The three key moments in Canada’s neoliberal transformation
WEBApr 8, 2014 · The neoliberal transformation of Canada over the past generation can be empirically documented by many different indicators. Here are three that encapsulate, by my reckoning, the deep structural shifts in the direction of the economy and society. Figure 1: Canada’s total exports of goods and services, as a share of total GDP.
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Honouring Charles Roach: Fifty years making Toronto a more …
WEBJul 23, 2012 · For 50 years, the human rights lawyer, activist, artist, musician and Caribana founder Charles Roach has campaigned to make Toronto a more equitable place. Charles Roach remains his usual wonderfully optimistic self, despite the fact that he’s recently been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. For 50 years, the human rights lawyer ...
The public library and Indigenous reconciliation - rabble.ca
WEBSep 10, 2019 · Facilitators and Indigenous elders play the part of European settlers. Offered through the Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library, library card holders participated in the Blanket Exercise for $10 for the session. Just 25 people out of Whitchurch-Stouffville’s population of 45,837 identified as having Indigenous ancestry.
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 ...
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 …
Author Archives: David J. Climenhaga - rabble.ca
WEBSep 10, 2024 · David J. Climenhaga. David Climenhaga is a journalist and trade union communicator who has worked in senior writing and editing positions with the Globe and Mail and the Calgary Herald. He left journalism after the strike at the Calgary Herald in 1999 and 2000 to work in the trade union movement. David Climenhaga’s Alberta Diary posts are ...
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In memoriam: Joyce Nelson - rabble.ca
WEBJan 17, 2022 · It is with great sadness that the rabble.ca community mourns the loss of author and rabble contributor, Joyce Nelson, who passed away in hospital following an illness last week in Toronto.. Nelson was the author of seven books and many hundreds of articles and essays published by a variety of magazines and websites—including The Watershed Sentinel and the Canadian Centre for Policy ...