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    Postmedia outsourcing printing of London Free Press; union says 135 jobs lost

    By The Canadian Press The union representing workers at the London Free Press says plans to outsource printing of the southwestern Ontario newspaper will cost 135 employees their jobs. Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (TSX:PNC-A.TO - News), which has announced a number of cuts and consolidations in recent months amid declining revenue in the newspaper business, says Metroland…
  • Barb Pacholik, a senior reporter at the Regina Leader-Post, tackled a difficult subject in her piece “Betrayal: What do you do when you discover your friend is a pedophile?” Screenshot by J-Source.

    Reporting on the unspeakable

    By Paige Kreutzwieser Barb Pacholik, a senior reporter at the Regina Leader-Post, tackled a difficult subject in her piece “Betrayal: What do you do when you discover your friend is a pedophile?” Pacholik received a 2014 Beyond Borders Award for the feature that focused on Jon Walsh and his friend Bradley Chanin. After Walsh found…

  • CBC’s Olivia Stefanovich reported for three days from Attawapiskat amid an unfolding suicide crisis. Screenshot by J-Source.

    A reporter’s dispatches from Attawapiskat

    By Donald Teuma-Castelletti When CBC multimedia journalist Olivia Stefanovich stepped off the plane in Attawapiskat, Ont., on Monday, April 11, she had no idea what to expect. She had reported about the Cree reserve before from her home base in Sudbury, Ont., but she had yet to visit it. But over the weekend, 11 young…

  • Kelly Geraldine Malone explains the motivation behind her Vice story that sparked a national dialogue. Screenshot by J-Source.

    How Kelly Geraldine Malone told the story of Canada’s fastest-growing prison population

    By Kendall P. Latimer On Feb.2, Kelly Geraldine Malone’s 4,000-word article “Why Indigenous Women Are Canada’s Fastest Growing Prison Population” was published on Vice, sparking a national dialogue about incarceration rates of Indigenous women. The Saskatoon-based journalist still considers herself green—despite an extensive resume, a journalism degree from University of Regina and national and prairie…

  • After receiving a voicemail criticizing her appearance, Teresa Wright, the chief political reporter for Charlottetown newspaper The Guardian, wrote a Facebook post in response, garnering support from all corners. Photo courtesy Michael Conor McCarthy.

    The Guardian’s Teresa Wright responds to fans and foes of her red lipstick

    By Michael Conor McCarthy When Teresa Wright, chief political reporter for Charlottetown’s newspaper The Guardian, covered the news on March 31 that a clinic for women’s reproductive health would be constructed on P.E.I., she considered it an important moment in the island’s history. The choices women make about their bodies should be theirs alone. An…

  • Eternity Martis on writing about Toronto’s gun crime issue and its race problem. Screenshot by J-Source.

    Inside the gun

    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…