Will "disallowed" Calgary West Conservative candidate Shiraz Shariff and defeated candidate Ken Hughes get their wish for a nomination re-match?

Babble Book Club presents a special conversation with Lynn Coady, author of The Antagonist, on March 4, 12:00 p.m. PST/3:00 p.m. EST.

Sometimes, The Regina Mom wonders why she bothers to write her long blog posts, when others do it excellently with a short quote and video or are capable of piecing together a few headlines.

Art is a healing practice, a practice of renewal, exploration and of storytelling. Art is a space of self-definition and self-understanding of anti-colonial struggles.

At last, a possible explanation of why Forum's polls have consistently produced better results for the Wildrose Party than other public opinion surveys by other pollsters.

rabble.ca is excited to announce that Nathan Cullen will be the first NDP leadership candidate to take babblers' questions this Thursday, February 16, at 5:30 p.m. EST/2:30 p.m. PST.

Romeo Saganash’s historic bid for leader of the New Democratic Party was a milestone, and touched the lives of many Indigenous people, especially our youth.

I would like to point out that there is nothing naturally wrong with hibernating for the winter. Literally, that is what nature does. A bear goes into its cave to rest, review and dream of spring.

rabble.ca weekly roundup dives into everything from Valentine's Day to Attawapiskat to CBC Reads and the Enbridge pipeline, with a list of fantastic posts by fantastic bloggers.

Under Pressure's statement on yesterday's disruption of McGuinty's speech in Ottawa at the Canadian Club.

Romeo Saganash outlines his ideas on leadership, the NDP and the future of Canada.

Movement elder Marshall Ganz has collated his 50-plus years of writing, researching and organizing experience and posted it on two websites.

rabble has launched a new podcast for people who want to engage in their communities. It features tools from rabble's Activist Toolkit wiki, interviews with local activists, mini-docs and more.

Any observer of the hardball game of politics has to give Alberta's budget an A+ for pre-election optics, even if it only gets a C- for prognostication.

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

Did the HarperCons have poor science education? Because it's clear they're not responding to the science on the Enbridge project. What interest does it serve the government in ignoring science?

Ending gender violence, remembering missing and murdered aboriginal women, banning bottled water, using tumblr for activists and more!

Between LNG and Enbridge, Kitimat is poised to become an export platform for the two most environmentally controversial practices of the oil and gas industry: shale gas and tar sands extraction.

Successive federal governments have failed to recognize our oceans as much more than reservoirs of resources to exploit for short-term gain.

It's the beginning of the end for Internet throttling, and Openmedia.ca's newest campaign is coming into play as the hotly contested Bill C-11 moves through the House of Commons.

The Parliamentary Budget Office just issued a report saying that, contrary to Conservative claims, the OAS and other elderly benefits are sustainable, long-term.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is basking in the uncritical media reporting of his state visit to China. His "open for business" message has been very well received in Beijing.

With some slight delays, we make our way across the ice road, and to the community of Attawapiskat.

A5X, a growing group of citizens, are urging people to contact Jean Charest and other politicians to save the Wakefield Spring and old-growth trees in Gatineau Park.

Three Canadians who were forcibly abducted from the Canadian ship Tahrir by Israel and detained without charge this past fall, are demanding the government press Israel to return the boat.

No one's being held responsible, but the successful upstart candidate in a Calgary Conservative riding nomination has been dumped because of unspecified voting irregularities.

Ahhh, love letters. We admit, we like a compliment or two, and last year when we did our visitor's survey we got some nice notes. Know what else warms our hearts? Pledges of support!

As the HarperCon delegation of ministers and big biz boyz prepared to take off for China, the wise Yinka Dene Nation through whose lands the Northern Gateway pipeline is proposed to go, were busy.

In a carefully worded directive, obtained by Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act, Public Safety Minister Vic Towes instructs CSIS to accept information under torture.

Canada Reads should be a beautiful thing: our public broadcaster celebrating Canadian books and authors. Readers and writers in Canada deserve better than what has happened on this year's edition.