By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Marc Ellison was standing near a village in Tanzania’s Mara Hills, working on a story about a safe house for girls escaping from female genital mutilation, when one of the activists told him there were a couple of girls who wanted to escape right then—and Ellison had a car. “It…
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By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Mark Wright, thought CBC in New Brunswick was providing free advertising to one of its regular columnists. The author of World of Work broadcast on radio, and had a column online. The online column linked directly to his company. There’s nothing wrong with using experts, but the…
By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, John Gilmore, thought that a news story about violence in the West Bank was biased because it did not present the Palestinian perspective. He cited the absence of the word “occupied” to describe the territories as one example, and felt the story did not make clear that…
By Matt Sutton A 2015 Access to Information (ATI) request for records related to Canada’s controversial anti-terror law, known as Bill C-51, returned a mass of blacked-out documents. Such redactions are not unusual but the extent raises important questions about the lack of transparency surrounding the Canadian federal government. In April 2015, Anna Mehler Paperny,…
By Eternity Martis On August 4, 2016, two innocent people—Ariela Navarro-Fenoy, 26, and Duvel Hibbert, 23— lost their lives at Muzik nightclub in Toronto when gunfire erupted. Instantly, people speculated that it had something to go with Caribbean Carnival weekend or Drake’s annual OVO Fest; online comment sections blamed black people, Hip-Hop and Jamaican culture…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Late on Friday, Apr. 8, a story was published on a Halifax daily newspaper’s website that left readers shocked and disappointed. The story, “Parents worried over school kids’ brutality at Chebucto Heights Elementary School,” was removed from the Chronicle Herald’s website on Sunday after a wave of criticism about the…
By Matthew Burley Josh O’Kane is a small business writer for the Globe and Mail. In his five years with the Globe, O’Kane has been writing about business, growth strategies, commercial property and music. His new book, Nowhere With You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, The Emergency and Thrush Hermit is about Plaskett’s…
By Erin Sylvester I’m not a good flier. I get motion sick and nervous, and that’s when boarding a nice, steady jet. But to get to the remote, fly-in community of Peawanuck, Ontario, in mid-October to report for my feature in the RRJ, I had to get on two flights—the second in a tiny single-propeller…
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