May 18 2013
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Michael Laxer
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Rob Ford has to be seen as having come to symbolize the basic unfairness of our society. There has never been a more obvious personification of the reality that two sets of social rules exist.
May 17 2013
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rabble staff
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350.org organized a protest outside Harper's event in New York City Thursday. (Photo: 350.org)
May 17 2013
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Rick Salutin
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I'll miss Peter Worthington, Canada's archetypal right-wing journalist, who died this week at 86. I say that without irony or subtext. I'll just miss him.
May 17 2013
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rabble staff
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The Big Apple proved to be an unfriendly landing spot today for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose sales job for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was interrupted climate activists.
May 17 2013
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rabble staff
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Elijah Harper has died at the age of 64. Elijah Harper served as both an MP and MLA for Manitoba, and was an honorary chief for life of the Red Sucker Lake First Nation.
May 17 2013
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Nydia Dauphin
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Quebec comedians have a strange affliction. It sporadically resurfaces time and again and it's proven almost impossible to cure.
May 17 2013
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Ben West
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I think both the NDP and the Greens owe it to the public to make a peace treaty and find a way to show everyone that we can work together for solutions that are good for people and the planet.
May 17 2013
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Riaz Sayani-Mulji
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Ange Guenard of Marineland Animal Defense speaks to the Opening Day Demonstration at Marineland this Saturday, May 18, 2013.
May 17 2013
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David J. Climenhaga
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If CBC Edmonton investigative reporter Charles Rusnell were a police officer, he'd be the kind of cop who'd ticket the chief's car at a funeral.
May 17 2013
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Stuart Trew
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The Council of Canadians is part of a new global Fair Deal coalition which wants copyright rules taken out of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
May 17 2013
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Stuart Trew
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U.S. energy giant Chevron is encouraging the U.S. to pursue a strong NAFTA-like investment chapter and investor-state dispute settlement process in the proposed U.S.-EU trade deal.
May 17 2013
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Guillaume Hebert
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In the past, Québec has developed policy to support the cultural scene in the name of the principle of cultural exception. In the last year, some have put this approach into question entirely.
May 16 2013
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Elizabeth Littlejohn
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Why is Porter, or any airline, allowed to expand its operations over treasured public assets -- our parks and lakes -- when it is duplicating international flights already provided by Pearson Airport?
May 16 2013
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rabble staff
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Senator Mike Duffy in happier times, speaking at a Fraser Institute event. (Photo: Urban Mixer)
May 16 2013
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Amy Goodman
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Former Guatemalan president Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday. It was the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court.
May 16 2013
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Cameron Fenton
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Remember that there is no silver bullet solution, the NDP weren't one before this election and there certainly isn't one afterwards.
May 16 2013
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Muna Mire
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Min Sook Lee describes the multimedia installation she helped to curate, Milagros for Migrants, as "an organic meeting of two artistic practices."
May 16 2013
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Dennis Pilon
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'Wrestling with Democracy' by Dennis Pilon provides a historical and comparative look at electoral reform (or lack thereof) of western industrialized countries over the past century.
May 16 2013
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David J. Climenhaga
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Pretty obviously, thanks to Tuesday's B.C. election and the vote last year in Alberta, we have reached a moment of reckoning for Canada's pollsters.
May 16 2013
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Maryam Adrangi
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Since my last post on Saturday, we have made our way along the route of the Pacific Trails Pipeline, making presentations in both Smithers and Burns Lake.
