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Karl Nerenberg

@karlnerenberg.bsky.social
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TV-radio producer, filmmaker, writer, journalist. Formerly with CBC /Radio-Canada. Worked in NGO field for a while (Forum of Federations, etc.). Play jazz piano. Husband, father, grandfather, x-country skier. Parliamentary reporter for rabble.ca

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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"At a time when Canada is struggling to preserve its own independence, PSPP’s entire pre-referendum enterprise will be, at best, a troublesome distraction." rabble.ca/politics/can...
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PQ victory in Quebec is a gift to Trump
Quebec voters elected a National Assembly split among four parties on Monday, October 5, giving the separatist Parti Québécois a minority government.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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NDP caucus is tiny, but the Party has influenced some government policies
Since Avi Lewis became NDP leader the Party has made an effort to focus on progressive alternatives to much of Mark Carney’s agenda. It has
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Trump hypocritically accuses others of forced labour to justify tariffs. Sadly, the accusation is not false.
The Trump administration is hypocritical when it accuses Canada and many other countries of failing to do enough to end forced and child labour around the world.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Mark Carney favours the wealthy and privileged over working-class Canadians
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to achieve high scores in public opinion polls. Environmentalists believe he has betrayed them.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Carney’s new energy approach favours jobs of the past not the future
Mark Carney is making so many energy-related announcements at once it is hard to keep track.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Avi Lewis urges Carney to ban unfair pricing driven by AI
In his first Parliament Hill news conference Avi Lewis articulately presented a New Democratic initiative to ban AI price fixing.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
To make room for big increases in defence spending, and to align federal spending with new priorities, the Carney government is cutting the Public Health Agency of Canada and allowing many federal health programs to quietly expire. rabble.ca/politics/can...
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Carney is slashing federal health spending (but who notices?)
To make room for big increases in defence spending, the Carney government is cutting the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Avi Lewis gave a powerful victory speech but lack of French is his Achilles heel
Avi Lewis gave a near-perfect speech after winning the NDP leadership.
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 29/03/2026
BREAKING: Avi Lewis is the new federal NDP leader, winning 56% of votes. Heather McPherson got 29% and, surprisingly, Tanille Johnston placed third with 7%.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
In shock at the grocery store? In tears looking at your bills? “It’s because the wealth of this country is being hoovered up by a corporate elite who are extracting it from you every single day,” Avi Lewis says. “It’s immoral. It’s unreasonable. It’s un-Canadian. And we cannot let it stand.”
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Q: Why are you so supportive of Avi Lewis as leader -- Wab Kinew: I love the guy
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Heartened at the news that @avilewis.ca Avi Lewis has been voted head of Canada's progressive party, the NDP. This is a man who's taken climate change seriously, and who will help Mark Carney by providing a serious critique from the left.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Congratulations to Avi Lewis on your election as NDP leader. As Prime Minister I will always take a collaborative approach to how we build a stronger Canada, and I look forward to speaking about how we can work together to keep delivering for Canadians.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 29/03/2026
Nothing Avi Lewis is saying is remotely “extreme,” but the rightward shift of media over three decades would make it seem that way to many.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Netanyahu illegally targeting Lebanon’s water infrastructure - Oxfam
Oxfam has released a report that demonstrates how Israel’s Netanyahu regime is destroying Lebanon’s vital water infrastructure.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Who was it again who implemented Phoenix? The absolute gall of the Conservatives to pin this all on the Liberals when it was a done deal when they took power.
Modernizing the Pay System
Stephanie Kusie, Conservative Shadow Minister for Treasury Board and the King’s Privy Council, and Kelly Block, Conservative Shadow Minister for Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement, released the following statement on the planned transition from the failed Phoenix pay system to the Dayforce pay system for federal public servants:
“Today’s report from the Auditor General shows that the Liberals still haven’t fixed issues that continue to plague the Phoenix pay system ahead of the transition to the Dayforce system. While the new system is estimated to cost $4.2 billion, that estimate does not include all costs needed for departments and agencies to fully implement the system.
“Ten years after the failed implementation of the Phoenix system, core lessons that should have been learned from its failure have yet to be implemented. The report found that the Liberals' failure to implement lessons would result in additional costs, and that projects the size of Dayforce have a ‘high risk of exceeding their cost estimates, timelines, or both.’
“Additionally, the AG found that existing – and well-documented – pay issues surrounding the Phoenix pay system continue across federal departments, with over 233,000 backlogged transactions affecting more than 133,000 federal public servants. Equally concerning is that more than 66 per cent of those transactions have been backlogged for over a year as of September 2025.
“Despite the large number of existing problems, Public Service and Procurement Canada has accelerated the schedule to onboard all departments and agencies to Dayforce by three years to March 2031.
“The Liberals have had ten years to learn from the disastrous implementation of the Phoenix pay system, yet the Auditor General still found multiple risks remain. Conservatives will work to ensure the accurate and proper transition from a broken and inaccurate pay system to one that ensures that our federal public servants receive …
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News
A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hugh Winsor is rightly remembered as an 'old-school' journalist. He was also a dedicated mélomane (to use an untranslatable French term). Saw him and Christina at many concerts. They even came out to hear me and friends play jazz(!) - most recently at an Ottawa piano bar.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Why New Democrats might (secretly) welcome Lori Idlout’s defection
Lori Idlout crossing the floor all but assures that Mark Carney will secure a majority in the House of Commons, albeit a slim one.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Those Iranians who are now cheering the U.S.-Israel offensive might want to pay close heed to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s angry, finger-wagging expression of the American view of this war rabble.ca/politics/can...
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Carney shifts Canada’s position as Trump fails to justify war against Iran
Peter Hegseth told the truth when he blurted that the U.S. is not waging war with Iran to encourage democracy and human rights.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Those Iranians who are now cheering the U.S.-Israel offensive might want to pay close heed to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s angry, finger-wagging expression of the American view of this war rabble.ca/politics/can...
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Carney shifts Canada’s position as Trump fails to justify war against Iran
Peter Hegseth told the truth when he blurted that the U.S. is not waging war with Iran to encourage democracy and human rights.
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Will Greaves @wgreaves.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The Weekly Wrap this week is about the events that have erupted in the Middle East and Canada’s role in a changing world. #yyj youtu.be/PUmUgIP1_FA?...
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WW #23: Canada, Iran, and the New Crisis in the Middle East
YouTube video by Will Greaves, M.P. for Victoria
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Canada’s government gets a failing grade on child poverty
Campaign 2000’s new report says children under 18 are still the age group in Canada most likely to fall into poverty.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Why I am scared to travel to the U.S. right now
In the times we are living in, travelling through a U.S. border crossing poses significant risks that could have permanent ramifications.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Ontario NDPer to run for Carney’s Liberals. Not the first time that’s happened
A recent high profile floor crossing is just the latest example of a longstanding feature of Canadian politics.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 02/02/2026
«Prépare-toi Noah, je vais bien m’amuser avec toi !» : Donald Trump menace l’animateur des Grammy Awards de poursuites judiciaires
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«Prépare-toi Noah, je vais bien m’amuser avec toi !» : Donald Trump menace l’animateur des Grammy Awards de poursuites judiciaires
Le président américain se défend toujours de toute implication dans l’affaire Epstein face aux remarques de l’humoriste lors de la 68e cérémonie de l’incontournable remise de prix de l’industrie musicale américaine.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Long NDP leadership race hits the home stretch
The five candidates to become the new leader of the NDP have been campaigning hard, but the leadership race has garnered scant national media attention.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22/01/2026
There's a lot of daylight between the Carney we heard at Davos – calling out the US’s exercise of naked power and shredding the so-called rules-based international order – and the Carney who has repeatedly capitulated to Trump since taking office. My conversation with Ryan Jespersen this morning.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
rabble.ca/politics/can... Mark Carney made a speech at Davos that punctured more than a century’s worth of myths.
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Carney tells some long overdue truths about U.S. power
Mark Carney made a speech at Davos that punctured more than a century’s worth of myths.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Canadian PM Mark Carney on Greenland: “We are NATO partners with Denmark. “Our full partnership and our obligations to Article 5 and Article 2 stand. We stand fully behind those.”
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Legault’s departure could usher in a separatist government and another referendum in Quebec
François Legault, who has been Premier of Quebec since 2018, will not be running for re-election later this year.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Off the Hill: The future of the NDP, and who will lead it. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Don’t miss Off the Hill: The future of the NDP, and who will lead it The NDP will pick their new leader at the end of March. Our team of panelists looks at the race and breaks down the major issues, ...
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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For the New Year, turn to music to dispel the gloom
Instead of a litany of all the bad news of 2025, rabble.ca’s political reporter offers musical suggestions to help dispel the gloom of our dark time.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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New Democratic leadership candidates have big challenge to assert their relevance
The New Democratic leadership race is a bit more than halfway to the finish line.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Culture minister Miller should look to history while bolstering Canada’s public broadcaster
Going back to its very inception, funding for Canada's public broadcaster has been a contentious issue for government's to navigate.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
rabble.ca/politics/can... NDP's not-actually-in-French debate: a train wreck!
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Carney creates space on the Left. Without a bilingual leader, can New Democrats reap the benefit?
Carney’s deal with Alberta and the resignation of Steven Guilbeault create a huge opportunity for New Democrats.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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New Democratic leadership candidates to face off in Montreal, ‘mostly in French’
The federal NDP only has two official debates scheduled. The first will take place in Montreal on November 27.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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NDP MPs have to find a way to avoid an early election
New Democrats and other progressives can see a lot not to like in the Carney government’s budget. But neither the NDP nor the country can afford an early election now.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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Federal budget cuts to public sector will weaken services, unions warn
Most federal departments have been directed to reduce their spending by 15 per cent.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Budget 2025 spends massively on the military-industrial complex but cuts almost everywhere else
Mark Carney promised to increase military spending to two per cent of GDP, and he does so in his first budget.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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In 1995 Quebec nearly separated. We could soon relive that nightmare
The “No” side nearly lost the Quebec independence referendum of 1995 because many Quebeckers rejected the federal government’s austerity policies.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Only one candidate proposed bold policies at the NDP leadership forum
The CLC-sponsored NDP leadership forum focused largely on the candidates’ biographies and personalities.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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NDP leadership aspirants to debate in Ottawa this coming Wednesday
Five of the folks who seek to lead the New Democrats federally will meet for a CLC sponsored leadership forum.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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NDP leadership aspirants to debate in Ottawa this coming Wednesday
Five of the folks who seek to lead the New Democrats federally will meet for a CLC sponsored leadership forum.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Changes to CFL rules have a political dimension: rabble.ca/labour/canad...
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Canadian pro football changes rules but fails to make one necessary change
Canadian football will get a shorter field and goal posts at the back of the end zone.
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Heather McPherson declares for NDP leadership, contrasts her background to the Lewis dynasty
McPherson launched her campaign with a call for the NDP to get rid of ‘purity tests.’ She said her parents were not ‘terribly political’.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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NDP stalwarts undertake a party renewal process
In the wake of the New Democrats’ more-than-disappointing result in the last federal election two former NDP MPs have launched a renewal process for the party.
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Karl Nerenberg @karlnerenberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Élisa P. Serret of Radio-Canada blames the pernicious Jewish influence from Hollywood and U.S. big cities for the U.S.'s support of the aggressive and dangerous regime in Israel. Has she heard of Hannah Einbinder, or Bernie Sanders, or the many Jews who support Mandami in NYC?
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