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4 Dec

Canadian to lead Wikimedia

Canadian journalist Sue Gardner has been named executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, CBC reports. Wikimedia is the non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia, among other endeavours. Gardner was senior director […]

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4 Dec

Sara Daniel : maman s’en va-t-en guerre

Rima Elkouri, La Presse / Éditions du Seuil | Le 11 septembre 2001, Sara Daniel, 35 ans, mère d’une fille de 2 ans, est devenue reporter de guerre. Elle a […]

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4 Dec

Journaliste tout-terrain et Klondike

Paul Cauchon, Le Devoir Le passage à l’ère du multimédia ne se fait pas sans heurts. Et le concept du «journaliste tout-terrain» qui fait tout en même temps, du texte, […]

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4 Dec

Education Pathfinder

International Links (6) European Commission: Education and Traininghttp://ec.europa.eu/education/index_en.htmlNews – http://ec.europa.eu/education/news/what/index_en.html Reports – http://ec.europa.eu/education/doc/reports/index_en.html The European Union’s education website’s best asset is a comprehensive list of the latest news regarding education in […]

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4 Dec

No public right to know

The judge hearing a political corruption case in British Columbia approved a prosecutor’s application for an in-camera session as part of the pre-trial process, reported the Canadian Press: “Justice Elizabeth […]

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4 Dec

Court-ordered CBC programming?

A judge in the Northwest Territories seems to think the courts have the ability to order CBC programming: a court ordered a CBC Radio broadcaster to air a program on […]

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3 Dec

On suing Maclean’s

Maclean’s recently published an excerpt from a 2006 book  by Mark Steyn entitled, “The future belongs to Islam.” On Dec. 4, the Canadian Islamic Congress will hold a press conference to […]

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3 Dec

Videos to help explain new online tools to students

The website below contains links to a library of simple, short videos that teachers may find useful to introduce lessons about a wide range of new online tools. Common Craft […]

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3 Dec

Corporate social responsibility: a journalist’s investigation

by Konrad Yakabuski I can’t say I was fully satisfied with the outcome of “Gimme Smelter” because the situation behind the story was still unresolved when the piece was published. […]

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3 Dec

Photographers heading to Rwanda

A team of Canadian photojournalists plans to document Rwandan struggles with HIV and AIDS through a project called Photosensitive, the Toronto Star reports. The six photographers, who will also share […]

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