This week @ rabble.ca: Pull the plug on Harper
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06 Jun 2014
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This week's top news
Feel Good Friday roundup: Supercool edition
It's Feel Good Friday and we've got those good vibes you need. Great activism successes, the positive effects of wage increases and spelling bee semifinalist intros set to wrestling theme music.
By Kaitlin McNabb
Robert Buckingham saga highlights state of academic freedom
The firing of Dr. Robert Buckingham for criticizing the University of Saskatchewan's 'TransformUs' plan has brought up questions of academic freedom.
By Cory Collins
How can we better understand youth mental health in Canada?
A new project, Access Mental Health for Youth in Atlantic Canada, seeks to study the barriers and facilitators of youth mental health in hopes of finding ways to improve the system.
By Sanita Fejzic
How racism, hysteria and militarism are gripping Israel
Author and journalist Max Blumenthal recently visited Canada to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict and if Israel can exist as both Jewish and democratic.
By Paul Weinberg
Organizing precarious workers: Unifor's community approach
Even God's work is precarious work and that's why United Church priests are organizing to join unions. Unifor's community chapters act as an organizing mechanism for these workers.
By H.G. Watson
UP! Reaching out from the labour movement with the Ontario Common Front
How can the labour movement unite and broaden its reach? The Ontario Common Front, a project of the OFL, might be part of the answer to this question.
By Denise Martins
The Rockefeller Files: Alison Redford and the power and energy sector
The Harper Cabinet appointed Bruce Carson to hold business conferences on "cheap, clean" power in Canada. In the U.S., a forum on energy had been scheduled in secrecy and Alison Redford attended.
By Joyce Nelson
This week's top blogs
Enough petulant propaganda, please: The hammer of D-Day crushed Hitler on the anvil of Russia
You'd think from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's stale Cold War rhetoric that we’d been fighting Russia, not Germany, in 1944.
By David J. Climenhaga
Dear non-natives who like to wear headdresses: Just don't
Feeling like trying on a headdress even though you're not Aboriginal? Âpihtawikosisân provides some helpful resources so you can learn why this is not a good idea.
By Âpihtawikosisân
Five myths about the 'fracking jobs versus environment' debate
Here are five points that debunk the myth that if we protect our water and climate, we are "anti-jobs."
By Emma Lui
Peter MacKay's proposed new law could drive sex workers back underground
The government has introduced new legislation in response to the Supreme Court's Bedford decision that struck down existing legislation on sex work. Some think the new law tries to do an "end run."
By Karl Nerenberg
Sanctuary City from below: Dismantling the city of Vancouver
Calls for a Sanctuary City have been made in Vancouver at the policy level and by service providers since at least 2005, but are now finally taking root with the leadership of grassroots groups.
By Harsha Walia
Palestinian art exhibit under siege seeks free expression
Rehab Nazzal held an art exhibit titled "Invisible" which offers an artistic perspective on the legacy of Israel's occupation of Palestine. However, some believe it reflects "a culture of hate."
By Michelle Weinroth
This week's top columns
Caring for your personal microbial ecosystem
Each of us has a unique and dynamic microbial ecosystem, and scientific research shows that human-associated microbes influence us "at nearly every level and in every organ system."
By Ole Hendrickson
Harper's epic quest to hold back the tides of progress
Outlining his plan to turn Canada into an "energy superpower," Stephen Harper described plans to develop the tar sands as "an enterprise of epic proportions, akin to the building of the Pyramids."
By Linda McQuaig
Solar Roadways: Just porkpie in the sky
The Solar Roadways project got more than $1.8 million in donations, despite the plan making as much scientific sense as growing all our vegetables on the tops of our heads.
By Wayne MacPhail
Europe disenchanted: After the European Parliament elections
So long as social democratic market economics remain indistinguishable from neoliberalism, expect European discontent to continue.
By Duncan Cameron
Harper government holds up UN guidelines protecting small-scale fisheries
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has drafted guidelines to promote small-scale fisheries worldwide. Of nearly 100 countries involved, guess which is the only one not signing?
By Ralph Surette
Note to Andrea Horwath: Forget being coy and list the benefits of voting NDP
Rather than play coy about which party she would support in a minority setting, Andrea Horwath can and should state directly what program she would insist upon in any government.
By Ish Theilheimer
Starving ourselves to dystopia through tax cuts
A recent report from the PBO declared that thanks to the generosity of the federal government, "Canadians" have an extra $30 billion in their pockets -- money "saved" due to Conservative tax cuts.
By Murray Dobbin
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This week's top podcasts
Small-town Saskatchewan fights back against the mining industry
Ken Crush, Cathy Holtslander and Lyle Orchard talk about the fight against Fortune Minerals' plans to build an ore processing plant between two small Saskatchewan towns.
By Scott Neigh
Femme City Choir
Ariana Barer speaks with the co-organizers of the Femme City Choir in Vancouver, Lau Sequins and Kate Monstrr.
By The F Word
Health coalition concerned about major health restructuring in Ontario
On Tuesday, the Ontario Health Coalition released a report outlining the health-care platforms of the major parties in the upcoming provincial election.
By John Bonnar
Book: Racialized Policing
Sociologist Elizabeth Comack interviewed nearly 80 Aboriginal people in Winnipeg in her research for this book. They reported experiences that were overwhelmingly negative.
By Redeye Collective
This week's top rabbletv
Stephen Harper attacks the 'evils of communism.' But what of the victims of capitalism?
In a speech in Toronto this weekend, Stephen Harper attacks the "evils of communism," and raises money to build a memorial for its "victims" in Ottawa.
By rabble staff
This week's top books
'Jewel of the Thames' dives into the mythos of Sherlock Holmes
Come discover the wonderful world of Sherlock Holmes again, but this time through the eyes of the quick-witted Portia Adams. This YA novel is great for both kids and adults alike!
By Angela Misri
In this issue
Upcoming events
OttawaChildren's Climate Action Rally
Hundreds of children will gather on Parliament Hill to speak out -- and sing out -- about climate change at the first-ever Cool It For the Kids rally.
By Cool it for the Kids
KingstonPhilosopher's Cafe: War, Peacekeeping and Canada's military
This exhibition presents work by three artists who have recently been deployed to different conflict zones, embedded alongside Canadian troops as participants in the Canadian Forces Artists Program.
Vancouver#BoldAction -- the Moral Call for Climate Justice
#BoldAction -- the Moral Call for Climate Justice is a conversation about how to step up our movement to confront the climate crisis, featuring powerhouse activists and voices for change.
This week's top in cahoots
Make 2015 the last unfair election
Canada's electoral system is failing democracy. We need a citizen-led consultation process and a new electoral model. Make every vote count!
By Fair Vote Canada
U.S. acts on climate change! Will Canada do the same?
Harper has repeatedly pointed to the need for U.S. action for Canada to take steps to address climate change. Now that Obama has announced a major policy shift will Canada finally join in?
By National Union of Public and General Employees
Conservative government showing lack of concern for Canadians' privacy rights
The Conservative government's two recent decisions regarding privacy issues have raised concerns for many Canadians about the safekeeping of personal information and the future of privacy rights.
By National Union of Public and General Employees
Active babble topics
Liberation feminism
By Pondering
Ontario election leaders' debate: What's riding on it?
By NorthReport
Cloudburst over Montréal!
By lagatta
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This week's top tool
Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis
Authors Hilary Moore and Joshua Kahn Russell provide inspiration and empowerment that you'll feel down to your toes.
Poll
What do you think about Peter MacKay's proposed sex work law?
On Wednesday, Peter MacKay tabled the Conservatives' new sex work legislation, The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, which criminalizes the purchase of sex, the communication for the purpose of selling sex, the gain in material benefit from sex work and advertising sexual services.
What do you think about Peter MacKay's proposed sex work law?
Choices It's terrible! This model will lead to continued violence against sex workers. It's okay. It's good they are criminalizing demand, but a lot more needs to be done. Regardless of my stance, this bill won't be passed because it doesn't address the problems found by the court. It's great! This new 'Canadian model' sounds like a good hybrid for Canada. I'm not really sure and am still confused about the 'sex work debate.' None of the above.Forward to a friend
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