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11 Sep

Walrus announces $225,000 writers’ fund

Renewed fundraising efforts at The Walrus are paying off. The Walrus Foundation has announced the creation of the Allan Slaight Writers’ Fund for the magazine. The Slaight Family Foundation has […]

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11 Sep

Saskatchewan CBC broadcaster dies at 53

Jim McKillican, a broadcast personality on Saskatchewan’s Morning Edition, died of cancer in hospital earlier this week. McKillican started with the CBC as a technician in 1983 and left his […]

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10 Sep

Times reporter freed from captivity, news blackout lifted

New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell is the second Times journalist in the last year to be kidnapped in Afghanistan, and the company kept both kidnappings out of the media […]

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10 Sep

Cramahe Now: an experiment in hyperlocal journalism

When former Colborne Chronicle editor Bob Owen was laid off during the amalgamation of three local newspapers in Southern Ontario, instead of rolling over, he created an online news site […]

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9 Sep

Everything you learned in high school English is wrong

Many moons ago, on my very first day of journalism school at Ryerson, my professor asked my class why we wanted to be there. Most responses started with something along […]

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9 Sep

T.O. Star appoints foreign editor

In a recent memo to employees, Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke announced Colin MacKenzie will join rejoin the Star team as foreign editor at the end of October. The Star‘s […]

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9 Sep

Brunswick News names Neil Reynolds editor-at-large

Longtime Canadian newspaper editor Neil Reynolds is moving back to New Brunswick to become editor-at-large for Brunswick News Inc.’s three dailies, the Telegraph-Journal, the Times & Transcript and The Daily […]

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8 Sep

Maziar Bahari reported acquitted, still in jail

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari has been acquitted in an Iranian court on minor charges of inciting political uprisings, a CBC report quotes Liberal MP Dan McTeague as saying. But the […]

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8 Sep

Free speech besieged on Plains of Abraham?

The controversy over marking the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham has crossed over into freedom of expression territory. Though there hasn’t been an actual attempt […]

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8 Sep

Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen nominated for ONA awards

The finalists for the Online News Association‘s (ONA) 2009 Online Journalism Awards (OJAs) have been announced and three Canadian news outlets made the list. The Toronto Star is a finalist […]

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