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23 Dec

Sortir de sa zone de confort

<p>Par Colette Brin, originellement paru sur le blogue <a href="http://www.blogues.ulaval.ca/colette-brin/sortir-de-sa-zone-de-confort/">Contact</a> de l'Université Laval</p>

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22 Dec

The Globe and Mail shuffles, new reporters on ad/marketing, media

<p>Reports have surfaced on Twitter that <em>The Globe and Mail</em> is re-assigning a few writers. </p><p> </p><script src="http://storify.com/jsource/new-story.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://storify.com/jsource/new-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the story "Globe and Mail makes some moves" on Storify</a>]</noscript>

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22 Dec

Jack Layton named Newsmaker of the Year

<p>Jack Layton: There was no other Canadian who dominated headlines the way he did in 2011.</p><p>Layton led his party to Official Opposition status in the spring, decimating the Bloc Quebecois in Quebec and leaving the Liberal Party holding a mere 34 seats in the House of Commons. His death this summer resulted in an outpouring of support from across the country, and Canada said goodbye to Jack at a rare state funeral.</p>

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22 Dec

Gesca, Total et les sables bitumineux

<p><font color="#000000">Il y a deux semaines, le gouvernement conservateur donnait sa bénédiction à un nouveau projet d'exploitation des sables bitumineux en Alberta, le projet Joslyn North.

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22 Dec

Infographic: Worldwide violence against journalists in 2011

<p>Reporters Without Borders has released its list of the <a href="http://en.rsf.org/the-10-most-dangerous-places-for-21-12-2011,41582.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 most dangerous places in the world for journalists </a>in 2011. It is unsurprisingly similar to that <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/political-unrest-proves-deadly-journalists-cpj-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published recently</a> by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Both reports indicate an increase in violence against journalists over the last year, partly due to the Arab Spring.</p>

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22 Dec

Refugee claim denied for Iranian journo who wrote of a Canadian photographer’s death in Iran: The National Post

<p>Behzad Khalilzadeh wrote of the circumstances leading to the ultimate fate of a Canadian journalist, who he reports was raped and murdered in Iran in July 2003, but the story was never published. Instead, police threatened to kill him if he did not reveal his source, the <em><a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/21/canada-denies-iranian-journalists-refugee-claim/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Post</a> </em>reports. </p><p>The <em>Post</em> writes:</p>

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21 Dec

The media and Aboriginal issues in Canada: Is Attawapiskat different?

<p>By now, the mainstream media has made Attawapiskat a household name. But will the media eventually forget about the remote First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario as they have so many Aboriginal communities in the past, or will this one be different?</p>

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21 Dec

Iconic Jack Layton shot among CP’s best photos of 2011

<p>News photography brings life to stories that may be otherwise devoid of imagery. It captures moments and feelings, and can articulate them in a way that a print reporter could only dream of.</p>

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21 Dec

Rue89 passe dans le giron du Nouvel Observateur

<p>Créé sans investisseurs ni groupe de presse, <em>Rue89</em> cède 100% de son capital au fondateur et patron du groupe Nouvel Observateur, Claude Perdiel, qui chapeaute également les magazines <em>Challenges</em> et <em>Sciences & Avenir</em>. Après quatre an de lutte, les cofondateurs du site se disent «usés». Ils ont choisi de faire «le deuil d'un rêve entreprenarial».

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21 Dec

How I got the story: Selena Ross on Montreal’s dirty snow removal contracts

<p><em>Selena Ross set out to discover what was behind a number of pedestrians who had been killed by snowplows in Montreal. What she found was a snow removal industry that is entrenched in a culture of collusion, bid-rigging and violence. <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> spoke to Ross to find out how she got the story that has exposed the dirty money behind yet another Montreal industry.</em></p><p> </p>

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