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 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 Ashley Robinson In November 2015, a series about youth concussions was published in the National Post. Written by Vicki Hall and John Kryk, the series was sparked by the death of Rowen Stringer, a 17-year-old rugby player who died in 2013 after suffering repeated concussions. The series highlighted the lack of concussion protocols in Canadian…
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A day before she left the Free Press to become a pollster, Welch reflects on some of the big stories of her career.
Toronto Star national security reporter Michelle Shephard explains how Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr came together
By David P. Ball for the Tyee The scandal rattling B.C.’s real estate sector this week started with a single word: “Realtors.” While researching Vancouver home demolitions last year, a builder told Globe and Mail reporter Kathy Tomlinson he was quitting the industry because of “all the realtors who are involved” who “tap into” offshore…
By Nicole Cohen, Work and Labour Editor Back in October, freelance journalist Scott Carney launched Word Rates, a website for freelance journalists to pool information about publications’ pay rates, editors, and contracts (the site claims it’s like Yelp! for journalists). Carney, who has long been critical of the low fees magazines pay writers, told Contently that “… people…