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3 Feb

Newfoundland and Labrador to review controversial access-to-information law

<p><strong>By Grant Buckler</strong></p><p>Tom Marshall, interim premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, has announced that three independent experts will review the province’s controversial access to information law, The Canadian Press <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/newfoundland-to-hold-independent-review-of-contentious-access-to-info-law/article16619480/#dashboard/follows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.</p>

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20 Dec

Alberta Bill 45 does not affect journalists, government says

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Alberta’s Bill 45—which imposes fines for illegal strikes and bans counselling encouragement to strike—does not affect columnists and news reporters.</p>

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16 Dec

Does Alberta’s Bill 45 threaten media freedom?

<p><strong>By Grant Buckler</strong></p><p>Labour legislation passed by the Alberta government at the beginning of December is causing concern not just in government workplaces and union offices, but also in some newsrooms.</p>

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9 Dec

Star public editor: Journalists honoured in Toronto for pursuit of truth

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Kathy English_11.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Kathy English, public editor for the Toronto Star</strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>“I am a journalist and my job is to tell the truth.”</p></div><div style="clear:none;"><p>The mission and motto of any journalist, anywhere, does not get any simpler than that.</p>

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4 Dec

2013 CJFE Gala: A Night To Honour Courageous Reporting

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28 Nov

Reporter arrested for third time at Elsipogtog

<p><strong>By Grant Buckler</strong></p><p>Miles Howe, a journalist reporting for Halifax <a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/author/media-co-op-editorial-collective" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Media Co-op</em></a>, has been arrested for the third time while covering protests against potential natural-gas fracking at Elsipogtog, N.B. </p>

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22 Nov

American report on press freedom has implications for Canadian journalists

<p><strong>By Angela MacKenzie</strong><br /><br />A new report, <em><a href="http://www.freepress.net/resource/105079/acts-journalism-defining-press-freedom-digital-age" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Acts of Journalism—Defining Press Freedom in the Digital Age</a>,</em> stresses that the U.S. needs new policies to protect all acts of journalism committed by professional and citizen journalists.</p>

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19 Nov

The sting of impunity: Live chat with exiled Eritrean journalist Aaron Berhane

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5 Nov

CJFE honours Chilean coup whistleblower

<p>Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is honouring Bob Thomson as the second ever recipient of its Integrity Award, to be presented at its 16th annual gala on December 4 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.</p><p>Four decades ago, General Augusto Pinochet and the Armed Forces of Chile overthrew the democratic government of President Salvador Allende. In the violence that followed, thousands of Chileans were killed or disappeared and tens of thousands were detained, tortured and imprisoned.</p>

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1 Nov

Opinion: Canada’s access-to-information system is going downhill and fast

<p><strong>By David McKie, Ideas Editor</strong></p><p>As we continue to watch the Senate controversy swirl and highjack Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s agenda, it’s easy to overlook the criticism that seems to be the root cause of the problems besetting the Conservatives.</p><p>Excessive secrecy is the common denominator in many of the scandals that have side-swiped the government: the Afghan detainees, the F-35s, the in-and-out controversy, robocalls and now the Senate.</p>

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