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28 Sep

Canadian filmmaker spends night in Scottish jail for golf story

Canadian filmmaker and journalist Richard Phinney was interviewing local townspeople for a story about Donald Trump’s Scottish golf course when he was arrested and spent a night in prison for […]

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27 Sep

Toronto Star blasts Canadian culture myths

An article in the Toronto Star, part of the Atkinson series by fellow Kate Taylor, explores Canadian culture and busts long-standing myths, including that of a lavishly-funded CBC. In a […]

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26 Sep

Truth hurts? Tough. Report it, says Toronto Star’s public editor

The Toronto Star’s public editor has rapped her paper’s decision to omit a reference to the last baby born at an iconic hospital. The baby had died and the paper’s […]

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24 Sep

Marijuana and Maclean’s “secret shame”

In a column for Maclean’s, Colby Cosh chronicles the rise of — and the magazine’s role in — marijuana prohibition in the U.S. and Canada. In the wake of Canadian […]

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24 Sep

Was the Globe’s university ranking story a conflict of interest?

An article in the Oct 4 issue of Maclean’s asks “Was a Globe front-page story featuring its new owner’s prized asset a conflict of interest?”  On a day when most […]

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23 Sep

J-Source at Word on the Street

If you’re going to be at this weekend’s Word on the Street festival in Toronto, please stop by the J-Source.ca booth and say hello. We’ll be promoting our Back-to-School newsletter […]

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23 Sep

The Globe and Mail’s $1.7-billion gamble

In the October issue of Toronto Life, Jason McBride’s feature “Yesterday’s News” opens with a Kagan McLeod illustration of a frantic Globe and Mail newsroom: papers flying, reporters sweating and […]

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23 Sep

And the awards dilemma continues

Elsewhere on Town Hall is this post about Murray Brewster receiving the Ross munro Media Award, given out by the Conference of Defence Associations and Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs […]

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23 Sep

Change coming for Toronto’s Eye Weekly

Eye Weekly‘s new publisher and editor-in-chief Laas Turnbull has plans to “evolve” the Toronto tabloid. Turnbull was interviewed by Masthead Online about his plans for the weekly. He notes that […]

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22 Sep

David Frum: For Britain’s press maybe being gay is more than enough

A rumour — even a juicy one — won’t usually tempt mainstream media into publishing an unsubstantiated news story. The British press, according to David Frum, is another story, to […]

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