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  • Krystalline Kraus's picture
    Activist Communiqué: TONIGHT- Pots and Pans Everywhere - Solidarity with striking Quebec students
    May 25, 2012
    | By
    Krystalline Kraus
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    In solidarity with striking Quebec students, activists in Toronto are calling for a Casserole action tonight so bring your pots and pans.
  • karl nerenberg's picture
    Hill Dispatches: Finley's new EI rules - 'We want McDonald's to hire Canadians, not foreigners'
    May 25, 2012
    | By
    Karl Nerenberg
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    Even after a press conference yesterday in Ottawa, we still do not know the details as to exactly what EI changes the government will bring about.
  • Making Waves's picture
    A visit to the 'ground zero' of the Great Lakes
    May 25, 2012
    | By
    Emma Lui
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    Yesterday afternoon National Chairperson Maude Barlow, Regional Organizer Mark Calzavara, London Chapter activists Gary Brown and Don McLeod and I visited Sarnia for our fifth stop of the Great Lakes.
  • Enter Up Left's picture
    Clown Therapy Projects: love at first nose
    May 25, 2012
    | By
    Holly Adams
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    Notes on a Clown Therapy Project in BC.
  • djclimenhaga's picture
    The 100th Calgary Stampede: real men don't kill horses for fun
    May 25, 2012
    | By
    David J. Climenhaga
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    The Calgary Stampede Board should man up like the Catalonians and declare its centennial rodeo the venue for the last chuckwagon race in Calgary. It’s time.
  • Ethan Cox's picture
    About face in Quebec: New poll shows support for Charest's tuition increases has dropped 41 points in six days
    May 25, 2012
    | By
    Ethan Cox
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    A new poll conducted by CROP for Radio-Canada shows support for the proposed increases to tuition in Quebec has gone from 68% to 27%, a drop of 41% in six days
  • rabble staff's picture
    rabble.ca weekly blog round-up!
    May 25, 2012
    | By
    rabble staff
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    It's been an important week for Quebec student protesters, and we had lots of coverage in our blogs section!
  • PolicyNote's picture
    Eroding tax fairness in B.C. demands tax reform
    May 25, 2012
    | By
    Seth Klein
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    Most British Columbians would agree that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes.
  • Campus Notes's picture
    'There's no such thing, in a way, as an Israeli nation:' Interview with Frank Barat
    May 25, 2012
    | By
    Dax D'Orazio
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    Dax D-Orazio conducts an interview with Russell Tribunal member Frank Barat about BDS actions and the consequences of the Israeli Apartheid on Palestinians.
  • Ethan Cox's picture
    400,000+ in the streets? Quebec's students are winning...
    May 24, 2012
    | By
    Ethan Cox
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    A report back from Tuesday's massive demonstration in Montreal. While mainstream media ignored it, over 400,000 marched against Charest in the biggest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history.
  • djclimenhaga's picture
    Zwozdesky's in, Kowalski's out and all’s right with the Tory universe
    May 24, 2012
    | By
    David J. Climenhaga
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    The Alberta Legislature could have done worse than choose someone like Gene Zwozdesky to wear the Speaker’s three-cornered hat.
  • Council-of-Canadians's picture
    Council of Canadians support for legal challenges 'stirring up strife' according to Conservatives
    May 24, 2012
    | By
    Council of Canadians
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    The Conservative Party of Canada’s lawyers yesterday filed a second motion to dismiss the legal challenges of individual citizens seeking to overturn federal election results in seven ridings
  • Krystalline Kraus's picture
    Activist Communiqué: Ottawa students occupy the offices of the University of Ottawa
    May 24, 2012
    | By
    Krystalline Kraus
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    BREAKING: University of Ottawa students occupy their adminstration office over tuition fee increase.
  • OpenMedia.ca's picture
    Open Media launches viral video against online surveillance bill
    May 24, 2012
    | By
    Lindsey Pinto
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    OpenMedia.ca has launched a citizen-made online video educating Canadians about the true cost of the government's online spying legislation C-30 and the threat it poses to personal privacy.
  • Christopher_Majka's picture
    Escalator to the bottom: Quebec students refuse the ride
    May 24, 2012
    | By
    Christopher Majka
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    Do Quebec student protests stem from an entitlement mentality? Hardly. They represent a refusal to ride the inequality escalator. Faced with maxed out greed, Quebecois students propose an alternative.
  • The F Word Collective's picture
    I am a feminist and I am also a human being
    May 24, 2012
    | By
    Meghan Murphy
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    Just because we are feminists doesn't mean we must be flawless.
  • Progressive Economics Forum's picture
    Changes to EI will put downward pressure on already stagnant wages
    May 24, 2012
    | By
    Andrew Jackson
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    Changes to the EI rules announced by the federal Conservative government today are not rooted in any lengthy policy rationale.
  • OpenMedia.ca's picture
    Big Telecom's Bills | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
    May 24, 2012
    | By
    Lindsey Pinto
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    Government and Big Telecom have been all too willing to disregard public opinion. But that can only last until our voices get too loud to ignore...
  • johnbon's picture
    Toronto group demands immediate release of Irish republican political prisoner
    May 23, 2012
    | By
    John Bonnar
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    The 58-year-old has been held in prison for over a year, after the Northern Ireland secretary, Owen Patterson, revoked her release license because he felt the former IRA prisoner posed a threat.
  • djclimenhaga's picture
    Alberta MLAs get down to work -- sort of -- tomorrow
    May 23, 2012
    | By
    David J. Climenhaga
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    The first session of Alberta's 28th Legislature opens later today with one bill, still a secret, and not much work for the province's 87 MLAs to do.
  • rabble staff's picture
    Why pay for Globe and Mail online? Support free community media instead
    May 23, 2012
    | By
    rabble staff
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    More and more corporate media sites are charging for online content, while rabble is accessible to all thanks to community support. Please join our community of supporters.
  • Raffi Cavoukian's picture
    The environment is dead: Long live Mother Nature
    May 23, 2012
    | By
    Raffi Cavoukian
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    "Environmentalism has failed" is a statement that deserves attention. It comes from famed environmentalist David Suzuki marking 50 years since Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring.
  • Brian Topp's picture
    History lessons: Resource management means reclaiming our environmental and fiscal futures
    May 23, 2012
    | By
    Brian Topp
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    The contrast between how responsible, well-governed countries have managed the fiscal consequences of resource development, and how we have managed this in Canada, does our country little credit.
  • Making Waves's picture
    Great Lakes Need Great Friends tour kicks off its second week!
    May 23, 2012
    | By
    Emma Lui
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    Last night, the Council of Canadians kicked off the second week of its 8-city tour.
  • David Suzuki's picture
    Prescription for health and happiness: a daily dose of nature
    May 23, 2012
    | By
    David Suzuki
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    Join the 30x30 Challenge beginning June 1 and incorporate small natural diversions into your daily routine for a month.
  • Ethan Cox's picture
    New poll is bad news for Charest in his battle with students
    May 22, 2012
    | By
    Ethan Cox
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    A new poll shows support for Jean Charest's hard line with student strikers collapsing, as his unconstitutional "special law" raises the ire of Quebeckers.
  • Making Waves's picture
    'Don't frack with our water': Report from 'Our World, Our Responsibility' conference
    May 22, 2012
    | By
    Emma Lui
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    I gave a workshop on the threat fracking posed to our water sources, the lack of compulsory disclosure on the chemicals used, and the links between earthquakes and fracking.
  • derrick's picture
    Quebec students are teaching us all an important lesson
    May 22, 2012
    | By
    Derrick O'Keefe
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    All movements for greater social justice sometimes need a spark from the young, from the generations that are not weighed down by past defeats and disappointments.
  • bound but not gagged's picture
    Join author Kevin Chong at the Babble Book Club Sunday June 24!
    May 22, 2012
    | By
    Kaitlin McNabb
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    Join author Kevin Chong at the Babble Book Club Sunday June 24 for a discussion of his novel, and current book club selection, Beauty Plus Pity.
  • karl nerenberg's picture
    Hill Dispaches: While Conservatives attack is the NDP too respectful?
    May 22, 2012
    | By
    Karl Nerenberg
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    The NDP has decided to take the high road in taking on the tough and single-minded attack-dog Conservatives. Will it work?
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