This week @ rabble.ca: International Women's Day: A time to celebrate, a time to act
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07 Mar 2014
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Get ready for International Women's Day on March 8 by taking action to honour the contributions, abilities and challenges of women! Our Activist Toolkit is showcasing lots of great feminist resources to support women in different places, spaces and networks around the world. You can get a roundup of resources and tools right here.
Canada Reads, the CBC's annual "battle of the books" competition, has become one of the most polarizing topics in CanLit. As the latest round wraps up this winter, we find ourselves asking: is Canada Reads beneficial to Canadian literature? In the rabble book lounge blog, Kaitlin McNabb parses the pros and cons of the literary contest while Christina Turner analyzes her feelings about this year's winner, Joseph Boyden's The Orenda.
Are we Wisconsin? Join CUPE 2278 in Vancouver for a film screening of We Are Wisconsin, a documentary about the workers' uprising in Wisconsin at the state capital over 26 days in February and March 2011 and a Republican governor's bill which threatened to wipe out workers' rights. The film will be followed by a panel discussion about the ongoing attacks on labour.
This week's top news
NDP's big ideas. Right here. Right now.
NDP MP Megan Leslie to rabble columnist Murray Dobbin: The NDP has got big ideas, and we're proud of them!
By Megan Leslie
Risky business: Harper government set to announce decision on Line 9 proposal
While there remains a glimmer of hope that the Line 9 pipeline proposal will be rejected by the Harper government, it seems unlikely. There is too much money to be made despite the severe risks.
By Meg Borthwick
The Conservatives' multi-pronged attack on science
The Conservatives' attack on science has a goal to transfer power and resources from public services and public science to private institutions.
By Justin Podur
Canada Post provided 800 pages on postal banking, but 700 are redacted
An Ottawa news outlet, Blacklock's Reporter, requested an 800-page report on postal banking and Canada Post redacted over 700 pages of it. What happened to this report and why was so much redacted?
By H.G. Watson
Why are visible minorities invisible in Canadian media?
One in five Canadians is a member of a visible minority. So, why is this diversity so grossly underrepresented in Canadian broadcast and print media?
By Amira Elghawaby
This week's top blogs
Harper's elections act will deprive thousands of the right to vote -- Chief Electoral Officer
The Chief Electoral Officer told the Committee studying the Fair Elections Act that it does too little to stop fraud while it undermines the right to vote for many Canadians.
By Karl Nerenberg
International Women's Day 2014: The continuing struggle for bread and roses
Every March around the world, women organize International Women's Day events to celebrate the accomplishments of women's struggles and to remind society that much change is still required.
By Lynne Fernandez
Confronting the rightward slide of the ONDP
It's time to fight to restore progressive policies within the ONDP -- or start a new party.
By Nora Loreto
My Ukraine: Soldiers in the streets, geese in the fields
A diasporic Ukrainian Canadian writes about her country's survival.
By Marusya Bociurkiw
Nova Scotia home support workers designated essential, lose right to strike
On Friday, the McNeil government recalled the legislature to designate most home support workers so essential they cannot be allowed to exercise their legal right to strike.
By Stephen Kimber
Rape culture and student politics at the University of Ottawa
Recent conversation about the female president of UOttawa's student union is a telling example of what is said about women in power.
By Anne Theriault
This week's top columns
Vladimir Putin and the delusional bullying of great powers
If you designed a computer program to react "rationally" on the model of great power leaders pursuing what's consensually viewed as the National Interest, it would probably "behave" as Putin has.
By Rick Salutin
When a government protects workers by criminalizing them
Imagine for a moment, if the debate over prostitution laws was aimed at other types of workers.
By Joyce Arthur
Ukraine power play: What's at stake?
Ukraine cannot just be Ukraine: it's an object of great power meddling. With massed citizen actions calling for change, the Americans wanted to shape the new government, bypassing the European Union.
By Duncan Cameron
A number is never just a number: Tax cuts 101
With Canadian federal tax revenues at their lowest in 70 years, Hennessy's Index goes back to the basics of public revenue generation with a lesson in tax cuts.
By Hennessy's Index
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This week's top podcasts
Interview with author, counsellor and feminist Ellen Besso
Ellen Besso talks about her new book "An Indian Sojourn," a book detailing her travels with her partner in India and her work as a volunteer with Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala.
By Tanya Hill
A victory for migrant justice: Hamilton as 'sanctuary city'
Caitlin Craven and Josee Oliphant talk about organizing to make Hamilton, Ontario, into Canada's second 'sanctuary city.'
By Scott Neigh
Aboriginal feminisms
The F Word airs Ariana Barer's conversation with Darla Goodwin, traditional Aboriginal woman and feminist, about Aboriginal feminism(s).
By The F Word
The Sharing Project
Following on the success of the Vancouver Tool Library, co-founder Chris Diplock decided to find out what resources people share, who they share with and what motivates them to do it.
By Redeye Collective
This week's top rabbletv
Video: The Haiti coup 10 years later: Interview with human rights lawyer Mario Joseph
Mario Joseph describes the context and leadup to the foreign kidnapping of Haitian President Aristide in 2004, and talks about the situation in Haiti since that time.
By Greg Macdougall
This week's top books
'Tenir Tête' revisits the Maple Spring
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the Maple Spring's most recognizable face, offers a straight-forward account about how the student strike felt from the inside.
By Nora Loreto
In this issue
Upcoming events
TorontoInternational Women's Day 2014 - Re-Visiting Violence Against Women: Focus Turkey
We are pleased to announce a Science for Peace panel discussion entitled "International Women's Day (2014) – Re-Visiting Violence Against Women: Focus Turkey."
By Science for Peace
OttawaLunchtime discussion: The case for a National Action Plan on Violence Against Women
Please join us for a short panel followed by an open discussion on "How a National Action Plan on Violence against Women will affect or improve experiences of survivors, services, and prevention."
By Octopus Books
MaynoothSeedy Saturday in Maynooth
A gathering of seed nuts, garden wall flowers, dirty farmers, their beneficiaries and admirers.
By Seedy Saturday in Maynooth
This week's top in cahoots
Another victory for agriculture workers
The Quebec government will grant seasonal agriculture workers the same rights as all workers in Quebec, including, in particular, the right to join a union.
By United Food and Commercial Workers
Strong women, strong world, strong union
On March 8, 1857, female garment workers in New York City took to the streets to demand better working conditions, a ten-hour day, and equal rights for women.
By Hospital Employees' Union
International Women's Day 2014
Human rights are hard-won things. And once we gain them, we have to work to keep them.
By United Steelworkers
Taxing the rich to reduce income inequality helps the economy
An International Monetary Fund report released this week found that taxing the wealthy to fund programs that reduce income inequality is good for the economy.
By National Union of Public and General Employees
Active babble topics
Why don't we have and focus on a maximum wage, instead of a minimum wage?
By NorthReport
Does a PQ win mean a referendum on sovereignty?
By Brachina
Denial of rape culture in mainstream media
By Unionist
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Celebrating International Women's Day
Event listings to help you determine the best causes and campaigns to support in honour of International Women's Day.
Poll
What do you think is the most problematic part of the Fair Elections Act?
Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand presented a long brief on his concerns and changes he would like to see to the House Committee studying the Fair Elections Act and stated that the Fair Elections Act includes measures that "undermine the bill's stated purpose and will not serve Canadians well."
What do you think is the most problematic part of the Fair Elections Act?
Choices Eliminating voter ID cards eliminates the only document issued by the federal government that includes address information. The provision to exempt a limited category of "fundraising" activity is completely unenforceable. Eliminating "vouching" and expanding the list of allowable ID documents is a disadvantage for people who don't have ID. Elections Canada won't be able to communicate with Canadians about incidents of attempted fraud. It prevents the Commissioner of Elections from informing Canadians that they are investigating a breach of the law. None of the above.Forward to a friend
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