With over 2200 blog entries in 2013 from hundreds of bloggers, there’s no better place on rabble.ca to get up-to-the-minute reportage from a diverse range of perspectives from Vancouver Island to Halifax Harbour, Point Pelee to the Yukon. Over the last week of the year, we will be rolling out a variety of “Best of” lists on all the most important issues covered in 2013.
Climate change is proceeding at a furious tempo — testified by the 2013 devastation in the Phillipines and the oil spills continuing apace. Lac Mégantic, the expansion of the tar sands and oil pipelines, all point to imminent catastrophe. But our environmentally minded bloggers — chief among them the indefatigable Elizabeth May — are holding Big Oil and their friends in Ottawa to account.
rabble.ca‘s growing Arts & Culture section has a range of writers like Holly Adam’s fabulous Enter Up Left blog offering advice to artists and the latest in progressive artistic endeavours. Meanwhile, the pointedly titled Film Festivals in Toronto (or FFIT, as they prefer to be called), makes up for TIFF’s myopic coverage of Hollywood movies by covering the dozens of other alternative film festivals in Toronto. And rabble.ca never shirks its responsibility to analyze capitalist culture, and so not even the McRib sandwich is safe from our bloggers.
Finally, our Campus Notes blog is one of the most exciting places on our site, covering the multiple grassroots struggles in feminism, labour, pedagogy and climate change at the campus level. Currently overseen by our Blogs and Books intern, Christina Turner, there’s no shortage of burgeoning resistance — and victories.
Top five Environment blogs
David Taub Bancroft — Exxon’s love for the poor, May 31
Emma Pullman — Canadians need answers on Cold Lake oil spill, July 5
Eat Local! (James D. Schwartz) — Too lazy? Take a bike! Urban cycling is for lazy people, October 2
Elizabeth May — What would a Green speech from the throne look like?, October 19
Kevin Grandia — Blame Canada’s carbon complacency for the Philippine disaster, November 15
Top six arts & culture blogs
Holly Adams (Enter Up Left) — Artists and aging, March 11
Karl Nerenberg — Read the Broadcasting Act! Explaining the CBC to Stephen Harper, May 2
Lindsay Presswell — Rebels With a Cause: Digest this film fest, don’t just consume it!, October 30
Bob Wiseman — Joni Mitchell: As inspiring as Stephen Harper never was, November 14
Andrea Jackson (The Whirling Girlish) — Music moguls: Interview with Grammy Award nominee record producer Cheryl Pawelski, November 18
Michael Stewart — The McRib contains multitudes, November 21
Top five education blogs
Carolyn Sale — Ten things to know about the University of Alberta’s unprecedented Faculty of Arts cuts, August 30
Nora Loreto — The enemy of my enemy is never my ally: A critique of the CFS disaffiliation drives, September 5
Lucia Lorenzi — Why David Gilmour’s advice to ‘go down the hall’ isn’t so bad, September 26
Eric Girard — If you’re poor, don’t come to law school, December 3
Christina Turner — Remembering the Montreal Massacre on campus: Problems and possibilities in 2013, December 6
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