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WEB4 days ago · How fossil fuel companies are harming health care in Canada. Dr. Melissa Lem, president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment is campaigning to show the cost that the fossil fuel industry is having on BC’s health care system. by rabble radio September 6, 2024.
Canada has a war crimes problem - rabble.ca
WEBSep 24, 2020 · Earlier this month, the United Nations criticized Canada, among other nations, for continuing to export weapons to all parties that fuel the commission of war crimes in Yemen. “Yemen has been ravaged in ways that should shock the conscience of humanity,” said Melissa Parke, a member of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts ...
Canadians are using the term ‘racialized’ incorrectly - rabble.ca
WEBOct 20, 2020 · Canadians are using the term ‘racialized’ incorrectly. by Yafet Tewelde October 20, 2020. The normalizing of whiteness through the conflation of all non-white groups under the term “racialized” is endemic to how racism operates in Canada. Justin Trudeau’s blackface scandal was shocking news for …
Unlearning racism against Indigenous peoples in one generation
WEBMar 21, 2016 · Racism against Inuit, First Nations, and Métis people still thrives in Canada. The deaths of First Nations students in Thunder Bay, the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women, and the forced closure of online comments related to stories about Indigenous peoples are only three examples of this harsh reality.
Only 13 T&R Calls to Action achieved over seven years: report
WEBJan 26, 2023 · The 49-page report noted that 13 Calls have been completed. At this rate, it will take 42 years, or until 2065, to complete all the Calls to Action. When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released their findings in 2015, they characterized the legacy of the residential school system as “cultural genocide,” a term that became the ...
rabbletv Archive - rabble.ca
WEBrabbletv. rabbletv is a platform and dynamic space that focuses on the creation of a culture that supports social and economic justice and full democracy for all, in particular voices and artists marginalized in the mainstream media. rabbletv is home to Off the Hill, our monthly politics panel hosted by Robin Browne and Libby Davies. rabble TV.
Supreme Court staff polices Black voices and shows anti …
WEBFeb 7, 2024 · The Supreme Court of Canada is being accused of engaging in anti-Black and anti-Palestinian racism. Three Black delegates were invited to the Supreme Court as a part of a delegation presenting to clerks of the court about the 2022 Halifax Declaration for the Eradication of Racial Discrimination and anti-Black racism in the justice system.. The delegation had been organized by former governor ...
Idle No More in context: A history of resistance - rabble.ca
WEBJan 7, 2013 · Change the conversation, support rabble.ca today.. Much has been said recently in the media about the relationship between the inspiring expression of Indigenous resurgent activity informing the #IdleNoMore movement and the heightened decade of Native activism that led Canada to establish the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in 1991.
Pitch an idea - rabble.ca
WEBPitch an idea. How to pitch to rabble.ca. At rabble.ca we aim to represent the diversity of views and actions taken by progressive activists across Canada. We cover politics, political action, equality rights, labour activism, solidarity movements, and social change from the perspective of the people who are making change across our country.
Africville - rabble.ca
WEBJan 19, 2012 · Africville is an example of the history of racism in Canada. It challenges the national myth that because Canada didn’t have slavery that the country is not built on a foundation of white supremacy, racism and colonialism. Community. Located near the Bedford Basin, the land of Africville started off with a population solely comprised of ...