Her name was Jyoti Singh Pandey. The attack reads like a cross between a depraved nightmare and a bathsalts bad trip: Jyoti, a 23 year […]
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2012 Year-in-Review: News
We always strive to offer a healthy mix of local, national and international content. In 2012, though, local Montreal and Quebec news took on international […]
Idle No More: A movement we should all support
Some may see the growing Idle No More movement as simply an aboriginal issue, but in truth it is also a stand against Prime Minister […]
Quiet Mike’s 2012 Year-in-Review: Top political cartoons
Quiet Mike takes a look back at 2012 through the year’s best political cartoons…
Fiscal Myths
By now, everyone has heard the words fiscal cliff. It’s one of those terms coined by politicians that give a false impression on what it […]
Why we should be #idlenomore
Today is the 12th day of Chief Theresa Spence’s fast. Around Canada, North America and beyond, Indigenous Peoples and their allies are rallying around this […]
Another Day – Another American Tragedy
Last Friday, tragedy and heartbreak once again took over the American consciousness as another psychopath went on a shooting spree, the likes of which were never seen in the country before. In Newtown, Connecticut, a small town of 27 000 people, a young man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School. Armed with two pistols and an assault rifle he went on to murder six adults along with twelve girls and eight boys all aged between six and seven. The gunman then proceeded to take his own life and will never pay for the atrocities he’s committed. We have seen this type of scenario play out time and time again, but rarely has the number of victims been so high and never have they been so young…
Redefining Canadian Nationalism
I’ve always looked at national pride as somewhat of a lie. Pride is something you normally feel through hard work or accomplishment not by the […]
Interview with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Ethan Cox is the Quebec Correspondent for Rabble.ca where this interview with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the former spokesperson for student group CLASSE originally appeared.. Ethan Cox: You were recently […]
Palestine Upgraded at the UN, Degraded by Canada and the U.S.
Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza and the West Bank last Thursday to celebrate their historic, but symbolic victory at the United Nations. In a vote of 138 – 9, the general assembly decided to grant Palestine non-member observer status. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank likened the overwhelming majority vote to a Palestinian birth certificate. The world knows that Palestinian independence can only come through negotiations with Israel, but the vote was a huge step as it acknowledged the legitimacy in the international community of a future Palestinian country…