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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

 

How to provoke race hatred: On the Roma, Sun TV and the responsibility of broadcasters
May 21 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | might stand in the way of the network’s getting compulsory carriage on cable systems throughout Canada, it saw the light it, and made a tepid apology.
L'affaire Duffy: Will Harper be held to account?
May 16 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | The whole affair, which has crept right up to the Prime Minister's door, is starting to look like a frantic and improvised cover-up operation.
Who needs science? Not the Harper government!
May 13 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | Corporations operate on a quarterly timeline. Science operates on a generational timeline. Theories, hypotheses, insights and discoveries feed into and build on each other, over time.
Who cares about growing inequality in Harper's Canada? The Finance Committee gets an earful!
May 9 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | Recently the House Finance Committee heard from a number of expert witnesses on -- believe it or not -- the subject of inequality.
Safe country? World Jewish Congress fears Hungary will relive 'darkest era in European history'
May 6 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | In reforming the refugee system in Canada, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney declared Hungary a "safe country of origin." But what about the rise of fascist parties targeting Jews and Roma?
Read the Broadcasting Act! Explaining the CBC to Stephen Harper
May 2 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | The CBC is designed, by the Broadcasting Act of 1991, to be an independent, 'public' broadcaster, not an instrument of 'state' propaganda.
Peter Kent refuses to correct Conservative MP's crackpot views on polar bears
May 1 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | This is the latest indication of the Harper government's near hostility to science, especially when that science contradicts its ideology.
Jason Kenney shows his true colours while explaining changes to foreign worker program
Apr 29 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | The government eliminated a provision that has allowed employers to pay guest workers 15 per cent less than the prevailing, median rate at which Canadians are paid.
Wanted: A friendly lapdog to be the new Parliamentary Budget Officer
Apr 26 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | For the Conservatives, the gloves are off when it comes to Kevin Page, the very recently departed Parliamentary Budget Officer.
'You voted against money for our troops': NDP calls out Peter MacKay
Apr 24 2013 | by Karl Nerenberg | On Wednesday in the House of Commons, the opposition tried to get answers from Defence Minister Peter MacKay on the cutting of danger pay for some of the Canadian troops in of Afghanistan.