This week @ rabble.ca: Now playing in progressive film
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This week's top news
AUPE waits on anti-union Bill 46 ruling, Bill 45 still active
In December, Alberta passed two bills restricting labour activities in the province. On Tuesday January 28, a temporary stay was issued on Bill 46 due to an appeal by the AUPE.
By H.G. Watson
Vigil for Vega Jimenez to demand public inquiry and migrant detention policy reform
On December 28, 2013, Lucia Vega Jimenez committed suicide in the custody of the Canadian Border Services Agency. This latest migrant death prompts demands for immigration reform and public inquiry.
By Hasan Alam, Shireen Soofi
'It's living and breathing in this generation': A conversation with Helen Haig-Brown
Indigenous filmmaker Helen Haig-Brown is profiled in this intimate and compelling piece discussing the inspiration behind her work and her latest project 'My Legacy.'
By Christina Turner
Does raising the minimum wage = job losses?
Would raising the minimum wage in Canada result in huge job losses? Well according to minimum wage and unemployment rates, it appears not.
By Todd Ferguson
Protest-ending injunction won't stop Lubicon efforts
The Lubicon Lake Nation have shifted from road bloackades to court appeals in their fight against PennWest fracking operations for their land rights, after the Lubicon were served an injunction.
By Greg Macdougall
Got Land? Improve your treaty literacy
Controversy over 'Got Land? Thank an Indian' gear and an RCMP response to a walk protesting an Alberta oil spill got Shannon Houle writing about Canada's treaty literacy.
By Shannon Houle
The Housing First Model -- cure to homelessness in Canada?
With the extreme weather this year and the staggering rates of homelessness, Canada, more than ever, needs to adopt a national housing strategy because housing is a basic human right.
By Sanita Fejzic
This week's top blogs
Activist Toolkit roundup: Impacts of globalization
This week, rabble's weekly Activist Toolkit blog features campaigns and tools to counteract the consequences of corporate globalization and advocate for those who are negatively affected.
By Megan Stacey
As UNB strike continues, province orders both sides back to the table
An external mediator has been brought in to restart stalled negotiations in the UNB labour dispute, now in its third week.
By Cherise Letson
How to fight the cuts at Canada Post
So our task is to begin to translate the already existing support for home mail delivery into action. How can we do this? Here are a couple of ideas.
By David Bush
Gas pipeline explosion in Manitoba as resource projects on a relentless rise in western Canada
TransCanada PipeLines wants to build Keystone XL and Energy East. Its safety record is questioned following the rupture of its gas pipeline in Manitoba.
By Roger Annis
Oh to be a fly on the cabinet room wall today! Court grants two-week stay on application against AUPE of Bill 46
Yesterday's court ruling, while minor, symbolically illustrates that in a constitutional democracy even Alberta's Progressive Conservatives are not all-powerful.
By David J. Climenhaga
Science-based decisions on farms -- in whose interest?
Our farms and food sovereignty are under threat if multinational agribusiness corporations continue to control the science used to make 'science-based' decisions and regulations on our farms.
By Ann Slater
Not a bowl of Putin: Pussy Riot, feminism and Vladimir Putin's Russia
Masha Gessen's new book focuses on the art collective, Pussy Riot and comes at the most appropriate time as the Sochi Olympics draw closer, and the leaders of Pussy Riot leave prison.
By Andrea Jackson
This week's top columns
Singing truth to power: Pete Seeger's legacy of social justice
Pete Seeger sang truth to power through the epic struggles of most of the last century, for social justice, for civil rights, for workers, for the environment and for peace.
By Amy Goodman
Whose freedom of expression is the Harper government protecting?
Stephen Harper's strong condemnation of individuals who criticize Israel's policies raises serious concerns about his government's commitment to protecting political speech in Canada.
By Pro Bono, Shelina Ali
Tang and the panopticon: Lowering our expectations for privacy
Today, when the NSA is collecting private data, it's easy to forget we once had privacy. Or, to use a Tang metaphor, it's easy for us to think this is what privacy actually tastes like.
By Wayne MacPhail
Who will Harper surprise next?
Taking others by surprise is a big part of the strategy employed by the Harper government as it remakes Canada. Harper won a majority in 2011, surprising the country as the Liberal vote collapsed.
By Duncan Cameron
Harper's perverse infatuation with Benjamin Netanyahu is a disservice to Israel
Stephen Harper's fawning support of the Israeli prime minister suggests that Harper may well have proven to be a good friend of Mr. Netanyahu but not necessarily of Israel.
By Murray Dobbin
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This week's top podcasts
Walking the talk: Anti-oppression and the spoken word community
On this episode of Rad Voices, I spoke with activist and poet Janice Lee about anti-racism organizing in the spoken word community.
By Steffanie Pinch
Anti-ableism in the city: Accessibilize Montreal
Paul Tsuma and Aimee Louw talk about a new group that is challenging both physical barriers and the broader barriers of ableism in Montreal.
By Scott Neigh
Sour gas wells allowed within 100 metres of schools
The natural gas industry is growing rapidly in B.C. Much of the gas contains dangerous levels of hydrogen sulfide. A new report finds serious problems with current safety provisions.
By Redeye Collective
Episode 151: Under pressure: pipelines, prisons, and places
Nova Scotia's potential fracking game changer. We get the scoop on the Northern Gateway pipeline ruling, supporting trans and queer prisoners, and a movie review.
By Matthew Adams, Meagan Perry
The scapegoating of the grey seal and Vélo Québec's Route Verte
Robert DeVet interviews Linda Pannozzo about her book, "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Scapegoating of Canada's Grey Seals" and then Erica Butler speaks with Marc Jolicoeur of Vélo Québec.
By Erica Butler
This week's top rabbletv
Lubicon Cree interview -- fracking, land defence, rights, sovereignty, support
Greg Macdougall sat down with Cynthia and Garrett Tomlinson, Land and Negotiations Advisor and Communications Coordinator, respectively, of the Lubicon Lake Nation.
By Greg Macdougall
This week's top books
'Letters Lived' captures the personal and political of an activist's journey
Do you ever wish you could write your teenaged self a letter of advice? 'Letters Lived: Radical reflections, revolutionary paths' poses this question to a diverse group of social activists.
By Rae Spoon, Sheila Sampath
In this issue
Upcoming events
VariousBreaking the Ice: Arctic Coalition Conference
The Youth Arctic Coalition is excited to host Breaking the Ice, the inaugural international conference dedicated to starting dialogue among youth from across the circumpolar north about Arctic issues.
By Youth Arctic Coalition
TorontoConfronting injustice: Social activism in the age of individualism
This book launch features a reading and talk by the author, as well as discussion -- with particular attention to student and community activism.
By Beit Zatoun
VancouverThen & Now: A Celebration of Black History Month
The launch and reception of Then & Now Black History Month Series 2014. Meet the successful funding recipients; four projects celebrating Vancouver's Black history and diversity.
By Vancouver Public Library
This week's top in cahoots
Federal government backing away from cleaning up Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Recent media reports suggest measures intended to reduce the abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program are being undermined.
By National Union of Public and General Employees
Income splitting: Huge tax cuts for rich families
It is beyond dispute that parental income splitting will give lavish tax benefits to the richest families while giving shockingly small benefits to those who actually need them the most.
By Canadians for Tax Fairness
Indigenous struggle and survival in the face of Canadian colonialism and mining
Presentation by Xat'sull Chief Bev Sellars for the Fifth Gathering of the Latin American Observatory of Mining Conflicts.
By Mining Watch
Rally for postal service draws thousands
Thousands of postal workers and supporters rallied in Ottawa on Sunday to send a message to Canada Post and the Harper federal government about their plan to end door-to-door mail delivery.
By Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Active babble topics
Chicago: Northwestern University football players seek to unionize
By robbie_dee
Justin Trudeau kicks Liberal senators out of caucus in bid to reform Upper Chamber
By Catchfire
Poverty poli-tricks: Ontario raises minimum wage
By NDPP
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Justice for Lucia Vega Jimenez
Demand a proper and just investigation into the death of a British Columbian migrant worker.
What do you think of Justin Trudeau's decision to remove his senators from Liberal caucus?
This week Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau decided to expel all his Liberal senators from his caucus and declared that there is no longer such a thing as a Liberal senator. He stated that the Senate is broken and needs to be fixed and that the only members of the Liberal caucus will be those elected by the people of Canada.
This move took everyone, including his former senators, by surprise and prompted questions about the motives behind this shocking move. The Conservatives called it a "smokescreen" and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair was suspicious given Trudeau had voted against the NDP motion to end partisan activities in the Senate.
What do you think of Justin Trudeau's decision to remove his senators from Liberal caucus?
Choices Like the Conservatives said: this is just a smokescreen to distance himself from the auditor general's report. This is a clever move by Justin Trudeau and I think it is a good idea. His actions seem disingenuous because he previously voted against the NDP's motion to end partisan activities in the Senate. This is a bad idea like Harper said. We need elected senators, not have unelected independent senators who happen to be Liberal. I'm not really sure how this decision will play out. None of the above.
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