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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention. Image: Gage Skidmore/Flickr
U.S. commentators should learn about Canadian health care before dissing it
Karl Nerenberg | American citizens should, at least, be forewarned when politicians and commentators tell bald-faced lies about Canada, especially about our health-care system.
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Bianca Mercer on why the Canadian prison system is failing women
Gilad Cohen, Simona Ramkisson, Brandon Fragomeni, Alex Castellani, Ron Ma | Bianca Mercer and "Conviction" co-director Nance Ackerman discuss the enduring stigma of life after prison, and why they believe in the necessity of community-based rehabilitation.
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Brenda O'Farrell in her office
New directions for rabble.ca -- an interview with rabble editor-in-chief Brenda O'Farrell
Victoria Fenner | Brenda O'Farrell has been rabble's new editor-in-chief for a few months. Now that's she's all settled in, she shares some thoughts about the media ecosystem in Canada and rabble's place in it.
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Mandi Gray. Photo: Gilad Cohen
Mandi Gray opens up about reported sexual assault in 2015 at York University
Gilad Cohen, Simona Ramkisson, Brandon Fragomeni, Alex Castellani | Mandi Gray talks to The Hum about taking her sexual assault case to trial and ways that the experience has shaped her life.
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Laura Marie Wayne and Scott Jones. Photo: Charlotte Marchesseault
Scott Jones opens up about anti-gay hate crime that left him paralyzed in 2014
Gilad Cohen, Simona Ramkisson, Brandon Fragomeni, Alex Castellani | On October 12, 2013, Scott Jones’ life changed in an instant when he was left paralyzed from the waist down in an anti-gay hate crime.
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CJFE condemns MP's denouncement of media as 'fake news'
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression | CJFE condemns Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke Member of Parliament (MP) Cheryl Gallant's use of the terms "fake news," "elite-stream media" and "media-splaining" to denounce Canadian media.
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Banro mining site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image: Flickr/USAID U.S. Agency for International Development
Globe and Mail tells only one side of story about Canada's role in the Congo
Yves Engler | The Globe's failure to even mention Canada's role in impoverishing Congo reflects its bias and helps to explain why Canadians are so confused about their country's role in the world.
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Demonstration in support of the independence of Western Sahara in Madrid
Canada and Western Sahara — Africa's last remaining colony
Yves Engler | Recent seizure of phosphate from a Moroccan state company in South Africa and Panama is a blow to corporate Canada, victory for national independence struggles and should embarrass Canadian media.
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Contingent of Nepalese Peacekeepers Arrives in Juba from Haiti, 2014
UN occupation of Haiti ends but abuses remain
Yves Engler | UN abuses in Haiti aren't an unfortunate outgrowth of a well-meaning peacekeeping effort. Rather, MINUSTAH was established to consolidate the U.S., France and Canada's anti-democratic policies.
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Texas State Capitol, Austin (David Climenhaga photo)
With Rachel Notley off to Texas, it helps to understand why Canadians and Texans are naturally simpatico
David J. Climenhaga | I expect the small NDP group will be made to feel right at home today by the nabobs of the petroleum industry in Houston, and will feel naturally at home tomorrow in Austin.
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Canada had better plan for an unprecedented refugee crisis as U.S. lurches toward 'ethnic cleansing'
David J. Climenhaga | Canadians should be deeply concerned about stated plans by the Trump Regime in the United States to expel literally millions of U.S. residents from their country.
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Burning down the globe: Climate change denial in Canada's house
Christopher Majka | Climate change denial is alive in Canada. Despite massive evidence to the contrary, fossil-fuel interests and compliant media try to obscure and obfuscate. Here's how it's done and what's at stake.