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8 Oct

Access to agenda matter of accountability, Supreme Court hears

Lawyers argued at the Supreme Court of Canada yesterday that the prime minister’s daily schedule should be open to the public. Federal information commissioner lawyers have appealed lower-court rulings, which […]

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20 Sep

Right to protect sources is part of free expression: top European court

The Dutch government is moving to reinforce the right of journalists to protect sources after a major ruling by the European Community’s top human-rights court.  The Grand Chamber of the […]

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20 Sep

Blanket ban on Stafford case attacked as ‘absurd’

Canada’s leading newspapers and media law experts have condemned a sweeping publication ban imposed April 30 on a hearing in the Tori Stafford murder case. Justice Dougald McDermid of Ontario’s […]

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20 Sep

Court unmasks anonymous media site posters

NEWS – In what may be the first case of its kind involving comments posted to a Canadian media website, the Halifax weekly The Coast has been ordered to identify […]

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20 Sep

Source protection: ‘Disappointing’ ruling has silver lining

By Brian MacLeod Rogers On May 7 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against the appeal brought by the National Post and Andrew McIntosh to set aside a search warrant […]

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20 Sep

The upside of the confidential sources ruling

By Dean JobbThe next-day headlines focussed on the Supreme Court of Canada’s refusal to give journalists the constitutional right to protect sources, but they didn’t tell the whole story. There’s […]

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20 Sep

Ontario news website wins responsible journalism libel verdict

NewsThe new responsible journalism defence has helped an Ontario news website defeat a libel action launched by a man named in a police fraud alert. In one of the first […]

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20 Sep

Sparks Fly Over Squamish Fire Report

The Squamish Reporter, a local news website, says it was threatened with a lawsuit and asked to reveal the source of a leaked Fire Underwriters Survey after publishing a news […]

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14 Sep

Jury uses new defence, dismisses libel suit against news site, police

In one of the first uses of a new journalistic defence, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has dismissed a multimillion-dollar libel suit brought forward by a former accountant against […]

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14 Sep

Conrad Black case targets online defamation standards

An Ontario court will hear Conrad Black’s defamatory allegations aboutcontent posted on a U.S. website, raising the question: Who hasjurisdiction over the Internet? Michael Geist reports. Conrad Black’s ongoing legal […]

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