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opinion
April 30
Sarah Kurchak
| Our society consistently ties the value of a disabled person's life to the value we provide -- or fail to provide -- to abled people. |
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analysis
April 27
Karl Nerenberg
| Clinical trials are taking place right now to assess the effectiveness -- and potential side effects -- of chloroquine as treatment for COVID-19 patients. None of those trials are, as yet, conclusive. |
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analysis
April 24
Karl Nerenberg
| Don't expect this Liberal government, that likes to be all things to all people, to take on powerful corporate interests, especially at a time of extreme economic emergency. |
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arts/media
April 23
Christina Turner
| The mainstreaming of vegan food has produced a range of helpful cookbooks. Here's how to dive in. |
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analysis
April 22
Karl Nerenberg
| When a quorum of MPs returned to Parliament on Monday, they unanimously expressed the horror all Canadians feel about the extent of a single man's murderous rampage in Nova Scotia. |
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analysis
April 15
Karl Nerenberg
| Canadians can breathe a sigh of relief that our federal political system is mostly rising to the occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic. That is not so much the case in the republic to our south. |
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analysis
April 9
Karl Nerenberg
| How will COVID-19 change our world? Some are optimistic it will be for the better, but there are also darker potential scenarios. |
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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. |
