Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| In the 2021 Alberta budget, the University of Alberta's grant has been slashed by 11 per cent, or $60.1 million. Also: another tiki-torch march; former MLA Janice Sarich remembered. |
RabbleTV
Jase Tanner
| Three members of Vancouver's Overdose Prevention Society discuss how the organization saves people's lives from drug overdose, while also providing a safe haven and community. |
Podcast
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour
| The Supreme Court in the U.K. has ruled that Uber drivers are not independent contractors. They are workers employed by the company so deserve to be compensated as such. |
Blog
David Climenhaga
| If you want to know how quickly front-line pandemic heroes turn into back-of-the-line zeroes in Jason Kenney's Alberta, the answers are in Thursday's provincial budget. |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| The purpose of the NDP's pharmacare bill was to advance a process to which the Trudeau government claims it is fully committed. And yet the governing Liberals voted against it. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| Let's be clear regarding this week's parliamentary vote on genocide. It was about what to call what's happening in China, not what to do about it. |
Columnists
Matthew Behrens
| While many Liberals did vote to support the genocide motion introduced this week, any subsequent commitment to assisting Uyghur refugees and taking actions on Chinese repression appear elusive. |
Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| A key impediment to the mass vaccination of the global population is a supply shortage precipitated by greed. |
Blog
Kim Ives
| The film provides a devastating analysis of the last four decades of Haitian history and the collusion between Washington, Ottawa, and Paris in Haiti's domination and exploitation. |
Columnists
Shelina Ali, Pro Bono
| Without directly addressing how non-profit governance is designed around privilege, there cannot be meaningful progress in ensuring diversity on the boards of these organizations. |
Podcast
Victoria Fenner
| In the first of our "rabble rousers to watch" podcasts, we have a conversation about Engage Barrie, a group trying to bring about progressive political change in a very conservative city. |
Book Review
Raluca Bejan
| "Dead Epidemiologists" argues that we need to be less concerned with whether Wuhan's wet market was the origin of COVID-19 and instead focus our attention on the structural causes of disease. |