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When it comes to science stories, overworked reporters often resort to rounding up quotes from duelling experts, writes Peter Calamai. Enter the recently launched Science Media Centre of Canada, which will arm journalists with information and help them cover stories with science content.
What Delacourt describes as mocking derision from the Tory benches prevented Bennett from completing a question regarding risk of exposure to adjuvants within the vaccine for pregnant women.
"This isn't funny," shouts a grimacing Bennett in a video uploaded by the Liberals on You Tube. (A longer version with the full question was uploaded here)
The incident can be found spinning through the blogs at Impolitical, Dr. Dawg and Broadsides (Antonia Zerbisias, Warren Kinsella, and online news fora at CBC, Macleans and the Globe and Mail.
Health and Environment Reporting in a Connected World is a day-long event at the University of British Columbia. It features panels on sustainability, pandemics and the future of science journalism.
David Secko, conference presenter and journalism professor at Concordia University in Montreal, will report highlights from the conference for J-source.
The latest health scare in Canada won’t be the last, writes former Toronto Star health reporter Karen Palmer. With more than 2,400 cases of the H1N1 flu virus confirmed in Canada, the story affects all beats and requires teamwork from editors and reporters.
Should journalists participate in the
rebranding of swine flu? "It is not a 'swine' flu, and people
need to stop calling it that," Dave Warner of the National Pork
Producers Council told CNN. "They're ruining people's lives."
Actually, under the rules of flu nomenclature, viruses are named
after where they are first found, according to this article in Food Manufacturing. That would make it Mexican flu. Right? No. Talk about ruining people's lives.When Stephen Harper...
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