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rabble news
April 21
Karl Nerenberg
| The Trudeau government's 2021 budget is a watershed document. It signals a major shift toward more government spending and increased federal regulation of the economy. |
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opinion
April 20
Kathleen O'Hara
| Climate researchers Terry Moore and David Robertson have exposed the weaknesses -- even the dangers -- of the federal government's climate plan. |
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opinion
April 20
Marjorie Griffin Cohen
| This budget addresses one of the very crucial care issues that the Liberal Party has promised many, many times over many, many years -- child care. |
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opinion
April 19
Yves Engler
| Canadian naval presence off China's coast isn't new. But why are we engaging in aggressive exercises to support a nation that refuses to recognize the Law of the Sea? |
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analysis
April 19
Joyce Nelson
| A group of billionaires has been working closely for years with Natural Resources Canada in the drive for small modular reactors, especially for use in off-grid mining. |
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analysis
April 16
Karl Nerenberg
| Health officials in Ontario say the province has not had it so bad since the beginning of the pandemic. By contrast, in Quebec the current rate of increase is not nearly as severe. |
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analysis
April 16
Pat Armstrong, Marjorie Cohen, Laurell Ritchie, Armine Yalnizyan, Leah Vosko
| If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country. |
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opinion
April 16
Colleen Fuller
| If you had to choose between fighter jets we don't need and doubling one year's worth of education, health care, social services and equalization payments for all Canadians, which would it be? |
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arts/media
April 15
Judy Rebick, Leah Gazan, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
| Three activists reflect on the future of movement organizing and the power of independent media. |
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rabble news
April 15
Joyce Nelson
| Opponents of nuclear technology they call "dirty, dangerous and distracting" will be watching the federal budget to see just how far the Liberals will go in their push for small modular reactors. |
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opinion
April 14
Maude Barlow
| rabble.ca was on the front lines of the anti-corporate globalization movement in 2001, telling the story of the dangers of free trade deals and of the growing protests to confront them. |
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opinion
April 13
Reg Whitaker
| It is easy to be cynical about Liberal promises. But the NDP are mistaken to claim unbroken continuity from a past when the Liberals campaigned from the left and governed from the right. |
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politics
April 12
Karl Nerenberg
| New Democrats and Liberals both had their conventions this past weekend. Liberal delegates were more focused on winning the next election and less on policy debates than their NDP counterparts. |
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rabble news
April 1
Karl Nerenberg
| Long-term care for the elderly is the weak sibling of Canada's health system. If we did not know that previously, the COVID-19 pandemic has proven it conclusively. |
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rabble interview
March 25
Chelsea Nash
| Karen Messing's new book is an intervention into the sex- and gender-based challenges of work. |
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politics
March 25
Karl Nerenberg
| Craig and Marc Kielburger, the two brothers who founded WE Charity, have decided to play aggressive offence as they push back against the members of Parliament investigating them. |
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rabble news
March 22
Karl Nerenberg
| Jeremy Corbyn spoke with hundreds of Canadians this past weekend, in an online event organized to raise funds for Progressive International. |
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analysis
March 17
Chelsea Nash
| Uber has invested hundreds of millions into avoiding the reclassification of its workers as "employees" worldwide. |
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rabble news
March 16
Karl Nerenberg
| A new report looking at the inequitable worldwide distribution of vaccines points its finger at Canada as typical of "unseemly and unfair vaccine grabs" by wealthy countries. |
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analysis
March 10
Karl Nerenberg
| Isn't it time we cut the apron strings with the British Empire, once and for all? |
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politics
March 5
Karl Nerenberg
| The current Liberal minority has arguably been working quite well, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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rabble news
March 2
Chelsea Nash
| "COVID Chronicles" is preserving workers' experiences for future historians. |
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politics
February 25
Karl Nerenberg
| The purpose of the NDP's pharmacare bill was to advance a process to which the Trudeau government claims it is fully committed. And yet the governing Liberals voted against it. |
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in their own words
February 24
Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Amy Tan
| Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth brought together a group of health-care experts and advocates to talk with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about disparities in access to COVID-19 vaccine across Canada. |
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arts/media
February 23
Karl Nerenberg
| A new Heritage Minute marking Black History Month puts the spotlight on jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. Before he rose to prominence, the musician had an important early mentor: his sister Daisy. |
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rabble news
February 18
Chelsea Nash
| The sex worker rights organization Work Safe Twerk Safe says the Ontario government's order to close strip clubs while bars remained open was discriminatory. |
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rabble news
February 15
Chelsea Nash
| A coalition of Ontario unions have filed evidence in their legal challenge against Bill 124. |
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analysis
February 10
Karl Nerenberg
| Canada has no governor general, for the time being at least. Does anyone care? Should anyone care? |
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rabble news
February 2
Karl Nerenberg
| NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on the federal government to take steps to eventually abolish for-profit long-term care -- and while they're at it, rebuild domestic vaccine production capacity. |
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rabble news
January 27
Karl Nerenberg
| The Public Health Agency of Canada has been struggling to fulfill its role since the onset of the pandemic. That's the shocking conclusion of an internal federal government review. |
