It’s that time in April when we here at rabble.ca take a brief pause to thank you, our readers, for your ongoing support for what has now been 22 years.
April 18 also holds a special place for me as it marks exactly one year since I started here at rabble as editor.
As editor, I have worked to stay true to rabble.ca’s 22 year legacy as one of Canada’s first and longest running independent online news publications.
Over the past year, rabble has continued its tradition of sharing news and perspectives that are excluded from the mainstream.
Our focus has always been, and continues to be, to create a space where labour, feminist, Indigenous, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+ and other progressive voices can be heard.
This year, we brought coverage and perspectives on important issues such as the status of abortion rights in Canada and the United States. We remained critical in our coverage of the federal government’s failure to live up to their commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and righting the injustices of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit Peoples.
Labour has remained at the heart of our coverage here at rabble.ca and we continue to be one of the few national news organizations specifically dedicated to covering unions and the labour movement.
rabble was the first to share the news that CUPE Ontario and its allies were prepared to call a general strike in response to Doug Ford’s tyrannical Bill 28.
This year rabble partnered with two other independent news organizations, The Green Line and The Hoser to publish a long-form investigative story on the status of labour and unionization in the burgeoning marijuana industry. It is partnerships like these that allow smaller news publications to do deep and thorough investigative work on important social issues and we hope to do more partnerships like this one in the near future.
Finally, I am happy to report that rabble had the opportunity to work with other fantastic up and coming journalists through our unique labour reporting role, held by insightful Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, our exciting national politics reporter, Stephen Wentzell, who brings his people-cantered journalism approach to our team, and most recently with the Jack Layton Journalism for Change Fellowship program done in partnership with the Institute for Change Leaders and the Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation. Kiah Lucero recently finished her fellowship with us and through the course of four months she contributed a number of important articles, including on the Imperial Oil Kearl Mine spill and her final piece on the precarity facing temporary foreign workers will be on the site soon.
I want to thank all of our readers and supporters for helping make rabble.ca possible over these last 22 years. Now it is more important than ever that we have independent, small but mighty news organizations like rabble who are willing to tell the stories that go unheard in the mainstream.
Over this past year I have seen momentum building here at rabble.ca and I think that 23 will be an exciting year for rabble where we continue to deepen our news and investigate reporting capacity, as we continue to bring you original journalism, analysis and discussion that you’ve come to rely on rabble.ca for.
Thank you for sharing this journey with us.
In solidarity,
Nick Seebruch
Editor
rabble.ca
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