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Transportation loans add stress for refugees
The Canadian government makes refugees cover their own costs for coming to Canada. Refugee support groups say this puts enormous financial and emotional stress on people already struggling to adapt to a new country. We speak with Janet Dench of the ...
Canada's housing bubble
Risky loans offered by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation are leading Canada down the road to a U.S.-style economic crash. Murray Dobbin says the Harper government directed the CMHC to change the mortgage rules, thus making the Canadian ...
Urban homesteading in Pasadena
Laura Lamb reHomegrown, a movie about a family of urban homesteaders in California who produce all their own food on a city lot. Dubbing their efforts The Path to Freedom, the Dervaes Family have transformed their urban property into a micro-farm.
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Episode #22: Growing violence against and exploitation of working-poor migrants in Canada
In response to recent raids that have occurred under the public's noses, there have been many mass public actions throughout Canada denouncing these dehumanizing attacks on racialized working-poor (im)migrant communities, including in Guelph, Ontario. ...
Rich countries buying up farmland in poor countries
Civil society groups are sounding the alarm about the purchase of vast tracts of farmland in the Global South, saying the sales threaten food security and land reform in the world's poorest nations. Shepard Daniel is co-author of The Great Land Grab, a ...
Growing food on a Hastings Street parking lot
It's hard to even buy vegetables in Vancouver's downtown eastside, let alone cultivate them. But a new project aims to do just that. The SOLEfood Inner City Farm is a half-acre inner-city farm that will generate jobs for people in the neighbourhood and ...
The Ruckus in Ottawa Part 9: Touring More of the Current Club Scene
Anyone who knows the music scene in Ottawa knows Alan Neal. For 3 years, he was the host of CBC's Bandwidth, and he is now the host of All In A Day, CBC's afternoon drive-time show. The man is a huge music fan, and is really one hell of a nice guy.
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Frontline worker must move to Scarborough in December
Long time community activist Gaetan Heroux will be moving his administrative office to Danforth and Victoria Park - the offices of his employer Neighbourhood Link - in early December.
Neighbourhood Link and Street Health (where Heroux is currently ...
CBC News becoming second-rate CNN
Author and columnist Rick Salutin says the CBC News is now a poor imitation of the U.S. networks. He argues that this bid to up the ratings is doomed to failure because Canadians will turn to the experts in sensationalist coverage - CNN and Fox News.
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A tribute to 20 years of on-air activism
In this documentary, you'll hear long-time Redeye host Peter Royce in conversation with Michael Shermer, Joanna Michal, Hope Shand and Wendy Pedersen.
Peter was a regular host on Redeye from the late 1980s until December 2008 when worsening health ...
Remembering Peter Royce
Long-time host and collective member Peter Royce died on November 4. Mordecai Briemberg reads this appreciation of Peter on behalf of the Redeye collective.
Share your memories of Peter and read what others have to say about him here. You can also ...
20 Years Later: Convention on the Rights of a Child
It's been 20 years since the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child was drafted. This groundbreaking document has been ratified by more than 70 countries, however violations against children are still prevalent in many of them.
On Palestine and Israel: A Feature Interview with Rev. Denise Yarbrough
Reverend Doctor Denise Yarbrough is the Interreligious Officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, New York, and a teacher of Interfaith Studies at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. In July of last year, she was part of a delegation that ...
Kader wins status
Abdelkader Belaouni is a blind Algerian man who spent the last four years fighting to remain in Canada. During this time, he lived in sanctuary at St. Gabriel's Church and wasn't able to go outside and walk the streets of Montreal. Recently, Kader was ...
The Ruckus in Ottawa Part 8: Touring the Current Club Scene
Anyone who knows the music scene in Ottawa knows Alan Neal. For 3 years, he was the host of CBC's Bandwidth, and he is now the host of All In A Day, CBC's afternoon drive-time show. The man is a huge music fan, and is really one hell of a nice guy.
I ...
Times are a-changin' here at rabble.ca
Times are a-changin' here at rabble.ca and we have some news to pass on: after two years on the site, Derrick O'Keefe has stepped down as editor. We're sad to see him go, but we're thrilled that his critical and thoughtful voice will still be found here ...
Will Copenhagen produce anything positive? Malalai Joya talks about Afghanistan
Alert! Radio #135 - Will Copenhagen Produce Anything Positive? Dale Marshall of the David Suzuki Foundation says "Yes". Joel Kovel, author of *The Enemy of Nature* says "No". Malalai Joya, Afghanistan's youngest member of parliament, talks openly about ...
Immigrant workers fight to unionize their workplace
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) National Representative Kevin Shimmin speaks about alleged employee exploitation at Lincare Limited, a Toronto commercial laundry facility, the employees' union drive with the UFCW, alleged health and safety ...