Hassan Raza, his wife Sarfraz Kausar, and their children Rubab, 13, Mohsin, 12, Zain, 7, Ume Farve 6, Hassan, 4, and one-year-old Seema, took sanctuary in the Crescentwood-Ft. Rouge United Church in Winnipeg on Aug. 3, 2006 when they were threatened with deportation to their native Pakistan. The Shia-Sunni Muslim family fears they will face [...]

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Anyone even remotely familiar with environmental issues finds it difficult these days to be optimistic about the future of civilization. Global climate change is now accepted, and the debate is not whether it is happening, but how bad it will be.
How bad will it be? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its most [...]

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A while back I posted a piece called Framing the Left, which focused on the theories of  George Lakoff of the Rockridge Institute concerning the effective communication of progressive values and ideas.
Murray Dobbin’s Feb. 6, 2007 article in The Tyee, How the Left Should Frame Issues, makes a good start at applying Lakoff’s ideas to [...]

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Yesterday Manitoba’s provincial government announced plans to rebate $2,000 to every citizen who buys a hybrid vehicle before Nov. 15, 2008. When I look at the gas guzzlers my tax dollars are going to support, I have to ask WHY???!!!
Here’s the list of vehicles that Manitoba will now subsidize and their respective fuel consumption estimates [...]

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Seventy women, members of COPE Local 343, have been on strike against the FirstOntario Credit Union in Hamilton, Ontario since October 20, 2006. The workers are striking because of management demands to roll back health, vacation and retirement benefits. Also at issue are job security provisions in the collective agreement.
More information from the union perspective [...]

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Mohammad Mahjoub, Mahmoud Jaballah and Hassan Almrei, inmates of Canada’s “Guantanamo North” are on hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention at Kingston’s Immigration Holding Centre. After two months without food or medical care, they are extremely weak and suffering from various medical problems.
According to rabble.ca, “Despite last week’s visit by Public Safety Minister Stockwell [...]

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