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Democracy is quietly slipping away in Ontario #onpoli #canpoli
Democracy is quietly slipping away in Ontario
Does democracy matter anymore?
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November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Country music singer starts Corb Lund starts petition to ban coal mining on the Rockies’ Eastern Slopes #abpoli #canpoli @djclimenhaga.bsky.social
Country music singer starts Corb Lund starts petition to ban coal mining on the Rockies' Eastern Slopes
The iconic country music performer showed up in Edmonton yesterday with paperwork for a referendum petition to halt coal mining in the Rockies.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Alberta’s Regulated Professions Neutrality Act is about legitimizing false narratives and open bigotry, not protecting all freedom of expression. #abpoli @djclimenhaga.bsky.social
Alberta's Bill 13 seeks to legitimize false narratives and open bigotry
Alberta’s Regulated Professions Neutrality Act is about legitimizing false narratives and open bigotry, not protecting all freedom of expression.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Nine Alberta MLAs seek to recall United Conservative Party MLAs. #abpoli @djclimenhaga.bsky.social

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Nine Alberta MLAs facing recall petitions
All nine applicants seek to recall United Conservative Party MLAs.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Gilmore warns Parkland Institute conference that far-right groups on the rise #canpoli @djclimenhaga.bsky.social

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Gilmore warns Parkland Institute conference that far-right groups on the rise
Rachel Gilmore, ‘your least favourite person’s least favourite journalist,’ addressed the Parkland Conference in Edmonton Saturday.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Among other demands, Titan Tool & Die is demanding the union accept a three-year wage freeze and the elimination of the Cost of Living Allowance. #canlab
Dispute between Unifor workers and Titan Tool & Die surpasses historic 100-day milestone
Titan Tool & Die is demanding the union accept a three-year wage freeze and the elimination of the Cost of Living Allowance.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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City Council’s motion to clear encampments disregards the rights of unhoused individuals and fails to confront the structural failures that forced them there. Interviews with front line workers and housing experts indicate the policy is misguided and misdirected. #toronto

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Experts and activists warn Toronto’s encampment crackdown masks a deeper housing crisis
City Council’s motion to clear encampments disregards the rights of unhoused individuals and fails to confront the structural failures that forced them there.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Unifor workers threaten to occupy GM plant in Ingersoll if company removes any equipment #canlab

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Unifor workers threaten to occupy GM plant in Ingersoll if company removes any equipment
GM announced last month that it was pausing production of an electric cargo van at the GM CAMI Assembly plant.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Research from the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario shows how closely inequities in housing are tied to Gender-Based Violence.

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ACTO marks global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Research from the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario shows how closely inequities in housing are tied to Gender-Based Violence.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Canadian Centre for Women’s Empowerment CEO recognized with Governor General’s Award
Canadian Centre for Women’s Empowerment CEO recognized with Governor General’s Award
Meseret Haileyesus was recognized for her years of advocacy on the issue of economic abuse.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Governments and jurisdictions that promote and rely on fossil fuels are being left behind, blinded by faulty economic assumptions.

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Electrotech, not fossil fuels, will power the future
Governments and jurisdictions that promote and rely on fossil fuels are being left behind, blinded by faulty economic assumptions.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Why postal workers are calling for a public bank #canlab
Why postal workers are calling for a public bank
Tomas Marois, director of the Public Banking Project at McMaster, explains why labour organizations should lobby for pro-public banks.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Innovation and sustainability recognized at annual Mitacs Awards #tech

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Innovation and sustainability recognized at annual Mitacs Awards
The annual Mitacs Innovation Awards were held on November 18.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Family law in Canada: What it gets right and where it fails #podcast
Family law in Canada: What it gets right and where it fails
Content warning: This interview centers around domestic violence. Please listen with care and sensitivity. Family and child protection lawyer Bobbi Olsen joins rabble publisher Sarah Sahagian to talk…
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November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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GM announced last month that it was pausing production of an electric cargo van at the GM CAMI Assembly plant. #canlab

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Unifor workers threaten to occupy GM plant in Ingersoll if company removes any equipment
GM announced last month that it was pausing production of an electric cargo van at the GM CAMI Assembly plant.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Country music singer starts Corb Lund starts petition to ban coal mining on the Rockies’ Eastern Slopes #canpoli

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Country music singer starts Corb Lund starts petition to ban coal mining on the Rockies' Eastern Slopes
The iconic country music performer showed up in Edmonton yesterday with paperwork for a referendum petition to halt coal mining in the Rockies.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Canada’s largest pension fund increases fossil fuel investments #canlab

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Canada's largest pension fund increases fossil fuel investments
Earlier this year, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board dropped its net-zero greenhouse gas emission commitment.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Why postal workers are calling for a public bank #canlab

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Why postal workers are calling for a public bank
Tomas Marois, the director of the Public Banking Project at McMaster University explains why labour organizations should support and lobby for pro-public banks. The LabourStart Report about union…
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November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Evidence from Canada and the Amazon suggests forest conservation could also mean water conservation.

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Clouds, trees, and rain
Important new research suggests how we can help Nature make more rain, and bring more life to thirsty lands.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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ICYMI: @sarahsahagian.bsky.social recommends this week’s rabble radio episode with Bobbi Olson on how family law can re-victimize survivors of domestic abuse. Tune in. 🎧
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The Alberta government and fossil fuel companies are peddling a myth. #abpoli
'The Great Landlocked Rebellion' A tragicomedy in diesel, delusion, and democracy
The Alberta government and fossil fuel companies are peddling a myth.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Dispute between Unifor workers and Titan Tool & Die surpasses historic 100-day milestone #canlab #unifor

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Dispute between Unifor workers and Titan Tool & Die surpasses historic 100-day milestone
Titan Tool & Die is demanding the union accept a three-year wage freeze and the elimination of the Cost of Living Allowance.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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The removal of the luxury tax on yachts and private jets signals whose interests Carney is prioritizing, writes @lindamcquaig.bsky.social #cdnpoli
Left-wing populist Avi Lewis might be the answer to the banker Mark Carney
Mark Carney has shown himself to be a politician that protects the interests of the wealthy. Avi Lewis could position himself as the left-wing populist answer to his corporatist policies.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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🎧 rabble radio explores how sectoral bargaining could strengthen worker power and improve industry-wide standards.

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Considering sectoral bargaining in Canada
This week on rabble radio we talk what sectoral bargaining might look like in Canada and what sectoral bargaining would mean for the right to strike.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The CLC warns that in a trade dispute this severe, cutting public services leaves workers exposed when they need EI and support the most. #canlab

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Workers 'needed more' from Budget 2025 amidst trade crisis, Labour Congress says
Canada's largest labour organization is arguing that an uncertain economic climate should be a time that the government chooses to invest in workers.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM