Middle Class - Real or Myth
There has been a great deal of debate as to whether Trudeau's platform for the middle class (whatever that might entail) suffered a serious set back this week when an international study indicated that...
View ArticleWhy I will be voting for Hassan Yussuff
Why I will be voting for Hassan YussuffAt the upcoming CLC convention we are being offered a choice between leaders who have very different visions for the future of the labour movement. Here are some...
View ArticleFood Fight: Monsanto
I was late. Not as late as I had figured I was, but some minor engagements online had kept me from being the kind of early I wanted to be. I arrived in Veterans' Park across from the Library in...
View ArticleA letter to editor, FEA and who controls the media
I am new to rabble.ca and I joined because there are few forums to speak publicly about our government without censure or censorship. I wrote the following opinion letter on May 20, 2014, to 2 of my...
View ArticleA Grim Vision: Parliament Hill Shootings Analysis
I awoke today, Wedensday, October 22 2014 to find multiple news sources reporting shots fired and injuries sustained at Canada's National War Memorial and in the Halls of Parliament. Three people have...
View ArticleFord $2 Billion Investment Goes To Mexico-not Windsor. Read the Inside Story...
Ontario has lost a high-stakes bidding war over car manufacturing jobs, as Ford Motor Co. has decided it will build a new type of engine in Mexico instead of Windsor. The investment would have totalled...
View ArticleBrachina's Ideology
I've talked about posting my idealogy/beliefs on rabble before as I don't feel the usually idealogies truely do it for me. I've tried to corral all of its under a universal theme like a grand unified...
View ArticleHomelessness
The State of Homelessness in Canada 2014 stated the following today: "The one missing piece of the puzzle, however, is affordable housing. The decline in availability of low cost housing (and in...
View ArticleRight to Die Gate keepers
I recently attended a presentation on Dying with Dignity. The presenters where two people with case studies from their families, one was a representatitive from BC Dying with Dignity association, the...
View ArticleCritical Thought In Our Post-Enlightenment
From Wikipedia: "The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) is the time period in which cultural and social changes occurred emphasizing reason, analysis and individualism...
View ArticleOn a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
A month ago, on December 9th, Rinelle Harper spoke before the Assembly of First Nations. This brave young survivor, eagle feather in hand, added her voice to the chorus of people throughout the country...
View ArticleAnnouncing Beat The Raid: New Source for Info on Anti-Pipelines Graffiti Raid...
Beat The Raid will be a place to hear up to date info on the repression of anti-pipelines activists and anarchists in so called Vancouver, BC. We are still fundraising and now selling no pipelines...
View ArticleTesting Toxic Waters
"How polluted is the creek that runs through our community?" That is what members of Aamjiwnaang First Nation want to know and it’s an important question considering they live in an area known as...
View ArticleImplementing Plan B - how do we save ourselves and our planet, while...
The Ordeal By FireBritish Columbia is burning in 178 places today. As the fires rage through Sechelt, Port Hardy, Port Alberni and 284 km away Pemberton, in Lang Bay we have been swaddled by the sepia...
View ArticleFinally, A 2015 Political Donation I am happy to make: Voter Turnout
Finally, A 2015 Political Donation I am happy to make: Voter TurnoutVoter Turn out will be key to this election. Over 500k votes are potentially suppressed this year via the Fair Elections ID...
View ArticleBill C-51: Zero Tolerance for Criticism of Israel
Many Canadians are aware of the Harper government’s big fear agenda in this federal election. Bill C-51’s threats to the fundamental rights and liberties of Canadian citizens have been highlighted by...
View ArticleThe Riverine Mysteries
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/01/19/the-riverine-mysteries/Is there an explanation that works, other than the growing suspicion that this was planned to derail the Iran nuclear deal at the...
View ArticleThe Leap Manifesto
Open Letter to all public officialsSubject: The Leap ManifestoTo Whom it Urgently Concerns: By now, you have all heard of the Leap Manifesto. It's being discussed within the federal NDP and is...
View ArticleCaptive Canada: The Canada Syndrome, a Captivating Mass Psychosis
"The Canada Syndrome" is the "Stockholm Syndrome" on cultural steroids. This intro article to Captive Canada (Press for Conversion Spring 2016) argues that for state crimes to succeed, well-meaning...
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