The aboriginal “healing circle” that sentences Christopher Pauchay will be open to the media. (Pauchay pleaded guilty last fall to criminal negligence, after he drunkenly left his young daughters outside to freeze to death in a Saskatchewan blizzard.) Wrote judge Barry Morgan: “Despite the request made by some members of the community, referenced in the…
The Globe and Mail has closed comments on stories about Middle East issues, from the Gaza invasion by Israel to news that an Ontario union is seeking to bar Israeli academics from province’s universities if they do not explicitly condemn Israeli action in Gaza. Jim Sheppard, Executive Editor of globeandmail.com, explains:“To our readers: globeandmail.com policy…
While prepping for her classes, Vancouver journalism instructor and municipal reporter Frances Bula decided to share a quote on her blog.It’s from Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher by Stephen Brookfield: “Significant learning and critical thinking inevitably induce an ambivalent mix of feelings and emotions, in which anger and confusion are as prominent as pleasure and…
“A flood of job cuts threatens to hobble high-quality journalism in this country,” says a press release from an association representing some Canadian journalists. “The retrenchment is…
“Why,” asked the CBC’s David Gutnick of an ex-soldier and new journalist in Mali, “did you become a radio reporter?” “Because it is a way of doing good,” answered Daouda Diarra. “When I go on the radio I try and do my best to tell the truth about what I find out. I try to…
Two journalists were among 18 people appointed to Canada’s Senate by Stephen Harper: Mike Duffy and former broadcaster Pamela Wallin. The acceptance of the position by high-profile political reporter Duffy is raising perhaps the most eyebrows; one story quoted a critic charging that the” move also points to the slipping standards of Canadian political journalism,…
“Women have made huge advances in TV sports broadcasting over the past 10 years,” writes William Houston in a Globe and Mail critique of women’s role in sports broadcasting. “There are more working in the business. They hold jobs as reporters, anchors and, in the United States, even play-by-play announcers.” “But as the numbers have…
The American Society of Newspaper Editors will vote next April on cutting the word “paper” from its name and expanding its membership to include editors of online-only news Web sites and journalism educators. From a society news release: “The new name would be the American Society of News Editors. The logo would remain the same:…
Why did neither of Canada’s two major all-news networks — CTV and CBC — for the first time fail to cover, live, the Dec. 16 repatriation ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Trenton for three more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan? “… it takes less than a half-hour to unload the coffins of three young servants…
Between Obama and the Press, a piece in the upcoming New York Times Magazine, looks at how the relationship between the press and the new president might shape up — or not…