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Feb 17 2017 | David J. Climenhaga | Alberta voters are likely to have an opportunity soon to demonstrate whether or not they’ve been paying attention. After all, anything can happen in a by-election!
 Image: PMO/Adam Scotti
Feb 17 2017 | Gerry Caplan | The Trudeau government is looking for a new Africa strategy. Surely telling the truth about who is ripping off whom would be a very constructive way to begin.
PMO Photo by Adam Scotti
Feb 17 2017 | Murray Dobbin | Pro-Israeli government policy is built on a foundation of untested assumptions about Canadian attitudes. A new EKOS poll reveals this to be convenient but quite false.
PMO Photo by Adam Scotti
Feb 17 2017 | Rick Salutin | Smartness has subtly insinuated itself everywhere -- except, apparently, among voters. Smart won't ever replace fair; that's just stupid.
Feb 17 2017 | Doug Macpherson, Retiree Matters | While changes to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) recently adopted by the current federal Liberal government offer some improvement, they do not go far enough.
PMO Photo by Adam Scotti
Feb 17 2017 | rabble staff | 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.
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Feb 16 2017 | Vibhor Garg | U.S. President Donald Trump has a long, complex and mutually profitable relationship with the WWE and its billionaire owners, Linda and Vince McMahon.
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Feb 16 2017 | David J. Climenhaga | If you want to worry about the Trump Family, think about the fact Mr. Donald now has the firing codes to 4,000 nuclear weapons.
Photo: ResistFromDay1/flickr
Feb 16 2017 | Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | The engine driving both the ouster of Andrew Puzder and Michael Flynn are movements of thousands upon thousands of people across the U.S., saying "no" to hate, bigotry and injustice.
PMO Photo by Adam Scotti
Feb 16 2017 | Linda McQuaig | While Trudeau's persona of a progressive internationalist has won him kudos at home and abroad, his staunch support for Israel at the UN has left Canada significantly offside with public opinion.
Image: @realDonaldTrump/Twitter
Feb 16 2017 | rabble staff | 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.
Falun Gong Silent Protest
Feb 16 2017 | Hershy He, Kerry Foster | The practice of Falun Gong includes mass arrests, "re-education" through torture, executions and widespread allegations of organ harvesting for the medical market.
Flickr / Vancouver Public Library
Feb 16 2017 | Braden Alexander | The Vancouver housing crisis is not a recent development. Carrie Swiggum's documentary looks into the situation for returning WWII veterans and their occupation of the Hotel Vancouver.
Image: Oiluj Samall Zeid
Feb 16 2017 | Redeye Collective | Low welfare rates, minimal childcare support and skyrocketing rents mean B.C. has one of the highest poverty rates in Canada. The B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition is organizing a week of action.
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Feb 15 2017 | David Suzuki | The David Suzuki Foundation and Council of Canadians have published a report card rating government progress on its commitment to ending drinking water advisories in nine First Nations in Ontario.
Justin Trudeau and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Feb 15 2017 | Doreen Nicoll | Justin Trudeau, self-proclaimed feminist, is looking more misogynous with each passing day.
Photo: Premier of Alberta/flickr
Feb 15 2017 | David J. Climenhaga | Rachel Notley reacts to threats with remarkable aplomb as many of the people who contribute to this problem shrug their shoulders and say, "Who? Me?"
Image: @realDonaldTrump/Twitter
Feb 15 2017 | J. Baglow | By conceding Canadian sovereignty to American border officials, the Trudeau government has crossed a bridge.
Image: Facebook/Yusra Khogali
Feb 15 2017 | Yves Engler | A Black Lives Matter - Toronto spokesperson recently called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a "white supremacist terrorist." "White Supremacist," sure -- but what about "terrorist"?
Photo: Benjamin Linh VU/flickr
Feb 15 2017 | Wayne MacPhail | When most of us think of augmented reality, thanks to Google, we think of dorky glasses. But what about the other senses? What if they were augmented and all those augmentations worked in concert?