After years of grassroots efforts, the Jewish National Fund of Canada has had its charitable status revoked. The post Jewish National Fund of Canada has charitable status revoked appeared first on rabble.ca ..read more

After an agreement was negotiated earlier this month, the encampment was removed by the students themselves within 48 hours. For its part, the university administration pledged to support changes to the university’s investment policies that would provide more transparency and a greater emphasis on human rights and international law. The post University of Windsor negotiated in good faith with encampment protesters appeared first on rabble.ca ..read more

Media coverage of sex work can perpetuate harmful stereotypes that have an especially negative impact on the safety and well being of sex workers. The post Sex worker organization is calling for responsible media coverage appeared first on rabble.ca ..read more

Originalism is a dirty word in Canadian legal discourse, but it can and should be leveraged to achieve progressive legal wins here in Canada. Allow me to explain why. The post It’s time originalism came to Canada appeared first on rabble.ca ..read more

The merger between two agricultural giants means even less competition in an already highly concentrated industry. The post Bunge-Viterra merger would restructure prairie agriculture appeared first on rabble.ca ..read more

There’s another shoe that needs to drop before the United Conservative Party (UCP)’s embarrassing Skybox Scandal goes quiet and Alberta can go back to sleep as Premier Daniel Smith and her political advisors doubtless profoundly wish we would.  To wit: Did UCP ministers or political staffers avail themselves of corporate flights to NHL playoff games in Vancouver and perhaps in Sunrise, Florida? And if so, who paid? Thanks to the reporting of The Globe and Mail’s Carrie Tait, we already know who bought skybox tickets – at least some of them – for well-connected members and employees of Sm ..read more

Massive fields of non-native turfgrass that suck up enormous amounts of water and require more pesticides than farms — that’s largely what urban and suburban areas in Canada and the US have become. Lawns are a colonial relic, once seen as a sign of wealth and privilege. But those who want to convert theirs to something more useful, such as wildflower or food gardens and pollinator habitats, face hurdles. That’s in part because many municipal governments and some homeowner associations prescribe what people can and can’t do with their yards. With growing water scarcity and rapidly declining in ..read more

Pride is a celebration of the advancement of 2SLGBTQIA+ rights and a rallying cry for the work still to be done to protect their community from discrimination. That discrimination unfortunately seems to be on the rise in Canada. Conservative premiers in three provinces, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick, have instituted anti-2SLGBTQIA+ policies particularly targeting trans youth. READ MORE: In Alberta’s new war on trans people, children will suffer Furthermore federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre earlier this year voiced his support for practices to exclude transgendered person ..read more

Dear rabble readers, We’re in the final few weeks of our summer fundraiser – and we need your help! Last summer, we were so grateful to receive wage funding for seven amazing journalists through Canada Summer Jobs, the Technation Career Ready Program, the Aid to Publisher grant and more. This summer, however, we unfortunately did not receive wage funding from both Canada Summer Jobs and the Technation Career Ready Program. This was not due to our application value, but because both programs simply weren’t able to offer as many organizations funding as previous summers. Due to this lack of fun ..read more

When word leaked out in the spring of 2014 about a plan by the Progressive Conservatives to build a penthouse suite for premier Alison Redford atop a government office building in downtown Edmonton, Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith excoriated the scheme dubbed the Sky Palace by its critics.  Five days after Redford resigned on March 23, pushed out by her own caucus, a CBC story revealed details of the project to remodel the 11th floor of the Queen Elizabeth II Building, then confusingly known as the Federal Building, as a secure Edmonton premiers’ residence.  Smith was quoted in ..read more