Archive
23 Oct

Gotcha!

FeaturePolice have more power over reporters than most of us realize. Whatcha gonna do when they come for your notes or tapes? Jay Somerset investigates for the Ryerson Review of […]

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23 Oct

The thin blue line

FeatureNick Pron is convinced he’s found the balance between being too friendly with the cops and too critical of them. Judging by the number of cops and journalists who no […]

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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

Lifting the lid off search warrants

By Dean Jobb In the late summer of 2003 the Ontario Provincial Police, armed with six search warrants, descended on a meat-packing plant in Aylmer. The plant, police alleged, had […]

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22 Oct

Reporting on the Justice System

This section contains information, advice and commentary on legal issues that arise when covering court cases, trials and hearings.

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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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22 Oct

N.S. judges demand media accreditation

FeatureA committee of Nova Scotia judges and journalists has decided that court officials should decide which reporters and media organizations can use cameras and tape recorders at the Law Courts […]

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22 Oct

Beware of police officers asking questions

By Dean Jobb Few journalists have heard of the Stinchcombe ruling, and that’s not surprising – the case has nothing to do with media law. Yet it has plenty to […]

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22 Oct

Prosecutors in the spotlight

By Dean Jobb A decade ago journalists waiting outside Saskatchewan courtrooms for a comment from a Crown attorney were usually out of luck. Daryl Rayner, the province’s director of prosecutors, […]

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21 Oct

Fighting publication bans

By Dean Jobb The shocking story of a terrorist plot to blow up a busy street in downtown Montreal made national headlines last November, after media organizations went to court […]

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