Jan 4, 2018
An earful of rabble plans for 2018
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Four of our rabble staff members talk about their hopes and plans for the rabble.ca year to come - get a beginning-of-the-year heads up on some of our new ideas.
Media Matters
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Dec 30, 2017  In 2017, journalism was still an unacceptably dangerous professionThe case of Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, who fled Mexico at the risk of assassination, highlights the dangers that journalists still face in speaking out and exposing corruption. |
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Dec 22, 2017  The last-minute progressive gift you've been looking for!rabble staff rabble.ca shines a light on key issues that we collectively need to address. Independent media like rabble depends on collective support. |
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Dec 14, 2017  Labour is about respect -- rabble.ca's 2017 labour beat intern shares some parting wordsrabble radio Meagan Gillmore's labour beat internship is ending. She shares her thoughts about Canadian labour in 2017, and what she's learned about people and their relationships to their work. |
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Dec 8, 2017  Newspaper closings hurt journalism: UniforTorstar and Postmedia announced that they are swapping of ownership of certain news outlets, and the shut down of almost two dozen newspapers. The crisis in the newspaper industry must be addressed. |
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Dec 6, 2017  Media Democracy Day 2017: Solutions-Focused Media ShowcaseNeeds No Introduction Six-minute answers to the question, "Can society fix itself?" A collection of ideas from solutions-focused B.C. media-makers. |
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Dec 2, 2017  Newspapers march further down their road to oblivionJohn Miller This week's Torstar-Postmedia deal and Globe and Mail redesign both show that newspapers will do anything to put profits ahead of readers. |
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Dec 1, 2017  Supreme Court to hear VICE News case on source protectionCanadian Journalists for Free Expression On November 30, 2017 the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear a landmark case for press freedom in Canada. |
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Dec 1, 2017  Copyright in the new TPP: A milestone or a PR move?In a win for digital rights advocates, the Canadian government took a strong stance on the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter despite strong pressure from other nations to rush through with the deal. |
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Nov 14, 2017  Do newspaper endorsements matter in elections anymore?Scott Stager Piatkowski In an era in which circulation figures for most newspapers are falling faster than water over Niagara Falls, the answer isn't simple |
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Nov 7, 2017  Introducing Phillip Dwight Morgan as the first Jack Layton Journalism for Change Fellowrabble staff rabble.ca and the Institute for Change Leaders, are delighted to announce that Phillip Dwight Morgan is the recipient of the very first Jack Layton Journalism for Change Fellowship. |
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Nov 6, 2017  The flexibility of English makes it a treasure chest full of wit, wisdom, and whimsyEd Finn Anyone who makes a living from writing English will come to enjoy the many ways our language can be transformed into clever, ingenious, witty, and pleasurable forms of wordplay. |
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Oct 30, 2017  Why is Toronto's media still so white?John Miller More than half of Toronto's population identified as a visible minority in the 2016 census, yet represent just a tiny minority of Toronto's media. It's time to change. |
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Oct 14, 2017  In the era of Newsflix, public funding matters more than everAs news outlets struggle to survive, the obvious solution is public funding |
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Oct 13, 2017  Unifor files complaint with CRTC, alleges Rogers is breaking licenceMeagan Gillmore Rogers farms out its Chinese-language news broadcast for Omni TV to competitor Fairchild amid concerns of pro-conservative political bias. |
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Oct 12, 2017  Trump administration lies about climate change as lives are lost to 'natural' disastersThe corporate TV weather reporting aids and abets Trump's misinformation by consistently ignoring the role of climate change in this string of disasters. |
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Oct 4, 2017  You can’t spend an afternoon reading a tote bagrabble staff We are almost there! Readers have pitched in $43,000 towards our $50,000 fundraiser goal. Support rabble now and get great gifts too. |
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Sep 30, 2017  Why I couldn't stop watching the PBS' Vietnam War seriesThe Ken Burns documentary has multiple perspectives and lays them out almost randomly, not bothering to reconcile them or even segue between. That jibes with my own experience at the time. |
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Sep 24, 2017  Let's do this togetherrabble staff Meet rabble.ca's workers - the people who bring rabble to you every day. As the saying goes, “many hands make light work,” and rabble.ca needs many small donations to make a big impact. |
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Sep 23, 2017  Let's do this togetherrabble staff If you believe what we do is important, we need you to chip in and donate. |
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Sep 15, 2017  Canadian government publications still don't belong to the peopleDavid J. Climenhaga The government has a moral imperative to share information about what it does with its citizenry — why restrict what citizens can do with this information? |
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Sep 14, 2017  Presidential climate change denial ensures catastropheAs catastrophic hurricanes have laid waste to large areas of the U.S. and Caribbean, it is clear what the real national security threat is: climate change, and the fossil fuel industry. |
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Sep 14, 2017  Unionization campaign at the National Post is steeped in irony, and not just because hell has frozen overDavid J. Climenhaga Imagine how much better off everyone in Canadian media would have been if the Calgary Herald strike had been as successful as its union drive. |
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Sep 13, 2017  Help us build a movement a little at a timeMaude Barlow You can't build a strong independent, critical media without support from many people, people like you and me. |
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