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Dec 23, 2024 | 
rabble.ca | Judy Rebick
On December 20, Lee Lakeman, one of Canada’s greatest feminists passed away after weeks in palliative care. I met Lee when I was President of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) in the early 1990’s. NAC was an extraordinary coalition of women’s groups and women’s committees from unions and churches. Pretty much every feminist group in the country was a member and there were many differences. Lee represented Rape Relief one of the most radical groups.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
rabble.ca | Judy Rebick
Fred Hahn is under attack. The Canadian Union of Public Employees National Executive has asked him to resign as Vice-President over a video he posted on X. This is an outrageous attack on the most effective and consistent labour leader I have ever known, and I’ve known quite a few. As President of CUPE Ontario, he is present at every picket line, every protest of any significance on a range of struggles from Palestine to pro-choice.
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May 1, 2024 | 
rabble.ca | Judy Rebick
About two weeks after October 7, I had a strong feeling that the movement in solidarity with Palestine was looking a lot like the youth uprising in the 1960’s. Today after the police assault on the students at Columbia and across the country, there is no doubt. I guess after 56 years, the powers that be have forgotten the lessons. I moved to New York and got a job working in a disability centre at Columbia University in the fall of 1968.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Randy Robinson |Simon Enoch |Charles Smith |Judy Rebick
The current Ontario government tabled its sixth annual budget yesterday. Here’s the state of the province today:Tent cities are the new normal in many of our municipalities. Food bank use is at record levels. More than two million people have no family doctor. The province needs at least 24,000 more nurses. Court cases, even those involving assaults, are being thrown out because the lack of staff is causing unacceptable delays. More than a quarter of schools report daily teacher shortages.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Simon Enoch |Charles Smith |Judy Rebick |Brandon Doucet
The Saskatchewan government’s election year budget does what you would expect an election year budget to do.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Judy Rebick |Brandon Doucet |Randy Robinson |Stuart Trew
About two years ago I agreed to work on building a broad coalition for the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce (CanWCC). It is the only chamber of commerce in Canada that focuses on women and it is feminist, intersectional and social justice oriented, much to my surprise. Nancy Wilson, their CEO, explained that in attending Covid consultations with other chambers of commerce, she realized that the major chambers were not representing her members, most of whom are solo and small entrepreneurs.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
rabble.ca | Judy Rebick
When someone dies, everyone has praise for them. There is no question that Brian Mulroney had a major impact on Canada but in almost every case it was for the worse. I was President of the National Action Committee (NAC) on the Status of Women when Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister. I like to think we were his nemesis. We fought him on free trade, abortion, constitutional change, and Indigenous rights among other issues.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
rabble.ca | Judy Rebick
On February 13, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced as antisemitic a pro-Palestinian protest on Monday that passed by Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto on its way to the US embassy because one or two protesters climbed the scaffold. of the building Thanks to the Ben Cohen of the Toronto Star, we found out that it was Spider-Man for Palestine who climbed the scaffold. He is at all the marches and regularly climbs scaffolds. He probably didn’t even notice it was a Jewish hospital.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
rabble.ca | Judy Rebick
The world has turned upside down in the last month. I don’t know about you, but I have been sad, angry, inspired, and terrified at different times. I’ve been to four demonstrations, speaking at one. First the slaughter of more than 1,500 civilians in Israel, a terrible slaughter that would provoke an even worse one. The body count in Gaza continues to rise. After refusing even humanitarian pauses, Israel has now agreed to only brief four-hour pauses to allow aid in and some people out.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
rabble.ca | Judy Rebick
I love a good demonstration. There is joy and a rarely felt sense of community power when thousands of people march together chanting and singing with others in common cause. It’s been a long time since I felt that in a demonstration, but I did last Wednesday. Five First Nations from Northern Ontario joined together in a Land Alliance to demand no mining on their land without their consent and thousands of others marched with them in solidarity.
