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Lies, truth and alternative facts: Trump's bad weekend
Jan 25, 2017Wayne MacPhailOver the course of one weekend the press has realized the game has changed, social media killed it with savage, pointed satire and fact-checking of Trump's press secretary...
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In Greenspon report, corporate media blames everything but itself
Jan 27, 2017Nick FillmoreIn his new report, Greenspon has the nerve to write that Canada needs mainstream media to protect democracy. Who endorsed Stephen Harper for a fifth term again?
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The #ProtectPressFreedom national day of action will tell Trudeau that we are...
Jan 30, 2017Marie AspiazuThe combination of multiple spying scandals involving Canadian journalists as well as powerful national opposition to Bill C-51 have sparked a national day of action on civil...
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Media bias is real -- and everywhere
Feb 22, 2017Yves EnglerHighlighting Russia's "propaganda system" to a Canadian audience without mentioning the one at home indicates either a journalist's ignorance or that she is part of it.
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Burning down the globe: Climate change denial in Canada's house
Feb 22, 2017Christopher MajkaClimate change denial is alive in Canada. Despite massive evidence to the contrary, fossil-fuel interests and compliant media try to obscure and obfuscate. Here's how it's...
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An open letter in support of Justin Brake and the role of good journalism in...
Mar 23, 2017variousFree Justin Brake now.
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To cover Trump, the press needs to be less objective, not more
Mar 24, 2017John MillerTime for journalists to be advocates -- for truth and accountability.
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Can a journalist be an activist? Let's hope so
Apr 22, 2017John MillerToronto Star columnist Desmond Cole's campaign against police carding led him to disrupt a public meeting this week. Journalism needs to update its rules.
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The Globe and Mail in service of a controversial mining magnate
May 4, 2017Yves EnglerThe Globe and Mail's close ties to the Munk Debates and University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs should worry journalists and everyone who cares about foreign policy...
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Desmond Cole's decision to leave the Toronto Star suggests a double standard...
May 6, 2017John MillerActivism and journalism don't mix, he's told. So he chooses activism.
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Journalism is being criminalized in Canada. Here's how we're fighting back.
Jun 2, 2017Canadian Journalists for Free ExpressionNathan MunnThe past two years have been devastating for journalism in Canada. CJFE has stepped up on multiple fronts to demand that journalists have...
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The full-court press is now under way to get Canadians to ship their tax...
Jun 19, 2017David J. ClimenhagaThe newspaper industry is demanding a handout to float the pro-market claptrap and right-wing propaganda no one will voluntarily pay for. This is ironic, to say the least.
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Announcing the Jack Layton Journalism for Change Fellowship
Aug 22, 2017rabble staffrabble.ca and Olivia Chow of the Institute for Change Leaders are delighted to announce the inaugural launch of the Jack Layton Journalism for Change Fellowship.
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Introducing Phillip Dwight Morgan as the first Jack Layton Journalism for...
Nov 7, 2017rabble 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...
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Ted Byfield may have opened the gates to Lake of Fire 2.0
Nov 13, 2017David J. ClimenhagaConservative commentator Ted Byfield's recent inflammatory post about "sex clubs" in Alberta schools has hit the province's political scene like a pie in the face.
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In 2017, journalism was still an unacceptably dangerous profession
Dec 30, 2017Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe case of Emilio GutiƩrrez Soto, who fled Mexico at the risk of assassination, highlights the dangers that journalists still face in speaking out and exposing...
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An earful of rabble plans for 2018
Jan 4, 2018rabble radioFour 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.
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Are 'young Liberals' to blame for government inaction on newspaper industry?
Feb 10, 2018Rick SalutinTo such people, newspapers may look like dog turds left by feckless pet owners. There was nothing virtual about them.
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The biggest purveyor of terror is the Toronto Sun
Jul 27, 2018John MillerWhen tragedy struck on the Danforth, we got half-baked conspiracy theories instead of facts.
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A Mexican journalist's fight for asylum and a free press
Aug 5, 2018Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanEmilio Gutierrez Soto, a journalist who fled certain assassination in his native Mexico, has just been released from an immigrant detention center in Texas.
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