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rabble.ca Off The Hill, deconstructs the myth of labour shortages in Canada
rabble.ca Off The Hill, looks at the 2024 federal budget
Libby and Kim Elliott discuss the war in Gaza, with Code Pink, and how to take effective parliamentary action
Remembering the legendary Jay Hamburger
rabble.ca Off The Hill, takes a look at gender equality in Canada. Are we facing tokenism?
Why DULF’s Founders Deserve Awards, Not Arrests
Avi Lewis: An enduring activist of our times
Taking a look at PRIDE in Canada! 
Libby speaks out in opposition to Mayor Sim’s plan to abolish the elected Park Board in Vancouver
In support of indepent and progressive media and rabble.ca
rabble.ca Off The Hill takes a good look at media coverage on the genocide in Gaza
What does “Whiteness” mean in the context of anti racism? rabble.ca Off The Hill explores this topic
Libby supports Chris Boyle in NDP nomination
Libby Davies on the tragedy of missing and murdered women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Regarding Haiti
A step by step guide to making political change: Former MP Libby Davies
The past and present in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
The law in its majestic inequality: A history of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Activist looks back 40 years to Toronto’s bathhouse raids — the flashpoint moment in fight for LGBTQ rights in Canada
How To Make Change – with Libby Davies in support of African Grandmothers
The Pulse Interview: Libby Davies, former Vancouver East MP & DTES organizer
Of course, it’s Vancouver. Why this city is poised to lead Canada’s drug revolution
NDP’s spring convention offers chance to pit party’s vision against governing Liberals’, say members
The Carnegie Celebrates 40 Years as ‘Sandstone Mother’ to Downtown Eastside
Saving Carnegie: former MP looks back at effort to protect Downtown Eastside landmark
Remembering how Vancouver’s Carnegie Centre was saved, 40 years later
Former longtime area NDP MP Libby Davies will be a guest in an Oct. 28 at Heart of the City
Downtown Eastside demonstrates its love—and artistry—in Heart of the City Festival
Living room of the community’: Celebrating Carnegie Centre’s 40th anniversary
Legendary progressive journalist Bob Sarti dies at 77
17th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Indigo Square One workers vote for unionization
Kootenay Morning Radio with Libby Davies
Libby Davies at Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival
True Politics Special- Libby Davies
Canada tried to decriminalize cannabis 17 years ago. This is how it all came together before falling apart
Pandemic and politics — centring the grassroots
Libby to speak at Capilano College for International Women’s Day
Book review: Libby Davies – Outside In (A Political Memoir) – 2019
Books from 2019 with B.C. connections make for the perfect present
The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Non-Fiction Canadian Books in 2019
Looking back at the best in local publishing in 2019
Vancouver activist, Jamie Lee Hamilton, dies at 64
The Gift of Books
Duncan Cameron shares his favourite books of 2019
Choice of house leader could be most important move Trudeau makes on Wednesday
Libby to join rabble.ca webinar with Karl Nerenberg on election debrief
Miami Book Fair’s LGBTQ Programming Has Something for Everyone
Vancouver councillors reflect on first year in office
Trudeau should give more profile to ministers, empower backbenchers in new minority government, say MPs and pollsters
Canada’s Trudeau must change to survive with parliamentary minority
What can Justin Trudeau learn from the Harper and Martin minority governments?
Podcast: How the NDP can effect change in a minority government
MDC’s Miami Book Fair Presents Books on the LGBTQIA+ Experience
Book Review: Libby Davies’ ‘Outside In: A Political Memoir’
From the Grassroots to the Commons
Book Review: OUTSIDE IN: A POLITICAL MEMOIR
Three Vancouver Events to Get You Thinking about Democracy
Podcast: Federal Election 101 & Politics with Libby Davies
Podcast: Libby Davies In The Dawg House With The Rock Dawg Andrew Davis
Letter: Klassen’s ‘partisan assertions’ about Vancouver drug crisis not based on fact
Activist, author Libby Davies coming to Nelson
NUPGE’s 21st session of Leadership Development School wraps up after a week of learning, team building
How did we get here? Failed public policy and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Ottawa mayor Jim Watson: After 40 years, I’m opening the closet door
Judy Rebick on strategic voting, references Outside In
Trudeau Liberals hope to retain LGBT support in October election in face of challenges from NDP and Greens
Podcast: CJSF 90.1 FM interview about Outside In
Vancouver Sun: Stalwart Vancouver politician and activist Libby Davies covers a lot of ground in new memoir
Literary Review of Canada: LRC Weekend
Quill & Quire Book Review of Outside In
Rush to increase Vancouver’s housing regulation sees renters get increased, but uneven, protections
Interview: James Strecker Reviews the Arts
The NDP and the Waffle: 50 years later survival takes on a new meaning
Interview with Unusual Sources – CFMU 933 Hamilton
Interview with The Commentary
Long-time former MP Libby Davies reflects on what’s changed for women in Parliament
Coop Radio Podcast: Libby Davies reflects on her life as an activist at City Hall and in Ottawa
Breakfast Television Vancouver: Libby Davies reflects on a life in politics
Libby Davies recounts four decades of political activism in her book Outside In: A Political Memoir
Libby Davies speaks to the Simi Sara Show about her new memoir
News 1130: Libby Davies looks back in Outside In: A Political Memoir
The Future of the NDP – a Panel Discussion
The Agenda: A Life Dedicated to Social Justice
How sexist they were when I entered politics … how youthfully polite I was
The Tyee: The Fight for Equal Marriage, with No Help from Jason Kenney
The Georgia Straight: Libby Davies’s memoir Outside In tells a grassroots story of her journey from the Downtown Eastside to Ottawa
Podcast: A political life: from grassroots to parliament — with Libby Davies
The Hill Times: I went to Ottawa to fight for social justice
What’s wrong with the Left in Canada? We asked the Left.
Libby Davies: 1,000,000:1
Rita Wong: Why can’t we elect B.C. university chancellors?
The NDP is in talks with former MPs to run in 2019.
Vancouver mayor to make ‘best pitch’ to end city’s at-large voting system
Mayor Kennedy Stewart promises ‘respect’ in leading next city council
Collegiality reigns as Vancouver’s new council starts work
Libby Davies among recipients of City of Vancouver 2018 Civic Merit Award
Political veteran Libby Davies on Kennedy Stewart’s track record
Kennedy Stewart wins razor-thin vote to become Vancouver’s next mayor
Mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart to lead mixed Vancouver city council
After Nail Biting Night, Kennedy Stewart Is Vancouver’s New Mayor
Brock students given opportunity to shadow women in parliament
Former Vancouver East MP Libby Davies throws her support behind Kennedy Stewart’s campaign for mayor
Freedom Flotilla boats to Gaza are sailing: Libby Davies and Ann Wright discuss importance of the action
THE WEST BLOCK: More attention needed by Board of Internal Economy for harassment allegations: Former MP
Singh finds himself in ‘a really tough situation’: Libby Davies
Libby Davies invested into Order of Canada – along with hockey legend Mark Messier, Great Big Sea frontman Alan Doyle
DOXA 2018: The Rankin File reveals Harry Rankin’s love for underdogs as well as his troubling treatment of women
Right To A Just Future For Palestine
Don and Libby Davies both rule out Vancouver mayoral bids
International Women’s Day 2018: Vancouver’s 30 most influential female politicians in history
30 years after Canada’s first MP came out, LGBT politicians still face challenges
It’s time for the NDP to stand for democracy and human rights for Palestinians
What political hue is the city of Vancouver? And how will that influence the next choice for mayor?
Left-of-centre politicians considering strategic voting in next Vancouver municipal election
NDP MPs past and present mull bids for Vancouver mayoral election
Federal NDP’s Libby Davies and Don Davies say they’re considering runs for Vancouver mayor
Is Libby Davies running for mayor?
Roger Waters Confronts the Occupation of the Canadian Mind (VIDEO)
Fighting for Space: new book looks at Vancouver’s history with addiction
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh calls opioid epidemic national crisis on campaign-style Vancouver visit
‘It’s not a fight we’ve won’: Vancouver’s iconic nuclear war activists renew calls for peace
Former NDP deputy leader Libby Davies endorses Charlie Angus to succeed Tom Mulcair
The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users looks back on 20 years fighting for human rights
B.C. to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day with events in Vancouver and New Westminster
Where Vancouver leads in LGBT progress: Local politicians make history in Canada
B.C. NDP cabinet includes bright minds, but there are still political potholes to avoid
Jagmeet Singh Explains How His Federal Racial Profiling Ban Could Actually Work
Q&A: Summit brings LGBTQ political leaders to Ottawa
Leadership in Transitioning Times Panel
Jean Swanson: Homelessness a problem that just keeps growing and growing
An Urgent Call on Overdose Crisis: Prescribe Drugs, End Prohibition
Officials asked to release DTES fatal overdose victims’ names
Ondaatje, Kaspi, Ignatieff among 100 Order of Canada honorees
Order of Canada appointees include Paralympian, Supreme Court judge and astrophysicist
‘The ceiling isn’t just glass’: Women in politics reflect on Hillary’s loss
Trudeau government moves to rein in pushers of salt, sugar and fat
INTERVIEW: LIBBY DAVIES ON 40 YEARS IN POLITICS
Support for the Women’s Boat to Gaza
How an ‘unflinching gaze’ on missing and murdered Indigenous women might move Canada forward
Why are both central and provincial/local governments necessary?
MP tries again to make anthem include Canada’s daughters
NDP ‘Leap Manifesto’ backers intensify push ahead of convention
Push For NDP To Embrace Leap Manifesto Intensifies Ahead Of Party’s Convention
2016 NDP Leadership : Mulcair faces tough battle to remain NDP leader
Thalidomide vote proved that Parliament matters
Macleans: Libby Davies leaves Ottawa
PBS Interview: Canadian court OKs doctor-assisted suicide, but who’s eligible
2015 Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar lecture at SFU: Libby Davies “GRASSROOTS POLITICS IN PARLIAMENT
NDP deputy leader Libby Davies won’t run in 2015
Libby Davies, NDP deputy leader, won’t run in 2015
Libby Davies, NDP Deputy Leader, Won’t Run Again In 2015
Deputy NDP leader Libby Davies will not seek re-election
‘Time to call it a day’: Downtown Eastside activist and long-time NDP MP Libby Davies won’t seek re-election
B.C. MPs recall terror on the day a gunman stormed Parliament Hill
Canada’s top court set to rule on B.C. assisted suicide case
Ebola outbreak: NDP wants details on emergency plan for Canada
NDP calls on Conservatives to approve six initiatives to promote equal rights for LGBTQ community
NDP concerned politics will interfere in keeping Insite open
Health Canada library changes leave scientists scrambling
Flaherty betrayed Ontario, broke promise on health transfers: health minister
Ottawa urged to improve dementia and Alzheimer’s strategy
Health Canada’s medical marijuana privacy breach slammed
NDP MPs Libby Davies and Charlie Angus introduce bill to improve end-of-life care
Libby calls for Marc Emery’s transfer to a Canadian prison
Aboriginal people hardest hit by HIV in B.C.
Ottawa should regulate some drug prep firms in wake of chemo scare: report
B.C. a leader in offering free tests, treatment to reduce HIV cases
Premiers vow to fight Ottawa’s controversial jobs-training plan
Conservatives decision to shake off salt bill leaves bad taste
Injection sites dealt a severe blow
Proposed federal rules erect new hurdles for supervised drug-injection sites
Feds to toughen rules for drug-injection sites
Libby & the NDP speak to your concerns in Parliament!
Canadian premiers urged to call on the PM to back sodium-reduction bill
Experts blast Health Canada’s approach to sodium reduction
Most eat nearly double the recommended amount of salt: Study
Harper government mum on why Vancouver immigration raid was filmed by TV crew
Canadians ‘overwhelmingly’ support salt reduction initiatives
A Salt shocker
How much salt do you consume in a day? You may be surprised
Sodium in Canadian restaurant foods ‘alarmingly high’
High sodium levels should be disclosed, health groups urge
East Van lesbian artist awarded Queen’s medal
The 13 biggest health and science questions facing the nation
NDP peppers feds for ‘salt reduction strategy’
Will Aglukkaq scuttle latest effort to implement sodium-reduction plan?
NDP health critic tables bill for national sodium strategy
NDP launching health-care campaign
Forum focuses on health-care solutions
Vancouver remembers Jack Layton one year after his death
One year later, still ‘hard to believe’ Jack Layton is gone
Aglukkaq defends Ottawa’s hands-off role in health-care funding
Ottawa grades poorly in CMA’s annual report card on health care
Vancouver healing lodge opens after 10 years of work
The 45 People Who Made Vancouver Better
Poll results showing NDP surge no surprise to Libby Davies
Mulcair calls for an end to discrimination
Rainbow day on the Hill arcs over Parliament
B.C. wins big in budget, senior cabinet minister says
Drug shortage shows failure of federal leadership, critics charge
Government fast-tracks approvals for vital drugs
Health Canada scrambles to approve new meds in wake of drug shortage
Opposition takes shots at Aglukkaq over lack of action on drug shortage
Health funding issue bringing some MPs back early
Alberta would be $810-million winner under new health scheme
Ottawa still has influence in health policy, Aglukkaq says
Romanow’s 50-year fight for medicare
Fat chance: no new regulations for trans fats, say Aglukkaq
Libby Davies talks about her winter sitting
Health-care funding plan must change, premiers say
Canada’s health care: Premier downplays dangers while critics warn of creeping privatization
Premiers seek common front on health care
Federal AIDS funding rules change
Libby Davies recaps her fall session
Iraq war resister Rodney Watson still awaits fate in Canada
Closing Vancouver’s Insite drug clinic would violate the Charter of Rights, top court rules
Libby Davies previews her fall sitting
Libby Davies opts out of NDP leadership race
Vancouver MP Libby Davies won’t run to replace Layton
B.C. honour-bound to repay $1.6 billion to Canada for HST, Flaherty says
Libby Davies talks about Vancouver Pride and the Outgames
Paying for HIV prevention
Ottawa to fund clinical trials for controversial MS treatment
Government to fund MS trials
MS therapy clinical trials get federal OK
Opposition MPs pan Harper government’s federal budget
Health care’s improving in Canada: report
Health-care monitor fears key patient information getting lost in paper shuffle
Layton announces shadow cabinet
Layton announces shadow cabinet
Davies readies for Parliament
The NDP’s union-made caucus
Supreme Court to hear heroin site debate
In with the new
Politicians join call to keep Vancouver temporary homeless shelters open
Davies calls for electoral reform: Longtime MP bemoans Conservative majority
Conservatives lose two ethics rulings by House Speaker
Tories suffer setback as Speaker rules privileges breached
Tories lose two ethics rulings
Speaker reprimands Tories in Oda case
K’naan presses MPs to help world’s poor as generic-drug vote looms
NDP showcases female caucus on International Women’s Day
Libby Davies on her bill’s amendment
Council asked for cell tower restrictions
Legislature Notebook: Wall downplays potential tax changes
Kairos process not perfect: Tories
Courting danger
Immigration levels holding steady: Kenney
Concerns about cellphone towers not being heard
CRTC undermined by appointment, changes: NDP
Proposed Telus cellphone tower creates fear in residents
AIDS drug bill clears major hurdle
Rare co-operation breathes life into generic-drug bill
Mitchel Raphael on politicians and drugs, plus the metalhead MP
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell stepping down as HST controversy becomes too great
Embattled B.C. premier resigns
Libby speaking out against tax havens
Libby and Equal Voice’s Day of Respect in Parliament
Libby and the Red Tent Day of Action for Housing
Libby’s Bill for a National Housing Strategy and the Canadian Day of Action for Housing
Where are all the lesbians in federal politics?
Canadian Day of Action for Housing and Bill C-304
Libby standing up for rights and safety of sex workers
MPs Need to Back Housing Bill
Libby speaking out against harmful regulatory changes
The missing and murdered women of Vancouver deserve an inquiry
Fighting the HST
Society has failed these women
Libby critical of proposed changes to Criminal Code
Vancouver trek raises awarness for Libby’s national housing strategy bill
Libby speaking out against the BC HST
Libby interviews Marc Emery
NDP House Leader Libby Davies on Afghan Documents
Libby speaking up for affordable housing
Libby speaking out against Marc Emery’s extradition
Nothing solved by eviction – Libby on BC forfeiture laws
Federal actions for missing and murdered women must be substantive
An Intense Parliamentary Session Ahead
Libby speaking out for a ‘Made in Canada’ Olympic pavillion
Libby speaking out for missing women
Libby’s support for activists’ spotlight on homelessness
Libby speaking out agains the Conservative’s so-called drug policy
Prime Minister’s Office must apologize for wrongful attacks
Libby speaking out against Mandatory Minimum Sentences for drug crimes
Libby making Parliament work
Libby speaking out against Conservative’s so-called “crime agenda”
Libby says no to Olympic freebies
Libby on Prorogation and Parliament
Libby speaking out against prorogation
Recommendations from Operatin Phoenix – A National Housing Strategy
Libby tells Harper Government not to appeal InSite ruling
Libby speaking out against free Olympic tickets for politicians
Libby Speaking out for InSite
Libby rates Conservative’s youth anti-drug strategy “boring and bureaucratic”
Passing of the Wooden Spoon to Libby
Libby outraged by the Conservatives’ move to shut down Parliament
Libby on Senate Reform
Libby speaking out for female ski jumpers
Libby holding Harper to account
Libby calls for answers in the extradition of Marc Emery
Libby on the prorogation of the House of Commons
Libby speaking out against prorogation
Libby takes up the torch for the 2010 Homelessness Hunger Strike Relay
Keep Parliament working!
Libby fighting the HST in Parliament
Libby speaking out for freedom of expression
UN Housing Rapporteur on Libby’s housing Bill
Libby speaking out against censorship
Israel and Palestine stall on road to peace
Libby speaking out on censorship
Libby speaking out on GLBTT rights and Canada’s new immigration guide
Libby supporting war resisters
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