rabble news
Mar 29 2013
| by Lori Theresa Waller |
Our labour reporter breaks down a report released this week by the Canadian Foundation for Labour rights.
briefly
Mar 29 2013
| by Jacob Chamberlain |
Prisoners on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay are now being denied water among other abuses as prison guards attempt to force them off the strike, the prisoners' lawyers said Wednesday.
politics
Mar 28 2013
| by Yves Engler |
The Iraq war was not the first time that popular movements forced the hand of foreign policy decision-makers.
briefly
Mar 28 2013
| by rabble staff |
For the group, Youth for Lakes, this was the beginning of a 2000 kilometre trek to Parliament Hill in Ottawa that will take them an estimated 45 days.
politics
Mar 27 2013
| by David Swanson |
No individual has done more to push back against what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the madness of militarism" than Bradley Manning.
politics
Mar 27 2013
| by Maria Kari |
Sex reassignment surgeries are legal and subsidized in the Islamic Republic of Iran, but for reasons that are in fact part of systemic repression against gay and lesbian people.
politics
Mar 26 2013
| by Pablo Solon |
To stop climate change we need to change ourselves. We need to stop thinking on growth and "development" and push instead for the redistribution of wealth.
briefly
Mar 26 2013
| by Mark Taliano |
Seventeen-year-old David Kawapit Jr., from Quebec's Whapmagoostui First Nation, on the coast of Hudson Bay, had the vision.
in her own words
Mar 26 2013
| by Lynn Gehl Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe |
As most Canadians know Stompin' Tom Connors (1936-2013) recently passed away into the spirit world. Although I was not familiar with his music, I was familiar with his name.
rabble news
Mar 25 2013
| by Peter Goffin |
Behind the flashy TV ads, and the multi-million dollar revenue sharing deals, there are real people struggling with addiction and its long-lasting, far-reaching ramifications.
Opinion
Mar 25 2013
| by Nydia Dauphin |
At last, self-interested politics will unabashedly reign free and no longer need to hide behind contrived notions of international solidarity.
briefly
Mar 25 2013
| by Tania Ehret |
The first of its kind, the Nub is the new social media face of Canada's arts and culture magazines Broken Pencil, Geist, subTerrain, Matrix Magazine and Taddle Creek.
rabble news
Mar 22 2013
| by Lori Theresa Waller |
As expected, the federal Conservative government's budget for 2014-15, released Thursday, provided little in the way of new spending to improve employment in Canada.
rabble news
Mar 22 2013
| by rabble staff |
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association filed a formal complaint with the federal Privacy Commissioner today on behalf of a migrant worker who had been filmed for a Reality TV series.
profile
Mar 21 2013
| by Riadh Muslih |
Iraqi-Canadian Riadh Muslih and U.S. war resister Rodney Watson Jr., living in sanctuary in a Vancouver church to avoid deportation, reflect on the Iraq War ten years later.
Opinion
Mar 21 2013
| by Paul Moist |
Municipalities across Canada need stable, long-term funding to help replace crumbling roads, aging waste water treatment plants and to build vibrant community centres, libraries and green spaces.
rabble news
Mar 21 2013
| by rabble staff |
Many groups across Canada today are hitting out, saying this is another federal budget does little to lessen the economic impact of austerity.
politics
Mar 20 2013
| by MEC members |
Large co-ops in Canada have a history of drifting toward acting like for-profit companies run for shareholder profit, seeing their member-owners as customers rather than owners.
politics
Mar 20 2013
| by Jonathan Cook |
The unspoken message of Obama's visit is that the Netanyahu government is free to pursue its hardline agenda with little danger of anything more than symbolic protest from Washington.
Opinion
Mar 19 2013
| by Dave Coles |
In recent weeks, a half dozen Conservative ministers have trekked south to push for the approval of the pipeline while Harper has made it the top priority for Canada's embassy.
in her own words
Mar 19 2013
| by Muna Mire |
My ideas around masculinity during that time were colored by the intense systemic and interpersonal racism I witnessed directed at my parents and in particular, my father.
rabble interview
Mar 19 2013
| by Lori Theresa Waller |
Labour reporter Lori Theresa Waller recently discussed some of the themes of two upcoming union conference with Hassan Yussuff, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress.
in his own words
Mar 19 2013
| by Tomas Young |
I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans.
briefly
Mar 19 2013
| by Ahmed Habib |
An entire country has been destroyed, leaving millions of lives shattered to bits and pieces, and the future of millions more has been held hostage by a failed state and a crumbling infrastructure.
in her own words
Mar 19 2013
| by Kathy Kelly |
Within Iraq, an estimated 2.8 million internally displaced people live, according to Refugees International, "in constant fear, with limited access to shelter, food, and basic services."
rabble news
Mar 19 2013
| by John Soos |
The concluding session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine took place in Brussels, March 16 -17. The Tribunal was launched in Brussels in 2009 in the spirit of British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
politics
Mar 18 2013
| by Norman Solomon |
The tragedies of the Iraq War have been so horrific and large-scale that the overall reporting by U.S. mass media scarcely provides a clue.
profile
Mar 18 2013
| by Cathryn Atkinson |
It's an act of personal reclamation and a declaration. And it shows that these are ordinary young people who are also extraordinary young people. They deserve respect.
rabble news
Mar 18 2013
| by Hannah Renglich |
Earlier this month, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, made a number of recommendations for addressing food security in Canada.
