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8 Apr

University of Windsor Student Alliance calls emergency meeting after outcry over decision to end print publication of campus paper The Lance

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>The University of Windsor Student Alliance has pulled the plug on the print publication of the campus paper <em>The Lance</em>.</p><p>The 85-year-old newspaper was ordered to end all its print productions immediately, following a decision made last Wednesday. But following student outcry and a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/canadianuniversitypress/posts/185926254891995">Facebook compaign</a> to save the newspaper, the board of directors called an emergency open meeting Monday at 4:30 p.m.</p>

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5 Apr

Toronto Star public editor defends use of anonymous sources for story on Ford’s alleged alcohol abuse

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p><em>Toronto Star</em> public editor Kathy English defended the newspaper’s use of anonymous sources in the story about Mayor Rob Ford’s alleged drinking problems.</p>

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2 Apr

Journalist’s reporting style not suitable topic for closed-door council meetings: Ontario Ombudsman

<p><strong>By Alexandra Posadzki</strong></p><p>A journalist in the rural community of Clinton, Ont. claims a local councillor tried to have her banned from covering council meetings, a subject the Ontario Ombudsman deemed illegal for an in camera meeting.</p><p>If the allegation is true, it would constitute an attack on the Charter-guaranteed right to freedom of the press, says one journalism expert.</p>

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1 Apr

City integrity commissioner sides with Rob Ford in dispute against Toronto Star

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>The city’s integrity commissioner has rejected the <em>Toronto Star</em>’s complaint about Mayor Rob Ford's office refusing to send press releases to <em>Star </em>journalists.</p>

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19 Mar

Writers’ coalitions against TC Media, Toronto Star new freelance contracts

<p><strong>By Paula Last</strong></p><p>When freelance writer Ann Douglas received a new contract for her parenting column in the <em>Toronto Star</em>, she couldn’t sign it. The contract, <a href="http://www.thestoryboard.ca/why-i-am-no-longer-writing-the-column-i-loved-for-the-toronto-star/">Douglas said</a> gave permission to third parties to reuse her work without or editorial control and denied additional compensation. </p>

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25 Feb

Journalists, lock up your cellphones

<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.994318008422852px;">Journalists who use their cellphones may want to get into the habit of password-protecting their devices in the wake of a ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal which found police do not need a warrant to </span><a href="http://www.ontariocourts.on.ca/decisions/2013/2013ONCA0106.htm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.994318008422852px; color: rgb(192, 2, 2); text-dec

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15 Feb

Call for participants for study on journalistic independence

<p> </p><p>A journalism educator and former journalist is seeking participants for a new study into journalism independence in Canadian newsrooms. </p><p>If you are a traditional or non-traditional journalist or are working in any phase of the journalistic process, and if you have experienced or know of anyone who has experienced any interference with the content of the journalism produced, I would like to hear from you.</p>

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13 Feb

Journalists can now tweet from Ontario courtrooms—but what does that mean, exactly?

<p><strong><em>A note from our new Law editor, Thomas Rose, followed by his first column for J-Source:</em></strong></p><p>After many years at the helm of this section, Dean Jobb is moving on.  He will be missed. Dean’s effort at constructing the Law Section and in creating what he was fond of calling “a clearinghouse for news, information, advice and commentary on legal issues of importance to journalists” cannot be understated.</p>

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12 Feb

Time to abolish outdated defamatory libel offence

<p>Prosecuting and jailing citizens for defamatory libel smacks of show trials we’d expect from countries such as Russia and China, says media lawyer and Law Times columnist Alan Shanoff. Yet the archaic law remains on the books and was recently used to imprison an Ottawa restaurant owner for publishing false material concerning an online restaurant reviewer.

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3 Jan

Sean Dunnigan: Calgary’s talking judge

<p><strong>By Geoff Ellwand, for <a href="http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/"><em>Canadian Lawyer Magazine Nov/Dec 2012</em></a></strong></p><p>Alberta Provincial Court Judge Sean Dunnigan does something very unusual for a judge. He talks in public.</p>

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