May 14
Concerns are growing about the proposed burial of high-level nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario. |
May 13
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. |
May 12
It's our responsibility to engage in conversations about how new systems of land governance could look. Everything should be on the table including ownership and governance of current protected areas. |
May 11
The province says work is "underway" to increase vaccine access to marginalized and vulnerable groups. |
May 10
If Canadians want a conversation about energy and climate policy undistorted by big oil's outsized influence, newspapers still matter. |
May 7
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is helping Brazil's right-wing government to privatize a public water system in Rio de Janeiro. Plus labour's plans for the climate crisis. |
May 6
To the surprise of many, U.S. President Joe Biden is making a daring bid to overturn much of the mean-spirited conservative economic agenda that's dominated America and the world since the 1980s. |
May 5
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. |
May 4
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. |
May 3
Stephen Kimber's book is a wonderful and detailed account of Alexa McDonough's rich life. Her political career is a role model for any woman looking for true stories of struggles and success. |
Apr 30
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. |
Apr 29
In a conversation about policy priorities, is economic benefit the most pertinent aspect of a transformative investment in child care? Or, does it harm the broader pursuit of justice and liberation? |
Apr 28
The spread of COVID-19 in workplaces not only impacts workers, but also has potentially devastating consequences for their families and communities. |
Apr 27
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. |
Apr 26
Charlize talks about being evicted from her previous home, about being homeless for months and about the challenges of now living in a single-room occupancy hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. |
Apr 23
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. |
Apr 22
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. |
Apr 21
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. |
Apr 20
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. |
Apr 19
Join in the celebration! Donate any amount and you could win a copy of "Everything on (the) Line: 20 Years of Social Movement Stories from rabble.ca," published by Between the Lines on April 18, 2021. |
Apr 16
If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country. |
Apr 16
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. |
Apr 15
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. |
Apr 15
With the first federal budget in two years expected on April 19, a potential election looms large against the backdrop of an ongoing pandemic and faltering roll-out of a national vaccine program. |
Apr 14
rabble.ca was on the front lines of the anti-corporate globalization movement in 2001, telling the story of the dangers of free trade deals and of the growing protests to confront them. |
Apr 13
Feminist recovery plan author Anjum Sultana discusses what a feminist recovery must look like to help women in Canada. |
Apr 12
New Democrats and Liberals both had their conventions this past weekend. Liberal delegates were more focused on winning the next election and less on policy debates than their NDP counterparts. |
Apr 9
Five unions in Ontario are demanding that teachers and other education workers be vaccinated immediately. |
Apr 8
The pandemic has only increased the clout of the powerful drug industry, which largely controls access to COVID vaccines desperately needed by Canadians and others. |
Apr 7
To prevent pandemics, we must recognize our interconnectedness with nature and protect natural systems that make the planet habitable for humans. Doing so will also help with the climate emergency. |