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div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pLike you, I'm gutted./p pI'm devastated that this province can look forward to four more years of unfettered neoliberal policies. This election result is a disaster for labour, for students, for teachers, for the environment, for First Nations rights, for poverty and for affordable housing./p pThere are already rumblings of what went wrong: a href="http://bc.ctvnews.ca/liberals-vote-splitting-strategy-under-fire-from-ndp-1.1277730" rel="nofollow"vote splitting/a, a href="http://billtieleman.blogspot.ca/2013/05/bc-ndp-flailed-instead-of-fighting-back.html" rel="nofollow"the success of negative campaigning/a, a href="http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.ca/2013/05/what-does-tonights-disaster-say-about.html?showComment=1368597367402" rel="nofollow"the lack of killer instinct/a by Dix and his party./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/michael-stewart/2013/05/eby-and-heyman-offer-answers-to-ndp-heartbreak" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=oxxVDKQcR5o:0yzv7A_jjco: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=oxxVDKQcR5o:0yzv7A_jjco: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=oxxVDKQcR5o:0yzv7A_jjco: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=oxxVDKQcR5o:0yzv7A_jjco:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=oxxVDKQcR5o:0yzv7A_jjco:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=oxxVDKQcR5o:0yzv7A_jjco:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=oxxVDKQcR5o:0yzv7A_jjco:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/oxxVDKQcR5o" 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"Wednesday, May 15, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Reaching 400 parts per million for the first time in human history is a wake up call for all of us. The science is clear. /div /div /div pWe've just crossed a sobering milestone. For the first time since humans have walked the planet, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmospherenbsp;atnbsp;a href="http://researchmatters.noaa.gov/news/Pages/CarbonDioxideatMaunaLoareaches400ppm.aspx" target="_blank" title="NOAA Press Release on 400ppm CO2" rel="nofollow"Mauna Loa Observatory/anbsp;has reached 400 parts per million. On May 9, scientists from both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (a href="http://www.noaa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"NOAA/a) and thenbsp;a href="http://sio.ucsd.edu/Research/Areas/Atmosphere_and_Climate/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Scripps Institution of Oceanography/anbsp;measured the daily average concentration of carbon dioxide in air above this value.div 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/epica-luthi-nature-2008-crop.jpg" alt="" title="Carbon dioxide concentration is now at unprecedented levels in human history. (Image: Adapted from Luthi et al, 2008)" 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/2013/05/welcome-to-pliocene-on-meaning-400ppm" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=9Iu5xIf7Zq4:aSpTHYpJY7A: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=9Iu5xIf7Zq4:aSpTHYpJY7A: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=9Iu5xIf7Zq4:aSpTHYpJY7A: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=9Iu5xIf7Zq4:aSpTHYpJY7A:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=9Iu5xIf7Zq4:aSpTHYpJY7A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=9Iu5xIf7Zq4:aSpTHYpJY7A:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=9Iu5xIf7Zq4:aSpTHYpJY7A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/9Iu5xIf7Zq4" 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_9.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, Elizabeth Carvahlo, Jeremiah Bach, Peter, and Alisa talk about their work as organizers of the Mad Pride festival in Toronto./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_may_15_mad_pride_toronto.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=27188798"trr_rpn_may_15_mad_pride_toronto.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2013/05/mad-pride-toronto" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=vSxjYsdYk28:IITVpk-t0Xk: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=vSxjYsdYk28:IITVpk-t0Xk: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=vSxjYsdYk28:IITVpk-t0Xk: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=vSxjYsdYk28:IITVpk-t0Xk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=vSxjYsdYk28:IITVpk-t0Xk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=vSxjYsdYk28:IITVpk-t0Xk:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=vSxjYsdYk28:IITVpk-t0Xk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/vSxjYsdYk28" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pOn Monday, the Parti québécois government announced a new mining royalty regime. Its hybrid proposal combines aspects from two types of royalty systems: profit-based and emad valorem/em royalties. In this blog post, we will demystify these ways of calculating royalties in order to best analyze the government's choice as well as what its implications are./p pLet's start with a small yet important clarification: all mining royalty regimes must deal with the cyclical nature of metal markets, which periodically increase and then decrease. When metal prices are high, mining companies naturally tend to generate more profits than when prices are low. These fluctuations obviously affect royalties./p pstrongProfit-based royalties/strong/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/behind-numbers/2013/05/new-mining-royalties-quebec" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=3YSfDJAYJL8:gjMtoAqi6QA: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=3YSfDJAYJL8:gjMtoAqi6QA: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=3YSfDJAYJL8:gjMtoAqi6QA: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=3YSfDJAYJL8:gjMtoAqi6QA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=3YSfDJAYJL8:gjMtoAqi6QA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=3YSfDJAYJL8:gjMtoAqi6QA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=3YSfDJAYJL8:gjMtoAqi6QA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/3YSfDJAYJL8" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pThis week, the a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2013/05/13/tpp-should-keep-dairy-off-the-table/" rel="nofollow"Citizens Trade Campaign/a -- a U.S. coalition of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious and other civil society groups -- reported that farmers and labour groups across the Pacific region are demanding that dairy be taken out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement altogether. Removing all barriers to trade in milk and milk products is a major demand of New Zealand and the United States in the TPP negotiations. But U.S., Canadian and Japanese dairy farmers and workers agree this is not in the interests of family farmers in any of the participating countries./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/05/hands-dairy-say-farmers-across-several-trans-pacific-partne" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=jxXdJIv7klI:QNIrDuke5Bw: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=jxXdJIv7klI:QNIrDuke5Bw: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=jxXdJIv7klI:QNIrDuke5Bw: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=jxXdJIv7klI:QNIrDuke5Bw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=jxXdJIv7klI:QNIrDuke5Bw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=jxXdJIv7klI:QNIrDuke5Bw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=jxXdJIv7klI:QNIrDuke5Bw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/jxXdJIv7klI" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/taxonomy/term/4494" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/Thomas.jpg" alt="Thomas Ponniah" title="Thomas Ponniah" width="75" height="75" class="taxonomy-image-term-4494 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"May 15, 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/chavistas.jpg" type="image/jpeg; length=134446" title="chavistas.jpg"Photo: marcossalgado.info/flickr/a/div /div /div /div pHere is some news that the conservative critics of Venezuela's leftist government will not publicize. The Chavistas announced that a a href="http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/9202" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"new labour law/a, part of which will grant recognition to non-salaried work traditionally done by women, will come into effect this week. Full-time mothers will now be able to collect a pension./pdiv class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Venezuela#039;s government announced that a new labour law, part of which will grant recognition to non-salaried work traditionally done by women, will come into effect this week. /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/news/2013/05/guantanamo-to-yemen-mothers-day-appeal-justice" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"From Guantanamo to Yemen: A Mother#039;s Day appeal for justice/a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item1-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Join us in calling on Michelle Obama to open her heart to the cries of Abdurahman#039;s mother and ask Barack to send those cleared home and to expedite the closing of Guantanamo. /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/2012/12/ecology-and-venezuela-program-21st-century-socialism"Ecology and Venezuela: A program for 21st-century socialism/a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item2-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" Venezuela#039;s leadership has sketched the bridge that progressives need to cross: a genuine alternative to neoliberal modernity found in a fusion of ecological aspirations with struggles for equality. /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/news/2012/05/why-we-should-celebrate-real-origins-mothers-day" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"Why we should celebrate the real origins of Mother#039;s Day/a /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-related-item3-desc" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" The day did not begin as a day of consumerism to celebrate mothers#039; contributions to the home and family; once upon a time it was a day meant to celebrate their contributions to society. /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=51V8VC5k3Qs:x5HprW28d5c: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=51V8VC5k3Qs:x5HprW28d5c: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=51V8VC5k3Qs:x5HprW28d5c: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=51V8VC5k3Qs:x5HprW28d5c:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=51V8VC5k3Qs:x5HprW28d5c:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=51V8VC5k3Qs:x5HprW28d5c:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=51V8VC5k3Qs:x5HprW28d5c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/51V8VC5k3Qs" 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"Wednesday, May 15, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" The BC Liberals pulled off a stunning upset Tuesday, defeating the BC NDP to win a majority in the provincial election. /div /div /div pThe BC Liberals pulled off a stunning upset Tuesday, defeating the BC NDP to win a majority in the provincial election. As of this morning., the Liberals had won 50 seats to the NDP's 33./p pOne silver lining for the NDP is that Liberal leader Christy Clark was defeated in a close race by the NDP's David Eby, in the riding of Vancouver - Point Grey./p pnbsp;Andrew Weaver made history by winning a lone seat for the Green Party in the Vancouver Island riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head. Weaver becomes the first Green representative ever elected to the provincial legislature. One independent candidate, Vicki Huntington, won re-election in the riding of Delta South./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/8385183_0.jpg" alt="" title="" width="120" height="77" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/bc-liberals-pull-stunning-election-win-greens-pick-first-ever-seat" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=UWR8c9cIED8:h5EBSMOLQSc: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=UWR8c9cIED8:h5EBSMOLQSc: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=UWR8c9cIED8:h5EBSMOLQSc: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=UWR8c9cIED8:h5EBSMOLQSc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=UWR8c9cIED8:h5EBSMOLQSc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=UWR8c9cIED8:h5EBSMOLQSc:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=UWR8c9cIED8:h5EBSMOLQSc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/UWR8c9cIED8" 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/8385183.jpg"/div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"Andrew Weaver won the first ever Green seat in B.C., while the Liberals stunned the NDP. (Photo: Lyle Stafford, Victoria Times Colonist)/div /div /div div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-connected-story" div class="field-items" div class="field-item"a href="/news/2013/05/bc-liberals-pull-stunning-election-win-greens-pick-first-ever-seat"BC Liberals pull off stunning election win, Greens pick up first ever seat/a/div /div /divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=0QHbVfLcOvY:lboPPoY8pm8: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=0QHbVfLcOvY:lboPPoY8pm8: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=0QHbVfLcOvY:lboPPoY8pm8: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=0QHbVfLcOvY:lboPPoY8pm8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=0QHbVfLcOvY:lboPPoY8pm8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=0QHbVfLcOvY:lboPPoY8pm8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=0QHbVfLcOvY:lboPPoY8pm8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/0QHbVfLcOvY" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pWho leaked the Alberta government's response to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees' unfair labour practices complaint to an Edmonton Journal political reporter, and why?/p pThis is an important question because at the time the leak took place, the government document questioning AUPE President Guy Smith's personal honesty in harsh and colourful terms was being kept confidential by the Alberta Labour Relations Board./p pThis was done as a fairly routine part of the board's effort to effect a settlement of AUPE’s complaint that the Alberta government had broken an agreement it made to end the illegal strike by about 2,500 jail guards on May 1./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2013/05/who-leaked-alberta-governments-response-to-aupes-complaint-and-w" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=iXc4OOQvPKA:emc5mAw1lfU: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=iXc4OOQvPKA:emc5mAw1lfU: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=iXc4OOQvPKA:emc5mAw1lfU: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=iXc4OOQvPKA:emc5mAw1lfU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=iXc4OOQvPKA:emc5mAw1lfU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=iXc4OOQvPKA:emc5mAw1lfU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=iXc4OOQvPKA:emc5mAw1lfU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/iXc4OOQvPKA" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pScientists often come up with new discoveries, technologies or theories. But sometimes they rediscover what our ancestors already knew. A couple of recent findings show we have a lot to learn from our forebears – and nature – about bugs./p pModern methods of controlling pests have consisted mainly of poisoning them with chemicals. But that’s led to problems. Pesticides kill far more than the bugs they target, and pollute air, water and soil. As we learned with the a href="http://www.panna.org/issues/persistent-poisons/the-ddt-story" rel="nofollow"widespread use of DDT/a to control agricultural pests and mosquitoes, chemicals can bioaccumulate, meaning molecules may concentrate hundreds of thousands of times up the food web – eventually reaching people./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2013/05/bean-leaves-bedbugs-and-biomimicry" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=R0VdeoXGGEg:o74Ex6WgodQ: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=R0VdeoXGGEg:o74Ex6WgodQ: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=R0VdeoXGGEg:o74Ex6WgodQ: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=R0VdeoXGGEg:o74Ex6WgodQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=R0VdeoXGGEg:o74Ex6WgodQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=R0VdeoXGGEg:o74Ex6WgodQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=R0VdeoXGGEg:o74Ex6WgodQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/R0VdeoXGGEg" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pThe BC Liberals have been in power almost as long as emrabble.ca/em has been online. We started in April 2001; the Liberals run in office began the next month, May 2001.nbsp;/p pToday's election looks likely to end this dozen-year hold on provincial power, as the BC NDP is favoured to win today's vote.nbsp;/p pPolls are open in B.C. until 8pm PST (11pm EST), so it'll be a late night following the results coming in and discussing the implications. One great place to be for informed commentary and debate tonight is Babble's a href="http://rabble.ca/babble/alberta-and-british-columbia/bc-election-day-reactions"election discussion thread/a.nbsp;/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/rabble-staff/2013/05/vote-whole-country-watching-join-our-discussion-on-bc-election-r" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=5lEWM0Ony1U:qT8vq6UomRk: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=5lEWM0Ony1U:qT8vq6UomRk: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=5lEWM0Ony1U:qT8vq6UomRk: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=5lEWM0Ony1U:qT8vq6UomRk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=5lEWM0Ony1U:qT8vq6UomRk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=5lEWM0Ony1U:qT8vq6UomRk:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=5lEWM0Ony1U:qT8vq6UomRk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/5lEWM0Ony1U" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/media-mornings" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/w2_media_logo-600.jpg" alt="Media Mornings" title="Media Mornings" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-25144 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//a/divpMedia Mornings daily election coverage on Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5fmbr /a href="http://w2media.ca/election" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"w2media.ca/election/a/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/23100/bc_election_-_andrew_macleod_-_rabble.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=11142888"bc_election_-_andrew_macleod_-_rabble.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/media-mornings/2013/05/bc-election-tyees-legislative-bureau-chief-andrew-macleod-on-t" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=E4VFnGqX2JU:8pQD5VDcpqI: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=E4VFnGqX2JU:8pQD5VDcpqI: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=E4VFnGqX2JU:8pQD5VDcpqI: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=E4VFnGqX2JU:8pQD5VDcpqI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=E4VFnGqX2JU:8pQD5VDcpqI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=E4VFnGqX2JU:8pQD5VDcpqI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=E4VFnGqX2JU:8pQD5VDcpqI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/E4VFnGqX2JU" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pIt's election day in B.C., an electoral bout that has seemingly come down to, yet again, voting for the perceived lesser evil and trying to get some change a-brewing./p pIn this case, it seems like there is a hard push among the progressively minded to first and foremost emget the Liberals out/em by means of emputting the NDP in/em. As a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/blog/p0stcap/17557?utm_source=bufferamp;utm_medium=twitteramp;utm_campaign=Bufferamp;utm_content=buffer7dccd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"many have noted/anbsp;though, the NDP are not a cure all solution for what ails BC, particularly in the housing crises and ramped gentrification of Vancouver and the DTES area, but it begs the question: So, what is going on in Vancouver?/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/bound-not-gagged/2013/05/collateral-damage-spartacus-books-fight-against-vancouvers-i" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=xfjhkKrymow:-Tj0pzrLuDI: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=xfjhkKrymow:-Tj0pzrLuDI: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=xfjhkKrymow:-Tj0pzrLuDI: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=xfjhkKrymow:-Tj0pzrLuDI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=xfjhkKrymow:-Tj0pzrLuDI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=xfjhkKrymow:-Tj0pzrLuDI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=xfjhkKrymow:-Tj0pzrLuDI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/xfjhkKrymow" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/media-mornings" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/w2_media_logo-600.jpg" alt="Media Mornings" title="Media Mornings" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-25144 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//a/divpMedia Mornings daily election coverage on Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5fmbr /a href="http://w2media.ca/election" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"w2media.ca/election/a/p pnbsp;/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/23100/bc_election_-_bob_mackin_-_rabble.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=15133559"bc_election_-_bob_mackin_-_rabble.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/media-mornings/2013/05/bc-election-journalist-bob-mackin-on-holding-government-accoun" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Z4duxygkTlw:SvLjFyVnP04: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=Z4duxygkTlw:SvLjFyVnP04: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=Z4duxygkTlw:SvLjFyVnP04: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=Z4duxygkTlw:SvLjFyVnP04:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=Z4duxygkTlw:SvLjFyVnP04:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=Z4duxygkTlw:SvLjFyVnP04:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=Z4duxygkTlw:SvLjFyVnP04:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/Z4duxygkTlw" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" p"Old age is not for sissies," said Bette Davis. Indeed, it is not, but the images from our childhood of what it meant to be "old" have changed dramatically. Of course, as I enter my 60th year, my perspective on what it means to be "old," of necessity, shifts. As another popular aphorism, puts it "the hardest thing to decide is when middle age begins." Thanks to advances in health care and a focus on healthy living, Canadians are living longer. And today's senior has different issues and challenges than in our grandparents' day. I see it every day, as my riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands is one of those with the highest proportion of older citizens. While so much in the mass media sees only the negatives of this aging demographic, there is much to celebrate./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/elizabeth-may/2013/05/being-old-aint-what-it-used-to-be" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=cdrA66Z7of8:zJLUQ6fO9_M: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=cdrA66Z7of8:zJLUQ6fO9_M: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=cdrA66Z7of8:zJLUQ6fO9_M: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=cdrA66Z7of8:zJLUQ6fO9_M:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=cdrA66Z7of8:zJLUQ6fO9_M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=cdrA66Z7of8:zJLUQ6fO9_M:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=cdrA66Z7of8:zJLUQ6fO9_M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/cdrA66Z7of8" 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, May 14, 2013/span /div /div /div div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary" div class="field-items" div class="field-item odd" We are asking the NDP and the Liberals to cooperate and pass the budget (possibility with some tweaking). However we are frankly asking for much more. /div /div /div pAt first glance we may seem like an unusual couple to be writing this opinion piece. One of us is a former union leader while the other is a church leader. However we share much in common./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/oct._4._andrea_horwath.jpg" alt="All eyes on Andrea Horwath this week in Ontario. " title="All eyes on Andrea Horwath this week in Ontario. " width="120" height="88" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/ /div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/open-letter-to-ontario-ndp-and-liberals-working-together-first-step-addressing-poverty" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wjpFO4nPzG0:Nxg3lcNdFew: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=wjpFO4nPzG0:Nxg3lcNdFew: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=wjpFO4nPzG0:Nxg3lcNdFew: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=wjpFO4nPzG0:Nxg3lcNdFew:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=wjpFO4nPzG0:Nxg3lcNdFew:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=wjpFO4nPzG0:Nxg3lcNdFew:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=wjpFO4nPzG0:Nxg3lcNdFew:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/wjpFO4nPzG0" height="1" width="1"/

div class="taxonomy-images"a href="/podcasts/shows/redeye" class="taxonomy-image-links"img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/redeye100x100_6.gif" alt="Redeye" title="Redeye" width="100" height="100" class="taxonomy-image-term-129 taxonomy-image-vid-10"//a/divpEarlier this year France began a military involvement in the West African nation of Mali. Last month the French parliament voted to extend their involvement. nbsp;Roger Annis has been watching events in Mali closely. He speaks with Redeye host Mordecai Briemberg./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/47/rey-2013-05-14.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=15249417"rey-2013-05-14.mp3/a/div /div /div /div /fieldset pa href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/2013/05/french-military-presence-mali-to-continue" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=uwHIcesm9dg:r8J0NsTtZ3k: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=uwHIcesm9dg:r8J0NsTtZ3k: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=uwHIcesm9dg:r8J0NsTtZ3k: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=uwHIcesm9dg:r8J0NsTtZ3k:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=uwHIcesm9dg:r8J0NsTtZ3k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=uwHIcesm9dg:r8J0NsTtZ3k:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=uwHIcesm9dg:r8J0NsTtZ3k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/uwHIcesm9dg" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pIt's Election Day in B.C. and the NDP is widely expected to end a dozen years of rule by the BC Liberals. As usual in B.C. elections, major corporate-owned newspapers have come out in favour of the corporate-backed Liberals. But the editorials are less than ringing endorsements and -- in the case of the emGlobe and Mail/em -- less than totally accurate. And there's one big editorial endorsement missing.nbsp;/p pemThe Vancouver Sun/em editorial board has -- in an unusual move for them -- declined to issue an election editorial endorsement. This can be read as a lack of confidence in Christy Clark and the BC Liberals.nbsp;/p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/media-watch/2013/05/media-watch-about-those-corporate-media-editorials-endorsing-bc-l" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=1EiueV0eg4I:Y9dSiORYQT8: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=1EiueV0eg4I:Y9dSiORYQT8: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=1EiueV0eg4I:Y9dSiORYQT8: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=1EiueV0eg4I:Y9dSiORYQT8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=1EiueV0eg4I:Y9dSiORYQT8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=1EiueV0eg4I:Y9dSiORYQT8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=1EiueV0eg4I:Y9dSiORYQT8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/1EiueV0eg4I" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pThe online news journal iPolitics.ca a href="http://www.ipolitics.ca/2013/05/10/ontario-government-resisting-patent-increases-in-eu-trade-deal-letter/" rel="nofollow"reports/a there is more in the way of a Canada-European Union trade and investment deal than a disagreement over beef and cheese./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/05/ontario-government-wants-drug-patents-taken-out-canada-eu-d" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=dRKw6b-1AVg:svABgsD6AVY: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=dRKw6b-1AVg:svABgsD6AVY: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=dRKw6b-1AVg:svABgsD6AVY: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=dRKw6b-1AVg:svABgsD6AVY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=dRKw6b-1AVg:svABgsD6AVY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=dRKw6b-1AVg:svABgsD6AVY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=dRKw6b-1AVg:svABgsD6AVY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/dRKw6b-1AVg" height="1" width="1"/

div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog" div class="body" pBlue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan is currently on a fact-finding mission on mining and water in El Salvador. She is participating in an international delegation that includes people from 12 countries and 22 organizations./p pOn Friday, she was in the capital city of San Salvador. At the media conference that began that day, she spoke about international solidarity for the struggle to protect water in El Salvador and the leadership social movements in that country have provided to the world. That afternoon, she spoke on a panel along side Manuel Perez Rocha, who is with the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, and Vidalina Morales, a Salvadoran activist who has been leading the struggle against a Canadian-based mining company in her community./p div class="read-more"/div /div /div pa href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2013/05/international-fact-finding-mission-on-mining-and-water-el-sal" target="_blank"read more/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=gb0PTC54KNo:76OWwd-mA00: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=gb0PTC54KNo:76OWwd-mA00: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=gb0PTC54KNo:76OWwd-mA00: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=gb0PTC54KNo:76OWwd-mA00:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=gb0PTC54KNo:76OWwd-mA00:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?a=gb0PTC54KNo:76OWwd-mA00:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rabble-news?i=gb0PTC54KNo:76OWwd-mA00:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rabble-news/~4/gb0PTC54KNo" height="1" width="1"/