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May 10, 2012 - Posted by Grant Buckler

UPDATED - Criminal libel charges against a Fredericton blogger have been dropped after the New Brunswick Justice Department decided Canada's criminal libel charge may be unconstitutional.

May 03, 2012 - Posted by Grant Buckler

For the third straight year, the federal government received failing grades from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression in a report card on freedom of expression in Canada. The report card, included in the annual Review of Free Expression in Canada, highlights how access to information at the federal level is marred by secrecy and delays.

Apr 29, 2012 - Posted by Patricia Elliott

With World Press Freedom Day coming up on May 3, Patricia Elliot takes a look at recent developments in Burma, which is poised to embrace press freedom for the first time in 50 years.

Apr 06, 2012 - Posted by Roxana Olivera

In his documentary Bananas!, Swedish independent filmmaker Fredrik Gertten chronicles a lawsuit brought against the Dole Food Company in Los Angeles and the subsequent trial in which Nicaraguan plantation workers claim the banned chemical had made them sterile. When the film was set to premiere, in 2009, at the Los Angeles Film Festival, Dole unleashed a relentless media campaign to quash the film and destroy the reputation of its creators. Big Boys Gone Bananas! is an exposé of Gertten’s David and Goliath battle with the world’s largest fruit and vegetable producing company.

Apr 05, 2012 - Posted by Belinda Alzner

Eric Yvan Lemay is a Le Journal de Montreal journalist who exposed Quebec hospitals for lax security surrounding confidential patient information in February. In March, his home was raided by police, who seized his laptop and clothes. Now, QMI Agency has reported that he faces no criminal charges.

Mar 16, 2012 - Posted by Grant Buckler

Quebec provincial police raided the home of a Montreal reporter Thursday morning, seizing his computer, files and some of his clothes, after he wrote about lax security in Montreal-area hospitals. Eric-Yvan Lemay of Le Journal de Montreal reported in February that Montreal-area hospitals had left patient files unattended in their corridors. Police raided his home at 6:45 Thursday morning.

Mar 14, 2012 - Posted by Belinda Alzner

Balancing extremists' threats and unbalanced coverage from mainstream media: It's all in a day's work for a journalist at an ethnic publication. Sahar Fatima explains the difficulties ethnic media faces, according to Jagdish Grewal, editor and publisher of Canadian Punjabi Post, who spoke at last week's Press Freedom in Canada conference.  

Mar 14, 2012 - Posted by Belinda Alzner

Two days, two summaries and a whole lot of reasons that you should care about freedom of the press.  Belinda Alzner and Rhiannon Russell have rounded up their coverage of a conference discussing the state of press freedom in Canada on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, held last week at Ryerson University. Assumptions about press and society were challenged in panels addressing media and the courts, international reporting, Twitter’s role in news and why the public just doesn’t seem to care. 

Mar 13, 2012 - Posted by Rhiannon Russell

At a panel discussion part of Ryerson University's Press Freedom in Canada conference, Tim Currie discussed what happens when journalists mess up on Twitter and Normand Landry talked about the stifling of press freedom via strategic lawsuits. 

Mar 12, 2012 - Posted by Rhiannon Russell

As part of the Press Freedom in Canada conference held last week at Ryerson University, Tony Burman gave a luncheon address on his experience working for Al Jazeera English, the importance of war reporting and its implications for freedom of the press. Rhiannon Russell was there, and reports on Burman's speech. 

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