Well, it’s the beginning of a new month, but the end of the week and we all know what that means! It’s time for another rabble.ca blog roundup!
This week Canadian campuses saw protest from all corners of the country for accessible education, Harper’s transphobic policies began to rear their ugly, ugly heads and the NDP continued their quest for new leadership amongst many competent candidates.
The roundup is bursting at the seams as always this week with excellent opinions, coverage and photos (!) from rabble.ca’s lovely list of bloggers. As always, enjoy.
Low-cost single-board computers, Raspberry Pis, boom onto the technology scene in This Raspberry Pi sure tastes good! by Bob Chandler, hopefully to ultimately inspire and teach schoolkids about how computers work and program, instead of tempting hackers and techies with yet another device.
David J. Climenhaga asks the question in Sorry, an Order of Canada for Alberta’s Ralph Klein is not appropriate, and asks it well: “Does the kind of man who would call immigrants to Alberta from Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada ‘bums’ and ‘creeps’ deserve the Order of Canada?” — who screams “no”, yet is unsurprised they aren’t heard? Welcome to the new Canadian Identity.
Aalya Ahmad mourns the sweater vest-wearing and kitten-toting days of Harper passed for the new “Economic Rambo” that has ushered himself in and systematically destroyed everything in Harper at Davos: Of swaggering and sweater vests. Side note: The best photo awaits you after the jump!
“Papers, please!” Mercedes Allen gives the breakdown on the Aeronautics Act that may potentially bar transsexual or transgender people from boarding a flight in New airport screening regs raise questions for trans Canadians.
Sharon Fraser discusses her opinions on the candidates of the NDP leadership race in Personality and winnability are factors that will matter because, maybe surprisingly, they are all “competent, progressive and personable.” Now to overthrow Harper!
Nearing the National Day of Action, Roxanne Dubois makes her final defence for accessible education and the right to education in Education is a right.
On the heels of the National Day of Action, Quebec students channel that energy into another general strike for accessible education in Jérémie Bédard-Wien’s Don’t f**k with notre education: As a general strike looms, Quebec students overcome old divisions.
What does topless protesting have to do with women’s rights and is it an effective way to garner interest and media coverage to the cause of a feminist revolution or do they all just look like boobs? Meghan Murphy discusses the pitfalls of this protesting and some general history in The naked protestor (or, how to get the media to pay attention to women).
Donald Gutsein laughs at Canada West Foundation senior economist Michael Holden in Canada West Foundation rewrites history: Think-tank tracker for his claims of being “objective” and “non-partisan” when his group is backed by Canada’s biggest business tycoons, is anti-social justice and also has launched the Reform Party.
Jesse McLaren presents a first-person account of the National Day of Action that took place across Canadian campuses on February 1 to bring awareness to the inequality of access to education in Photo essay: Feb. 1 student Day of Action.
Photo courtesy of Jesse McLaren.
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