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politics
October 11
Phillip Dwight Morgan
| As the Toronto election campaign heads into its final days, writer Phillip Morgan looks at how the democratic system is failing the city |
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rabble news
October 10
Karl Nerenberg
| As some politicians continue to hammer at their who-cares-about-climate-change message while making headlines, the complex news of failing to curb carbon emissions receives a lot less coverage. |
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politics
October 4
Phillip Dwight Morgan
| The CBC points to Tory's refusal to participate, but the move raises questions about how the media frames coverage and contributes to influencing outcomes. |
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politics
October 3
Karl Nerenberg
| Federal government appoints former Supreme Court justice to lead the talks on how to accommodate concerns of the affected First Nations. |
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politics
October 2
Karl Nerenberg
| Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault swept to power Monday with a convincing majority, leaving the two traditional provincial parties -- the PQ and Liberals -- shattered. |
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arts/media
September 27
Dana Ewachow
| From fiction to the media, portrayals of student-teacher relationships tend to favour the perspective of the older, more powerful party. |
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analysis
September 27
Karl Nerenberg
| While climate change related events ravage citizens' lives, Ontario Premier Ford and his enablers gleefully attack virtually all measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
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rabble interview
September 20
Rosemary Frei
| This collection of essays reveals how pension fund capitalism is robbing Canadians of safe and affordable infrastructure, and what can be done to stop this. |
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rabble series
September 20
Phillip Dwight Morgan
| For mayoral candidate D!ONNE Renée, Toronto still presents many barriers to people's livelihoods. As mayor she would bring an inclusive vision for the city's future. |
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rabble news
September 14
Tania Ehret
| As Vancouver gears up for its 2018 election on October 20, local women's organization Women Transforming Cities launch their Hot Pink Paper on women-friendly policies in municipal politics. |
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politics
September 14
Karl Nerenberg
| Doug Ford intends to use the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to circumvent a court ruling preventing him from cutting Toronto city council, but he has not countered any of the judge's points. |
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rabble series
September 12
Phillip Dwight Morgan
| A proud alumnus of WomenWinTO, Toronto mayoral candidate Saron Gebresellassi spent more than a year planning her run and boasts over a decade of community organizing experience. |
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politics
September 6
Karl Nerenberg
| The Federal Court of Appeal decision on Trans Mountain condemns a patronizing consultation process with First Nations. Can Trudeau correct that, and protect the B.C. coast? |
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politics
August 20
Karl Nerenberg
| Premier Ford has spent nearly two months undermining the environment, welfare and refugees, breaking more than a few promises along the way. His admirers say that means he is decisive. |
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opinion
August 10
Humberto DaSilva
| Extreme intolerance seems to be the 0.0001%'s new tack to ensure the energy of all the growing underclasses are not misdirected at them. |
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politics
August 8
Nisha Toomey, Sharmeen Khan
| When we demand that immigrant families stay together, we mean they should be free together. Families should live in safety and should not live under the terror of being separated. |
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rabble news
August 8
José Luis Granados Ceja
| A review of Canada's adventures in imperialism and colonialism following the meeting between Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador. |
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arts/media
August 2
Clarissa Fortin
| The Ottawa literary magazine now raising funds to deliver new special issue called Dis(s)ent. |
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in their own words
July 31
Kate McInturff
| The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative mourns the loss of feminist researcher and scholar Kate McInturff. |
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opinion
July 30
Humberto DaSilva
| If you ever wondered what you would do if you lived in 1935 Germany, it’s an easy question to answer. Look at what you are doing today. |
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for the sake of argument
July 24
Michael Laxer
| The next time you hear about someone wounding or killing five or 10 or 15 people in a community in Canada or the United States you won't even have to think about one aspect of it. |
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rabble news
July 23
Meg Borthwick
| With 250 participants currently registered, the NDP-led movement’s online seminars are presenting women with solid tools and strategies for succeeding in electoral politics. |
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in their own words
July 20
Antonia Zerbisias
| Charles McVety, the so-called “evangelical leader” who delivered unto Doug Ford a social conservative Christian base, is less about loving the poor and disadvantaged and more about promoting hate. |
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analysis
July 19
Rosemary Frei
| Part Two: Going Green at the Toronto Transit Commission should not be done at the expense of best practice or due diligence. |
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rabble interview
July 18
Tavleen Purewal
| The author discusses his new book, I've Been Meaning To Tell You, which is written as a letter to his daughter. |
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analysis
July 18
Rosemary Frei
| Part one: New information, including FOI requested documents, suggests political pressure is at play when it comes to assessing analysis that compares the options for pricey green-bus technology. |
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in their own words
July 17
Carmela Hutchison
| Her father, believing he acted out of "mercy" when he killed her, was judge, jury and executioner. Now he says he is being victimized because his second-degree murder conviction is public record. |
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in their own words
July 16
Jessica Parish
| For my final two years of my PhD I decided I’d rather bartend than teach in the post-secondary sector. Why? Because I needed time and money to continue writing and bartending made better sense. |
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analysis
July 11
Cheryl Whiting
| Eye-opening studies show that the operation emissions of a building after 60 years are only half of the embodied emissions that are present as of day one, thanks to its construction methods. |
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analysis
July 6
Ed Finn
| Canada’s social spending has declined to just 17.2 per cent of GDP. There is no excuse for government refusal to improve our inferior social programs and help millions in poverty-stricken families. |
