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![How will Peter Mansbridge be remembered by Canadians? Photo courtesy Charmaine Millaire.]()
Peter Mansbridge: Debating his legacy
By Charmaine Millaire for The Signal On the crisp winter morning of February 17, 2009, Peter Mansbridge walked off the elevator towards the main doors of the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.…
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![How 1.5 million hearing or visually impaired Canadians stay up-to-date. Photo courtesy of Megan Fraser.]()
News for all
By Megan Fraser for The Signal In the last three years, administrative clerk Jennifer Gibson has answered more than 5,000 phone calls. She sits in a cubicle on the sixth floor of…
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![What’s at stake for journalists who use social media? Photo courtesy of Sydney Jones.]()
Blessing or curse?
By Sydney Jones for The Signal On the morning of Halloween, 2014, adults disguised as ghouls and witches carried briefcases and purses as they walked to work, crunching across the leaves in…
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![The 13 per cent of adults who don’t follow news at all are almost four million people. By Francesca Handy.]()
The worrisome 13 per cent
By Francesca Handy for The Signal Midafternoon on a Tuesday, the food court in Scotia Square shopping centre in Halifax is full of people sitting alone. Professionals working in the area are on their lunch…
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![The Public Policy Forum’s report The Shattered Mirror recommended Ottawa step up to help preserve Canadian news coverage. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
Don’t touch that chequebook! A second look at The Shattered Mirror
By Madelaine Drohan Traditional media firms are undoubtedly suffering in the digital age. But does it follow that the public is being harmed? The Public Policy Forum’s recent report on the state… -
![Canadian Journalists for Free Expression hosted a rally outside Osgoode Hall during the appeal. "We're not facing a brave new world, but a frightening new world," CJFE executive director Tom Henheffer (left) told a small crowd. Right: Ben Makuch.]()
Vice Canada’s ongoing legal case is about bigger issues in Canadian journalism
By Kat Eschner Third-party intervenors in yesterday’s appeal by Ben Makuch and Vice Canada provided broader context into the importance and dangers of this case. Vice Canada and Ben Makuch’s lawyer Iain… -
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Ten ways to build a new Canadian media ecosystem
By David Beers and Robyn Smith “Ailing,” “beleaguered” and “being murdered” — according to its own headlines, 2016 was a rough year for journalism in Canada. Entering 2017, it shows no signs… -
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Must journalists fiddle while democracy burns?
By Robert Sutton The broad mandate of the Public Policy Forum’s report, The Shattered Mirror, was not ultimately to defend any particular mode of news delivery, but to evaluate the risks to Canadian democracy… -
![Sun and Province need their own clear identities — and better editing. Photo courtesy of Phillip Jeffrey/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.]()
A nine-step plan to fix the Vancouver Sun and Province
It’s not too late to save the city’s dailies from a grim fate — here’s how.
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![The tweet Erin Moore sent Ezra Levant. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
Ezra Levant trolled me for taking my seven-year-old son to see Justin Trudeau
If we give in to fiction instead of fact, and vitriol instead of verification, we all lose.
