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21 Dec

Alberta judge protects CBC’s sources

NewsAn Alberta judge has refused to force the CBC to disclose documents that would identify confidential sources to Edmonton’s former chief of police, who’s suing the network for defamation over […]

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23 Oct

Paper-thin protection

FeatureThe law offers little protection for journalists who want to keep sources confidential. But as Carly Baxter reports in the Ryerson Review of Journalism, there are some things you can […]

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22 Oct

Protecting sources 101

No blanket protection for sources Canada’s courts do not give journalists an absolute right to promise confidentiality to a source. Nor does Canada have the shield laws that many U.S. […]

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22 Oct

Levelling with our sources

By Dean JobbThe furore over Hamilton Spectator reporter Ken Peters’ contempt conviction for refusing to betray a source raises two crucial questions for all of us. Do Canadian journalists have […]

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20 Oct

Judge blocks bid to expose Citizen source

NewsAn Ontario judge has struckdown laws that empowered the RCMP to raid the home of Ottawa Citizen reporter Juliet O’Neill, in a bid to expose the source of a leak […]

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24 Aug

Good news for journalists — and their sources

By Dean Jobb January 21, 2004, will be remembered as both a good day and a bad day for journalists, the sources they rely on to inform the public, and […]

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