Is Quebec more corrupt than the rest of Canada?
Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporting member of rabble.ca.My colleague Marie Léger-St-Jean recounted the drama of corruption in Québec in her last blog post. The...
View ArticleOf vampires and a zombie mine in Transylvania
Guest blog by Payal Sampat, International Campaigns Director for EARTHWORKS and originally posted on their EARTHblog.read more
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How the thirst for oil corrupts democracies and the climate: The strange case...
Thursday, October 17, 2013Oil is the source of so much pain in the world. Around the globe, wherever oil is extracted, people suffer a constellation of injuries, from coups and dictatorship to...
View ArticleThis week's wildfire: Duffy comes within an inch of calling the PM a liar
Keep Karl on Parl! Donate today to have Parliamentary reporting for the rest of us.Senator Mike Duffy put on quite a show in the Senate on Tuesday, late in the afternoon.The long-time broadcaster and...
View ArticleIn your opinion, which of these senators is most likely to face true anger...
Duffy comes within an inch of calling Harper a liar over the Senate scandal and the infamous $90,000 cheque.Pamela Wallin's expenses are still under review with Harper flip-flopping on whether he...
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What happened to Canada? Harper has made us into a right-wing petro state
Thursday, October 31, 2013 What happened to the generous and environmentally friendly Canada? Oh, it was overtaken by a greedy, dirty oil loving brute! Whenever I travel abroad these days, I'm...
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All politicians are liars: We need a politician that wants to make the truth...
Rob Ford lied. Politicians are liars. If we want Rob Ford to stop being a politician, who will replace him? Another liar?On lying; Or, why Rob Ford should keep his job
View ArticleMandela left South Africa beset by corruption, AIDS and inequality
When Nelson Mandela decided to step down after only one term as president of his country, he created one of the world's most exclusive and tiniest clubs.Almost nowhere do political leaders decide they...
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How corporate greed and corruption could lead us to another crash
Friday, December 13, 2013 Big banks involved in the 2008 recession continue their greedy, and at times, corrupt behaviour, which could lead to another economic crash that Canadian banks may not be able...
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Anti-Corruption Tool Database
Publish Date: January 30, 2014Summary: A collection of anti-corruption tools tested around the world via Kenny Miller Creative CommonsThe Gateway project is a database of anti-corruption tools and...
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Why we shouldn't buy into the smear campaign against the Portland Hotel Society
rey-2014-04-06a.mp3After Mark Townsend was forced to resign, critics from the left as well as the right were quick to accuse the PHS of corruption. Michael Stewart says that’s exactly what the...
View ArticleSay what? After 36 years, secret Alberta Tory slush fund comes to light
So, there's this law in Alberta that allows the ruling Progressive Conservative Party to have a possibly huge and definitely secret slush fund, but makes it illegal for any other party to do the same...
View ArticlePro-pipeline government of Mirabel gives hard time to anti-tar sands protesters
June 10-11: Terrebonne - St. Janvier de Mirabel - St. ScolastiqueUntil reaching the municipality of Mirabel, the Peoples for Mother Earth had encountered no problems with any police; local or...
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How corruption became a global problem in an age of neoliberalism
Friday, June 20, 2014Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a monthly supporter of rabble.ca.When it comes to corruption, we are so parochial. Gas plants, gas plants, gas...
View ArticleBreitbarting to be legally facilitated by Harper government
The Harper government wants to legalize theft -- the appropriation of newsclips without permission for political advertising.read more
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Whodunit? Counterinsurgency and police violence in Zapatista territory
November 6, 2014Justin Podur's The Demands of the Dead: A novel is a political murder mystery novel, set in Chiapas, Mexico, dealing with themes of counterinsurgency, the drug war and police violence....
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Mexican police complicit in murder of 43 student teachers
rey-2014-11-12a.mp3At the end of September, students from a rural teachers college were protesting in the southern Mexican State of Guererro. 57 students were arrested by police, 43 of whom were never...
View ArticleDemanding justice for anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca on 5th anniversary...
Five years ago this week, anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca Roblero was killed in Chiapas in southern Mexico. He had blamed the Calgary-based mining company Blackfire Exploration Ltd. for...
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Book: Drug War Capitalism
rey-2014-01-02a.mp3Dawn Paley is an independent journalist and co-founder of the Vancouver Media Coop. AK Press has just published her first book, Drug War Capitalism. Dawn Paley was in Vancouver with...
View ArticleLocked arms and open hearts: Students from the Okanagan Valley mobilize for...
From the unceded Syilx territories:They say history does not necessarily repeat itself, but that it certainly does rhyme.In the case of Ayotzinapa, the conductor of the macabre symphony, keeping that...
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