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This is rabble.ca's staff blog. Visit this blog regularly for updates about rabble, and comments and observations from staff members, with occasional visits by board members and volunteers. While our website "mascot" Ruckus the sock monkey is on vacation, our staff blog is represented by this gorgeous ladybug, who is sporting the *rabble.ca* colours and reminds us that there are good, "beneficial" pests, like independent media who bug the right folks.

rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

| July 20, 2012

Need something interesting to read on the Internet? The rabble blogs have you covered.

Tyler Shipley writes on the persistance of homophobia in Canada's hockey arenas.

Baskin Robbins goes Wal-Mart! What does it mean when a corporation starts outsourcing its manufacturing? Behind The Numbers knows.

It's almost official: David Climenhaga on why the opposition wrong when it said the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is dead.

Ethan Cox says it's September 4 or not at all (until next year) for a Quebec provincial election.

Is there a line between killing and murdering? Gerry Caplan on President Obama-authorized drone attacks in Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen.

Want to do some summer reading but don't want to do it alone? The Babble Book Club is reading Wade Davis's The Wayfinders, and you should join in.

Finally, our membership drive is over. Thank you to new members for your support! And it's not too late to get in on the action!

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