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Nov 7

Perhaps Ontario Premier Doug Ford wasn’t expecting the backlash he received when he enacted Bill 28 on Thursday last week #Bill28 #onpoli #onlab #canlab #39kIsNotEnough #onted

@NickSeebruch

has the story:

Ford blinks in face of union solidarity; will repeal Bill 28

Perhaps Ontario Premier Doug Ford wasn’t expecting the backlash he received when he enacted Bill 28 on Thursday last week

Treating housing as an investment opportunity and not an inalienable right is exasperating Canada’s housing crisis #housing #cdnpoli #canpoli Read the full story by

@StephenWentzell

Green Party MP pushes for end to REITs tax exemptions

In late September, one of the two Green Party MPs introduced a motion to remove tax exemptions for corporate investors, including REITs

We have in Canada the unquestionable right to strike as workers engaged in a process of collective bargaining. #Bill28 #onpoli #onlab #canlab #39kIsNotEnough #onted #Bill28 #CUPE

Bill 28 is an act so unconstitutional it comes with the notwithstanding clause

Bill 28 represents an existential attack on the rights of labour to collectively bargain and strike, hence the notwithstanding clause.

Upon the request of the Haitian government last month, Canada and the U.S. have been seriously considering an international military intervention in the country. #cdnpoli #canpoli #trudeau #feminism

From Haiti to Iran, Canada disguises its imperialism with feminism

Canada's behaviour on the world stage shows that feminism will be invoked when convenient, and often as a tool of imperialism.

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Not all veterans are feeling cared for. Some are asking if the government cares about them or their wellbeing at all, or if Veterans’ Affairs Canada is operating under the old “deny, delay, and die” adage. Listen to the latest rabble radio episode:

Is the Canadian government failing its veterans?

Virginia Vaillancourt, the national president of the UVAE, argues Veterans Affairs must stop using private sector companies to do public sector work.

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Ciaran Quinn explained the challenges and opportunities that Ireland is facing, and how Canada can support an equitable and united Ireland #cdnpoli #canpoli From Kevin Callahan:

Interview with Sinn Féin’s Ciaran Quinn

Belfast-born, Ciaran Quinn sits on the Sinn Féin National Officer Board and is the party’s Director for North America.

Nov 12

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Nov 12

Bill 28 represents an existential attack on the rights of labour to collectively bargain and strike. #Bill28 #onpoli #onlab #canlab #39kIsNotEnough #onted #Bill28 #CUPE

Bill 28 is an act so unconstitutional it comes with the notwithstanding clause

Bill 28 represents an existential attack on the rights of labour to collectively bargain and strike, hence the notwithstanding clause.

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” -Bertrand Russell #CanadaRemembers #RemembranceDay #cdnpoli

On Remembrance Day we can honour those who sacrificed without glorifying war

War is a terrible thing. Remembrance Day is about honouring those who endured it while working to uphold the promise of "never again."

Alaa Abd El-Fattah should be attending COP27, addressing world leaders – not on the edge of death in an Egyptian prison.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah and Egypt’s climate of repression at COP27

Alaa Abd El-Fattah should be attending COP27, addressing world leaders – not on the edge of death in an Egyptian prison.

TPLF responsible for the loss of a generation in Ethiopia

TPLF responsible for the loss of a generation in Ethiopia

About 2,700 children are struggling to survive at the internally displaced persons camp in Debre Birhan, Ethiopia. When the volunteers serve lunch, the children come with plates that have holes, pot...

U.S. midterm results, it’s refreshing when you get so many expectations wrong

U.S. midterm results, it’s refreshing when you get so many expectations wrong

The U.S. midterm election was definitely historic, just not in the way that the Republican party might have hoped.

Smith issues mandate letters to ministers in wake of by-election win

Smith issues mandate letters to ministers in wake of by-election win

Premier Danielle Smith, having won a seat in the Legislature Tuesday night, immediately turned to the vital task of looking busy and grownup.

Ford uses bait and switch to sprawl onto farmland and Greenbelt

Ford uses bait and switch to sprawl onto farmland and Greenbelt

Opening the Greenbelt for development is tantamount to painting a target on every piece of that land. It becomes cash crop land that’s managed in a way that destroys the property and the environmen...

The contrast between the treatment of the wage increases for doctors in B.C. and what is happening with education support works in Ontario could not be more striking #BCpoli #CUPE #onpoli #Ford

11.7% or 55% - which is too big a wage increase?

The lowest paid workers have to fight tooth-and-nail for a modest wage increase, for higher paid workers, no one bats and eye.

We often say visionary people are “ahead of their time.” With Daly, it’s more like we’re behind his time! We need to catch up. Fast. #ClimateActionNow #ClimateCrisis

Herman Daly saw economy, ecology and ethics as inseparable

Daly knew that glorifying constant growth on a finite planet and failing to correct course is suicidal.

How labour bashed Ford

Union solidarity stopped an attack on CUPE education workers in Ontario

How labour bashed Ford

Social media revolutions, collective humanity, and reflections after Mahsa Amini

Social media revolutions, collective humanity, and reflections after Mahsa Amini

Almost two months after Mahsa Amini lost her life, Generation Z artists and activists have birthed a social media revolution.

This is not a day to celebrate the ‘glories of war’. We should never forget that there is no glory in war. There is only pain and horror and death. #RemembranceDay #CanadaRemembers #cdnpoli

November thoughts on Remembrance Day

William Brehl reflects his father-in-law Roy Clinton Barnes, a solider in both the British military and the Canadian Armed Forces.

For Remembrance Day in 2017,

@KarlNerenberg

wrote: "This Remembrance Day there is special emphasis on World War I. Lest we forget, that war was not only brutal and deadly, it was also, in many ways, unnecessary and unjust."

Remembrance Day should be about honouring sacrifice, not sacrificing truth

Remembrance Day is on November 11 because on that day in 1918 the allies and the Germans signed the armistice that ended World War I, in Marshall Ferdinand Foch’s private railway carriage, in...

If Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) were the “centre right” political party its leader Danielle Smith would like us to imagine it is, the disqualification of Nadine Wellwood as a candidate would barely rate as news. #UCP #abpoli

Cracks appear in UCP façade as party officials disallow anti-vaxx candidate

There’s not a lot of light between Nadine Wellwood’s beliefs, so bonkers they got her disqualified as a UCP candidate, and those of Danielle Smith, so mainstream they got her elected premier.

On today’s rabble radio episode, Virginia Vaillancourt, the national president of the Union of Veterans’ Affairs Employee, argues Veterans Affairs Canada must stop using private sector companies to do public sector work

@VaillancourtV

#UVAE Listen here: rabble.ca/podcast/canadi

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On Remembrance Day we can honour those who sacrificed without glorifying war rabble.ca/education/on-r via

#RemembranceDay #WWI #WWII #cdnpoli #polcan #MitchPlaine #NormanNerenberg #RCAF #rabble

On Remembrance Day we can honour those who sacrificed without glorifying war

War is a terrible thing. Remembrance Day is about honouring those who endured it while working to uphold the promise of "never again."

A personal story published one year ago today.

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"I visited the concentration camp in Dachau in 2016 at the age of 19. That was the first time I learned about the persecution of queer people during the second World War." Read the full story by @StephenWentzell rabble.ca/politics/who-d

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"How do we honour our ancestors’ sacrifices in that horrific conflict, without celebrating the arguably needless slaughter in which they participated?" asks Robert Hackett rabble.ca/politics/canad

"Capitalist democracies demand the sacrifice of many lives. Soldiers, certainly, are asked to die for our way of life," writes Ken Farrell with Pro Bono. Read on: rabble.ca/columnists/who

"I visited the concentration camp in Dachau in 2016 at the age of 19. That was the first time I learned about the persecution of queer people during the second World War." Read the full story by

@StephenWentzell

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This Remembrance Day, William William Brehl reflects his late father-in-law, Roy Clinton Barnes. rabble.ca/labour/remembr

From

, "When our leaders talk about Remembrance Day, they talk about the sacrifices of those who fought in wars to defend our freedoms and our way of life. Those sacrifices were real." rabble.ca/education/on-r

In honour of Remembrance Day, we’ve compiled some stories that explain, observe and reflect on days like today. Read on for more. #remembranceday #remembrance #canadaremembers #nov11 #veterans #veteran #flandersfields

On Remembrance Day we can honour those who sacrificed without glorifying war

On Remembrance Day we can honour those who sacrificed without glorifying war

War is a terrible thing. Remembrance Day is about honouring those who endured it while working to uphold the promise of "never again."

Is the Canadian government failing its veterans? Listen to

@VaillancourtV

on rabble radio this week. #lestweforget #remembranceday

Is the Canadian government failing its veterans?

Virginia Vaillancourt, the national president of the UVAE, argues Veterans Affairs must stop using private sector companies to do public sector work.

This Remembrance Day, William Brehl pays tribute to his late father-in-law, Roy Clinton Barnes. #lestweforget #RemembranceDay

November thoughts on Remembrance Day

William Brehl reflects his father-in-law Roy Clinton Barnes, a solider in both the British military and the Canadian Armed Forces.

Many Canadians are breathing a sigh of relief at the results of the U.S. mid-term elections. It could have been a lot worse for those who care about the environment, social justice and democracy #USpoli #Midterm2022 #cdnpoli #canpoli #redwave

Canada should worry about results of U.S. mid-terms

While the Republican Party fell well short of their dream of a red wave in the mid-terms the elections do hold dire warnings.

Trudeau’s “feminist” foreign policy has cynically framed and engaged with these uprisings in contrasting ways – exposing how Ottawa acts for strategic imperialist interests, not moral principles #cdnpoli #canpoli #trudeau Ibnul Chowdhury has the story:

From Haiti to Iran, Canada disguises its imperialism with feminism

Canada's behaviour on the world stage shows that feminism will be invoked when convenient, and often as a tool of imperialism.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah should be attending COP27, addressing world leaders – not on the edge of death in an Egyptian prison #COP27 #USpoli #cdnpoli Read the latest from Democracy Now! columnists Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan:

Alaa Abd El-Fattah and Egypt’s climate of repression at COP27

Alaa Abd El-Fattah should be attending COP27, addressing world leaders – not on the edge of death in an Egyptian prison.

Some of the lowest paid public employees are fighting for a relatively modest pay increase in Ontario, meanwhile some of the highest paid professionals in BC are getting a large salary bump and no one is blinking an eye #BCpoli #onpoli From Marjorie Cohen