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Every year we get better, and this last year was no exception. We had more exclusive stories, including breaking the news on Minister Jason Kenney’s role in banning George Galloway; exclusive interviews with Canadian Gaza boat survivor Kevin Neish; and recently we were the first to feature an exclusive interview with former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in years, along with other exclusives from the Copenhagen, Cochabamba and Cancun climate conferences to our Olympics coverage and much more.
No mainstream media covered the G20 Shout Out for Global Justice, but rabble was there, live-streaming the speakers to thousands. rabble.ca also reported from the People’s Summit, both from the streets and from inside the summit’s official press rooms. And while the G20 may have left town, the issues haven’t. rabble’s section on the G20 keeps growing, including our recent live-blogging from the public hearings on G20 policing.
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