rabble staff

Why is Canada so offside with world opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

rabble staff — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:01:18 +0000

Trudeau has continued Harper's blanket support for Israel in recent UN votes and in the process left Canada isolated from almost all other nations.

Trudeau's pro-Israel stance offside with Canadians -- and hampers bid for UN seat

Basic Canadian civic rights are being whisked away by the Trudeau government

rabble staff — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:51:45 +0000

The Liberal government is in the process of passing an extraordinary piece of legislation, C-23, which effectively cedes Canadian sovereignty to U.S. border officials.

Trudeau prepares to cede Canadian sovereignty to U.S. border officials

Kinder Morgan opponents move forward with legal challenges against pipeline

rabble staff — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:37:10 +0000

While governments may have announced their support for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline, opponents are continuing to strengthen their fight against the project in court.

Lawsuits pile up as Kinder Morgan opponents prepare next pipeline battleground in the courts

Annual Women's Memorial March in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

rabble staff — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:48:53 +0000

On February 14, the Women's Memorial March continues to honour the lives of missing and murdered women and all women’s lives lost in the Downtown Eastside.

Annual Women's Memorial March in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

B.C. government's budget priorities are all out of whack

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 02:12:00 +0000

Finance Minister Mike De Jong is promoting a balanced budget, but the reality is much bleaker.

Dear B.C. Liberals: Your budget priorities need fixing.

Trudeau's broken promise on electoral reform may cost him the next election

rabble staff — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:42:26 +0000

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have already burned the bridges he built, both to the left and to the right, that won him a majority government in 2015.

As burned bridges pile up, Trudeau's re-election may already be out of reach

Colombia's resistance to Canadian mining interests is multi-faceted and fearless

rabble staff — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:03:52 +0000

Indigenous people, Afro-Colombians, union leaders, farmers, students and academics in Colombia confront Canadian mining companies.

Colombia's resistance to Canadian mining interests is multi-faceted and fearless

KAIROS releases social justice wish list for Canada in 2017

rabble staff — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:37:08 +0000

Last January, KAIROS released its wish list for the year -- 10-plus-one hopes for the federal government and the provinces to fulfill.

11 wishes for 2017 that will make Canada greener, more just and more equal

How to identify fake news in an 'alternative fact' climate

rabble staff — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:08:15 +0000

With online news accounting for so much of what we see and learn, a smart Internaut needs ways to assess the increasingly startling reports that other people share.

Media literacy in a post-fact age

What happens when the extreme right moves front and centre

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 21:53:22 +0000

Steve Bannon's political ideology stems Clash of Civilization theories and fear of the other.

Unmasking the extreme right threatening U.S. liberal democracy

Trudeau's broken promises are hurting women

rabble staff — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 12:37:12 +0000

Canadians need a prime minister who walks the walk. Not one who says the right thing and then backs down when push comes to shove.

Trudeau may tweet a good game on equal rights, but his broken promises are hurting women

Muslims across Quebec respond to mosque terror attack

rabble staff — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:35:21 +0000

An engineering professor, a halal grocery shop owner, a civil servant and father of four. These were among the six men gunned down by a French-Canadian nationalist in a Quebec City mosque.

'We feel unsafe now': Quebec Muslims respond to mosque terror attack

Canadians need to start speaking openly about racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia

rabble staff — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:06:15 +0000

Representatives from legal groups that launched the Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline held a press conference in the wake of this weekend's shooting at a Quebec City mosque.

Legal groups respond to Trump's 'Muslim ban' and Islamophobia in Canada

Vigils across the country stand in solidarity and grief with Muslim community

rabble staff — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:11:11 +0000

Nova Scotians stood together with people across Canada to make clear this was not a vision of society that they condone or espouse.

Nova Scotians grieve the Ste-Foy massacre and reject intolerance

Quebec massacre shows that Canada must stand up to Trump

Michael Stewart — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:14:03 +0000

It appears the attack in Quebec City was motivated by hatred of Muslims. That should be a wake-up call to all Canadians.

Quebec massacre shows that Canada must stand up to Trump