We must welcome Syrian refugees to Canada until there is a political resolution to the civil war. We cannot turn away. This is a marathon and not a sprint.
The recent Canadian federal election was, depending upon your perspective, either a happy day or an exercise in the politics of resentment. Here are some opposing views.
Justin Trudeau talked on election night about "sunny ways," but he also has promises to keep to Indigenous peoples, on health care, refugee settlement and climate change.
rabble.ca is hard at work creating daily election content from the progressive perspective. Who better to put things in perspective than one of rabble's longtime contributors, Amira Elghawaby:
While the media elites try their hardest to ignore, suppress, and counter progressive ideas in this election you can count on rabble to call them out. We won't let Big Media gerrymander the issues.
Progressives want Harper held to account. However, in the first debate Mulcair was too passive, while Trudeau chose to attack Mulcair as much as Harper.