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11 Jul

Trapped journalist shares his experience of Toronto’s flash flood

<p><em>CBC broadcaster Craig Norris was caught on a commuter train that was partially submerged during Toronto's storm on Monday. He talks to J-Source about his experience being trapped on the GO train for several hours amidst surging floodwaters.</em></p><p><strong>J-Source: Can you give me some background on what you experienced?</strong></p>

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11 Jul

Journalists for Human Rights launches new program in northern Ontario

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>Journalists for Human Rights is turning its attention to Canada for the first time in its 11-year history.</p><p>While the Toronto-based NGO has trained journalists mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, it launched a new program in northern Ontario that seeks to increase Aboriginal-Canadian participation in local and national media.</p>

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11 Jul

«Certains journalistes ne sont pas là pour les bonnes raisons»

<p><strong>À tout juste 40 ans, David Thumbiano est devenu en avril dernier, le nouveau rédacteur en chef de la télévision publique burkinabé (RTB). Une fonction qui l’éloigne du terrain et l’oblige à faire preuve de diplomatie pour gérer pressions et critiques, qui viennent de toute part.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p><p>David Thumbiano ne le nie pas, il subit des pressions.</p>

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10 Jul

Pagemasters North America: Friend or foe to the journalism industry?

<p><strong>By Paul Weinberg</strong></p><p>Pagemasters North America copy editors are paid a little more than half as much as their Toronto Star counterparts, so it's not hard to see the motive for Star management in deciding to contract out those services.</p><p>Now, the controversial Canadian Press-owned Pagemasters is ramping up its targeting of newspapers across North America after a cautious start.</p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Pagemasters.jpg" title="" /></p>

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10 Jul

Lac-Mégantic: «Il y a une grande solidarité entre les journalistes»

<p><strong>Sur place à Lac-Mégantic depuis lundi matin, Steeve Dugay, photoreporter pour l’Agence France Presse (AFP) raconte comment s’opère le travail des journalistes sur le terrain. Ou quand le professionnalisme doit prendre le dessus sur l’émotion.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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9 Jul

Toronto storm knocks out power at CBC Toronto, Globe and Mail headquarters, Sun Media printing plant

<p>A record-setting storm hit Toronto Monday, causing Sun Media's printing plant in Islington to lose power for "several hours." Production had to be <a href="https://twitter.com/sladurantaye/status/354570067012370433" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved off-site</a> to other QMI facilities. <em>The Peterborough Examiner, <a href="http://www.intelligencer.ca/2013/07/08/tuesdays-print-edition-will-be-delayed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Belleville Intelligencer</a> </em>and <em>The Kingston Whig Standard</em> were among the affected newspapers.</p>

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9 Jul

Lac-Mégantic: en manchette partout dans le monde

<p><strong>Depuis samedi, l’explosion du train à Lac-Mégantic est à la une un peu partout sur la planète. Elle figure même, aujourd’hui encore, au troisième rang des nouvelles les plus couvertes à l’international, selon le classement d’Influence Communication. </strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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8 Jul

«La carte interactive des pédophiles déforme la réalité»

<p><strong>C’est le point de vue du Conseil de Presse du Québec (CPQ), qui, dans une décision rendue le 27 juin dernier, statue que les inexactitudes des informations publiées via <a href="http://infojdem.com/2012/09/cartePedophiles/">cette carte en septembre dernier  par le Journal de Montréal</a>, exagèrent l’étendue du phénomène des agressions sexuelles et insécurisent inutilement le citoyen.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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8 Jul

Reporter arrested at New Brunswick protest

<p>Miles Howe, a reporter for independent media organization <em>Media Co-op</em>, was arrested during anti-fracking protests in New Brunswick on July 4. RCMP charged him with uttering threats against a police officer. He was later released.</p><p><em>Media Co-op</em> said in its initial <a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/18174" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on the arrest that Howe’s arrest was “a blatant effort to silence his ongoing coverage of the struggle against seismic testing related to shale gas exploration in New Brunswick.”</p>

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6 Jul

Did journalists violate rights of B.C. terror suspects?

<p>Allegations that two Canadian citizens planned to explode homemade devices similar to the kind used in the <a href="http://www.canada.com/news/RCMP+makes+arrests+plot+bomb+legislature/8605777/story.html">Boston marathon bombing</a> during Canada Day celebrations at the B.C. legislature in Victoria is shocking.  </p><p>The horror of what might have happened to thousands of revelers who came to celebrate what makes this country great was mitigated only by news that police had thwarted the plot and detained two suspects.</p>

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