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'''rabble.ca''' is an independent, non profit, left-wing<ref>{{Cite book|last=Taras|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JQ7YBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA268|title=Digital Mosaic: Media, Power, and Identity in Canada|date=2015-01-26|publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]|isbn=978-1-4426-0889-4|pages=268|language=en}}</ref> English-language [[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=0319-0781}}</ref> 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 ==

[[Judy Rebick]] and [[Mark Surman]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Everything on (the) Line|url=https://btlbooks.com/book/everything-on-the-line|access-date=2021-05-25|website=btlbooks.com|language=en}}</ref> founded rabble.ca on April 18, 2001.<ref name="Rempel2007">{{cite news|last=Rempel|first=Shauna|title=Fostering political activism; The Internet is now the new launchpad for social mobilization|newspaper=[[Toronto Star]]|date=August 9, 2007|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20070809/282557308811050|id={{ProQuest|439281078}}|issn=0319-0781}}</ref> The launch coincided with the [[3rd Summit of the Americas|Summit of the Americas]] in [[Quebec]],<ref name=torpor/> and rabble covered the Summit during its first week of operation.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Reith|first=Bill|date=2001|title=Review of rabble.ca|journal=Education Forum|volume=27|issue=2|page=33|id={{ProQuest|204987830}}}}</ref>

[[Anti-globalization]] activist [[Jaggi Singh (activist)|Jaggi Singh]] becamewas onean ofearly the website's most active contributorscontributor. Due to his participation in protests at the [[Summit of the Americas]] he was jailed for offences including possession of a weapon. Rabble, along with other left-wing organisations and activists, wrote an [[open letter]] calling for his release.<ref>{{cite news|last=Canadian Press|author-link=Canadian Press|title=Summit protester Jaggi Singh granted release|work=[[Sault Star]]|date=May 8, 2001|id={{ProQuest|348424159}} }}</ref>

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=1486-8008}}</ref>