 24 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | Trump's rhetoric about helping the forgotten people turns out to mean cutting taxes and regulations for the 1%. Canadian Conservatives embrace him while Liberals try to get along.
Photo: Fightback/ La Riposte/flickr
Françoise David, co-founder of Québec Solidaire, helped turn political debate away from sovereignty
Jan 19 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | Françoise David, who founded the progressive Quebec party Québec Solidaire, has retired from politics, saying she is too tired to carry on.
Image: Facebook/Ahmed Hussen
Trudeau's new immigration minister must tackle Harper's nasty refugee reforms
Jan 13 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | Harper's refugee reform legislation unfairly discriminated against many asylum seekers. John McCallum was ready to make big changes. Now the ball is in Ahmed Hussen's court.
Image: Facebook/KarinaGould
Trudeau's new 'democracy' minister is personally committed to electoral reform
Jan 11 2017 | by Karl Nerenberg | Prime Minister Trudeau has given another very young and very inexperienced MP the difficult electoral reform job. That worries many. But there may be method to the PM's madness.