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Interview: Gordon Laxer on Big Oil, Rachel Notley and a greener future
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. When Rachel Notley’s NDP came to power last spring in Alberta, Gordon Laxer’s book, After the Sands:...
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The break-in at Praxis Corporation
Founded in Toronto in 1968, the Praxis Corporation was a progressive research institute aimed at organizing the poor and eradicating income inequality in Canada. Praxis’s activities and its...
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Remembering the Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews and their fight for...
An Appeal to Canadian Jews: Join us in condemning the invasion of Lebanon We are a group of Jews who have supported Jewish aspirations for a homeland. Therefore, it grieves and angers us that the...
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Experts fear Canada will extradite Hassan Diab to France again
Sometime in the near future — nobody knows precisely when — an innocent man and Canadian citizen faces a possible second extradition which would plunge him headfirst into the nightmarish French legal...
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Anti-racism and the IHRA definition
Anti-racism or equity education in the schools, corporations and government institutions did not begin with the killing of George Floyd and the rallies and protests inspired by the Black Lives Matter...
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Review of From Layton to Singh: the 20-Year struggle for the NDP’s soul
Jagmeet Singh in a surprise move emailed a public letter that placed the treatment of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories at the level of an international crisis. It is the clearest...
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Climate scientists take climate activism into their own hands
Wildlife conservation specialist and biologist Laura Kehoe is leaving behind a dream research position on a post-doc at Oxford University and the Nature Conservancy on the Livestock Environment and...
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Hassan Diab, trial in absentia
Since 2008 Hassan Diab has been on a treadmill of arrests, court appearances, detentions, hearings, trials, appeals and at least one extradition (with a second possibly in the offing) in Canada and...
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Tenants resist renoviction as affordable housing across Canada dwindles
Tenant David Galvin is leading me on a tour of the cavernous hallways of 1083 Main St. East here in southeast Hamilton, in the older lower city. This is a forlorn three-storey complex which has seen...
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Is the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs losing influence?
Maybe the news from Israel and Palestine has become too toxic for even the most cautious of Canadian federal politicians. EU representatives for instance recently refused to meet with the openly...
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Palestinian rights according to the political climate in Canada
The horrendous killings and taking of hostages of hundreds of Israeli civilians by Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip is generating a lot of sympathy and concern across political spectrum in Canada and...
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Blood on the coal, a bump in the night and a town turned upside down
Anne Murray reminisces in the forward of a new book about growing up in Springhill, NS, the site of a horrible 1958 mining disaster at the number two colliery (a British term for a mine and surrounding...
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