About rabble.ca

An essential part of a balanced media diet, rabble.ca is the go-to site for progressive journalism and dialogue about national politics and social movements.

We are an award-winning, independent, community-driven media. Among the first digital journalism organizations in Canada, and the first to incorporate as non-profit, rabble.ca has been at the forefront of reporting on national politics with a progressive lens that centres issues of social movements, of labour, and of grassroots activism.

We began as a vision of journalists, writers, artists, activists and tech leaders across the country. They saw, first hand, the need for broader reporting on stories from civil society. In the early days, before big tech exploded on the media scene, we pioneered the place of technology in journalism – from our podcast network (ahead of iTunes!), to our early explorations of the use of live video to, for example, stream activism live from the streets across the county.  In fact you can explore this history, and more, in our annual reports or in Everything On the Line: 20 years of social movement stories from rabble.ca, published in 2021 by Between the Lines.

Over the years rabble has brought labour journalism back to Canada, introduced a parliamentary reporter to progressive, non profit media and provided training to generations of journalists through internships and fellowships.

rabble is community-driven media. We exist thanks to the support of thousands of individual donors, forward-thinking organizations, In Cahoots advertisers, and grants. We invite you to be part of that legacy, and future by becoming a monthly donor – or by chipping in with a one-time donation.   

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