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analysis
August 3
Rita Wong
| The West Moberly First Nations has launched an epic court case seeking to halt the dam which will be heard in 2022. A recent B.C. Supreme Court win by Blueberry River First Nations bodes well. |
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opinion
July 30
Lynn Oliphant
| "Sustainable growth" is the ultimate oxymoron of our times. |
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opinion
July 30
Yves Engler
| Today Palestinian-Canadian refugee Khaled Mouammar and Rabbi David Mivasair submitted a formal legal complaint to the CRA concerning the charitable status of the Canadian Zionist Cultural Association. |
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opinion
July 29
Ken Theobald
| International co-operation led to the creation of vaccines. A capitalist, neoliberal global order has led to extreme vaccine disparity. |
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rabble news
July 22
Rita Wong
| The value in the forests does not lie only in how much profit the lumber itself turns, but primarily in the everlasting ecological value the old forests provide by nature. |
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opinion
July 22
Summer Mahmud, Rahul Varma
| If schoolchildren were taught Canada's hidden history, they would have learned that the actions of the Canadian government constituted genocide. |
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opinion
July 19
Ish Theilheimer
| As he continues to use Trump's tactics to push Cuba toward asphyxiation, what is Biden's endgame? |
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opinion
July 16
Yves Engler
| While a vitally important campaign, stopping the fighter jet procurement is a rearguard action. We need to defund the military, which sucks up $30 billion a year. |
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rabble news
July 14
Joyce Nelson
| In May, Canada added plastic items to the list of toxic substances under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Within days, the plastics industry filed an application for a lawsuit. |
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profile
July 13
Marcello Di Cintio
| Many of Winnipeg's Indigenous women have a story about harassment at the hands of drivers, most commonly about cabbies proposing "another way to pay." Ikwe set out to change that. |
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rabble news
July 9
Yves Engler
| Jovenel Moïse was a violent and corrupt tyrant. While his passing may not elicit much sympathy, the Haitian president's assassination should not be celebrated. |
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rabble news
July 7
Joyce Nelson
| More than 352 forest defenders have now been arrested at the Fairy Creek blockades in B.C. since mid-May. |
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opinion
July 6
Bruce Campbell
| The tragic deaths of 47 people eight years ago in southeast Quebec were collateral damage from the culmination of decisions stretching back almost four decades. Still, justice is denied. |
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opinion
July 6
Neela Hassan
| While Canada has been long praised for its asylum generosity towards refugees, the federal government's approach towards seekers during the pandemic has violated human rights. |
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opinion
June 30
Javney Mohr
| An open letter to fellow non-Indigenous people: decolonization is not a metaphor. |
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opinion
June 30
Rachel Snow
| Hasn’t the cancelling of First Nations gone on for long enough? |
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rabble news
June 30
Krystalline Kraus
| How do we turn upset into action? |
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opinion
June 29
Hawa Y. Mire
| Canada has a hard long road to recovery -- and an election right now just isn't part of it. |
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rabble news
June 28
Joyce Nelson
| AECOM's preliminary design environmental assessment -- as commissioned by the Ontario government -- will play a significant role in the project's future. |
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politics
June 25
Karl Nerenberg
| When you are a minister and the people whom you are supposed to look out for utterly lose confidence in you, it is hard to see how you can carry on. |
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opinion
June 22
Stephen Kimber, John Kirk
| The world has condemned the U.S. embargo of Cuba since 1992. When will it finally lift it? |
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politics
June 22
Karl Nerenberg
| Why bother having a fixed-date election law if no one will heed it? |
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rabble news
June 21
Joyce Nelson
| Critics say the highway would not only contribute to loss of wetlands and wildlife habitat, but also would increase phosphorus and salt pollution in Lake Simcoe. |
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opinion
June 17
Yves Engler
| Annamie Paul and her supporters are right: racism is a factor in her leadership crisis. But it is Paul's inability to view Palestinians as deserving of equal rights that has placed her in this mess. |
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politics
June 16
Karl Nerenberg
| We have known for decades what it will take to rewrite the future history of Indigenous nations in Canada. When will any government get the courage to take the first step? |
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opinion
June 15
Helyeh Doutaghi, Ashley Courchene
| The media cycles in which Islamophobic killings crowd out stories about Indigenous children's remains suggests competition among different groups of victims, despite shared root causes. |
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analysis
June 14
Joyce Nelson
| In mid-May, the X-Press Pearl container ship started leaking acid and caught fire while anchored off the coast of Sri Lanka. The fire destroyed much cargo, but plastic debris started washing ashore. |
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opinion
June 11
Madiha Syed
| When will my hijab be the symbol of peace it is meant to be rather than a target for hateful people? |
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opinion
June 10
Yves Engler
| The campaign proved that a small number of dedicated activists with a targeted, well-planned strategy could have a major impact on Canadian foreign policy. |
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politics
June 9
Karl Nerenberg
| In New Zealand the government set up a royal commission after a gunman shot 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, in March 2019. Canada should do the same. |
