If the election in the riding of Peterborough was decided by Facebook friends, the small Ontario city would likely send a Green Party MP to Ottawa on Oct. 14. Social media sites like Facebook are this federal election’s newest – if still minor – battleground. An article in the Peterborough Examiner looks at how that’s…
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has thrown out a complaint alleging that a Mark Steyn piece in Maclean’s exposed Muslims to hatred and contempt, on the basis of their religion, in breach of s. 7(1)(b) of the Human Rights Code…
When this federal election campaign began, I criticized The Globe and Mail‘s election website. It seems only fair to come back and take a second look as the campaign closes.
The Toronto Star reports on the political score-keeping over CTV’s airing of an interview with Stéphane Dion. The Star’s front-page link to its daily poll asks readers…
Art meets journalism: CBC Radio’s The Current ran a documentary about Ontario independent candidate David Page, part of a series on “The Supercommitted” candidates. It’s called “A Quixotic Candidate” — no doubt because Page’s quest to be elected is Quixotic indeed. I happened to catch it and, weary of the frenzy and ideological spite of…
An attempt by prosecutors and Conrad Black to have evidence about his case sealed indefinitely has failed, with a final refusal by the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the case “Conrad M. Black v. Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc.” The court turned down Black’s appeal of an Ontario Court of Appeal decision. The appeals court…
Guillemette Faure, Rue89 | Un homme politique sait qu’il ne perdra jamais de point à taper sur les médias. C’était déjà ce que faisait George Bush en 2000 et 2004 lorsqu’il disait ne pas lire les journaux parce qu’il préférait obtenir ses informations de ses proches. Dans les débats et en interview, il parlait (tiens,…
ProjetJ | Les questionnements des journalistes face aux nouvelles technologies rappellent ceux des typographes, il y a vingt ans. Or, comme nous le rappelle Francis Masse sur le blogue de Florian Sauvageau, le réflexe corporatiste et la résistance au changement n’ont pas sauvé le métier de typographe, et les nouveaux outils ont tout de même…
André Pratte, La Presse | Il est de tradition pour les pages éditoriales des grands journaux en Amérique du Nord – du New York Times au Devoir en passant par le Globe and Mail – de prendre position à la veille des élections. Rien de plus logique: les éditorialistes exprimant un point de vue sur…
CommentaryTwo recent media victories in defamation cases do little to fix an underlying problem: Canada’s libel laws favour protecting reputations over free speech, lawyer and Humber College media law instructor Alan Shanoff argues in an October 2008 column in the Law Times. The law still presumes factual statements published by a defendant are false and, second, expressions…