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May 25 2013 | Diana Beaumont, Jiselle Hanna | Interview with Vilada Phomduangsy, about asbestos and other union issues in Laos.
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Confederation Building in St. John's. (Photo: Mark Plummer)
May 24 2013 | Cory Collins | The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has continued to decline in popularity over the past few months and its latest budget faces low approval, recent polling suggests.
May 24 2013 | Medea Benjamin | After I interrupted the President's foreign policy speech yesterday, CODEPINK has been getting tremendous media attention and an outpouring of appreciation.
Photo: Shaun Merritt/flickr
May 24 2013 | Rick Salutin | Could the current embarrassment surrounding Rob Ford be an opportunity to move beyond that ever-revolving bifurcation between roughly equal blocs toward a more complete civic consensus?
David Yager
May 24 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | The way they dealt with these superficially similar cases, you'd almost think the Harper Conservatives in Ottawa were the farm team, and the Wildrose Party in Alberta were the pros!
May 24 2013 | rabble staff | The Hospital Employees Union has a new video out to explain how their union works.
May 24 2013 | Mary Galvin | Another true horror story for water and the environment: open cast mineral sand mining. This form of mining uses huge water cannons to send highly pressurized water to convert the soil to a slurry.
Photo: The Bullet
May 24 2013 | Roger Annis | The May 14 general election in British Columbia was a setback to progressive political forces in the province and throughout Canada. Roger Annis examines the damage and what to do next.
May 24 2013 | David Bush | How should the left understand the NDP in Nova Scotia? David Bush offers five possible approaches.
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May 24 2013 | Christin Hoene | Drew Denny's semi-autobiographical road movie, showing at Inside Out this month, is a thoroughly enjoyable look at grief, friendship and loss.
May 24 2013 | Council of Canadians | The Federal Court has found in no uncertain terms that widespread election fraud took place during the 2011 federal election.
May 24 2013 | Yutaka Dirks | 'How to Get Along With Women' by Elisabeth de Mariaffi is a sharp and inventive romp through the intertwining aspects of power, identity and sexuality in relationships in supremely real backdrops.
May 24 2013 | rabble staff | It's a two-and-a-half minute crash course about your union and how we work together for better workplaces and a just society.
May 23 2013 | John Bonnar | Allan Sheppard Sr. gave a short statement and raise serious questions and concerns about the handling of his son’s case by Special Prosecutor Peck.
May 23 2013 | Lauren McCauley | Tens of thousands of activists are uniting in a global day of action to "take back the food supply," in a worldwide March Against Monsanto Saturday.
The Purple Thistle's logo.
May 23 2013 | Tania Ehret | With Vancouver's condo-friendly landlords seeing dollar signs and not the public good, the fight for community venues seems much more like class war.
Photo: DemocracyNow.org
May 23 2013 | Grahame Russell | Notwithstanding the intervention of the Constitutional Court, the genocide trial against former dictator Rios Montt is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Conrad Black
May 23 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | So irascible has become Lord Black's incessant columnizing that one keeps expecting him to heap vitriol on restaurants too dimly lit to read the menu.
Photo: Gary A. K./flickr
May 23 2013 | Seth Klein | Here are a few of the initial lessons I draw from the election, and what it means for a progressive research institute like the CCPA -- because I do think our work matters, more than ever.