Nick Fillmore asks a question The Regina Mom has been grappling with for years: "Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?" And The Regina Mom responds.

Are abolitionists the enemies of sex workers? Meghan Murphy responds to an article critiquing the abolitionist position on prostitution.

Many stories labelled "Native American" did not originate within our cultures at all. Do you know how to spot the fakes?

A listing of a few of the great Black Canadian authors who have shaped or continue to define our Canadian cultural landscape.

The Heartland Institute cheered the hack and release of emails from climate scientists; it's not so pleased now that the tables have been turned.

The recent spending scandal involving Gilles Duceppe, and many other recent scandals in federal politics, show the clear need for a real Federal Accountability Act.

Anti-G20 protest organizer and current political prisoner Mandy Hiscocks recounts prisoners at Vainer prison being locked down and searched.

Death and resurrection as public acts. Suicide and revival. The politician as phoenix. And all this on the part of the late Tim Hudak.

In Canada, we can see a neo-liberal ideological shift in many ways. Unlike the U.S. and the U.K., Canada took slightly longer to capitulate in the face of the new hegemony.

A bi-annual vehicle emissions test got me thinking about my personal carbon footprint. A lot of broad-brush numbers and calculators exist out there to calculate one's footprint.

Mukwa Giizis 2012: A one-day storytelling festival, with stories by Duke Redbird, Lee Maracle, Leanne Simpson and more!

Brian Topp is the next NDP leadership candidate who will answer your questions on his campaign. Tune in to babble on February 22 at 2:30 p.m. EST/11:30 a.m. PST.

The truth about America is that it is anything but flexible and resilient and faces a range of obstacles that portend decline rather than a creative re-birth that will re-establish its supremacy.

That the HarperCons might in any way be surprised by the public response to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews' introduction of the "snoop and spy" Bill C-30 made The Regina Mom laugh!

Welcome back to rabble.ca's weekly roundup of the NDP leadership race! As always, brought to you by babble, rabble.ca's online discussion forum.

Another avoidable crisis looms in First Nations and Inuit communities as Health Canada precipitates a catastrophe.

Despite multiple requests, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs under Minister John Baird is refusing to ask Israel to release the Tahrir and its cargo of desperately needed medical aid.

The Wakefield Spring and majestic old growth white pines of Gatineau Park need your urgent help!

As dozens of supporters mourned the deaths of 11 migrant workers who were killed last week, the group renewed its call for better protections for migrant farm workers.

Based on recent reports of members of the VPD using pornography at work, could it be time to make some connections between violence against women, male power, and the objectification of women?

As Harper sets the stage for Canada's participation in "war with no end" - next with Iran, where do NDP leadership contenders stand? One is known: Thomas Mulcair stands with Israel.

Organized in just a week, hundreds of people representing a broad layer of the University of Toronto community united for the rally Defend our education: Support teaching assistants.

This week the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup reflects on Romeo Saganash's historic bid for NDP leadership, the memorial march for missing and murdered Indigenous women and passivity among Canadians.

$4,000. That's the money we need to reach our goal of $15,000 for our winter donation drive. We're pretty close. In fact, if 80 people give us $50, we're done!

A critique of the Drummond report by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

Imagine my great pleasure when I came across Stockwell Day's column on the CBC website: "Avoid the trap of the income 'gap'."

The South March Highlands is one of the most bio-diverse areas remaining in urban Canada.

The basics of colonization: To destroy a culture, you must destroy the children. You destroy the children by taking their mothers.

Roma refugees from Hungary have well-documented fears of violence and persecution. Why are the Conservatives going to such lengths to keep them out of Canada?

An Alberta municipal politician with the temerity to criticize the ruling Redford Tories has been disciplined. She'll not soon do that again!