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ppOne part of the brain can work something out while another part is doing something else, or so it seems. emThe Regina Mom/em stayed up all night. When that happens, it's usually because she's been engaged in a good read or a good write. This time it was neither. And it wasn't a party, either. No, this time emTRM/em's eyes were glued to the screen catching up on episodes of a href="http://www.globaltv.com/theyoungandtherestless/index.html"emThe Young and The Restless/em/a and a href="http://shows.ctv.ca/ColbertReport.aspx"emThe Colbert Report/em/a, shows she watches only occasionally these days. It's as though her brain needed a time out from the case of overload she'd contracted by consuming a wealth of information about the tar sands./ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/regina-mom/2012/02/what-will-neighbours-think"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WUw4GYCnI9Y:cxmmAAVFTG0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WUw4GYCnI9Y:cxmmAAVFTG0:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WUw4GYCnI9Y:cxmmAAVFTG0:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WUw4GYCnI9Y:cxmmAAVFTG0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=WUw4GYCnI9Y:cxmmAAVFTG0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WUw4GYCnI9Y:cxmmAAVFTG0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=WUw4GYCnI9Y:cxmmAAVFTG0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/WUw4GYCnI9Y" height="1" width="1"/

ppTom B.K. Goldtooth is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), headquartered at Bemidji, Minnesota. A social change activist within the Native American community for over 30 years, he has become an environmental and economic justice leader, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Tom co-produced an award winning documentary film, Drumbeat For Mother Earth, which addresses the affects of bio-accumulative chemicals on indigenous peoples, and is active with many environmental and social justice organizations besides IEN. Tom is a policy advisor on environmental protection, climate mitigation, and adaptation./ppa href="http://rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2012/02/best-net/occupy-talks-indigenous-perspectives-occupy-movement-tom-bk-"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ngivilWgfco:-dsyrFxdJJg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ngivilWgfco:-dsyrFxdJJg:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ngivilWgfco:-dsyrFxdJJg:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ngivilWgfco:-dsyrFxdJJg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=ngivilWgfco:-dsyrFxdJJg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ngivilWgfco:-dsyrFxdJJg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=ngivilWgfco:-dsyrFxdJJg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/ngivilWgfco" height="1" width="1"/

ppCalling the Israeli regime one of apartheid is not rhetoric, nor is it an exaggeration or a propaganda tool. This is the reality in modern day Palestine, where the Israeli regime is based on discrimination, through laws, practices, education and most aspects of life. This apartheid regime is not only imposed on the people in Palestine, but also on millions of Palestinian refugees denied their right to return home because they are of the wrong religion.br //ppa href="http://rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2012/02/best-net/israeli-apartheid-week-call-it-it"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=J1F5c4Tduqo:y3q1_uc_YlY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=J1F5c4Tduqo:y3q1_uc_YlY:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=J1F5c4Tduqo:y3q1_uc_YlY:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=J1F5c4Tduqo:y3q1_uc_YlY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=J1F5c4Tduqo:y3q1_uc_YlY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=J1F5c4Tduqo:y3q1_uc_YlY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=J1F5c4Tduqo:y3q1_uc_YlY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/J1F5c4Tduqo" height="1" width="1"/

ppAt the terminus of Highway 27, far into the northern interior of British Columbia, Fort St. James seems to belong to a remote Canadian hinterland. But this town, mostly remembered for its history as an old fur-trading post, on February 2 found itself at the centre of political negotiations about the future of Canada./p pLocated on the southeastern shore of Stuart Lake, Fort St. James rests in the heart of the territory inhabited by Dakelh (or Carrier) people. The Dakelh have never signed treaty nor ceded their claim to their traditional territories. Nonetheless, the company Enbridge is proposing to build a pipeline through the heart of Dakelh territory to carry bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to port./p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/tylermccreary/2012/02/visiting-when-arrows-were-flying"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=M7YxXggfDW4:iXUlVM1_sKs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=M7YxXggfDW4:iXUlVM1_sKs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=M7YxXggfDW4:iXUlVM1_sKs:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=M7YxXggfDW4:iXUlVM1_sKs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=M7YxXggfDW4:iXUlVM1_sKs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=M7YxXggfDW4:iXUlVM1_sKs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=M7YxXggfDW4:iXUlVM1_sKs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/M7YxXggfDW4" height="1" width="1"/

ppAnother squalid American-style push poll, which has all the hallmarks of a Wildrose Party operation, had telephones dingling in Alberta yesterday evening./p pMeanwhile, yet another legitimate poll, this one released Thursday by Return on Insight, shows the Progressive Conservatives under Premier Alison Redford continue to hold a commanding lead among decided voters./p pQuite possibly the results of the ROI poll and others like it explain the tactics being used in the push poll./p pA push poll, as previously noted in this space, is a political campaigning technique in which a political party or interest group attempts to change the opinions of the people whom they contact by pretending to conduct a poll./p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2012/02/another-sleazy-alberta-push-poll-takes-aim-high-riding-redford-t"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=TmaDGSPAF6M:1sSQa4MFqL4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=TmaDGSPAF6M:1sSQa4MFqL4:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=TmaDGSPAF6M:1sSQa4MFqL4:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=TmaDGSPAF6M:1sSQa4MFqL4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=TmaDGSPAF6M:1sSQa4MFqL4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=TmaDGSPAF6M:1sSQa4MFqL4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=TmaDGSPAF6M:1sSQa4MFqL4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/TmaDGSPAF6M" height="1" width="1"/

ppPam Edgar shares this dialogue with Lynn Thompson about a techie way to install love./p/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bunVr9aE-kM:Vg_XDG4MalA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bunVr9aE-kM:Vg_XDG4MalA:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bunVr9aE-kM:Vg_XDG4MalA:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bunVr9aE-kM:Vg_XDG4MalA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=bunVr9aE-kM:Vg_XDG4MalA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bunVr9aE-kM:Vg_XDG4MalA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=bunVr9aE-kM:Vg_XDG4MalA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/bunVr9aE-kM" height="1" width="1"/

ppLabour updates from the Asia Pacific region/p pInterview with George Kotsakis from Migrante Australia about the Second General Assembly held on Friday, January 27 and Saturday, February 28./p/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=lC6kZEEjKnQ:hqVF-4hCgoQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=lC6kZEEjKnQ:hqVF-4hCgoQ:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=lC6kZEEjKnQ:hqVF-4hCgoQ:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=lC6kZEEjKnQ:hqVF-4hCgoQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=lC6kZEEjKnQ:hqVF-4hCgoQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=lC6kZEEjKnQ:hqVF-4hCgoQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=lC6kZEEjKnQ:hqVF-4hCgoQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/lC6kZEEjKnQ" height="1" width="1"/

ppToday the HarperCons stepped into the [cesspool / polluted waters] tar sands issue to a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/03/edmonton-oilsands-monitoring-new-system.html"announce a water monitoring project/a which will take 3 years and $50 million to fully implement. emThe Regina Mom/em agrees with Halifax NDP MP Megan Leslie; this is a a href="https://twitter.com/#!/MeganLeslieMP/status/165535892415590401"PR stunt/a./ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/regina-mom/2012/02/oh-those-radicals"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=49PjheKejz0:w8B6xklFeU0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=49PjheKejz0:w8B6xklFeU0:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=49PjheKejz0:w8B6xklFeU0:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=49PjheKejz0:w8B6xklFeU0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=49PjheKejz0:w8B6xklFeU0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=49PjheKejz0:w8B6xklFeU0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=49PjheKejz0:w8B6xklFeU0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/49PjheKejz0" height="1" width="1"/

ppListen to an interview with Doug Johnson Hatlem, a street pastor and social justice activist./p pstrongFrom the press release:/strong/p pToday marks the first anniversary of Christopher William Gardianrsquo;s death, early on the sixth day after a severe beating by police in Toronto's 14 Division.nbsp;/p pWe will meet at the South gate of Trinity Bellwoods Park at 12:30 p.m. to remember Chris' death. nbsp;/p pDressed in black, and with black tape over our mouths, we will then march along Queen St. to the heart of 14 Division at Queen and Bathurst. Nearby is a drop-in which Chris made use of nearly every day./p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/john-bonnar-audio-blog/2012/02/concerned-citizens-condemn-alleged-violence-toronto-po"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=owFs3kdAEgQ:Grk4pB7ZkRk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=owFs3kdAEgQ:Grk4pB7ZkRk:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=owFs3kdAEgQ:Grk4pB7ZkRk:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=owFs3kdAEgQ:Grk4pB7ZkRk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=owFs3kdAEgQ:Grk4pB7ZkRk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=owFs3kdAEgQ:Grk4pB7ZkRk:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=owFs3kdAEgQ:Grk4pB7ZkRk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/owFs3kdAEgQ" height="1" width="1"/

ppListen to an interview with Jane Lawton, Executive Director, the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada/p pstrongFrom the press release:/strong/p pThe Patriots and the Giants may be the ones vying for the NFL championship this Sunday, but the chimpanzees in the CareerBuilder.com ads will be the real losers at this year's Super Bowl. Endangered chimpanzees belong in the wild, not in advertising or in entertainment./p pThe Jane Goodall Institute of Canada (JGI Canada) is asking Canadians to stronggo to JaneGoodall.ca and sign a letter /strongfrom world-renowned primatologist and environmentalist Dr. Jane Goodall asking the leadership of CareerBuilder.com to stop using live chimpanzees in its ads./p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/john-bonnar-audio-blog/2012/02/jane-goodall-institute-asks-careerbuildercom-stop-usin"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qXyumhuIo20:1b-a6vnfQYA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qXyumhuIo20:1b-a6vnfQYA:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qXyumhuIo20:1b-a6vnfQYA:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qXyumhuIo20:1b-a6vnfQYA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qXyumhuIo20:1b-a6vnfQYA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qXyumhuIo20:1b-a6vnfQYA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qXyumhuIo20:1b-a6vnfQYA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/qXyumhuIo20" height="1" width="1"/

ppIn this edition of Needs No Introduction, Mike Luff, Diana Gibson and Maude Barlow share their thoughts and observations on the current state of health care in Canada and where we might be going.nbsp;/p/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WE1d2nPkn9Y:wesXRN14hk0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WE1d2nPkn9Y:wesXRN14hk0:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WE1d2nPkn9Y:wesXRN14hk0:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WE1d2nPkn9Y:wesXRN14hk0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=WE1d2nPkn9Y:wesXRN14hk0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WE1d2nPkn9Y:wesXRN14hk0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=WE1d2nPkn9Y:wesXRN14hk0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/WE1d2nPkn9Y" height="1" width="1"/

ppldquo;The decision announced today that U.S. Caterpillar Corporation will close its Electro-Motive plant in London instead of negotiating with the Canadian Autoworkers Union requires an immediate response from the Canadian and Ontario governments.rdquo; That statement from Dave Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP)./p pnbsp;ldquo;This decision is a slap in the face to Canada which gave Electro-Motive tax breaks to protect jobs,rdquo; continues Coles.nbsp;/p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/dave-coles/2012/02/governments-should-seize-caterpillar-assets"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Gjq5u5keiZA:2PMRUzheAuE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Gjq5u5keiZA:2PMRUzheAuE:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Gjq5u5keiZA:2PMRUzheAuE:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Gjq5u5keiZA:2PMRUzheAuE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=Gjq5u5keiZA:2PMRUzheAuE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Gjq5u5keiZA:2PMRUzheAuE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=Gjq5u5keiZA:2PMRUzheAuE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/Gjq5u5keiZA" height="1" width="1"/

ppThe First Nation community of Attawapiskat is in dire need of housing supplies to help repair their existing homes. OPSEU is part of a href="http://www.designpointsnorth.com/" target="_blank"Design Points North/a, a group heading up to Attawapiskat on Saturday, February 4 with a transport truck to deliver a Mongolian yurt -- the same yurt that stood in St. James Park during Occupy Toronto. There is room on the truck and they need your help to fill it up with useful items requested by the band. You can make a donation a href="http://www.designpointsnorth.com/" target="_blank"here/a.nbsp; Follow this space on emrabble.ca/em over the next week as Laurie Miller travels to Attawapiskat by truck./p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laurie-miller/2012/02/solidarity-occupy-toronto-attawapiskat-%E2%80%93-you-can-help"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qM610ObXwpg:4ynsu8H0nFY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qM610ObXwpg:4ynsu8H0nFY:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qM610ObXwpg:4ynsu8H0nFY:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qM610ObXwpg:4ynsu8H0nFY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qM610ObXwpg:4ynsu8H0nFY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=qM610ObXwpg:4ynsu8H0nFY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=qM610ObXwpg:4ynsu8H0nFY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/qM610ObXwpg" height="1" width="1"/

ppWe treated them like royalty./p pWe rolled out the tax-cut red carpet./p pIn fact our Prime Minister made a special stop at the London, Ontario Electro-Motive (EMD) plant a href="http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/general/%E2%80%9Charper-get-your-ass-down-here%E2%80%9D-roars-crowd-at-electro-motive-protest-video-52829" target="_blank"in 2008/a, touting the $5 million in tax cuts we gave EMD./p pIt was all part of the "tax cuts create jobs" rhetoric that Canadian politicians rhyme off by rote./p pAnd EMD, part of the American industrial giant Caterpillar, has been revelling in financial glory./p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/behind-numbers/2012/02/caterpillar-moth-flying-too-close-flame"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=62lShSW-fus:dE6p9Mghdrg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=62lShSW-fus:dE6p9Mghdrg:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=62lShSW-fus:dE6p9Mghdrg:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=62lShSW-fus:dE6p9Mghdrg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=62lShSW-fus:dE6p9Mghdrg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=62lShSW-fus:dE6p9Mghdrg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=62lShSW-fus:dE6p9Mghdrg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/62lShSW-fus" height="1" width="1"/

ppKids ask questions. Sometimes adults feel inadequate if they don't have ready answers.nbsp; But when I became a teacher, I learned quickly that there's nothing wrong with saying, "I don't know." Teaching children how to learn is more useful than feeding them facts./p pMany parents, though, believe they must appear infallible in the eyes of their children. A a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9022910/Science-and-maths-questions-the-ones-parents-fear-most.html" target="_blank"U.K. survey/a found that some moms and dads fear questions such as "Why is the sky blue?" and "Why is the moon out during the day?" Math and science queries were the biggest stumpers./p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2012/02/science-literacy-good-society"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=3-bZbQcnH6I:qLtC15r1n0U:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=3-bZbQcnH6I:qLtC15r1n0U:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=3-bZbQcnH6I:qLtC15r1n0U:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=3-bZbQcnH6I:qLtC15r1n0U:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=3-bZbQcnH6I:qLtC15r1n0U:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=3-bZbQcnH6I:qLtC15r1n0U:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=3-bZbQcnH6I:qLtC15r1n0U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/3-bZbQcnH6I" height="1" width="1"/

ppHassan Diab, a Canadian citizen and former University of Ottawa professor, faces the possibility of life imprisonment in France for his alleged role in a 1980 Paris bombing that killed four people. Diab's finger and palm prints do not match those of the suspect, nor does his handwriting. The suspect's physical description is unlike what Diab looked like in 1980, and Diab denies being in France and emphatically condemns the bombing. He's being sought based on secret intelligence, the source of which even French officials are unaware, that may have been extracted under torture. Nevertheless, Canada's draconian Extradition Act may provide legal grounds for Canada to send Diab to France to stand trial./p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2012/02/canadas-extradition-act-and-case-hassan-diab"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eBRazPRcSdI:39csX-PgNRU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eBRazPRcSdI:39csX-PgNRU:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eBRazPRcSdI:39csX-PgNRU:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eBRazPRcSdI:39csX-PgNRU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=eBRazPRcSdI:39csX-PgNRU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=eBRazPRcSdI:39csX-PgNRU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=eBRazPRcSdI:39csX-PgNRU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/eBRazPRcSdI" height="1" width="1"/

ppRecent polls suggest that public opinion of Canada's oil sands is becoming increasingly polarized. You are either for the wholesale exploitation of the resource at any cost, or a cold turkey shutdown, at any cost./p pHowever, many Canadians are still on the fence./p pIn the public debate, all of the usual suspects have blood on their hands, myself included. I've done my share of fighting as a communications strategist for environmental groups over the years. It's a job that has paid my bills, and because I've always believed in free speech, I never had concerns about the work./p pstrongEnemy of the state/strong/p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/andrew-frank/2012/02/labeling-critics-oilsands-enemies-downright-dangerous"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=0jM9ZL14yIE:ekreqNx5XjE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=0jM9ZL14yIE:ekreqNx5XjE:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=0jM9ZL14yIE:ekreqNx5XjE:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=0jM9ZL14yIE:ekreqNx5XjE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=0jM9ZL14yIE:ekreqNx5XjE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=0jM9ZL14yIE:ekreqNx5XjE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=0jM9ZL14yIE:ekreqNx5XjE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/0jM9ZL14yIE" height="1" width="1"/

ppemstrongCanadians deserve to know the truth about what was said between the Prime Minister's Office and Tides Canada CEO, Ross McMillan./strong/em/p pSome of you may be familiar with my story as a whistleblower. For those who aren't, here's the Coles Notes version: My name is Andrew Frank, and last week I was fired from ForestEthics Canada, a charitable project of Tides Canada, an environmental charity./p pI was fired because I gave Tides Canada CEO, Ross McMillan, the "heads up" that I was going to swear an affidavit, and go public with a story that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) had threatened his charity and labelled ForestEthics an "Enemy of the Government of Canada" and an "Enemy of the People of Canada."/p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/andrew-frank/2012/02/enemygate-scandal"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WVe7jbqB0ZA:O9iY1eFK7hI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WVe7jbqB0ZA:O9iY1eFK7hI:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WVe7jbqB0ZA:O9iY1eFK7hI:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WVe7jbqB0ZA:O9iY1eFK7hI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=WVe7jbqB0ZA:O9iY1eFK7hI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WVe7jbqB0ZA:O9iY1eFK7hI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=WVe7jbqB0ZA:O9iY1eFK7hI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/WVe7jbqB0ZA" height="1" width="1"/

ppThe Shafia case is so unsettling that it seems to unleash the search for a single key to explain it. Then you could toss away other keys that don't work, and even lock the door to a recurrence. But I don't think that's the way to go./p pFor instance, people ask: Was it about honour killing or domestic violence? Yet honour killings are domestic violence. You lose something in understanding if you discard either category. And domestic violence is a case of violence in general. The same holds when you try to decide if the murders are social, cultural or religious. Religion and culture are social. Why choose?/p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/02/violence-against-women-and-shafia-case"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WX7Dh_FqwOA:Jbo-cCB3wEg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WX7Dh_FqwOA:Jbo-cCB3wEg:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WX7Dh_FqwOA:Jbo-cCB3wEg:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WX7Dh_FqwOA:Jbo-cCB3wEg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=WX7Dh_FqwOA:Jbo-cCB3wEg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=WX7Dh_FqwOA:Jbo-cCB3wEg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=WX7Dh_FqwOA:Jbo-cCB3wEg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/WX7Dh_FqwOA" height="1" width="1"/

ppIn her a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/f-word-collective/2011/08/why-reproductive-rights-and-prostitution-are-not-same-thing" target="_blank"August/a, a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/f-word-collective/2011/11/why-does-left-want-prostitution-be-%E2%80%98-job-any-other%E2%80%99" target="_blank"October/a, and a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/f-word-collective/2011/12/who-gets-say-sex-work-lobby-silencing-feminist-voices" target="_blank"December /aemrabble /emblog posts, Meghan Murphy asks why sex workers and our allies don't want to engage in "genuine discourse" with her and other abolitionists. It might surprise her, but there is an answer to that question./p/ppa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2012/02/would-be-sex-work-abolitionist-or-aint-i-woman"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=GXNOEm06zCo:YpCT9ZPTe3k:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=GXNOEm06zCo:YpCT9ZPTe3k:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=GXNOEm06zCo:YpCT9ZPTe3k:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=GXNOEm06zCo:YpCT9ZPTe3k:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=GXNOEm06zCo:YpCT9ZPTe3k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=GXNOEm06zCo:YpCT9ZPTe3k:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=GXNOEm06zCo:YpCT9ZPTe3k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/GXNOEm06zCo" height="1" width="1"/