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Globe and Mail Public Editor: The call for more Paralympic coverage

By Sylvia Stead for The Globe and Mail Sports readers always have strong opinions about the most important story, what demands coverage and how prominent it should be. Football across the country,…
Globe and Mail Public Editor: This headline is not the full story

Reporters and editors need to be critical when writing the words that readers focus on most of all.
Toronto Star Public Editor: There’s no need for ‘false balance’ in news reports

Canada’s National NewsMedia Council affirms vital principles in dismissing complaint about New York Times climate change report.
CBC Ombudsman: A boycott is a boycott—The Greens and BDS

The complainant thought it was wrong to refer to the result of the BDS resolution passed at the Green Party Convention as “supporting a movement boycotting Israel.”
Globe and Mail Public Editor: At The Globe, Dr. doesn’t just mean medical doctors

The Globe style guide has clear rules for honorifics, but errors are sometimes repeated and compounded.
CBC Ombudsman: News, defined and refined

The complainant asked a very good question: What’s appropriate for a newscast?
CBC Ombudsman: Climate Change Contrarians

By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Geoffrey Pounder, questioned the value and journalistic purpose of an Ideas programme called “Contrarians”. He said it was dangerous and deceptive to give air time…
CBC Ombudsman: Quebec Nationalism – Criticism isn’t bashing, it’s opinion

By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Will Dubitsky, thought characterising the 1995 Quebec referendum as the “abyss of ethnic nationalism” was Quebec-bashing and tarred all Quebec nationalists as xenophobes. It was…
CBC Ombudsman: Donald Trump’s Ban on Muslims

By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, E. Gelb, accused CBC of bias by omission in a story that dealt with Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim immigration. Failure…
CBC Ombudsman: True or False—There aren’t always absolutes

By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Stephen Birch, took issue with a Metro Morning interview with Finance Minister Bill Morneau. He said the minister had made a false statement about…