This week @ rabble.ca: Challenge Harper's agenda on Parliament Hill

Details: Published on Friday, 10 October 2014 16:00; Written by editor

26 Sep 2014

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With Parliament back in session, our Parliamentary Bureau, led by award-winning journalist Karl Nerenberg, is ready to cover Harper's policies to the fullest. Help ensure that we have a top-notch team of independent and ethical journalists to challenge Stephen Harper's agenda. Support our Parliamentary team with a donation today.

On September 21, people across the world came together at the People's Climate March in New York City, the largest climate rally in history. Indigenous leaders spoke to the urgency of climate change, women's organizations called for gender justice, and Canadians called out our current government's inaction after the collective outpouring of political will. You can get all the stories from the events here.

Join rabble.ca and author Donald Gutstein as he launches his latest book, Harperism:... How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada. Panelists include Louise Mandell, Gwen Barlee and Adrienne Montani. Get the full details here.

We're excited to start the launch of the Vancouver International Film Festival by giving away some tickets! Follow us @rabbleca on Twitter and retweet our #VIFF tweets to be entered to win. Find out more about all the fantastic films playing at VIFF here.

This week's top news

Feel Good Friday: Not Stephen Harper edition
It had to be said. But more positively, it was a great week for good news: transit! feminism! cats! bears! activism!
By Kaitlin McNabb

What we're (not) talking about when we talk about the Franklin expeditions
If this is our national story, then we are telling ourselves the wrong story.
By Correy Baldwin

Voting strategically in the 2015 federal election? Here's why you shouldn't.
The tagline "Anything but Harper" just won't cut it in the 2015 federal election and neither will strategic voting. We need to vote for the kind of government we want to replace the Harper regime.
By Ken Neumann

Human trafficking research reveals Canada's role in violence against Aboriginal women
Public Safety Canada's report on human trafficking in Aboriginal communities asks "How are Aboriginal families trafficking their children?" instead of "Has the government participated in trafficking?"
By Julie Kaye, Sarah Hunt

Why I will vote for Olivia Chow
Olivia Chow is an important community-builder in Toronto and we need her strengths more than ever says Cathy Crowe.
By Cathy Crowe

New Brunswick election 2014: Green Party leader takes Fredericton riding, NDP leader resigns
New Brunswick election results are in, and the Liberals have formed a majority government. But what were voters talking about and what issues were most important to them?
By Tracy Glynn

Tony Clement floats lies and trial balloons on Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Tony Clement recently tried to pass the blame on the disastrous Temporary Foreign Worker Program changes to the Liberals, forgetting that the Conservatives were responsible for most of it.
By Karl Flecker

This week's top blogs

Did you know? Millennials can be a much needed force in Canadian politics.
Is it true that millennials are so disillusioned by party politics that they feel more accomplished doing community work than voting? If so, we need to ask how we can engage millennials in voting.
By Katrina Orlowski

Iranian president trolls U.S. on Twitter, then addresses UN
While Canadians struggle to find even basic facts about our apparent incursion into Iraq, the President of Iran has been giving the gears to modern Western imperialism.
By Michael Stewart

Dear Ryan: What's with the left-leaning non-profit witchhunts?
CRA witchhunts? How far is the Prime Minister willing to go to suppress dissent?
By Linda Leon

Why 'corporate social responsibility' is a crock
The amounts that corporations are spending on "corporate social responsibility" are but an infinitesimal part of what they have saved in corporate taxes.
By Larry Haiven

Harper will skip UN climate meetings. Would the other parties?
The Harper regime has been openly hostile to the environment, to those who research it and to those who advocate for it. Trudeau's Liberals are gun-shy, while NDPers and Greens are more serious.
By Karl Nerenberg

On the ground at the People's Climate March
After 25 years of inaction by government and industry, it is hard for people to continue to act, to continue to believe that climate justice is possible. This weekend, that may have changed.
By Tracey Mitchell

This week's top columns

'To Change Everything, We Need Everyone': A Canadian goes to the People's Climate March
Our current government is so far behind the collective outpouring of our political will for greenhouse gas reduction that we are doing it ourselves, just as we marched as one on September 21.
By Elizabeth Littlejohn

Expiring operating agreements: An opportunity for housing innovation
The impending end of operating agreements for housing providers, with its potentially catastrophic results, is an opportunity to bring the issue of affordable housing into the public discourse.
By Celia Chandler, Pro Bono

It's not about old vs. young. Growing inequality is the real problem.
The corporate spin that pits old against young studiously avoids the root cause of the problem: policies that have led to a dramatically rising gap between rich and poor of all ages.
By Linda McQuaig

ISIS: Their barbarism… and ours
The barbarism that is ISIS has its roots in the barbarism that was Canadian and "coalition" war policy in the obliteration of Iraq in the 1991 "Gulf" war and subsequent sanctions.
By Matthew Behrens

The MacPhail-safe guide to better smartphone photos
In recent weeks, new smartphones from a variety of manufacturers have sported improved cameras. To make the most of them, here are five tips for taking better pictures with that phone in your hand.
By Wayne MacPhail

10 lessons for Canadians from the Scottish referendum
The Scottish independence referendum offered Canadians lessons on democracy and nationhood. Here are the top 10 takeaways for Canada.
By Duncan Cameron

Work in the age of anxiety
Why is there no militancy today among working Canadians, why no sustained and focused solidarity or courage in facing powerful adversaries? The answer is rooted in an anxiety that defines our society.
By Murray Dobbin

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This week's top podcasts

The Ethiopian village founded on equality
Awra Amba, a community in northern Ethiopia, has rejected aid and embraced equality for more than 40 years.
By Africafiles, Heather Yundt

Episode 158: Not wanted by our government -- undocumented migrants in Canada
Episode 158 of rabble radio is about the lives that undocumented migrants face and also about people trying to help them make sense of it all and live their lives.
By Victoria Fenner

The three myths of mainstream publishing with Tudor Robins
We interview Tudor Robins on traditional vs. independent publishing, busting three big myths: the myth of choice, the myth of support and the myth of quality.
By Catherine Brunelle, Kevin Johns

The policing of protest: From bad to worse
Organizer and scholar Lesley Wood talks about her new book examining the disturbing shifts in how police in Canada and the U.S. respond to protest.
By Scott Neigh

'Do the right thing': Civil rights icon Minnijean Brown Trickey on life-long resistance
Civil rights icon and activist Minnijean Brown Trickey shares her thoughts about the legacy of Little Rock Nine, living in segregated America, and resisting at 73.
By Andrew Sayo, Charlene Sayo, Eirene Cloma

This week's top rabbletv

Watch: Idle No More at the People's Climate March in New York
Indigenous leaders at the People's Climate March in New York spoke to the urgency of climate change and the need for all of us to be #IdleNoMore.
By Idle No More

Not Rex: Why is Transport Canada letting Canadian airlines write their own rules?
The Transport Safety Board report on Lac-Mégantic says that letting the railroad write its own rules was a problem. So why is Transport Canada letting Canadian airlines do the same thing?
By Humberto DaSilva