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div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Wednesday, June 19, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" The PQ government will table a bill for a #039;Charter of Quebec values#039; this fall. What does this shift in the government’s rhetoric mean, and how should the left react? /div /div /div pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pBernard Drainville, the minister of Democratic Institutions in the Parti québécois government, announced May 22 that the Charte de la laïcité, or Charter of Secularism, promised by his party in last year's general election, would become a Charte des valeurs québécoises, or Charter of Quebec values, and be tabled as a government bill this fall. What does this shift in the government's rhetoric mean, and how should the left react?/pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/pressconference_0.jpg" alt="" title="Women against intolerance during the #039;reasonable accomodation#039; debate in Quebec. (Photo: Tatiana Gomez / www.siafu.ca)" width="120" height="90" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/marois-government-identity-secularism-and-quebec-values" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=cfS7lEmFbCU:qb1xu957qlQ: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=cfS7lEmFbCU:qb1xu957qlQ: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=cfS7lEmFbCU:qb1xu957qlQ: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=cfS7lEmFbCU:qb1xu957qlQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=cfS7lEmFbCU:qb1xu957qlQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=cfS7lEmFbCU:qb1xu957qlQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=cfS7lEmFbCU:qb1xu957qlQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/cfS7lEmFbCU" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-image field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/380x275-front-multimedia/node-images/8278368853_91a4d32153.jpg"/div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"Actions across the country sent a clear message to the Harper government. (Photo: Caelie_Frampton / flickr) /div /div /div div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-connected-story" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"a href="/news/2013/06/refugee-lawyers-cuts-to-interim-federal-health-program-are-wrong-and-illegal"Refugee lawyers: Cuts to Interim Federal Health Program are #039;wrong and illegal#039;/a/div /div /divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=4jvfW4M4RoI:IBgd_39vkVs: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=4jvfW4M4RoI:IBgd_39vkVs: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=4jvfW4M4RoI:IBgd_39vkVs: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=4jvfW4M4RoI:IBgd_39vkVs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=4jvfW4M4RoI:IBgd_39vkVs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=4jvfW4M4RoI:IBgd_39vkVs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=4jvfW4M4RoI:IBgd_39vkVs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/4jvfW4M4RoI" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/trr_logo_300x300.jpg" alt="Talking Radical Radio" title="Talking Radical Radio" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-24080 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//a/divdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/trr_logo_300x300_14.jpg" alt="" title="Talking Radical Radio" width="120" height="120" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pOn this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizer Brennain Lloyd talks about her work with Northwatch, a 25-year-old coalition in northeastern Ontario that has tackled a broad range of environmental and social issues./pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/34089/trr_rpn_jun17-21_northwatch_lloyd.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=27287887"trr_rpn_jun17-21_northwatch_lloyd.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2013/06/environmental-organizing-across-distance-lessons-northw" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=YRtiSW84d5U:JflvLt7jFwg: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=YRtiSW84d5U:JflvLt7jFwg: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=YRtiSW84d5U:JflvLt7jFwg: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=YRtiSW84d5U:JflvLt7jFwg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=YRtiSW84d5U:JflvLt7jFwg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=YRtiSW84d5U:JflvLt7jFwg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=YRtiSW84d5U:JflvLt7jFwg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/YRtiSW84d5U" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2013/06/we-ignore-scientists-our-peril" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=BCYPl43cP24:oS8Ql5KiSsQ: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=BCYPl43cP24:oS8Ql5KiSsQ: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=BCYPl43cP24:oS8Ql5KiSsQ: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=BCYPl43cP24:oS8Ql5KiSsQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=BCYPl43cP24:oS8Ql5KiSsQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=BCYPl43cP24:oS8Ql5KiSsQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=BCYPl43cP24:oS8Ql5KiSsQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/BCYPl43cP24" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Tuesday, June 18, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" A routine trip to attend a political conference in the United States takes a bizarre turn for a Quebec student activist. /div /div /div pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a.nbsp;/p p"Did you know the Bolsheviks murdered Rosa Luxemburg?"/p pUntil a recent trip to the United States, I never expected this question to play a role in border security./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/njxhrzdrlh6kp1fn7562_0.png" alt="Logo of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, U.S. office. " title="Logo of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, U.S. office. " width="120" height="120" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/rosa-luxemburg-youre-not-boarding-plane-ass%C3%A9-activist-goes-to-new-york" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bOXGvxnOy24:fgKiYrMDt0s: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=bOXGvxnOy24:fgKiYrMDt0s: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=bOXGvxnOy24:fgKiYrMDt0s: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=bOXGvxnOy24:fgKiYrMDt0s:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=bOXGvxnOy24:fgKiYrMDt0s:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=bOXGvxnOy24:fgKiYrMDt0s:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=bOXGvxnOy24:fgKiYrMDt0s:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/bOXGvxnOy24" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Tuesday, June 18, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" For 55 years, the IFHP paid for basic health care for refugee claimants and refused claimants until they were removed from the country or became eligible for provincial health care. /div /div /div pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pemPeter Showler is Director of the Refugee Forum, University of Ottawa, and Co-chair of the Advocacy Committee of the Canadian Association of Refugee Laws (CARL). He gave the following presentation on Parliament Hill on Monday, June 17./em/p pGood morning, Thank you all for being here and we all know why we are here./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/528330_490714457644747_994816998_n.jpg" alt="Photo: Hamiltonians for Migrant and Refugee Health" title="Photo: Hamiltonians for Migrant and Refugee Health" width="120" height="80" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/refugee-lawyers-cuts-to-interim-federal-health-program-are-wrong-and-illegal" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=duAdNFFOlfw:DxFYVHS_Dqg: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=duAdNFFOlfw:DxFYVHS_Dqg: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=duAdNFFOlfw:DxFYVHS_Dqg: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=duAdNFFOlfw:DxFYVHS_Dqg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=duAdNFFOlfw:DxFYVHS_Dqg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=duAdNFFOlfw:DxFYVHS_Dqg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=duAdNFFOlfw:DxFYVHS_Dqg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/duAdNFFOlfw" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pIf consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, the Harper government must be broad-minded indeed./p pAs the NDP's Don Davies pointed out in an op-ed the other day, Harper advocates free trade while raising tariffs./p pOn the Syrian conflict, the Prime Minister describes the prospect of intervention as a "grotesque dilemma" one day, then, a few days later, laces into the Syrian regime's close friend, Russia's Putin, using the kind of gratuitously aggressive and dismissive language other G-7 leaders generally eschew./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/06/harpers-policy-on-vulnerable-refugees-wildly-inconsistent-and-" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=6UOC9USjuBM:ARi-uH5nBLY: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=6UOC9USjuBM:ARi-uH5nBLY: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=6UOC9USjuBM:ARi-uH5nBLY: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=6UOC9USjuBM:ARi-uH5nBLY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=6UOC9USjuBM:ARi-uH5nBLY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=6UOC9USjuBM:ARi-uH5nBLY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=6UOC9USjuBM:ARi-uH5nBLY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/6UOC9USjuBM" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/feminist-current" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/rabble3.jpg" alt="Feminist Current" title="Feminist Current" width="100" height="83" class="taxonomy-image-term-22099 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//aa href="/category/bios/meghan-murphy" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/Murphy_Meghan-GSWS%20photo.jpg" alt="Meghan Murphy" title="Meghan Murphy" width="67" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-15553 taxonomy-image-vid-14"//a/divpOn June 13th, a href="http://feministcurrent.com/tag/bedford-v-canada/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Bedford v. Canada/a was a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/a-prostitution-solution-outlaw-the-customers-not-the-hookers/article12306020/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"heard before/a the Supreme Court of Canada. The case is a legal a href="http://feministcurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1015190_590030921019199_324359857_o.jpg" rel="nofollow"img src="http://feministcurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1015190_590030921019199_324359857_o-300x223.jpg" style="float:right" //achallenge to Canada’s prostitution laws.fieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/26975/reflecting_on_bedford_v._canada_-_rabble.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=45954296"reflecting_on_bedford_v._canada_-_rabble.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/feminist-current/2013/06/reflections-on-bedford-v-canada-interview-janine-benedet" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=UpCbVtJRHP4:FTfSK24thdM: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=UpCbVtJRHP4:FTfSK24thdM: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=UpCbVtJRHP4:FTfSK24thdM: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=UpCbVtJRHP4:FTfSK24thdM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=UpCbVtJRHP4:FTfSK24thdM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=UpCbVtJRHP4:FTfSK24thdM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=UpCbVtJRHP4:FTfSK24thdM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/UpCbVtJRHP4" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Tuesday, June 18, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" After watching Jeremy Scahill#039;s film, Dirty Wars, and reading his book of the same name, my considered opinion is that he should be nominated for an Academy Award and considered for a Pulitzer Prize. /div /div /div pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pAfter watching Jeremy Scahill's film,nbsp;ema href="http://dirtywars.org/" rel="nofollow"Dirty Wars/a/em, and reading his book of the same name, my considered opinion is that he should be nominated for an Academy Award and considered for a Pulitzer Prize./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/jscahillyemen.jpg" alt="Jeremy Scahill in Yemen. (Photo: DirtyWars.org) " title="Jeremy Scahill in Yemen. (Photo: DirtyWars.org) " width="120" height="60" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/dirty-wars-deserves-academy-award-nomination-film-exposes-dark-heart-us-foreign-policy" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=FRTBR3iqFZE:mzn-FdHM0b0: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=FRTBR3iqFZE:mzn-FdHM0b0: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=FRTBR3iqFZE:mzn-FdHM0b0: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=FRTBR3iqFZE:mzn-FdHM0b0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=FRTBR3iqFZE:mzn-FdHM0b0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=FRTBR3iqFZE:mzn-FdHM0b0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=FRTBR3iqFZE:mzn-FdHM0b0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/FRTBR3iqFZE" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Tuesday, June 18, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Cyclists are often vilified for ignoring the rules of the road. Ironically, cyclists can take heart from the experience of another group once considered far more villainous: motorists. /div /div /div pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pCyclistsnbsp;are often vilified, particularly by motorists, for ignoring the rules of the road. Ironically,nbsp;cyclistsnbsp;can take heart from the experience of another group once considered far more villainous: motorists./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/3660954540_09c7ef34b6.jpg" alt="Photo: joshua_putnam / flickr " title="Photo: joshua_putnam / flickr " width="120" height="160" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/cycling-advocacy-how-little-self-evaluation-can-help-our-fight-safer-roads" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ZOOnVxwFj8E:IP4Kq0Z5wCg: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=ZOOnVxwFj8E:IP4Kq0Z5wCg: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=ZOOnVxwFj8E:IP4Kq0Z5wCg: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=ZOOnVxwFj8E:IP4Kq0Z5wCg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=ZOOnVxwFj8E:IP4Kq0Z5wCg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=ZOOnVxwFj8E:IP4Kq0Z5wCg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=ZOOnVxwFj8E:IP4Kq0Z5wCg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/ZOOnVxwFj8E" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Tuesday, June 18, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" In recent weeks, however, Israel has moved from relative inaction to a deepening involvement in Syrian affairs. /div /div /div pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pFor much of the past two years Israel stood sphinx-like on the sidelines ofnbsp;Syria's civil war. Did it want Bashar al-Assad's regime toppled? Did it favour military intervention to help opposition forces? And what did it think of the increasing visibility of Islamist groups innbsp;Syria? It was difficult to guess./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/pic.jpeg" alt="Assad and Netanyahu (Photo: www.uruknet.info)" title="Assad and Netanyahu (Photo: www.uruknet.info)" width="120" height="73" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/what-does-israel-want-syria" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=nPo5d7NQvR4:LaeSdnjYz0Q: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=nPo5d7NQvR4:LaeSdnjYz0Q: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=nPo5d7NQvR4:LaeSdnjYz0Q: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=nPo5d7NQvR4:LaeSdnjYz0Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=nPo5d7NQvR4:LaeSdnjYz0Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=nPo5d7NQvR4:LaeSdnjYz0Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=nPo5d7NQvR4:LaeSdnjYz0Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/nPo5d7NQvR4" height="1" width="1"/

div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"Tuesday, June 18, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Protests at Rio de Janeiro#039;s Confederations Cup football tournament continue into their second day as protesters assail high government spending on sports infrastructure while public services vanish. /div /div /div pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pTens of thousands will march in Sao Paulo later Monday as protests against rising bus fares, soaring poverty, and scant public services in Brazil reach fever pitch./pdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/protests.jpg" alt="Photo: Ibtimes " title="Photo: Ibtimes " width="120" height="83" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/protests-erupt-brazil-demanding-public-services-and-condemning-corruption" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=GQVEnLC-5BE:BngFxGPBd5k: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=GQVEnLC-5BE:BngFxGPBd5k: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=GQVEnLC-5BE:BngFxGPBd5k: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=GQVEnLC-5BE:BngFxGPBd5k:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=GQVEnLC-5BE:BngFxGPBd5k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=GQVEnLC-5BE:BngFxGPBd5k:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=GQVEnLC-5BE:BngFxGPBd5k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/GQVEnLC-5BE" height="1" width="1"/

fieldset class="fieldgroup group-tv-guide"div class="field field-type-text field-field-current-show" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Is this show currently playing? /div /div /div /fieldset div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"June 17, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries meet in secret in Vancouver over the weekend of June 15 -- 17th to set new investment rules within the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). /div /div /div fieldset class="fieldgroup group-video-information"div class="field field-type-emvideo field-field-embedded-video" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="emvideo emvideo-video emvideo-youtube"iframe id="media-youtube-html5-4" title="YouTube video player" class="media-youtube-html5" type="text/html" width="562" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HriuEvmQT10?hd=1" frameborder="0"/iframe /div /div /div /div div class="field field-type-link field-field-where-to-find" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HriuEvmQT10" target="_blank"Spotlight on Secret TPP Meeting in Vancouver BC/a /div /div /div /fieldset pNegotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries meet in secret in Vancouver over the weekend of June 15 -- 17th to set new investment rules within the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). No announcement of this "intersessional" on investment has been made to the public or the media. People in Canada first learned about this TPP 'mini' negotiation from an article in the Peruvian media Friday. For more on the Vancouver meetings, check out a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/06/harper-government-pleased-secret-tpp-investment-session-van"this article by Stuart Trew/a.nbsp;/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=YjK_I2c5J1s:CbetsFC45Gc: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=YjK_I2c5J1s:CbetsFC45Gc: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=YjK_I2c5J1s:CbetsFC45Gc: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=YjK_I2c5J1s:CbetsFC45Gc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=YjK_I2c5J1s:CbetsFC45Gc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=YjK_I2c5J1s:CbetsFC45Gc:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=YjK_I2c5J1s:CbetsFC45Gc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/YjK_I2c5J1s" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/john-bonnar-audio-blog" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/John%20Bonnar%20audio%20blog%20100x100%20copy.jpg" alt="John Bonnar Audio Blog" title="John Bonnar Audio Blog" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-7711 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//aa href="/category/bios/john-bonnar" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/john%20bonnar.jpg" alt="John Bonnar" title="John Bonnar" width="70" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-5752 taxonomy-image-vid-14"//a/divdiv class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/img_7685.jpg" alt="" title="Photo: John Bonnar " width="120" height="90" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pAngela Robertson is the Executive Director, Central Toronto Community Health Centres.nbsp;/p pAt Monday’s National Day of Action to to urge the federal government to rescind last year’s cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), Robertson explained that cuts to refugee health-care are part of a wider crackdown by the Conservative government on refugees in Canada./pfieldset class="fieldgroup group-mp3-upload"div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-mp3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-audio-mpeg" alt="audio/mpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/audio-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/audio/download/9313/angelar.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=15107295"angelar.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldsetdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=DIRqSLrI55s:IggGi8v1OP4: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=DIRqSLrI55s:IggGi8v1OP4: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=DIRqSLrI55s:IggGi8v1OP4: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=DIRqSLrI55s:IggGi8v1OP4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=DIRqSLrI55s:IggGi8v1OP4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=DIRqSLrI55s:IggGi8v1OP4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=DIRqSLrI55s:IggGi8v1OP4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/DIRqSLrI55s" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pAfter a year of hearings, let's stop and reflect on what we've learnt so far from the ongoing show on the Charbonneau Commission channel./p pstrongPrologue/strong/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/behind-numbers/2013/06/sorrows-wise-charbonneau-and-need-canadian-sequel" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=oEy5G254aeg:jt7B1S8ltMs: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=oEy5G254aeg:jt7B1S8ltMs: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=oEy5G254aeg:jt7B1S8ltMs: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=oEy5G254aeg:jt7B1S8ltMs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=oEy5G254aeg:jt7B1S8ltMs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=oEy5G254aeg:jt7B1S8ltMs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=oEy5G254aeg:jt7B1S8ltMs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/oEy5G254aeg" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/06/harper-government-pleased-secret-tpp-investment-session-van" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=-M08QE6gwz4:0xOhAT-eXyM: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=-M08QE6gwz4:0xOhAT-eXyM: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=-M08QE6gwz4:0xOhAT-eXyM: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=-M08QE6gwz4:0xOhAT-eXyM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=-M08QE6gwz4:0xOhAT-eXyM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=-M08QE6gwz4:0xOhAT-eXyM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=-M08QE6gwz4:0xOhAT-eXyM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/-M08QE6gwz4" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/taxonomy/term/320" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/jimStanford118x101_0.jpg" alt="Jim Stanford" title="Jim Stanford" width="100" height="86" class="taxonomy-image-term-320 taxonomy-image-vid-14"//a/divdiv class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" span class="date-display-single"June 18, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" div class="filefield-file"img class="filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg" alt="image/jpeg icon" src="http://rabble.ca/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png" /a href="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/node-images/ceceta-180_0_0_0_0.jpg" type="image/jpeg; length=11651"ceceta-180_0_0_0.jpg/a/div /div /div /div pWith Prime Minister Harper making the diplomatic rounds in Europe, media interest has heightened this week regarding the potential free trade agreement which his government is trying to negotiate with the European Union. Several deadlines to reach that deal have come and gone, but the Conservatives are still heavily committed to reaching a deal as a centrepiece of their economic strategy. The more politically desperate they become to reach a deal, the greater the likelihood of damaging concessions (in areas like foreign takeovers, drug patents, and others)./pdiv class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" With Harper making the diplomatic rounds in Europe, media interest has heightened this week regarding the potential free trade agreement which his government is trying to negotiate with the EU. /div /div /div fieldset class="fieldgroup group-related-items"div class="field field-type-link field-field-related-item1" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/steven-shrybman/2013/03/ceta-its-new-constitution-stupid" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"CETA: It#039;s the new Constitution, stupid/a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item1-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" If CETA negotiations succeed, the result will fragment Canada#039;s constitutional landscape by creating #039;have#039; and #039;have-not#039; provinces where the scarce resource will be the capacity to govern. /div /div /div div class="field field-type-link field-field-related-item2" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/09/ceta-can-harper%E2%80%99s-trojan-horse-be-stopped"CETA: Can Harper#039;s Trojan horse be stopped?/a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item2-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" The frantic rush to get CETA signed has opened up a new front in the stop-Harper movement. The key to defeating CETA now lies with the junior levels of government, the provinces and municipalities. /div /div /div div class="field field-type-link field-field-related-item3" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" a href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/11/how-manufacture-factoid-governments-12-billion-claim-about-ceta" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"How to manufacture a factoid: The government#039;s $12-billion claim about CETA/a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item3-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" $12 billion. That number keeps popping up in debates about the CETA. It#039;s the increase in Canadian GDP the federal government claims will result from the deal. /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/06/will-ceta-help-harper-conservatives-or-hurt-them" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=0KOWPLFynAk:rOlVPZQQb-g: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=0KOWPLFynAk:rOlVPZQQb-g: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=0KOWPLFynAk:rOlVPZQQb-g: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=0KOWPLFynAk:rOlVPZQQb-g:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=0KOWPLFynAk:rOlVPZQQb-g:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=0KOWPLFynAk:rOlVPZQQb-g:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=0KOWPLFynAk:rOlVPZQQb-g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/0KOWPLFynAk" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pIn the election of 2011 the Conservatives did terribly in the 22 ridings of Montreal and Laval./p pIn the predominantly francophone east and north of Montreal, and in Laval, they generally finished in fourth place, behind the NDP, Liberals and Bloc./p pIn the central and western Montreal ridings, where there is a large population of non-francophones, Harper's Conservatives did a bit better./p pThey managed mostly third place finishes, ahead of the Bloc Québecois./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/06/harper-loses-his-best-hope-conservative-mp-montreal" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=u68b420KktQ:Hw_6PXf8xBA: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=u68b420KktQ:Hw_6PXf8xBA: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=u68b420KktQ:Hw_6PXf8xBA: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=u68b420KktQ:Hw_6PXf8xBA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=u68b420KktQ:Hw_6PXf8xBA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=u68b420KktQ:Hw_6PXf8xBA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=u68b420KktQ:Hw_6PXf8xBA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/u68b420KktQ" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pemPlease support our coverage of democratic movements andnbsp;a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"become a supporting member ofnbsp;/a/ema href="https://secure.rabble.ca/membership/signupNEW.php"rabble.ca/a./p pA year later, health-care professionals still can’t fathom the senseless cuts the Conservative government made to refugee health-care./p p“I had a patient whose HIV I could treat even though it was stable,” said Dr. Hasan Sheikh, a family medicine resident at the University of Toronto.nbsp;/p p“But I could do nothing to address the post-traumatic stress disorder that was having a much bigger impact on her ability to be healthy and contribute to society.”/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/johnbon/2013/06/cuts-to-refugee-health-care-continue-to-endanger-lives" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=-srgVyruKoc:1BOSVhh3TLE: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=-srgVyruKoc:1BOSVhh3TLE: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=-srgVyruKoc:1BOSVhh3TLE: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=-srgVyruKoc:1BOSVhh3TLE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=-srgVyruKoc:1BOSVhh3TLE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=-srgVyruKoc:1BOSVhh3TLE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=-srgVyruKoc:1BOSVhh3TLE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/-srgVyruKoc" height="1" width="1"/

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