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Dec 11, 2019

How to talk to your family about climate change this holiday

David Suzuki

The facts of the climate crisis aren't in dispute -- and yet climate deniers abound. A new chatbot is designed to help people navigate difficult conversations about climate disruption.

Activist Toolkit

Ban 5G technology due to health and environmental risks

Reports

Some tools to learn about the risks

News

Feb 7, 2019

The economics of disruption: BlackRock exec discusses winners and losers in technological shift

Rosemary Frei

Speaking to an audience at the Canadian Club in Toronto, BlackRock exec Mark Wiseman outlines how companies will profit in the age of disruption.

Podcast

Jan 4, 2018

An earful of rabble plans for 2018

rabble radio

Four of our rabble staff members talk about their hopes and plans for the rabble.ca year to come - get a beginning-of-the-year heads up on some of our new ideas.

Blog

Nov 30, 2017

Hashtag activism promotes inclusion and helps build solidarity

Krystalline Kraus

Leveraging the power of social media has been a key way smaller social justice campaigns have successful amplified their voice, and larger campaigns have unified the personal experience of struggle.

Blog

Mar 29, 2017

Welcome to the 21st century: Brighter times or a new Dark Age?

David Suzuki

Science offers great tools for understanding and innovating. We owe it to ourselves to at least understand how science acquires and integrates knowledge and what that means.

Podcast

Nov 22, 2016

U.K. employment tribunal rules in favour of Uber drivers

Redeye

A panel of judges in the U.K. say Uber has to pay its drivers a national living wage and give them holiday pay, in their ruling on a case brought by two Uber drivers in London.

Blog

Nov 1, 2016

Ursula Franklin (1921-2016): Imagining a world of technology where people and nature matter

Mel Watkins

Mel Watkins pays tribute to a mammoth figure in the study of technology, Urusula Franklin, who passed away earlier this year.

Columnists

Sep 14, 2016

Apple, the iPhone and the case of the missing headphone jack

Wayne MacPhail

Was Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack arrogant, elitist and greedy? Maybe. Is it the first time it has done something like this? Definitely not.

Columnists

Sep 7, 2016

Steampunk celebrates the beauty and promise of early technology

Wayne MacPhail

The alternative world of steampunk is a world frozen in a parallel Victorian era of remarkable, imagined technology. The steampunk attitude towards its technology sheds light on present-day thinking.

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