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rabble news
November 27
Karl Nerenberg
| Minister Steven Guilbeault was on the right track when he pointed out that the CBC operates with considerable autonomy. He went off track when he spoke of journalistic independence. |
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analysis
November 27
Karl Nerenberg
| With time running out, the president is pushing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling process forward, hoping to make it irrevocable. |
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rabble news
November 26
Chelsea Nash
| If health-care workers had whistleblower protections, we may have known more about dangerous COVID-19 conditions sooner. |
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analysis
November 25
Karl Nerenberg
| The COVID-19 crisis has exposed catastrophic weaknesses in Canada's patchwork system for housing and caring for the elderly and disabled. The government needs to act. |
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analysis
November 20
Karl Nerenberg
| Bill C-10's major initiative is to give more scope and power to the CRTC to regulate broadcasters who use the internet, not the traditional airwaves. |
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rabble news
November 18
Chelsea Nash
| The provincial government is recruiting unemployed workers from retail and other sectors to fill staffing gaps in long-term care. |
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analysis
November 18
Karl Nerenberg
| MP Peter Julian has introduced a private member's bill to create a national prescription drug benefit for all Canadians, in conjunction with the provinces. |
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arts/media
November 9
Steven Heighton
| In 2015, Heighton travelled to Lesvos to assist Syrian refugees who had crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey -- the same crossing made by his mother's people after the Greco-Turkish War ended in 1922. |
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rabble news
November 5
Chelsea Nash
| Alberta is taking the most extreme austerity measures in response to the pandemic as it seeks to replace public employees with private industry. |
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analysis
October 30
Karl Nerenberg
| The 2020 U.S. presidential election could see a repeat of 2000 or 2016, where the Republicans win electoral votes in just enough states to carry the electoral college, while losing the popular vote. |
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rabble news
October 28
Chelsea Nash
| Unifor leadership and workers have questions about why police intervened when there was no injunction preventing picketing at a Weston's Bakery location. |
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rabble news
October 27
Chelsea Nash
| Advocates are lobbying for federal legislation that would qualify many app-based gig workers as "employees." |
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analysis
October 27
Karl Nerenberg
| Members of Parliament are supposed to be more than rubber stamps for the government. It should be possible for MPs to do their job while the crucial work to fight the pandemic continues unimpeded. |
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rabble interview
October 26
Alexandra Valahu
| Although the world Hernandez builds in her new novel "Crosshairs" has been described as sci-fi and dystopian, it looks a lot like the one we live in right now. |
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analysis
October 22
Karl Nerenberg
| The hubris of the federal Liberals and Conservatives brought Canada to the brink of an election, just a year after the last one -- and during the second wave of a pandemic. |
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rabble news
October 21
Chelsea Nash
| Sixty union jobs have been lost in Bowmanville, Ontario, amid a pandemic crisis in long-term care homes. |
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analysis
October 20
Karl Nerenberg
| The RCMP has called in reinforcements from other provinces, but will the police recognize that the Indigenous fishers are the law-abiding people here, while their tormentors are the criminals? |
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rabble news
October 16
Chelsea Nash
| Alberta union leaders are in daily communication with one another, something they say is beyond the norm. |
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rabble news
October 14
Karl Nerenberg
| First Nations communities will be safer when federal and provincial governments adopt a fulsome recognition of First Nations' right to run their own affairs. |
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analysis
October 9
Chelsea Nash
| Unions, lawyers and a variety of workers are pursuing different legal avenues to have gig workers' rights recognized under the Employment Standards Act. |
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rabble news
October 7
Chelsea Nash
| At a press conference hosted by four Ontario teacher unions, epidemiologists warned that autumn will bring higher rates of COVID-19 infection if changes are not implemented. |
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analysis
October 7
Karl Nerenberg
| American lawmakers refer to emergency COVID measures as economic stimulus. In Canada, as in Europe, they are more likely to consider such measures to be simply social programs. |
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analysis
October 5
Karl Nerenberg
| In the current context, a reinvigorated Green party poses the biggest threat not to the Liberals but to the NDP. |
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rabble news
September 25
Chelsea Nash
| The labour movement clearly has the ear of the Trudeau government, some observers say. |
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analysis
September 24
Karl Nerenberg
| Based on the speech, it is hard to believe that there was any need to cut the previous parliamentary session short -- except to put a stop to committees that were looking into the WE affair. |
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opinion
September 23
Chelsea Nash
| "Big labour" paints a picture of power hungry unions who are out of touch with workers. It's a phrase used to separate workers from their collectivity. |
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analysis
September 22
Karl Nerenberg
| Some Ottawa insiders have speculated that the government will pull back from any overly ambitious new programs, be they in energy, social welfare or even health, to focus on the pandemic. |
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rabble news
September 21
Chelsea Nash
| Largely left out of virtual schooling, EAs who are at risk of contracting COVID-19 may not have medical accommodations granted. |
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rabble news
September 17
Karl Nerenberg
| The Trudeau government could show some leadership, and drop its appeal of last July's federal court decision that the Safe Third Country Agreement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. |
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rabble news
September 14
Chelsea Nash
| Adult day school teachers are precariously employed, have no job security, no benefits and are paid less than regular high school teachers. |
