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Welcome back to another edition of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup! We have yet another heavy listing of great blogs this week because of the care, attention and passion that the rabble.ca bloggers bring to their posts.
This week it is yet another diverse package of content with everything from the profit monster that is Caterpillar to the disenfranchised peoples fighting the Enbridge pipeline, to the new-found cupid and the parameters of love to the reality-based CBC Reads and the presence of the right-wing voice. Among these we also have some new bloggers joining the rabble.ca family: Laurie Miller, and, who else? Oh right, David Suzuki!
So, happy Friday and happy reading!
Follow that yurt! rabble.ca follows the journey, as told by Laurie Miller, of an Occupy Toronto yurt being shipped to Attawapiskat along with a truckload of supplies with posts The journey to Attawapiskat begins, Day 2 to Attawapiskat: The yurt is loaded!, Day 3 to Attawapiskat: Aboard the Polar Bear Express and Day 4: The trucks arrive, frozen battery and all.
The fierce defence of the Dakelh lands led by the people of Nak’azdli hail “We are not radicals, we are protectors of the lands” during the proposed Enbridge pipeline hearing in Visiting when arrows were flying: Dakelh people protest Enbridge pipeline by Tyler McCreary.
What does Harper, a few Conservative Cabinet Ministers, and “too many bureaucrats on one side and a very limited number of First Nation Chiefs on the other” signal to Pamela Palmater? An indication of real threat in War and Peace: Illusions of partnership at Conservative-First Nations gathering from the “discussion” at the Crown First Nation gathering and Prime Minister Harper King of Canada.
Profitable Caterpillar gives workers an ultimatum re: cut your wages in half or lose your job. Karl Nerenberg reports on the trend of this resource-exporting economy in Hill Dispatches: Keeping good jobs in Canada.
Trish Hennessy explains how eliminating decent paying work and replacing it with low-wage jobs occurs because a supported narrative places union workers and bosses as villains within a framework known as a unionbot in Deconstructing the unionbot frame.
It’s not that the Harper government isn’t committed to the fight, it’s just that the fight is for more prisons, the petroleum industry and tax breaks for the wealthy! Don’t you feel silly now? Neither does James Laxer as he delves into Harper’s reign in Stephen Harper’s majority government: Not looking out for YOU.
Occupy Valentine’s Day by Meghan Murphy takes a good, hard look at Valentine’s Day and challenges the heteronormative and media-shellacked versions of love on this consumer-driven holiday that equates love and happiness to gifts and “coupledom.”
Ah! Too many “native words” in the ears! Tyler McCreary reviews the Joint Review Panel transcripts addressing the Enbridge Northern Gateway project in On the failure to consider the ‘Native words’: Presented to the panel reviewing the Enbridge pipeline where apparently the review panel was anything but prepared. No surprises here.
Derrick O’Keefe lays out the controversy of CBC Reads and Canadian authors, asking why it is so common to hear “loud, over-the-top-right-wing voices” in our media in A dangerous farce: Thoughts on the hijacking of Canada Reads.
Public Safety Minister Vic Towes’ carefully worded letter instructing CSIS to accept information under torture proves to further confuse Canada’s position in this debate rather than clarify it in Public safety minister bows to pressure on torture policy by Maher Arar.
Citizens lock up your countries, Canada is “open for business” and she has already received numerous deals with China in energy, agriculture and natural resources, according to Maude Barlow in Harper deals threaten human rights and the environment in Canada and China.
Oceans give us jobs, recreation, food, medicine and life — so, why is the government so keen on exploiting the oceans over and over again for short-term gain? David Suzuki attempts to wade through this wreckage in David Suzuki: Canada must do more for its oceans.
Photo courtesy of Laurie Miller.
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