Karl Nerenberg

Ottawa

Parliamentary Correspondent at rabble.ca

Filmmaker and Writer at Freelance

Karl N is rabble.ca's Parliamentary Correspondent & a filmmaker. Most recent documentary: Never Come Back. E-mail: [email protected]

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Articles

Ottawa jazz lovers’ group has big plans for landmark anniversary

2 weeks ago | apt613.ca | Ryan Pepper |Karl Nerenberg

By Karl NerenbergJazzWorks, a feisty local arts education organization, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this spring with a concert series and a Great Big Jam Session. To kick off the festivities on May 2, there will be a Vocal Dinner Show, featuring eight singers who have taken part in JazzWorks’ monthly Vocal Open Mics, backed by a group of top professional players.
Mark Carney wins but now must present a robust plan for Canada’s economic sovereignty

2 weeks ago | rabble.ca | Karl Nerenberg

In the biggest comeback in Canadian political history, Mark Carney’s Liberals won the 2025 election on Monday, April 28. At this point, however, the Liberals are four seats shy of the 172 required for majority in the 343-seat House of Commons. As of Tuesday morning, Carney’s party has won or is leading in 168 ridings. The Conservatives – who four months ago were ahead by over 20 points in most opinion polls – have 144 MPs elected or leading. But their leader Pierre Poilievre is not one of those.
As campaign ends progressive voters agonize over how to get the Parliament they want

2 weeks ago | rabble.ca | Karl Nerenberg

Three days before the election, an Ottawa CBC radio all-party panel discussion pretty much summed up the 2025 campaign. The broadcast featured candidates from the riding of Ottawa Centre. The politicians gathered at Ottawa’s downtown YMCA, where both the CBC host and some everyday citizens quizzed them. The Liberal incumbent, Yasir Naqvi, was earnest and well-rehearsed.
Hey Americans, this is how Canadians choose their government, part two

3 weeks ago | rabble.ca | Karl Nerenberg

The results of this coming Monday’s federal election might make Canada a bit more like the U.S. in one significant respect. They might nudge this country toward a U.S.-style two-party system. Canada has had two main parties, Liberal and Conservative, since its founding in 1867. But for more than a century, since the end of World War I, other parties have consistently been in the mix. Those smaller parties have often played an outsized role in the governance of Canada.
Hey Americans, this is how Canadians choose their government

3 weeks ago | rabble.ca | Karl Nerenberg

Canadians will vote for a new federal parliament this coming Monday, April 28. Given that their President wants to annex Canada, a lot of Americans might be paying closer attention than usual to this Canadian news. Unless the World Series or NBA final are happening here, the U.S. media and the U.S. general public usually ignore events in Canada. The election on April 28 might be an exception to that rule.
Lonely U.S. voices support Canada in its fight to endure as a free country

1 month ago | rabble.ca | Karl Nerenberg

Not many in the U.S. have raised their voices in defence of Canada over the past three months – at a time when the American president has repeatedly said he will force Canada to its knees economically in order to annex it – but a few have. One of the earliest of those was the United Steelworkers union (USW), which represents thousands of workers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
The Left is in danger of losing its voice in Parliament in this election

1 month ago | rabble.ca | Karl Nerenberg

Here’s a fantasy election campaign. It’s a campaign that, in many respects – save one crucial one – resembles the real campaign happening right now in Canada. The date is March 23, 2025. A new Liberal Prime Minister, who has held office for 10 days, triggers a federal election for April 28, making for the shortest campaign legally permitted, 37 days. The new PM signals a rightward shift for his party.
Canadian Liberals choose economist Mark Carney to fight Trump’s annexation plans

2 months ago | rabble.ca | Karl Nerenberg

Mark Carney won the Liberal leadership with an unexpectedly massive 86 per cent of the somewhat more than 150,000 Liberal party members who voted. But when the soon-to-be Prime Minister got up to speak to an adoring crowd, he had nothing surprising or unexpected to say. His acceptance speech was his chance to introduce himself to millions of Canadians who might not have been paying close attention to the Liberal leadership.
Canada must use all means to resist a Trump-led hostile US takeover

2 months ago | rabble.ca | Karl Nerenberg

The Canadian Prime Minister could not have put it more clearly. Donald Trump, he said, is dead serious when he says he wants to annex Canada. Trump’s ambitions constitute a dire and dangerous threat to Canada’s very existence, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century. Justin Trudeau candidly told Canadians (and the world) that the only reason Trump started the current trade battle with this country was to impoverish Canada so that it will be ripe for the picking.
An unnecessary election in Ontario produces almost the same result as last time

2 months ago | rabble.ca | Karl Nerenberg

When Ontario’s premier Doug Ford called an early winter election, he said he needed an increased majority to deal with the Trump threat. Ontarians weren’t fooled by that spurious, self-serving excuse. They told pollsters and journalists they did not believe an early election, for a cost of $189 million, was justified. But Ford succeeded in his gambit nonetheless. He won a third majority in a row – although it was slightly smaller than his previous majority, in 2022.