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WEB6 days ago · As youth march for a safe climate, politicians pander to polluters. With so many important issues to contend with — housing, health care, affordability and inflation, pollution, overpopulation, crime, violence and war — focusing election campaigns on whether or not to maintain effective climate policies is insane.
Canadians are using the term ‘racialized’ incorrectly - rabble.ca
WEBOct 20, 2020 · Canadians are using the term ‘racialized’ incorrectly. by Yafet Tewelde October 20, 2020. The normalizing of whiteness through the conflation of all non-white groups under the term “racialized” is endemic to how racism operates in Canada. Justin Trudeau’s blackface scandal was shocking news for …
Green power should be publicly owned | rabble.ca
WEBAug 31, 2024 · Green power should be publicly owned. The wind blows and the sun shines for free. Wind and solar power should only ever be in a publicly owned power at -cost company. Never in a for -profit corporation. Doug Ford responding to Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk's report in August. Credit: CPAC Credit: CPAC. Ford has gone to …
War to “punish rapists” only hurts more women - rabble.ca
WEBDec 19, 2023 · Thousands, probably tens of thousands, have been killed since 2011. While the starting premise should be that women must be believed, history illustrates we should be skeptical of rape claims by governments seeking to justify violence. War to punish rapists only creates more violence in which women and children will be innocent victims.
The public library and Indigenous reconciliation - rabble.ca
WEBSep 10, 2019 · Facilitators and Indigenous elders play the part of European settlers. Offered through the Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library, library card holders participated in the Blanket Exercise for $10 for the session. Just 25 people out of Whitchurch-Stouffville’s population of 45,837 identified as having Indigenous ancestry.
Why Western alienation is an opportunity for the progressive left
WEBSep 9, 2021 · Western Canada is once again feeling alienated during this latest federal election. That should be good news for Canadian socialists. Take the recently created Maverick Party.Their candidates, most of whom are running in Alberta, are campaigning on a “Twin Track Approach” to revising Western Canada’s place within confederation. “Track A” calls for five constitutional amendments.
Sexual assault law in Canada: What women need to know
WEBNov 2, 2014 · There is some legal uncertainty as to whether an assault is “sexual” because this was left undefined in the Code. It took the Supreme Court of Canada to tell us that touching a woman’s breasts amounts to a sexual assault. In R v Chase (1987) it ruled that an assault becomes a sexual assault if in “all the circumstances,” “the sexual ...
I’m stopping. I’ve had enough. - rabble.ca
WEBDec 13, 2022 · I say stopped, not resigned. It’s a more active description of my decision. Like countless nurses, I’ve had enough. Grant you, I am not an emergency room or intensive care unit nurse. I am not seeing paediatric COVID patients. I work in the nebulous area of community health, public policy, and advocacy, informed …
Sex workers create new safe online spaces | rabble.ca
WEBFeb 13, 2023 · After 20 years and with about a week’s worth of warning, the online forum, Stripperweb.com, shut down on February 1. Stripperweb was created for strippers and later expanded to cam performers. It was a space where newbies, or ‘babies’ as we often call ourselves when first starting out in sex work, could exchange safety tips, give general advice and find community.
New film tells about the Roma or ‘gypsies’ Canada wants to keep out
WEBApr 10, 2012 · They call them "gypsies," "gitanes," "tziganes," "ciganes," "nomadi" -- and sometimes such nasty epithets as thieves, pickpockets, vagrants and "inadaptables" (a favourite term in the Czech Republic). They are the Roma, Europe's perennially unwelcome minority. They are shunned just about everywhere on the continent, whether in Hungary or Spain, the Balkans or Iberia, the Mediterranean or ...