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8 Mar

“‘Rye’ and coke”: Uncovering a university’s secret deals

by Robyn DoolittleEditor-in-Chief, The Eyeopener By the time I got back to the office, our issue with “Cracking Coke” had been on stands for about three hours. When I saw […]

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8 Mar

Company/industry sources research guide

This research guide is developed for Ryerson University, and offers a selection of links that are related to companies and industry. COMPANIEShttp://ryerson.ca/library/subjects/company/internetcompany.htmlThis section focuses on companies, and the links are […]

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8 Mar

Webcasts on Finance

CFA, the Chartered Financial Analyst, presents a selection of educational audio webcasts related to business and finance, broadcasted over the internet. The presentations can be searched by title, topic, author/speaker, […]

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8 Mar

April 16, 2007: Event’s Annual Creative Non-Fiction Contest

EVENT’s 20th Annual Creative Non-Fiction Contest Three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication in Event 36/3. Other manuscripts may be published. Final Judge: Keath FraserKeath Fraser’s memoir, […]

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7 Mar

Cyber libel and Canada’s courts

AnalysisRoger McConchie, a Vancouver lawyer who specializes in libel and privacy issues, has compiled detailed summaries of Canadian court rulings on Internet libel.

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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

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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