Archive
24 Oct

Terror case publication ban should be lifted

In recent years, Canadian courts have been quick to impose publication bans, often when they are not warranted. The cases normally range from bans on information revealed at simple bail […]

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23 Oct

The wrong arm of the law

FeatureHow three investigative reporters — Stevie Cameron, Andrew McIntosh, and Juliet O’Neill — got so close to the story that they became the story. Read Elysse Zarek’s report in the […]

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23 Oct

Trial by journalist

FeatureIn Canada, you’re innocent until proven guilty. You wouldn’t know it from reading some of Christie Blatchford’s columns on high-profile trials. Mike Drach of the Ryerson Review of Journalism explains […]

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23 Oct

Media access to court exhibits

By David Crerar and Majda DabaghiIn the summer of 2005 Justice Morris Fish, writing for the Supreme Court of Canada in Toronto Star Newspapers v. Ontario, 2005 SCC 41, confirmed […]

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23 Oct

When the police come calling

FeatureIn the wake of allegations against investigative reporter Stevie Cameron, journalists find themselves wondering where they stand on giving the police information. As Sam Mednick writes in the King’s Journalism […]

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23 Oct

Copywrong

FeatureWho holds the right to secondary publication of articles stored in an online database — the publisher or the author? Adrienne Macintosh explores the issue in the Ryerson Review of […]

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23 Oct

Internet libel threat transcends time, space

By David Crerar The Internet has been celebrated and condemned for its transcendence of political, geographic and economic restraints. With its spread grows the possibility of the ultimate international tort. […]

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23 Oct

Shooting the messenger

FeatureWorried about press freedoms in Canada? Try reporting the news in Zimbabwe, says Aaron Leaf in the Ryerson Review of Journalism.

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23 Oct

The legal watchdogs

FeatureAs John Jaffey of the Ryerson Review of Journalism discovered, it takes a special breed of lawyer to deliver us from libel.

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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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