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rabble news
April 3
Karl Nerenberg
| Colleagues and friends pay tribute to the late Mel Watkins, a towering figure. |
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analysis
March 27
Karl Nerenberg
| The simple fact is that if there is any plausible danger of the virus spreading from one country to the other, that danger all flows one way -- from the south to the north. |
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rabble interview
March 26
Meg Borthwick
| Meg Borthwick interviews journalist and author Paul Weinberg on his recent book, about anti-poverty research and activism in the 1960s and 1970s. |
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analysis
March 24
Karl Nerenberg
| On the same day Trump was announcing that the economy takes precedence over people's lives, Trudeau was scolding fellow citizens who refuse to follow strict social distancing guidelines. |
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analysis
March 23
Karl Nerenberg
| Canadians have little appetite for political sniping in the current health crisis -- even Conservatives are now playing nice. |
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analysis
March 20
Karl Nerenberg
| The NDP's main and most urgent request is that the government start taking practical steps to put its emergency fiscal measures into action immediately. |
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arts/media
March 19
Christina Turner
| Fiction, memoir, and other reads to keep you busy during this time of social distancing. |
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rabble news
March 17
Karl Nerenberg
| Most Canadian workers do not have paid sick leave, and those who benefit from such leave are disproportionately in the upper income category. |
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analysis
March 11
Karl Nerenberg
| In 2009, when H1N1 attacked Canada, it was Indigenous people, particularly those in the North, who paid the highest price. |
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rabble news
March 9
Marites N. Sison
| Marchers urged resistance to government's cuts in public education, health care, and social welfare in Ontario. |
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rabble interview
March 9
Zaid Noorsumar
| rabble talks to OPSWA president Miranda Ferrier about her efforts lobbying the government to regulate the profession. |
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book review
March 8
Jessica Rose
| Two new books reimagine power structures and the ways women can disrupt them. |
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opinion
March 6
Zaid Noorsumar
| As the population ages, and seniors experience increasingly complex conditions as they live longer than ever before, home care is projected to expand rapidly. And Ontario is open for business. |
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analysis
February 28
Karl Nerenberg
| The protracted presidential election campaign now underway in the U.S. underscores a number of fundamental differences between our two countries. |
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analysis
February 25
Karl Nerenberg
| Jason Kenney is leading a militant and official backlash against Indigenous resistance, introducing a law imposing harsh sanctions on protesters who interfere with "critical economic infrastructure." |
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rabble interview
February 24
Zaid Noorsumar
| rabble interviews the sociology professor about janitorial work and the decline of the Canadian welfare state. |
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rabble interview
February 21
Zaid Noorsumar
| As many as 100 temp agencies operate in the highly diverse neighbourhood, says advocacy report. |
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analysis
February 19
Karl Nerenberg
| For some federal politicians, the crisis engendered by the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs' refusal to allow a natural gas pipeline through their territory is also an opportunity. |
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rabble news
February 19
Zaid Noorsumar
| Patty Coates, the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, speaks to rabble ahead of its rally against Conservative cuts. |
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analysis
February 13
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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opinion
February 13
Silvia Argentina Arauz
| In this excerpt from a new collection on Black Lives Matter in Canada, Silvia Argentina Arauz reflects on being a mother in an activist movement. |
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rabble news
February 12
Anna Bianca Roach
| "Don't cry on the shoulder of the man that stole their land," says one activist. Land defenders gather at minister's office after police extend the exclusion zone around the Unist'ot'en checkpoint. |
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analysis
February 6
Karl Nerenberg
| The new heritage minister and the government have lost the first round of the debate over extending broadcast regulations to include the internet. |
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arts/media
February 6
Christina Turner
| What should you read this year? We asked staff members at six independent Canadian bookstores which upcoming releases they were most excited about. |
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rabble interview
February 3
Zaid Noorsumar
| An interview with the NDP's health critic in the Ontario legislature, about the state of home care in the province. |
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analysis
January 31
Karl Nerenberg
| The time has come for Canada to take the new media environment made possible by the internet seriously, says new report from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel. |
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analysis
January 29
Karl Nerenberg
| In Canada, the spirit of resentment and the need for scapegoats that fuel the populist right might not seem strong right now. But make no mistake, they are here, not too far below the surface. |
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rabble news
January 28
Zaid Noorsumar
| Low government health-care spending and privatized services are neglecting the needs of an aging population and profoundly impacting an overburdened and precarious workforce. |
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rabble news
January 28
Anna Bianca Roach
| "Canada is an occupation," says one activist. RCMP surveillance and arrests of Indigenous land defenders and allies continue while resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline intensifies. |
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rabble news
January 27
Zaid Noorsumar
| Read what happened last week in the Canadian labour movement in rabble's roundup for January 27, 2020. |
