This week @ rabble.ca: Harper's war on Canadian rights and freedoms

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Published on Friday, 14 November 2014 15:44
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14 Nov 2014

Hi rabble readers,

Every year on Remembrance Day, Canadians honour the men and women who went off to war to defend our rights and freedoms. As we take time to remember their sacrifice, our own government is dismantling these very same rights -- while Stephen Harper stages a series of photo ops across the Pacific. You can read a selection of Remembrance Day reflections from our contributors here.

On Wednesday, Finance Minister Joe Oliver presented the fall Fiscal Update, with a much-reduced projected surplus. In his latest report, Karl Nerenberg explains how politically, that's designed to put the opposition leaders in a corner. Want to see more independent reporting from Parliament? Please chip in now to keep rabble.ca on the Hill!

Ten years ago, the Arar Inquiry shed light on some of the darkest... chapters of Canadian history. What has changed since then? In her column this week, Monia Mazigh reflects on national security and human rights a decade later.

Activists are drawing a line in the tar sands! You can win a copy of A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice (editors: Stephen D'Arcy, Toban Black, Tony Weis, and Joshua Kahn Russell; foreword by Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben) by writing r12.

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