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rabble.ca - Redeye

Rabble.ca - Redeye

On the issues of the day - political, social and cultural - Redeye digs deeper. Open your ears to alternative voices. Hear incisive and ...

Mexican activist killed for opposing Canadian mine

Mariano Abarca Roblero was shot in December. The three men arrested in the case have ties to Blackfire, the Canadian mining company that ...
2 days ago

Anti-Olympic activist refused entry to U.S.

Marla Renn gives us a detailed account of what happened on December 10 when she tried to cross the U.S. border on her way to Portland, ...
4 days ago

Former head of RCMP Public Complaints Commission comments on the Dziekanski report

Paul Kennedy has released a highly critical report into RCMP conduct in the death of Robert Dziekanski. Shirley Heafey was chair of the ...
6 days ago

Canada's climate policy spoofed

Canadian activists, the Yes Men and Action Aid were behind a series of fake press releases sent out during the UN climate change summit in ...
1 week ago

Obama's plans for Afghanistan

30,000 more troops, a bigger Afghan army, a partnership with Pakistan - Obama spelled out his plans for Afghanistan to a West Point ...
2 weeks ago

Reforming the oil and gas industry

What if Canada's resources were owned by the government and served a public interest mandate? A new report says the oil and gas industry ...
2 weeks ago

Nine years in jail without a trial

Mohamed Mahjoub was arrested on a security certificate in 2003. He has been held in prison ever since, except for a brief period of ...
2 weeks ago

Witnessing election fraud in Honduras

On November 29, the leaders of the coup in Honduras held an election that most of the population boycotted. B.C. Teachers Federation ...
3 weeks ago

Union embraces the co-op movement

The United Steelworkers Union has just entered into a partnership with a large worker-owned cooperative based in Spain. The Mondragon ...
3 weeks ago

After Homelessness

A forum theatre production by Headlines Theatre in Vancouver asks questions about what it takes to create housing that is safe, supported ...
3 weeks ago

The citizens Canada disowns

Abousifian Abdelrazik in the Sudan, Suaad Hagi Mohamud in Kenya: these are just two of the Canadian citizens who found that their ...
4 weeks ago

A day in the life of a homeless person

Getting a coffee, eating a balanced diet, using the bathroom - these are all tremendous challenges when you don't have a place to live. ...
1 month ago

Oil tankers and the tar sands

A new pipeline project from the Alberta tar sands to the Pacific Coast means that oil tankers may travel up and down the coast of British ...
1 month ago