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Big Boys Gone Bananas! documents the campaign Dole waged against Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten to try to prevent him from showing his film Bananas! from being distributed in the United States.

Developments at the Globe and Mail are part of a larger trend. We are sure to see more paywalls that don't work, more union busting, more lousy journalism and more newspapers going broke.

Does Globe and Mail Publisher Phillip Crawley seriously imagine that anyone’s actually going to pay for the Globe’s not-very-exclusive drivel? Please!

Rick Salutin spoke to an Ottawa audience in April about the role dissent plays in media and politics. Watch an exclusive video clip highlight, in this report of the event.

This week Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent has made repeated allegations that environmental groups are “laundering money”. Peter Kent is a big fat liar!

Watch live on Monday as Canada's leading thinkers, innovators, media makers and musicians come together in a conversation that reimagines the CBC in the digital era.

One of the casualties of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's 2012 budget was the CBC. The network faces a 10 percent cut in funding over the next 3 years.

While we can't have everyone over to show slides of our journey through 2011, we have our annual report up for your perusal.

rabble.ca is a proud member of 'Media for the 99 Percent', a collaborative independent media effort to provide alternative media coverage to May Day events across North America.

The "Where to from Here?" panel with Judy Rebick (rabble.ca) and Kai Nagata (The Tyee) discuss Canadian coverage of the ongoing student protests in Quebec.

The conference brought together about 100 activists, academics and journalists to consider ways to revitalize active citizenship.

People with disabilities are often rendered invisible in the media, and when they do appear, the media's portrayals of them are typically very bad.