By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor When a group of protesters in Muskrat Falls in Labrador cut the locks on the gate of a controversial hydroelectric project and marched in, journalist Justin Brake followed the story. “I just continued to do my job as a journalist,” he said. As a result, he was among 22 people…
Deborah Campbell, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War. Knopf, 2016. 352 pages. $28.32. By Jane Gerster “Do you think anything you write will make a difference?” A young Iraqi interpreter asks Deborah Campbell this early on in A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in…
By Kate Skelly Polling has never been more important than throughout the 2016 U.S. election, according to CBC’s poll analyst Éric Grenier. “Polling does have some caveats. It does have some caution that you have to exercise with it. But it isn’t the bad thing that people make it out to be,” he said. “It’s…
By Mitchell Thompson Black Press, the British Columbia-based news company with a near monopoly on Vancouver Island, has launched a free daily after a string of newspaper closures. The new paper, the Vancouver Island Free Daily, launched Sept. 27 and is being helmed by managing editor Philip Wolf and content editor John McKinley, with Wolf…
By Kathy English for the Toronto Star Can we talk, please, about that baseball team from Cleveland that dare not speak its name on this particular page of the Toronto Star. It’s not surprising that some readers are vexed and confused by what looks to them to be a gap between what a Star editorial…
