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No mention of national housing strategy in leaders' debate

April 13, 2011
| Pivot lawyer and head of the housing campaign, Doug King, talks about the lack of mention of a need for a national housing strategy during the federal party leaders' debate on April 12.
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Yves Engler requests publisher not distribute book to Chapters bookstores

By rabble staff
| March 4, 2010

Yves Engler, author of Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, which began shipping in February, has asked his publisher, Fernwood Publishing, not to release the book to Chapters Indigo bookstores. Engler's previous three books have been sold by Canada's largest bookstore chain.

"This decision could harm sales, but the book calls on people to boycott Chapters Indigo and it would be inappropriate to sell it through that chain," said Engler. "Canadians who care about Palestinian human rights should boycott Chapters Indigo until the chain's owners end their support for Israel's armed forces."

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Introduction

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Considerations

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