Happy 13th birthday to us! Imagine: 13 years ago on the Internet, as rabble.ca was gaining its first pageviews, so too were Google and Wikipedia -- both launched the same year. Facebook was not to come for another four years. In fact, as rabble co-founder and current Mozilla foundation ED Mark Surman explained at our 10th anniversary: "rabble took the Internet from being a thing to a space... Think about it: The Internet that we interact with every day now didn't exist back then. It was a time when 98% of the Internet was viewed through Microsoft, when the dot.com boom had gone bust...

We hate to see cuts in the media, but it keeps happening. Postmedia just laid off five members of their parliamentary bureau, “eliminating the bureau” according to J-Source. Media sites are struggling pretty much everywhere, including of course at rabble.ca.