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'''rabble.ca''' is an alternative, left-leaning<ref>{{Cite book|last=Taras|first=David|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=JQ7YBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA268|title=Digital Mosaic: Media, Power, and Identity in Canada|date=2015-01-26|publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]|year=|isbn=978-1-4426-0889-4|___location=|pages=268|language=en}}</ref> [[Canada|Canadian]] online magazine founded in 2001.<ref name=torpor>{{cite news|last1=Landsberg|first1=Michele|title=Rabble.ca may rouse us from torpor|work=[[Toronto Star]]|date= April 14, 2001|id={{ProQuest|438275106}}|issn=03190781}}</ref> ''rabble.ca'' works in partnership with the [[Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives]] and the Centre for Social Justice.<ref name=torpor/> It features podcasts, videos and a [[Internet forum|discussion board]] called ''babble''.<ref>"{{cite news|title=Canadians to clear up health care myths for Americans; rabble.ca posts U.S. health care page debunking myths and posting health care testimonials". ''|work=Fox Creek Times'', |date=September 16, 2009.|id={{ProQuest|442600650}} }}</ref>

== History ==

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Upon its launch, the website raised $200,000, which included $120,000 from the [[Atkinson Foundation]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Kuitenbrouwer|first=Peter|title=Rabble-rouser: Publisher Judy Rebick's new online magazine offers a forum for leftist thinkers and those descending on Quebec this week|newspaper=[[National Post]]|date=April 19, 2001|id={{ProQuest|329820754}}|issn=14868008}}</ref>

On September 7, 2008 rabble.ca launched a multi-author election blog. The blog featuring authors such as [[Maude Barlow]] and the [[Council of Canadians]] and organizations such as the [[Rideau Institute]].<ref>"{{cite news|title=Diverse voices across Canada featured in new federal election blog on rabble.ca". ''|work=[[Canada NewsWire]]'', |date=September 8, 2008.|id={{ProQuest|453112672}} }}</ref>

== Finances ==

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== Contributors ==

[[Judy Rebick]], [[Naomi Klein]], [[Francine Pelletier (journalist)|Francine Pelletier]], Anna Dashtgard, Patty Barrera, [[Priscilla Settee]], [[Penney Kome]], [[Doris Anderson]], [[Ann Shin]] and Sandra DeLaronde were among the original contributors at the launch of the website.<ref>"{{cite news|title=Ready for the rabble". ''|work=[[Canada NewsWire]]'', |date=April 17, 2001.|id={{ProQuest|454516528}} }}</ref>

Judy Rebick retired in 2006 and was replaced by [[Amnesty International]] member Kim Elliott.<ref>[[{{cite news|last=Zerbisias|first=Antonia|author-link=Antonia Zerbisias]], "|title=Women on top of anti-war wave". ''|work=[[Toronto Star]]'', |date=May 6, 2009.|id={{ProQuest|439565062}}|issn=03190781}}</ref>

Former ''[[Financial Post]]'' columnist Murray Dobbin is the guest senior contributing editor for ''rabble.ca''.<ref>Sarah{{cite news|last=Boesveld, "|first=Sarah|title=Blue but not Tory; Left lets loose with vitriolic rants online". ''|work=[[National Post]]'', |date=May 4, 2011.|id={{ProQuest|865220029}} }}</ref>

The advisory committee of ''rabble.ca'' is composed of Dave Mitchell, Fred Wilson, John Urquhart, [[Linda McQuaig]], [[Lynn Coady]], and Sharon Fraser.