press release
May 17 2013
| by rabble staff |
The Big Apple proved to be an unfriendly landing spot today for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose sales job for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was interrupted climate activists.
briefly
May 17 2013
| by rabble staff |
Elijah Harper has died at the age of 64. Elijah Harper served as both an MP and MLA for Manitoba, and was an honorary chief for life of the Red Sucker Lake First Nation.
Opinion
May 17 2013
| by Nydia Dauphin |
Quebec comedians have a strange affliction. It sporadically resurfaces time and again and it's proven almost impossible to cure.
Opinion
May 17 2013
| by Ben West |
I think both the NDP and the Greens owe it to the public to make a peace treaty and find a way to show everyone that we can work together for solutions that are good for people and the planet.
Opinion
May 16 2013
| by Cameron Fenton |
Remember that there is no silver bullet solution, the NDP weren't one before this election and there certainly isn't one afterwards.
arts/media
May 16 2013
| by Muna Mire |
Min Sook Lee describes the multimedia installation she helped to curate, Milagros for Migrants, as "an organic meeting of two artistic practices."
politics
May 15 2013
| by Melanie Fitzpatrick |
Reaching 400 parts per million for the first time in human history is a wake up call for all of us. The science is clear.
rabble interview
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip: 'Gold rush mentality' trumps human rights and social needs in B.C. vote
May 15 2013
| by Jane Bouey |
Today, many people in British Columbia -- and indeed across Canada -- are trying to determine just how the BC Liberals won the provincial election and what implications this surprise result will have.
rabble interview
May 15 2013
| by Jane Bouey |
Describing much of the Left as 'speechless' after a stunning election defeat, the Vancouver & District Labour Council president reflects on what went wrong -- and what's next.
briefly
May 15 2013
| by rabble staff |
The BC Liberals pulled off a stunning upset Tuesday, defeating the BC NDP to win a majority in the provincial election.
Opinion
May 14 2013
| by RJ Aquino |
It's been exasperating to see the BC Liberals try to court the Filipino vote through superficial events designed to be nothing but photo-ops.
Opinion
May 14 2013
| by Ben West |
We need people like George Heyman, the former Executive Director of the Sierra Club of BC, to get elected.
Opinion
May 14 2013
| by Brent Hawkes |, | by Buzz Hargrove |
We are asking the NDP and the Liberals to co-operate and pass the budget (possibility with some tweaking). However we are frankly asking for much more.
rabble news
May 13 2013
| by Roger Annis |
"Given the current level of extraction of shale gas and the required power to export these fossil fuels, we're looking at carbon pollution levels that exceed Alberta's tar sands."
rabble news
May 13 2013
| by Andrea Germanos |
Bill McKibben: "The only question now is whether the relentless rise in carbon can be matched by a relentless rise in the activism necessary to stop it."
press release
May 13 2013
| by rabble staff |
Veteran filmmaker and Occupy activist Velcrow Ripper has launched a new app designed to inspire a new breed of Occupy protests.
politics
May 13 2013
| by Andrew MacLeod |
While the BC Liberals have stepped away from envisioning a greener economy, the NDP is saying little to fill the void, according to observers.
Opinion
May 13 2013
| by Helesia Luke |
Christy Clark displays a betrays a narrow, middle-class, perspective that imagines child labour is about 'pocket money' and 'learning responsibility.'
rabble news
May 12 2013
| by Charles Davis |, | by Jodie Evans |
Join us in calling on Michelle Obama to open her heart to the cries of Abdurahman's mother and ask Barack to send those cleared home and to expedite the closing of Guantanamo.
profile
May 11 2013
| by Harrison Samphir |
On May 2, 2011, the day of Canada's last federal election, close to 2 million young people avoided the polls. Remarkably, this number accounted for a meagre 37.4 per cent of Canadians aged 18-24.
Opinion
May 10 2013
| by Eric Doherty |
Framing things as a "jobs versus environment" issue does not hold much water anymore; the biggest threat to livelihoods in B.C. now is the carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels.
arts/media
May 10 2013
| by Samantha Sarra |
With unprecedented access inside Takhar Prison in Afghanistan, filmmaker Nima Sarvestani takes us on a compelling journey in his documentary No Burqas Behind Bars.
in his own words
May 10 2013
| by James Hansen |
The common presumption that President Obama is going to approve the Keystone XL pipeline is wrong, in my opinion.
politics
May 9 2013
| by Dave Coles |
In the latest example of their 'whatever business wants' attitude, the Conservatives are unwilling to lift a finger in support of 1000 workers recently locked out by U.S. Steel in Nanticoke.
politics
May 9 2013
| by Betsy Catlin |, | by Crysbel Tejada |
In January, Casey Camp-Horinek traveled the route of the proposed pipeline and her people's Trail of Tears to Pickstown, S.D., for an international treaty gathering called Protect the Sacred.
rabble series
May 8 2013
| by Ben Forrest |, | by Jessica Ellis |, | by Kaanayo Nwachukwu |, | by Mekhala Gunaratne |, | by Nick Boisvert |
A look at what citizen journalism can tell us about citizen science.
Opinion
May 8 2013
| by Rex Weyler |
If American billionaire Richard Kinder, gets his way, oil tanker traffic will increase to some 400 tankers per year through Vancouver's Burrard Inlet.
Opinion
May 8 2013
| by Peter Goffin |
Hipster Harper, with its photo of a young Stephen Harper in plaid shirt and shaggy hair, is both amusing and troubling.
Opinion
May 7 2013
| by Nik Beeson |
Joe Oliver, Canada's Natural Resource Minister, has decided that this is an opportune moment to launch a broadside against one of the world's foremost climate scientists, James Hansen.
Opinion
May 7 2013
| by Matt Moir |
It's important to look at how Stephen Harper and the federal Conservatives have responded so far, and what further action they might take in the future.
