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rabble news
May 14
Joyce Nelson
| Concerns are growing about the proposed burial of high-level nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario. |
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rabble news
May 13
Karl Nerenberg
| What started as peaceful resistance to the latest attempted expulsion of Arabs from their homes in East Jerusalem has forced the Palestinian question onto centre stage. |
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opinion
May 12
Brandon Doucet
| A public dental plan is urgently needed in Canada. In 2018, one in three Canadians lacked dental insurance and over one in five avoid the dentist each year due to financial constraints. |
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rabble news
May 11
Chelsea Nash
| The province says work is "underway" to increase vaccine access to marginalized and vulnerable groups. |
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opinion
May 10
Robert Massoud
| On May 22, starting at 5 a.m., Russell Lavis will attempt to run 125 kilometres to help purchase emergency COVID equipment for Gaza. |
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opinion
May 6
Yves Engler
| Military command structures reinforce the most undemocratic impulses of Canadian society, while its patriarchal and authoritarian nature is a threat to many within it. |
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opinion
May 5
Judy Jackson
| As a young man Stephen Lewis worked as a teacher in Africa and fell in love with the continent. Later, filmmaker Judy Jackson witnessed Lewis' work in Africa combatting the HIV/AIDS crisis. |
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rabble news
May 5
Joyce Nelson
| The Lake Erie Connector is a proposed 117-kilometre, 1,000-megawatt, high-voltage direct-current transmission line under Lake Erie. It would connect with the largest electricity market in the U.S. |
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opinion
May 4
Judy Jackson
| Even though he is sick, Stephen Lewis is still speaking out about the rampant global inequality in access to vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic which, once again, is created by big pharma. |
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opinion
May 3
Ken Grafton
| It has been obvious for some time that Doug Ford has no idea what needs to be done to protect the public from COVID-19, and also lacks the leadership skills to lead Ontario through the pandemic. |
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profile
April 30
Karl Nerenberg
| Tom Berger died earlier this week at the age of 88. He had an eminent career, marked by a lifelong commitment to Indigenous peoples and social justice. |
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opinion
April 29
Gordon Laxer
| As the world moves off oil and gas, Canadians must quickly change our mindset. Being a resource-exporting country is our past, not our future. |
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opinion
April 28
Yves Engler
| Those who oppose all forms of apartheid must challenge Israeli military recruitment in Canada, which contravenes the law and is obviously immoral. |
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analysis
April 28
Chelsea Nash
| The spread of COVID-19 in workplaces not only impacts workers, but also has potentially devastating consequences for their families and communities. |
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opinion
April 28
Joyce Green
| The failure by governments to adequately support Laurentian in this moment violates the commitments we are all called to make to achieve reconciliation and measures of justice. |
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opinion
April 27
Alex Himelfarb
| Yes, deficits are growing, but if government is truly to make a comeback, if we are to usher in a rebalancing of public and private, individual and collective, this budget is just a down payment. |
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opinion
April 27
Summer Mahmud, Rahul Varma
| The mass murder of six Asian women in Atlanta by a 21-year-old white man is the latest in a long-standing history of unrecognized anti-Asian racism, misogyny, and murder across Turtle Island. |
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rabble news
April 23
Karl Nerenberg
| Ford said he was sorry more than once. But he failed to make a single concrete new commitment to deal with the ravages wrought by the pandemic's third wave in Ontario. |
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analysis
April 22
Min Sook Lee
| A combination of fiscal mismanagement by administration and the chronic underfunding of Ontario universities has produced the Laurentian University disaster. |
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analysis
April 22
Joyce Nelson
| While the rest of us try to transition to a low-carbon future, the military has carte blanche to burn all the fossil fuels it wants in its hardware for never-ending wars. |
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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. |
