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Too good for the AHL but not quite good enough for the NHL? Will that be Alex Barré-Boulet's cross to bear with the Canadiens' organization? Read More

The federal government has introduced legislation that would require charities providing reproductive counselling services to state clearly whether they offer abortion or abortion referrals.

The six-team Professional Women's Hockey League is launching its expansion process with plans to add two franchises for the start of the 2025-26 season, a league executive announced Tuesday.

The Canadiens' Oliver Kapanen is looking forward to the day he can move out of the downtown Montreal hotel room that has become his home. Read More

Montreal police are investigating the death of a 39-year-old Indigenous man after hospital staff performed “manoeuvres” on him at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. Read More

QUEBEC — The interim Liberal leader has read the riot act to his caucus about speaking in public about their views on financing religious schools. Read More

The opposition Quebec Liberals on Tuesday called for the resignation of Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant as the scale of the scandal rocking the youth protection system (DPJ) continued to grow. Read More

Twenty-five years ago, actor Al Pacino, playing a beaten-down coach in the movie Any Given Sunday, delivered a from-the-heart motivational speech that went far beyond what happens on the football field. Read More

Juraj Slafkovsky will return to the lineup Tuesday when the Canadiens play the Seattle Kraken at the Bell Centre (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS). Read More

Sylvie D'Amours, the Coalition Avenir Québec MNA for the riding of Mirabel, announced on Tuesday she is closing her riding office until further notice after its windows were shot out in apparent protest of a revised flood zone map issued by the provincial government. Read More

Another one of the three activists arrested last week, when the Jacques Cartier Bridge was closed for hours during a protest against fossil fuels, has been granted a conditional release. Read More

Ottawa’s proposal to limit where demonstrations take place is fair, appropriate and overdue. Demonstrators do have a right to express their opinions publicly, but that shouldn’t extend to interfering with the lives of people going about their daily business. Read More

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The Ontario government says it will send a $200 rebate cheque to roughly 15 million people in the province. The announcement comes as Premier Doug Ford has hinted an early election could be called in 2025.

In episode four, Palestinian storyteller Sarah Abu-Sharar joins us for our third annual Mouth Open Story Jump Out episode. Through Palestinian folktales and stories of her father, she reflects on the meaning and power of stories within Palestinian resilience, recuperation and resistance.

Reflection on her journey into storytelling, Abu-Sharar says:

“When I started storytelling, it had to be for Palestine because it was reclaiming my identity. It was a way of saying, the Occupation might have deprived me of my land, of my culture, but I will resist by telling our stories.”

About today’s guest:

Sarah Abu-Sharar comes from a long line of storytellers on her paternal side. She tells stories to both adults and children. Abu-Sharar has told stories both nationally and internationally at festivals in Canada, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia, Tunisia, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. Because Abu-Sharar grew up in several countries she tells stories from all over the world with the focus on Palestinian and Croatian stories where her roots lie. Her favourite stories are ones that promote social change. She has also used stories in a therapeutic way with children in refugee camps and refugee children in Toronto, as part of their therapy. She works at the Parent Child Mother Goose Program using traditional storytelling to encourage parent child bonding. Abu-Sharar belongs to a collective called “Musical Story Studio” where stories and music are combined. She tells stories so that she may go deep inside of the tales and find herself in far away magical places that she remembers, from long, long ago.

Transcript of this episode can be accessed at georgebrown.ca/TommyDouglasInstitute or here.

Image: Sarah Abu-Sharar  / Used with permission.

Music: Ang Kahora. Lynne, Bjorn. Rights Purchased.

Intro Voices: Ashley Booth (Podcast Announcer); Bob Luker (Tommy)

Courage My Friends Podcast Organizing Committee: Chandra Budhu, Ashley Booth, Resh Budhu.

Produced by: Resh Budhu, Tommy Douglas Institute and Breanne Doyle, rabble.ca. 

Host: Resh Budhu.

The post Palestinian storytelling as resilience, recuperation and resistance appeared first on rabble.ca.

Canada Post workers across the country have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike amid a labour dispute that could disrupt mail deliveries ahead of the busy holiday season.

Investissement Québec intends to spend $4.5 billion by 2027 to accelerate business innovation and increase the province's level of productivity, which, despite recent advances, continues to lag behind that of Ontario. Read More

A 911 call came in around 1:15 a.m. about a violent incident at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal in the city's downtown core.

He grew up in Calgary diving competitively. He represented Jamaica at both the 2023 and 2024 world aquatics championships in a bid to qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris.

The lawsuits are the latest in a wave of legal actions in which accusers allege they were sexually assaulted by Combs at parties and meetings over the last two decades.