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29 Feb

Sources journalistiques: la GRC s’oppose au projet de loi de Serge Ménard

Gilles Toupin, La Presse | La GRC a recommandé au ministre de la Sécurité publique, Stockwell Day, de ne pas appuyer le projet de loi privé du député bloquiste Serge […]

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28 Feb

Le journalisme sportif, une science… inexacte

Michel Laliberté, Cyberpresse.ca | Les journalistes et commentateurs qui rôdent dans l’entourage du Canadien parlent de la venue de Hossa depuis quelques semaines. Ce sont eux qui ont suscité des […]

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28 Feb

Stable funding recommended for CBC

The House of Commons heritage committee recommended that the federal government commit “stable, multi-year funding” to the CBC, though the committee split along party lines over the future of the […]

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28 Feb

Word choice key in covering sexual assault

“Rape” is not the same as “sexual assault,” as various media outlets were reminded — including the Globe and Mail, National Post and Ottawa Citizen — after they erroneously reported […]

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28 Feb

Writer’s notes sought

A writer who did a story about a murder case for Toronto Life magazine has been served with a subpoena seeking notes and tapes that were part of his research, […]

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28 Feb

Rein in rights commissions on speech law

In this piece for The Gazette, president of the Alberta-based Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership Janet Keeping contends that the overzealous commissions should be controlled by changing the […]

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28 Feb

CAJ calling for changes to human rights law

The Canadian Association of Journalists is calling on federal and provincial governments to amend human rights legislation to prevent attacks on freedom of speech. According to CAJ, two recent cases […]

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27 Feb

The Halifax Daily News: 1974 – 2008

What does the unceremonious folding of the Daily News mean for Halifax? For journalism? In this feature article for JournalismEthics.ca, former columnist and journalism professor Stephen Kimber tracks the rise […]

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27 Feb

Is the media sexist towards Hillary?

A piece by Judith Timson in the February 26 Globe and Mail claims that Hillary Clinton is the victim of sexism, suggesting that: “For every ‘presidential’ and ‘charismatic’ bestowed on […]

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27 Feb

Sanati named Chatelaine editor

Maryam Sanati, Chatelaine’s deputy editor for the past 18 months, has been named editor-in-chief. Sanati has worked at Toronto Life, Shift and the Report on Business magazines, as well as at the […]

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