| When the Mount Pleasant Lions Club decided to raise the rents by 45% at a housing complex for low-income seniors, they probably didn't expect the tenants to fight back. But they did. And they won.

| Mayor Gregor Robertson created a Blue Ribbon Affordability Task Force. Housing activist Nathan Crompton says that what renters in the city need to do is form a union.

| This week, the Constructing Change podcast features stories from the memorial for missing and murdered aboriginal women in Ottawa and tools for indigenous organizing.

| Farrah Khan, a counsellor and advocate at a violence against women legal clinic, explains the spectrum of violence against women and the repercussions of the media coverage of the Shafia trial.

| With news of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan's upcoming release, the 18th edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on people fighting for freedom everywhere.

| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma sits down with Syria Montreal Collective member Buschra Jalabi to discuss the international community's condemnation of Syrian human rights violations.

| Year after year, migrants without full status die in Ontario. Speakers at a Guelph vigil talk about the latest news on this -- the 10 people who were killed in a Hampstead, Ont. crash this month.

| jhr Halifax correspondent Justin Hartling speaks to writer Stephen Kimber about the case of the Cuban 5, a group of Cuban spies held in U.S. prisons.

| In April 2010, international environmental lawyer Polly Higgins proposed to the United Nations a law of ecocide to be classed as an international law.

| jhr Montreal correspondent Patricia Vazquez Lopez reports on Syria Awareness Day in Montreal, where Syrians organized an event to condemn the regime and raise awareness.

| Interview with Ji Ungpakorn on the new government in Thailand, Lese Majeste and the left response, plus labour news from the Asia Pacific region.

| On this week's episode of Progressive Voices, we speak with Donald Wells, Director of McMaster University's School of Labour Studies, on the campaign to introduce a living wage in Hamilton.

| Attempts to re-ignite the abortion debate in Canada, an all-male Congressional contraception hearing, the jaw-dropping remarks of Rick Santorum; women's health isn't on the right-wing God's agenda.

| Who will make the best leader of the NDP and does it matter? Some surprising answers from Murray Dobbin, Corvin Russell, Simon Tremblay Pepin, Josh Brandon, Herman Rosenfeld and Stefan Christoff.

| President Calderon launched his war on drugs shortly after he came into office in December 2006. He brought the army out onto the streets and began a campaign of confrontation with drug cartels.

| A new program of the Canadian International Development Agency is funding Canadian non-governmental organizations to help local populations deal with the impact of Canadian mining companies.

| Premier Christy Clark has introduced activity-based funding to hospitals in B.C. despite evidence from other countries that this kind of model neither saves costs nor reduces waiting lists.

| Stephen Harper says we can't afford to finance our current pension payment. Yet a pension expert that Harper hired a couple of years ago says it's sustainable and sound.

| The 17th edition of the jhr Rights Report speaks to Afghans for Peace, a group of Afghans fighting for the right to self-determination in a country under occupation.

| Africa is rapidly urbanizing, and Peace Studies Lecturer Timothy Gachanga argues there could be a link between growing African urban poverty and revolution.

| Corinthia Kelly explains why community groups are not participating in the Missing Women's Inquiry, which she says has become a finger-pointing exercise between the Vancouver Police and the RCMP.

| Feeling a little less than loving about Valentine's Day? The F Word talks to Samita Mukhopadhyay about the romantic industrial complex and looks at challenging dominant narratives around coupledom.

| What are the impacts of making a film about a woman's repressed need for masochism and her man-doctor's cure of sexualized violence? WAVAW women examine Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method.

| Labour updates from the Asia Pacific region and an interview with Ms. Rafif Jouejati, from Local Co-ordinating Committee Syria, on workers in the Syrian uprising.

| Pat Mooney is the author of several books on the politics of biotechnology and biodiversity, and the director of the ETC Group. On Feb. 8 he delivered a lecture on the politics of climate change.

| The 16th edition of the jhr Rights Report brings attention to gender-based violence faced by women in Canada and around the world.

| Micheal Vonn discusses coming bills to expand police surveillance powers, Stephen Staples on the national security establishment and Herman Rosenfeld analyzes the co-ordinated campaign against unions.

| A quick rundown of the week's news -- ranging from student and labour strife to dishonouring treaties, to occupying everything!

| The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has been accused of intimidation and harassment. The People's Commission Network in Montreal is saying that it's time to stop co-operating with CSIS.

| Journalist Karla Garcia Ramirez fled Mexico after getting death threats after blowing the whistle on government corruption. Despite this, she was turned down for refugee status.