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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. |
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arts/media
February 6
Christina Turner
| What should you read this year? We asked staff members at six independent Canadian bookstores which upcoming releases they were most excited about. |
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rabble interview
February 3
Zaid Noorsumar
| An interview with the NDP's health critic in the Ontario legislature, about the state of home care in the province. |
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analysis
January 31
Karl Nerenberg
| The time has come for Canada to take the new media environment made possible by the internet seriously, says new report from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel. |
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analysis
January 29
Karl Nerenberg
| In Canada, the spirit of resentment and the need for scapegoats that fuel the populist right might not seem strong right now. But make no mistake, they are here, not too far below the surface. |
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rabble news
January 28
Zaid Noorsumar
| Low government health-care spending and privatized services are neglecting the needs of an aging population and profoundly impacting an overburdened and precarious workforce. |
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rabble news
January 28
Anna Bianca Roach
| "Canada is an occupation," says one activist. RCMP surveillance and arrests of Indigenous land defenders and allies continue while resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline intensifies. |
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rabble news
January 27
Zaid Noorsumar
| Read what happened last week in the Canadian labour movement in rabble's roundup for January 27, 2020. |
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rabble interview
January 23
Jenny Ferguson
| New edition includes episode cut from 1973 book about Campbell's assault by RCMP officers at the age of 14. |
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rabble news
January 17
Zaid Noorsumar
| Privatization has negatively affected both workers and patients. The work is demanding, unstable and low-paying, and staff turnover is high. |
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rabble news
January 7
Anna Bianca Roach
| Activists occupied RBC and AIMCo's Toronto offices to protest the Coastal GasLink pipeline project in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en Nation. |
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rabble interview
January 3
Zaid Noorsumar
| The neoliberalization of Ontario's long-term care system has resulted in all the contradictions and inefficiencies associated with for-profit health care delivery. |
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rabble news
December 24
Zaid Noorsumar
| Workers are leaving the industry due to demanding working conditions, poor compensation, high rates of injury and abuse, and lack of full-time work. |
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analysis
December 20
Karl Nerenberg
| The SNC-Lavalin affair, which cast a shadow over 2019, highlighted the Trudeau government's ambiguity, if not outright double talk, on both democratic reform and Indigenous rights. |
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arts/media
December 19
rabble staff
| Climate change, the federal election, #MeToo, the rise of the right: our staff's favourite books from 2019 touch on all of these important issues and more. |
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analysis
December 17
Karl Nerenberg
| It is hard to imagine a viable leader of any major party who could not campaign vigorously and convincingly in both official languages. |
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analysis
December 12
Karl Nerenberg
| The Conservative party leader's resignation signals that in Canada, opposition to same-sex and reproductive rights is now an out-there, fringe position, well beyond the mainstream. |
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analysis
December 12
Paul Weinberg
| In December of 1970, the offices of anti-poverty organization Praxis Corporation were broken into and set on fire. Who was responsible? |
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analysis
December 11
Karl Nerenberg
| For the first time ever, NATO has acknowledged outer space as what it calls the "fifth domain" of warfare. The other warfare domains are land, air, sea and cyberspace. |
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in their own words
December 6
Judy Rebick
| Thirty years later, remembering the killings at L'École Polytechnique and what came next. |
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rabble news
December 6
Diana Vela Almeida
| This fall, Ecuador erupted into massive protests against neoliberal economic reforms. Protesters orchestrated a unified national shutdown and spurred an international movement against neoliberalism. |
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analysis
November 29
Medea Benjamin
| With the control that the right-wing coup leaders have consolidated in record time, and the intimidation and fear felt by opponents, it is hard to see how free and fair elections can take place. |
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analysis
November 29
Karl Nerenberg
| If Canada aspires to be a global leader, we are going to have to step up our game on greenhouse gas emissions reductions. To achieve that, all of us will have to start considering our own choices. |
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rabble news
November 28
Zaid Noorsumar
| The union is asking for better wages, paid sick days and safer working conditions. |
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analysis
November 25
Karl Nerenberg
| The Liberals have abandoned any pretence to the idealistic and aspirational spirit of reform that -- at least rhetorically -- informed their first mandate. |
