Archive
7 Mar

Joe Howe, revisited

John Ralston Saul, Joseph Howe & The Battle for Freedom of Speech. Gaspereau Press, paperback, 61 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Dean Jobb Joseph Howe, the courageous editor of the Novascotian, […]

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7 Mar

Expanding the defence of qualified privilege

By David A. Crerar A court ruling in the case of Leenen v. CBC described the law of defamation as “a mausoleum of antiquities peculiar to the common law and […]

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7 Mar

Star appeals $1.5m libel award

The Toronto Star is appealing a northern Ontario jury’s near-$1.5 million libel award over an article describing a wealthy local businessman’s plans to expand his personal lakeside golf course. The […]

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7 Mar

Good mag is great

Larry Dobrow heralds a relatively new arrival, Good, as “perhaps the best-thought-out magazine launch of the last half-decade,” on the Mediapost blog, “Magazine Rack.”

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7 Mar

Anatomy of a libel

FeatureWhen a Toronto broker sues a national newspaper for libel, no one leaves the room smiling. Mary Findlater explores the case of Mark McQueen versus the National Post in the […]

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7 Mar

Libel-tourism suffers setback in Canada

CommentaryThe Supreme Court of Canada has denied leave to appeal from the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in the case of Bangoura v. Washington Post. The decision finally decides that […]

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7 Mar

New Brunswick’s amateur journalist

FeatureCharles LeBlanc fights for bloggers to share press privileges– and rights. Vanessa Green, writing in the King’s Journalism Review, explores how the Internet is changing the definition of journalist.

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7 Mar

Lies, memoirs, and publishing

Freelance journalist Danuta Kean writes about the latest memoir exposed as a fake on her blog. Kean says that the falsehoods in Forbidden Love, written by Norma Khouri, say more […]

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7 Mar

Canadian Business

The “online home” for the magazines Canadian Business, Profit and MoneySense; Canadian Business Online offers business news, articles, business advice and market updates. The site also provides some of the […]

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7 Mar

Is Wikipedia a legitimate source?

New York Times reporter Noam Cohen looks at the intense debate over the use of Wikipedia by American college students, as well as in journalism, law and academia in general.

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