rabble.ca series - Hill Dispatches
rabble.ca series - Hill Dispatches
Karl Nerenberg joins rabble to cover news for the rest of us from Parliament Hill. Karl has been a journalist for over 25 years including eight years as the producer of the CBC show The House. He has written scripts for documentary films and long-form television reports for such shows as Le Point and Actuel on Radio Canada television and The Journal on CBC-TV. Karl also founded and, for five years, edited the magazine Federations: What's new in federalism worldwide.
Karl has been awarded a Gemini award, a Best International Documentary Series award (from "la communauté des televisions francophones"), a CBC Radio Award for Best New Series (C'est la vie) among others. As a broadcaster, Mr. Nerenberg produced and directed television series and documentaries in a wide range of genres and on a great variety of subjects -- from civil war in Central America, to the crisis in South Africa's Apartheid system.
Karl works in both English and French, and can be reached at karl@rabble.ca
- |May 22, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|The NDP has decided to take the high road in taking on the tough and single-minded attack-dog Conservatives. Will it work?
- |May 17, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|There are broad hints that new rules for EI will force some to take lower paying work. New rules for thousands of migrant workers mean lower pay for many of them. Where is this all leading?
- |May 16, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|The government is silencing an advisory body created by Conservatives and headed by a respected Conservative who once worked for Flaherty - a clear message to anyone who gets out of line.
- |May 15, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Bill C-31 emerges from Committee virtually uinchanged. Now that the National Post warns against the rise of neo-Nazism in Europe, will our government finally wake up to the persecution of the Roma?
- |April 27, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|The Achuar people come to Canada to keep Talisman away from their territory in Peru.
- |April 24, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|While the Prime Minister spoke movingly about the Holocaust, Jason Kenney continued to denounce the Roma descendants of Holocaust victims as 'bogus refugees.'
- |April 20, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Parliament reconvenes next week, with the budget still on the agenda. There are lots of cuts that might seem small but have a significant negative impact.
- |April 2, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Last Thursday's budget is a lot more than tax and spending policy. It promises to transform such normally separate domains as the environment and immigration.
- |March 31, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Marc Mayrand, the Chief Electoral Officer, tells a House Committee that robocalls are no trivial matter.
- |March 28, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Only citizens who go to court can seek to overturn election results. That is what robocall-stung citizens are doing in seven ridings.
- |March 27, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Thomas Mulcair seems most fully engaged when interviewers are posing him questions. NDPers will be happy with that, after his speeches at the convention got so-so reviews.
- |March 27, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|The Green Party sets out modest proposals for a "green scissors" approach to cutting the deficit. On Thursday we will get Jim Flaherty's budget, of another colour.
- |March 15, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Nycole Turmel ends her tenure as the NDP's Interim Leader satisfied that she succeeded in building a strong Official Opposition Caucus.
- |March 15, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|The CCPA's 2012 Alternative Federal Budget boldly proposes an inheritance tax, a carbon tax, eliminating the capital gains tax benefit and many social and job-creating investments.
- |March 10, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Jason Kenney condemned "anti-Semitism and racism" the other day, but that condemnation does not seem to extend to the desperate situation of Europe's Roma people.
- |March 5, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|The Conservatives decry foreign influence on Canada, except when the foreigners are their friends. Tales of voter fraud speak volumes about Canada's undemocratic electoral system.
- |March 2, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|The Council of Canadians is gathering information on robocalls and other dirty tricks. Where there is credible evidence we could have court cases to contest elections at the riding level.
- |February 27, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Canada has a rich history of political scandal, mostly revolving around good old-fashioned greed. The current robocall scandal is the first that is all about undermining basic democratic rights.
- |January 12, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Joe Oliver's wild attacks set the tone for the policy debates to come in 2012. How can Canadians and members of Parliament find a way to have rational discussions of real issues?
- |January 2, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|Let's look at the national policy agenda for 2012 in terms of the spectres of increasing inequality and unsustainable development.
- |December 26, 2011| ByKarl Nerenberg|Finance Minister Flaherty's bland health funding announcement could signal the beginning of a long-term Conservative effort to nudge Canada, step-by-step, toward privatized health care.
- |December 15, 2011| ByKarl Nerenberg|Erratum: Wednesday's Hill Dispatches story suggested that the Kyoto Implementation Act was a government bill. It is the law, but was proposed by an Opposition member.
- |December 14, 2011| ByKarl Nerenberg|The environment commissioner condemns lax enforcement and says the PM is still bound by the 2007 Kyoto Act.
- |December 5, 2011| ByKarl Nerenberg|In making a target of Liberal MP Irwin Cotler the Conservatives are taking aim at the one Montreal-area riding where they came close last time.
- |November 30, 2011| ByKarl Nerenberg|Peter Kent concluded 27 years ago as a CBC journalist that the greenhouse effect "must be considered the world's greatest environmental concern." What does he say now as Canada's environment minister?