This week @ rabble.ca: Homelessness in Canada is a crisis

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Super InTent City sheds light on national housing needs
"When we look at homelessness in Canada, it is a crisis. It is an emergency." Alyse Kotyk reports on Tent City in Victoria and its implications across Canada.
By Alyse Kotyk

14 Jul 2016

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This week's top news

All smoke no substance in Canada Post's pension argument
Canada Post cites the $6.2-billon solvency cost as a key issue in its negotiation with workers. But Kevin Skerrett tells us that in Canada Post's case, it's not really relevant at all.
By Teuila Fuatai

Immigration detainees on hunger strike demand meeting public safety minister
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has refused a meeting with the immigration detainees. In the past five months, three people have died in immigration detention.
By Sophia Reuss

Take down centuries of bloody money with Decolonize Now!
Amai Kuda, Kimalee Phillip, and Amy Desjarlais from Decolonize Now! discussed decolonizing social movements and the urgency of revolutionary change in education.
By Tania Ehret

Before, during, after Pride: Sikhs in solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The narrative that Black Lives Matter Toronto has "hijacked" Pride or is self-serving is a racist and incorrect interpretation of the movement -- one that holds solidarity in high regard.
By Sophia Reuss

This week's top blogs

For disaffected Brexit voters living under austerity, what choice did they have?
Canadian "experts" should take note of the powerful message those most negatively affected by austerity politics just sent to their "betters" in Britain.
By Mel Watkins

Think Canada's police now have enlightened views toward Pride? Think again.
The police have no place in the Pride parades of the nation.
By Steven Maynard

I know about white privilege. After Pride TO, I'm feeling white embarrassment
Toronto Pride's BLM protest and its ensuing backlash have proven telling -- and disappointing.
By Matthew Hays

Indigenous people know exactly why Black Lives Matter fear the police
Jesse Wente's moving account of being stopped by the police for being Ojibwe, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
By Jesse Wente

Surviving in a rape culture
When sexual violence is everywhere you look sometimes the best thing you can do is address it.
By Emily Blake

This week's top columns

Videotaping police violence is not a crime
Protests against police brutality have rocked the country in the aftermath of the police killings of two African-American men, Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.
By Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

When worlds collide and boundaries bleed: Intersections between online and real life
Last week we witnessed two liminal moments in the space between the online and real worlds. In two very different ways, the edges bled beyond the boundary of one to the other.
By Wayne MacPhail

Lesser evil voting: A new political term hitting a raw nerve
There's this to be said for Trump v. Clinton, now upon us: it's contributed a new political acronym, LEV, for Lesser Evil Voting.
By Rick Salutin

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This week's top podcasts

Challenging the marginalization of African refugees
Kimbra Yohannes and Daniel Tseghay talk about the work of We Welcome African Refugees.
By Scott Neigh

Hope isn't a strategy
An entire lake disappearing due to climate change in Bolivia, a rush of lobbying by mining companies, and an expose on how to evade lobbying laws in Canada.
By Daryn Caister

Grassy Narrows demands cleanup of mercury in lakes and rivers
Judy Da Silva says mercury dumped into the waterways nearly 60 years ago must be cleaned up. She says Premier Wynne is using scare tactics when she says cleanup will make the situation worse.
By Redeye Collective

Women and the Brexit referendum
Backers of Brexit are not ignorant -- and neither are their opponents.
By Frieda Werden

This week's top books

Views from people on the frontlines of climate change
Inuit Elders from across the Canadian Arctic share their observations on vegetation changes, thawing permafrost, changing wildlife patterns, and other transformations.
By various

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Upcoming events

MontrealBlack Lives Matter Montréal: What can you do about it ?
We are calling upon a Montreal gathering in order to honour the lives lost and express our rejection of police brutality and any kind of racial prejudice.

MontrealWorld Social Forum 2016
The goal of the WSF 2016 is to gather tens of thousands of people from groups in civil society, organizations and social movements who want to build a sustainable and inclusive world.
By WSF

Toronto Toronto Queer West Film Festival
Fancy something a little bit different? Join us at the 8th Annual Queer West Film Festival at Innis Town Hall.
By Gay West Community Network Inc

This week's top in cahoots

Big banks can lobby all they want but postal banking is still on the table
Big banks raked in a $35-billion profit last year by "gouging" Canadians with high fees. No wonder they oppose postal banking!
By Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Young workers show that action can make a difference
Over the weekend, 130 young workers came together to take action and fight for a better, socially just world.
By Unifor

Thousands attend Steinbach Manitoba's first Pride
Steinbach Manitoba is often portrayed as part of the province's "Bible Belt." Though the area's conservative MPs and MLAs refused to show up, over 3,000 people did anyway.
By Canadian Union of Public Employees

Active babble topics

Planning for your retirement? Forget it. You won't be here!
By indigo 007

Dallas police officers gunned down
By mark_alfred

Let's bring the loonie back to par
By NorthReport

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Six ways to support the work of Black Lives Matter across Canada this week
Allies and community, let's keep the momentum going!

Poll

What have we learned from the Senate expense scandal?

With fraud and breach of trust charges dropped against Patrick Brazeau, the Senate scandal has now seemingly come to an end.

Three other senators, Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Marc Harb, were acquitted of all charges or had charges dropped earlier this year.

The CBC has kindly put together a complete timeline of the Senate scandal.

After this walk down memory lane, what have we learned?

Choices I'm going to say... nothing. That you can claim to not know anything and get off scot-free. That the rules for senators are incredibly hazy and need to be revised. That Harper truly was a devious puppet master. That we need to abolish the Senate. Honestly, I don't know and I don't care. None of the above.