Welcome back to another edition of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!
This week we welcome new blogger Cat Reporter, a right-siding reporter who will infiltrate the NDP convention to expose all the scary truths of this radical political party! (no seriously.)
Also, this week was the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street (guess how they celebrated) and World Water Day on Thursday and then we take a look at animal rights, human rights, teacher rights, student rights and a cat?
Enjoy!
Happy six-month anniversary, Occupy Wall Street! What better way to celebrate than with police raids, wrongful arrests and beatings, as Krystalline Kraus reports in Activist Communique: Six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street began with joy and ended in terror.
Bill 37 could lead to more animal cruelty in Ontario, say animal rights activists by John Bonnar, who exposes the proposed bill as one complicit with neglect and abuse towards animals.
Independent Jewish Voices really don’t want Thomas Mulcair as NDP leader and have launched a video to challenge his positions on Israel and Palestine in Video: IJV Canada urges NDP members not to vote for Thomas Mulcair.
One of Canada’s richest English-speaking universities cites the ‘net-zero’ mandate as justification for not entertaining raises for the Teaching Assistants Union in UBC’s unions challenge net-zero mandate while managers get raises by Michael Stewart.
The Harper government continues to deny the idea that access to drinking water and sanitation is a human right as reported in Don’t Drink Harper’s Water by Maude Barlow. Happy World Water Day?
Right-thinking Canadian, Cat Reporter, will infiltrate the NDP leadership convention to bring all the shocking truths and threats this group of radicals may bring in In search of the Cat Truth at the NDP leadership convention.
Quebec students hit the street to protest tuition hikes in Maple Spring: Quebec students protest tuition hikes in massive numbers by Judy Rebick.
Photo courtesy of John Bonnar.
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