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Nov 4, 2024 · Demanding justice for Black federal employees and the power of collective healing. Gabriela Calugay-Casuga sat down with Bernadeth Betchi, a representative plaintiff for Thomas et al v. Canada, who shared why seeking justice through the court is meaningful to her. by rabble radio November 1, 2024.
Canadians are using the term ‘racialized’ incorrectly - rabble.ca
Oct 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 many after its emergence during the 2019 ...
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After 23 years, babble's threads are closed. You are currently viewing the archives of 2007 - 2024. Before social media was a thing, there was babble. Since 2001 progressives have been discussing Canadian and international politics, social movements and the downfall of neoliberal capitalism. If there is a vision for a better world, you may well ...
Why is Canada still deporting Roma people to persecution?
Jan 29, 2020 · Ottawa Roma refugee Celina Urbanowicz received a deportation order last year after living in Canada for 23 years. She faces violence and persecution if she is forced to leave the country. On August 2, 2019, then-foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland and the minister of canadian heritage and multiculturalism, Pablo Rodriguez, issued a joint ...
Bill 21: the Charter, the challenge, and the controversy
Dec 23, 2021 · The National Assembly of Quebec passed the law on June 16, 2019, with considerable opposition. It has been clear from the beginning that Bill 21 likely violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including section 2 (a), the freedom of conscience and religion. Anticipating a challenge to the law, the government of Quebec invoked the ...
Only 13 T&R Calls to Action achieved over seven years: report
Jan 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 ...
I’m stopping. I’ve had enough. - rabble.ca
Dec 13, 2022 · I say stopped, not resigned. It’s a more active description of my decision. Like countless nurses, I’ve had enough. Grant you, I am not an emergency room or intensive care unit nurse. I am not seeing paediatric COVID patients. I work in the nebulous area of community health, public policy, and advocacy, informed by decades of frontline work ...
11 Indigenous resistance movements you need to know
Nov 13, 2014 · 11 Indigenous resistance movements you need to know. The IPCC report confirms what Indigenous people have been warning for years: if we don’t respect the relationship between humans and the natural world, catastrophic impacts will result. “Time is not on our side…leaders must act,” Fortunately, Indigenous people have been organizing ...
Podcasts Archive - rabble.ca
Oct 29, 2024 · Fighting tip theft and protecting workers in Nova Scotia. rabble radio. Community organizer Syd Blum join us to talk about their work organizing workers in Nova Scotia and how they’re trying to bring the issue of tip theft to the attention of the provincial government.
Moving on up: Gentrification in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Feb 24, 2012 · In the poorest urban neighbourhood in Canada, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), gentrification has been on the move for decades. Plotting these new developments on a map of the DTES and walking along the now unfamiliar streets reveals gentrification for what it is: a form of structural violence. Gentrification is the social, economic, and ...