May Day! May Day!

It was May Day on Tuesday with lots of action, opinions and content rolling in on not only the blog dashboard, but all over the site! Definitely take a minute to peruse the May Day content and check out the Occupy page as well.

Accompanying our May Day action are blogs on mainstream media motives, conservative contradictory statements and Conrad Black's attempted readmittance.

Happy reading!

Welcome back to the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

This week we wish you a happy belated Earth Day by looking at the Vancouver protests against the pipelines and tar sands, and also check in with Quebec and the student protests, Vancouver and their new DTES condos, Alberta and its election, and Ottawa and the continued reproductive rights debate.

This week, the long-awaited Earth Week is finally upon us and with that lots and lots of Earth Week-related blog posts and content on rabble.ca! Joanna Chiu and guest videographer Camila Galdino produce a series on resisting media representation as a way to prevent violence against girls and women from April 15 to 21 and Mercedes Allen produces a three-part series on LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying education, centring around the Day of Silence.

Welcome back to another edition of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

This week we look at the growing scandals of the Harper government and their F-35 jets, the Alberta Wildrose Party and their flip-flopping politics on abortion, the trans human rights bill and a conservative MP's misguided rhetoric, and the power of images and their ability to evoke emotional responses. Also, rabble.ca is currently on the hunt for interns for our rabble podcast network, blogs section and book lounge, so if you know anyone who would fill the role, send them an application! (Added bonus: they could be the next rabble.ca weekly blog roundup writer!)

Welcome to this week's edition of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

First thing: let's welcome new blogger Don Tapscott to the blog dashboard and support his vision to create conversation around the growing theme of the power of collaboration.
Second thing: check out all these lovely blogs for thoughts, commiserations and opinons on Harper's 2012 federal budget, robocall culprits, minimum wages and social media.

Happy long weekend!

Welcome back!

Well no surprises here, the rabble.ca blog dash was burning up with opinions on the NDP leadership candidate-turned victor Thomas Mulcair. Some were outraged, others not surprised and a few urged us to move on to the bigger fight: defeating Harper.

As always, the rabble.ca bloggers have provided us with other stimulating conversation topics such as the Conservatives' outlook on Indigenous communities, Carleton students' views of pro-Israeli Apartheid investments, University of Calgary's view on satire and the continued exclusion of trans people from everything.

Enjoy this extended instalment of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

Welcome back to another edition of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

This week we welcome new blogger Cat Reporter, a right-siding reporter who will infiltrate the NDP convention to expose all the scary truths of this radical political party! (no seriously.)

Also, this week was the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street (guess how they celebrated) and World Water Day on Thursday and then we take a look at animal rights, human rights, teacher rights, student rights and a cat?

Enjoy!

Happy Friday!

There were lots and lots of amazing blogs this week (this comes as no surprise) and amongst them some new faces: welcome Independent Jewish Voices to the rabble.ca blog team!

Now grab some form of beverage (cup of tea, coffee, water) because our blogs this week are varied and vivid: the Conservatives problem with and dismissing of low-income groups and people of colour, Montreal police wreaking havoc on peaceful student protests, programs victim-blaming sex workers and backbenchers trying to redefine life and women's reproductive rights. There are some positives in there though -- communities rallying around sex workers' rights and remembering great Canadian activists, but somehow those moments are few and far between these days. Oh, Canada indeed.

What a week! International Women's Day, the 8th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week and the B.C. teachers' strike all took place this week and new bloggers Tariq Jeeroburkhan, Thomas Saczkowski and No One Is Illegal also joined the rabble.ca blogs!

This week the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup looks at Harper's counter-terrorism strategies, the new Refugee Exclusion Act, International Women's Day and the day Toronto library workers will strike. With that, here is your roundup, enjoy!