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We’re a new community at Rage Against the Municipal but we’re already more than 260-subscribers strong. Many supporters also find a few dollars each month that help make our ad free, independent work possible. Thank you.
This is our first pop-up journalism project, though we hope it evolves and grows. Our focus is currently on the municipal elections in Alberta in 2021. These elections truly matter.
When you subscribe to RATM — we explain the name here — you get:
Our weekly newsletter, called The Main, in your inbox each Monday;
Our weekly Municipal Round Up of everything that’s fit to tweet, in your inbox each Friday;
Engagement with our frequent live community discussions.
When you support us with a paid subscription, you also get:
Our weekly analysis and longer-form journalism, called The Bulletin.
(We’ve examined disappearing towns in Alberta, the arrival of recall legislation in municipal politics, and whether developers actually control councils. Paid support helps us devote time to research and tell these stories. And we’re just getting started.)
Data that contextualizes what’s happening in municipal elections in 2021. Expect graphs!
The RATM approach to 2021 municipal election journalism:
We seek to create meaningful conversation in place of far easier controversy;
We endeavour to answer the why and the who, rather than just the what;
We aim to write with substance and let others worry about spectacle;
We ignore press releases and choose instead to take our time and dig;
We view Alberta’s municipalities as under-reported governments that are central to our quality of life in this province;
We see the stakes in the 2021 municipal elections in Alberta as far higher than in the past, but also see a media landscape that focuses on the spectacle of individual races rather than what the larger picture means for Albertans;
We seek, through substantive journalism, to rebalance a media landscape in Alberta that long ago planted its partisan flags, or is funded by agendas, or uses social media as its morality compass.