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Blog - Code Pink Canadian Delegations to Gaza March 4 Kim Elliott | Five Canadians, including rabble.ca's publisher, Kim Elliott, have joined a 54-member International Women's Day solidarity delegation to Gaza. |
Blog - Uzma Shakir's blog March 4 Uzma Shakir | How the world changes when you leave the borders of North America! Watching Obama from Canada and then from Pakistan is quite surreal! |
Blog - Nima Maleki's blog March 3 Nima Maleki | Pakistan is growing increasingly unstable while the civilian government, rife with corruption, loses the respect of its people and threatens the stability of democratic principles. |
Blog - Bound but not gagged March 2 Allendria Brunjes | Literature is becoming more digitized and more accessible than ever before. Libraries will have to change to reach out and bring people back to their books. |
Blog - Corvin Russell's Blog March 1 Corvin Russell | The auto sector and US banking sector are going down and could take the rest of us with them. Only a bold vision will pull us out of the nosedive. |
Blog - Trish Hennessy's Blog February 27 Trish Hennessy | On my planet, the last thing you want during a recession is to create policies that leave more Canadians in personal debt and fewer low-income earners getting educated and retrained. |
Blog - Corvin Russell's Blog February 25 Corvin Russell | We are in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. Yet our one supposed left-wing party has not taken the opportunity to raise questions about the nature of our economic system. |
Blog - rabble.ca's staff blog February 25 Kim Elliott | On Valentine's day this year I attended the 18th annual memorial march for the missing women of the Downtown Eastside. |
Blog - Corvin Russell's Blog February 24 Corvin Russell | It's the White Paper and FNGA all over again, as Stephen Harper continues the quest to abolish Aboriginal rights. |
Blog - Trish Hennessy's Blog February 24 Trish Hennessy | As signs of recession seep into Canada, I cannot help but think of New Orleans. Not the colourful images of Mardi Gras, the party to end all parties, but rather those CNN visuals of Katrina. |
Blog - A Blog for Media Justice February 24 Paul D. Boin | The Campaign for Democratic media has launched a quality news and information manifesto for Canada. Sign it! |
Blog - Mai Nguyen February 24 Mai Nguyen | When Israel began its bombing attacks on the Gaza Strip, university presidents in Canada started to show a dark side. |
Blog - A Blog for Media Justice February 23 Paul Boin | Mainstream journalist, Doug Saunders, offers inconvenient facts and hope for his profession and our peaceful future. |
Blog - Andrew Brett February 23 Andrew Brett | The mainstream media seem to be unaware that the Jewish Defence League is an extremist hate group. |
Blog - A Blog for Media Justice February 20 Paul Boin | You have until February 23 to state your opinion, or perhaps lose it. |
Blog - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy! February 19 Matthew Adams | Wikileaks has released a confidential NATO document that civilian deaths from the war in Afghanistan have increased by 46 per cent over the past year. And that's not all. |
Blog - 2010 Homelessness Hunger Strike Relay February 19 Am Johal | With over 250,000 people expected to attend the 2010 Olympics, tenancy protections aren't even on the radar in British Columbia. |
Blog - Nima Maleki's blog February 19 Nima Maleki | Afghanistan has grown increasingly unstable since the US invasion of that country. The Taliban had time and space from which to regroup and reorganize: in Pakistan. |
Blog - 2010 Homelessness Hunger Strike Relay February 19 Am Johal | As housing activists and experts gather in Calgary to discuss Canada's abysmal record on housing policy, change can't come quickly enough. |
Blog - Blair Redlin February 18 Blair Redlin | Obama's interview with CBC's Peter Mansbridge last night was disappointing, but not surprising. It shows how North American social movements have their work cut out for them. |
Blog - Graeme Stewart's Blog February 18 Graeme Stewart | People are going crazy over the CRTC's hearings on the Internet and Canadian Content. But it's all a little past the point. |
Blog - Nima Maleki's blog February 18 Nima Maleki | "Strategic chaos" threatens to deepen insecurity in Afghanistan. The symptoms of collapse are heavily reported but the plan remains more of the same. |
Blog - rabble.ca's staff blog February 17 rabble staff | Recently, four Windermere secondary school students in Vancouver -- Chitha Manoranjan, Rachelle Wong, Neelam Khare and Peggy Lam -- participated in a 'job shadow' program with rabble.ca. |
Blog - Trish Hennessy's Blog February 17 Trish Hennessy | Somehow, we came to believe that Canada could enjoy the same high standard of living –- with public services the envy of many nations –- without having to pay full price for them. |
Blog - Blair Redlin February 15 Blair Redlin | Free trade, like deregulation and privatisation, is part of the right wing package that got us into this economic mess. Can we hope for change of NAFTA? |
Blog - Word of the Rings February 14 Pina | A letter to the editor that was published in Whistler's two local papers detailing the lack of environmental legacies left behind in Whistler post-2010 Games. |
Blog - Trish Hennessy's Blog February 13 Trish Hennessy | Canadians, I said, are in denial. We think -- hopefully, miraculously -- that the global recession is going to happen everywhere but here. |
Blog - February 13 rabble staff | Do you heart rabble? Please help us reach our winter fundraising goal: we are just $3,000 shy of reaching $25,000! |
Blog - Word of the Rings February 12 Pina Belperio | On Feb. 12, the 2010 torch and torchbearer uniforms were unveiled in Whistler, B.C. |
Blog - Corvin Russell's Blog February 12 Corvin Russell | Obama's cap on pay for bankers receiving government aid is hotly debated in the Financial Times. |