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Indigenous Rights | Activist Communique: Sovereignty Summer Begins in Toronto | Jun 18 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | ake back Aboriginal Day - as a day of Solidarity and Protest.

Anti-Racism | Politics in Canada | A spoken word artist's opposition to refugee health cuts: An interview with Ikenna Onyegbula | Jun 17 2013 | Samir Shaheen-Hussain | Ikenna Onyegbula is a writer and spoken word performance poet currently residing in Ottawa. His indignation served as the inspiration for a powerful spoken-word piece he recently created.

Arts & Culture | Yellowknife's Wildcat Cafe reopens after two-year hiatus | Jun 17 2013 | George Lessard | After a two-year-long renovation Yellowknife's oldest restaurant and historic icon, the "Wildcat Café" has finally opened for its 2013 summer season.

Arts & Culture | Labour | Migrant Dreams documentary delves into temporary foreign worker issue | Jun 17 2013 | June Chua | Award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee's Migrant Dreams documentary project has a deep connection to her past -- her Korean parents emigrated to Canada in the early 1970s.

Civil Liberties Watch | Cuts to refugee health-care continue to endanger lives | Jun 17 2013 | John Bonnar | A year later, health-care professionals still can’t fathom the senseless cuts the Conservative government made to refugee health-care.

Economy | Indigenous Rights | Federal court hears government had duty to consult Hupacasath First Nation on Canada-China FIPA ratification | Jun 17 2013 | Stuart Trew | Lawyers for the Hupacasath First Nation and DFAIT argued before a federal court judge on whether the government has a duty to consult First Nations before ratifying international treaties.

Environment | Athabasca Healing Walks a celebration of what our planet has lost | Jun 17 2013 | John Bennett | John Bennett talks mix tapes and toxic waste water spills as he takes a nostalgic look at what the Healing Walks organized by the Keepers of the Athabasca are meant to recover.

G8-G20 | Politics in Canada | As G8 meets, Conservative government blasted for watering down efforts against sexual violence | Jun 17 2013 | Sana Malik | The United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) adopted a draft resolution last week that is being criticized for "watering down" language that protects victims of sexual violence globally.

Politics in Canada | Remembering the scandalous past to judge the future of Nova Scotia politics | Jun 17 2013 | Ralph Surette | The NDP is in power in Nova Scotia today -- an extraordinary fact, if you think about it -- because of the ruinous track record of the two other parties going back to the 1970s.

Politics in Canada | Video: 'Refugee health care cuts in Canada -- We're better than this' | Jun 17 2013 | rabble staff | A spoken word piece by Ikenna Onyegbula. Watch the video and share it!

Politics in Canada | Harper loses his best hope for a Conservative MP from Montreal | Jun 17 2013 | Karl Nerenberg | The Conservatives only snared a second place finish in one Montreal and area riding: the riding of Mount Royal. Their candidate was Saulie Zajdel, who was arrested on Monday.

Arts & Culture | Education | Environment | Artist Diane Boudreau's 'Species at risk' in the Northwest Territories | Jun 16 2013 | George Lessard | Local artist-biologist Diane Boudreau has been working in English and French with youth and street people in the NWT for several years connecting art and the environment.

G8-G20 | Activist Communique: Solidarity Tent City and Night March to Oppose the G8 – Kitchener | Jun 16 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | On June 26 2010, the G20 invaded Toronto to plan the austerity and war agenda that we are seeing today. Now its N. Ireland's turn.

G8-G20 | Activist Communique: G20 officer accused of beating activist breaks down in court | Jun 16 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | The trial of Toronto Police Constable Andalib-Goortani began last week and the Crown has rested its case. The defence has now begun.