rabble.ca's staff blog This is rabble.ca's staff blog. Visit this blog regularly for updates about rabble, and comments and observations from staff members, with occasional visits by board members and volunteers. Our staff blog is represented by our website "mascot" Ruckus, the sock monkey, who joined us in 2006. Ruckus cheers us on through fundraising campaigns and membership drives, and reminds us to keep perspective in the midst of the challenges of running an independent media website. Support The Satire Project: Help fix Canadian democracy, one laugh at a time "There is currently a renaissance taking place in political satire in the United States ... [and this] newly flowering realm of politicized satire is providing many with a sense of community and purpose notably lacking from organized politics in the twenty-first century." - Amber Day, author of Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate "The situation in Canada is pretty dire right now. We have a federal government that ignores facts, and won a majority on the slimmest of margins. Omnibus bills are anathema to the decision-making procedures at the core of our parliamentary democracy. We need someone to be poking these guys in the eye, all the time, non-stop. Sure we have Rick Mercer and 22 Minutes, but they weren't even on the air during the last federal election. The Satire Project will be going 24/7, 365 days a year -- it's a product of the internet, and serves the internet generation." - Andreas Krebs, co-founder, The Satire