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Apr 6, 2018

New CBC president Catherine Tait makes huge promise on local services

Karl Nerenberg

The government and Catherine Tait have committed to making local programming a priority for CBC. That will be hard, given the devastation local services have suffered over a number of decades.

Blog

Apr 5, 2018

Forget Postmedia's propaganda: Becoming an environmental pariah won't restore the 'Alberta Advantage'

David J. Climenhaga

Media conspiracy theories and angry right-wing rhetoric may Make Alberta An Environmental Pariah Again, but the result would be a world of hurt.

Columnists

Mar 30, 2018

Don't despair, here is some hope despite Cambridge Analytica and Facebook

Rick Salutin

I tend to see the horrors of manipulation as less striking than the signs of human ability to act independently anyway. How else do you explain unexpected events like Bernie Sanders' surge?

Blog

Mar 22, 2018

WTF? Say 50 million Facebook users

Penney Kome

Facebook is just the latest and most sophisticated medium to sell our eyes and attention to advertisers. There's a new media saying that crops up over and over again, a variation on "buyer beware."

Blog

Mar 16, 2018

Krassimira Pejcinovski's murder shows that domestic violence is a predictable pandemic

Doreen Nicoll

There are several commonly known warning signs for intimate partner violence, and Pejcinovski's killer fit at least three of them.

Blog

Mar 7, 2018

We're hiring! rabble.ca seeks Editor in Chief

rabble staff

Do you understand the power of media in making political and social change, and want to do something about the need for a powerful, alternative media voice in Canada? You may be our next Editor!

Podcast

Feb 22, 2018

Homeless Marathon 2018 - coming to a radio station near you

rabble radio

Radio stations across the country are creating a collaborative day of programming about homelessness. Find out how they're doing it, and how you can listen.

Blog

Feb 10, 2018

Former United Conservative Party MLA named as accused in Alberta sexual assault case

David J. Climenhaga

Lifted publication ban solves the mystery of why the MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake resigned unexpectedly from the UCP Caucus and his seat in the Alberta Legislature.

Blog

Feb 8, 2018

Oxford study confirms what we already know: Trump voters eat junk news

Penney Kome

An Oxford research project has confirmed what anybody could have told them: the people who voted for Donald Trump are the most "susceptible" to junk news.

Blog

Jan 30, 2018

Market-fundamentalist newspaper owners primed for infusion of taxpayer cash

David J. Climenhaga

Newspaper publishers across Canada have been engaged in a furious lobby for months to get tax-funded respite from the consequences of their incompetence. It now appears they have succeeded.

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