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politics
June 4
Karl Nerenberg
| Survivors have been sharing the ugly truths of the so-called residential "schools" for many years. Who was listening? |
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opinion
June 3
Robert J. Currie
| It is time that the government of Canada took both diplomatic and legal steps to push back against France's unfair and unlawful pursuit of a Canadian citizen. |
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opinion
June 2
Michael Keefer
| There are three glaring asymmetries made evident by the recent arrest of Rabbi David Mivasair following his participation in a demonstration outside the Israeli consulate in Toronto. |
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opinion
May 31
W. A. Bogart
| We have allowed individuals to choose regarding inoculations. Those refusing to be vaccinated are exercising that choice. But declining the jab will come with consequences. |
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opinion
May 31
Yves Engler
| Media largely ignores how Canadian military trainers and aid have supported the creation of a Palestinian security force explicitly to enforce Israel's occupation of the West Bank. |
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rabble news
May 28
Joyce Nelson
| The aerial spraying of the herbicide glyphosate on Canada's forests has been going on for so long that observers on the ground can no longer doubt the widespread damage it leaves behind. |
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rabble news
May 27
Karl Nerenberg
| For gig workers, the federal government recognizes the need to act, at some time in the future. But when will that happen? |
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opinion
May 27
Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Christa Big Canoe, Josée G. Lavoie
| Joyce Echaquan's experience of overt racism cannot be attributed to an isolated incident. Nor can it be acceptable that staff are too busy to meet their professional obligations. |
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in their own words
May 26
Shama Naqushbandi
| I was nobody -- impressionable and uncut, fresh from constitutional law and letter writing. I still believed I could change the world. |
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analysis
May 26
Karl Nerenberg
| Among those of us here in Canada who feel some connection to the beleaguered region, despair often seems like the only possible response. But many continue to believe a just settlement is possible. |
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opinion
May 25
Amy Giliam, André-Yanne Parent
| Canada's promises of ambitious climate regulation will not be credible if Canadian companies such as ReconAfrica dig for new fossil-fuel projects. |
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rabble news
May 21
Resh Budhu
| The Tommy Douglas Institute and rabble.ca bring you the Courage My Friends podcast, May 26 to June 30. |
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opinion
May 20
Bruce Campbell
| Under the current corporate-government relationship, regulations and legislation are systematically tilted to benefit the private interest at the expense of the public interest. |
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rabble news
May 19
Karl Nerenberg
| For all its good intentions, very little this government is doing addresses the looming housing crisis for millions of poor, young and otherwise marginalized Canadians. |
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rabble news
May 19
Joyce Nelson
| Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that the bombing will continue until there is "quiet." Apparently, that specifically includes the media. |
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opinion
May 18
Lucy Sharratt
| Health Canada is consulting Canadians on proposals to exempt some new genetically engineered foods -- genetically modified organisms or GMOs -- from government regulation. |
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opinion
May 18
Yves Engler
| The Canadian government offers innumerable forms of support to the regime. Chief among them are tax deductible charitable donations going to Israel. |
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rabble news
May 17
Karl Nerenberg
| In a 2021 report, Health Canada said what it calls "above background" air pollution contributes to over 15,000 premature deaths a year in Canada. |
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opinion
May 17
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish
| What is happening right now in Palestine is not only a test of political will -- and international law -- but of our shared humanity. |
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opinion
May 17
Cristina Rojas, Daniel Tubb
| The world is watching and learning what Indigenous and Afro-Colombians have never been allowed to forget: death can come at any time at the hands of the paramilitary, police, or army. |
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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. |
