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  1. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions will quickly reduce pollution. That's important, because particulates kill a lot of people and make many more ill -- even more than previously thought. From @DavidSuzukiFDN: https://buff.ly/2ZngOGr 

    Clearing the air on fossil fuel pollution

    Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions is critical to avoiding increasing climate change impacts. Doing so won't immediately stop the world from heating, but it will improve life quickly. Because

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    should we be in a hurry ever again to join American military adventures abroad? Because, for all the blood and treasure we spent, the "new Afghanistan" sure looks a hell of a lot like the old Afghanistan.https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2021/02/taliban-about-regain-control-afghanistan-we-should-ask-was-it …

    With Taliban about to regain control in Afghanistan, we should ask:

    Yesterday morning, The New York Times reported the Taliban is on the cusp of total victory in Afghanistan. The Times being the Times, of course, it didn't put it quite that way. "The Taliban Close In

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  3. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    While the government has refused to legislate mandatory Bill 124 makes it "impossible" for unions to even try to bargain for increased sick leave coverage for public sector workers. https://buff.ly/3arBByO 

    How Ontario is limiting wage increases, paid sick days for front-line

    At any time, but particularly during a pandemic, imposing limits on workers' ability to bargain for fair wages and better benefits is "unconstitutional," say union leaders. Ontario's Bill 124, passed

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  4. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    "We were the Outremont High School class of 1964. A Zoom reunion of the graduating class became, in a way, our own Truth and Reconciliation Commission." From @KarlNerenberg: https://buff.ly/2ON5p0w 

    Class of '64 meets and memories of mass murder emerge unexpectedly

    In the 1970s, when my wife and I lived and worked in a Gwich'in community north of the Arctic Circle, we met many people who had endured and survived the now notorious residential school system.

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  5. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    Jase Tanner takes us through a history of austerity in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Featuring long-time NDP MP for the neighbourhood @LibbyDavies https://buff.ly/3s6wtX1 

  6. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    "http://rabble.ca  has a mission that is worth sustaining," writes former NDP MP Bill Blaikie. https://buff.ly/3pswdzP 

    We need to support rabble.ca. Here's why.

    Credit paid where credit is due: rabble.ca has been a consistent stalwart for the left for nearly 20 years. I'm proud to have contributed to the discourse housed at rabble.ca as a columnist, knowing

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  7. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    The federal government has confirmed that it does not consider itself to be bound by Canadian Human Rights Tribunal orders to end racial discrimination in funding against First Nations children in foster care under Bill C-92. https://buff.ly/3rZBY9H 

    Canada continues shirking its human rights obligations to First

    The federal government has once again proven that legislative initiatives tend to be effective deflections from their ongoing failures to address human rights abuses against Indigenous peoples. Bill

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  8. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    Whether it be the failure to control climate change or the open privatization of health care, the "leave it to the provinces" policy is not serving the needs of Canadians. From @duncancameron https://buff.ly/3jYbVwP 

    Trudeau caters to conservative premiers in pursuit of failed

    Making government work for people requires skillful leadership, capable public servants, and financial muscle. In the age of neoliberalism, government is assigned a much-reduced role. Political

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  9. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    A choice between vaccines for our own families and those in the Global South would be a wrenching one. Most of us would be more likely to try and have it both ways -- which is exactly what COVAX is trying to do, argues Rick Salutin. https://buff.ly/2MTxyT8 

    Dipping into vaccines through COVAX, Canada tries to have it both ways

    What's more "embarrassing," the fact that Canada is buying vaccines through COVAX, a program run by the WHO (a UN agency) to supply vaccines to poor nations, or the sanctimony of Canadians who are

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  10. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    In the age of neoliberalism -- wherein our collective struggles like climate change or a pandemic are framed as the fault of individuals -- government is assigned a much-reduced role. From @duncancameron https://buff.ly/3jYbVwP 

    Trudeau caters to conservative premiers in pursuit of failed

    Making government work for people requires skillful leadership, capable public servants, and financial muscle. In the age of neoliberalism, government is assigned a much-reduced role. Political

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  11. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    According to Ontario's Bill 124, it is capping increases to front-line workers' wages at one per cent per year "to ensure that increases in public sector compensation reflect the fiscal situation of the Province." Unions argue it's unconstitutional. https://buff.ly/3arBByO 

    How Ontario is limiting wage increases, paid sick days for front-line

    At any time, but particularly during a pandemic, imposing limits on workers' ability to bargain for fair wages and better benefits is "unconstitutional," say union leaders. Ontario's Bill 124, passed

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  12. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    Bill C-92 was heralded as the solution to the "humanitarian crisis" of First Nations children in foster care. Instead, it threatens to make things worse. https://buff.ly/3rZBY9H 

    Canada continues shirking its human rights obligations to First

    The federal government has once again proven that legislative initiatives tend to be effective deflections from their ongoing failures to address human rights abuses against Indigenous peoples. Bill

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  13. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    We owe it to the 40,000 Canadian soldiers who served in Afghanistan, 158 of whom were killed along with a half dozen Canadian civilians, to ask ourselves this question: What was it for? https://buff.ly/37jquWN 

    With Taliban about to regain control in Afghanistan, we should ask:

    Yesterday morning, The New York Times reported the Taliban is on the cusp of total victory in Afghanistan. The Times being the Times, of course, it didn't put it quite that way. "The Taliban Close In

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  14. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    Allowing pharma giants to control access to vaccines during a pandemic is foolish -- if not suicidal -- especially when better solutions exist, writes @LindaMcQuaig. https://buff.ly/3rP2F0V 

    Canada needs to take back control of the vaccine supply from big

    It's demoralizing to watch Canada behave like an evil, twisted Robin Hood -- taking from poor countries' meagre supply of vaccines and injecting them into the (comparatively rich) arms of Canadians.

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  15. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    Kandahar fell to U.S. special forces and their Afghan allies on Dec. 7, 2001. The first Canadian soldiers got involved the same month. Canadians would fight and die there until March 2014. @djclimenhaga https://buff.ly/37jquWN 

    With Taliban about to regain control in Afghanistan, we should ask:

    Yesterday morning, The New York Times reported the Taliban is on the cusp of total victory in Afghanistan. The Times being the Times, of course, it didn't put it quite that way. "The Taliban Close In

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  16. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    From $5 to $250: it's your support that sustains us. Help us reach our fundraising goal of $50,000 this week. http://rabble.ca/donate 

  17. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    Prior to the pandemic, Trudeau was trying to make the Canadian federation work by encouraging provincial autonomy. But the "leave it to the provinces" policy is not working, especially with Canada's neoliberal premiers, writes @duncancameron https://buff.ly/3jYbVwP 

    Trudeau caters to conservative premiers in pursuit of failed

    Making government work for people requires skillful leadership, capable public servants, and financial muscle. In the age of neoliberalism, government is assigned a much-reduced role. Political

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  18. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    At any time, but particularly during a pandemic, imposing limits on workers' ability to bargain for fair wages and better benefits is "unconstitutional," say union leaders. https://buff.ly/2ZiN9Or 

    How Ontario is limiting wage increases, paid sick days for

    At any time, but particularly during a pandemic, imposing limits on workers' ability to bargain for fair wages and better benefits is "unconstitutional," say union leaders. Ontario's Bill 124, passed

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  19. rabble.ca @rabbleca

    : Bell Canada took $122 million in pandemic-related labour subsidies doled out to preserve jobs by the federal government. Instead of using that money to keep its journalists working, Bell chose to increase dividend payouts to its shareholders.https://buff.ly/3aqGCYt 

    Bell is building its profit at the public trough

    Carl Sagan, the scientist, once identified what he called "one of the saddest lessons of history." I think it applies in spades today to one of Canada's largest and greediest employers of

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    Kim Elliott @kim1811

    This is so important https://twitter.com/rabbleca/status/1361398378383474692