In framing Nycole Turmel's affiliation with the Bloc as a scandal, writes Nick Van der Graaf, The Globe and Mail revealed the dangerous nationalist underbelly of Canadian politics. This story was originally published in The Mark, and a version of it also appeared on Van der Graaf's blog.
Former Ottawa Senator hockey player Alex Kovalev may have moved on to a two-year contract with the KHL, but he's not done with Ottawa yet. Kovalev gave an interview with Pavel Lysenkov of Sovetsky Sport recently and had plenty to say about Ottawa sports journalists.
So, will Canada's only general interest sports pub look like a Canuck Sports Illustrated, or Maclean's with sports? Neither, new Sportsnet editor Steve Maich tells the Toronto Star.
A whopping 98 per cent of business journalists use the internet to read news, according to a new U.S. study by Arketi, a PR and marketing firm based in Atlanta. Maybe that's no big surprise. What about this: nearly as many also use it search for story sources and ideas.
L’état de famine a été décrété officiellement le 20 juillet dans deux provinces du sud de la Somalie, le sud de Bakool et le Lower Shabelle, mais les journalistes y sont traités en indésirables. La plupart des reportages qui parviennent aux Occidentaux arrivent donc des camps de réfugiés situés dans les pays limitrophes, en particulier…
Freelance journalist David Menzies apparently got the smackdown from "a woman wearing a hijab" last weekend after she was captured in a photo he took at Younge-Dundas Square with his nine-year-old son. Being a journalist, Menzies decided to write about it — in the Toronto Sun.
The Association of Electronic Journalists may be approaching its 50th anniversary, but the organization is anything but old-fashioned.
When the Ontario Superior Court dismissed former Aurora, Ont., mayor Phyllis Morris’s suit to identify anonymous commenters on a local political blog, it not only derailed the ex-mayor’s attempt to get $6 million in defamation damages out of the unidentified writers, but gave legal support to the idea that citizens should be able to express…
Depuis l'effondrement, dimanche, d'une poutre à l'entrée du tunnel Viger sur l'autoroute 720, les journalistes talonnent le ministère des Transports. Mardi, le ministre Sam Hamad a été bombardé de questions lors d'un point de presse particulièrement mouvementé, au cours duquel le journaliste de La Presse, Patrick Lagacé, a bousculé un attaché de presse.
Journalists have until Aug. 8 to submit their entries for the sixth annual 2011 media awards for health reporting.