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Do we need to bring back science beats? Take a look at this article, that addresses the notion more science coverage would lead to better climate-related policies — or would it?

Sorry, missed this one on Friday but it appears Christie Blatchford has angered at least a few folks with her new book. Members of the Kitchener-Waterloo Anti-Racist Action apparently didn’t want her to speak on Nov. 12 as part of a tour promoting her new book on the land-rights conflict between the Ontario government and…

Kalle Lasn asks why in today’s National Post. Read the J-Source story that examines the issue.

Thanks to Deb Jones for sending this. UBC law and journalism schools partner to investigate wrongful convictions Canada’s first journalism-law student partnership on wrongful convictions has been launched at the University of British Columbia, with graduate journalism students and law students investigating miscarriages of justice in B.C.  Priority will be given to the more than…

I remember being warned by an assistant city editor once to never even call a story file by anything I wouldn’t want to see entered into evidence in a libel trial. Knowing that, and knowing how journalists have a macabre sense of humour, I found this interesting. Broadcast journalists caught talking about a candidate’s supporters including…

Kirk LaPointe is leaving the Vancouver Sun to become the new CBC ombudsman. Here’s a link where he explains his new job.

Toronto freelance journalist, Nick Fillmore, has looked at the revamped Globe and Mail for a piece he’s written that appears on a website for social change. While he’s found coverage has improved in some areas, he fears its credibility and legacy as the ‘paper of record’ may be damaged due to it’s “apparent lack of…

Thanks to Ivor Shapiro for sending this: Search for Rob Ford on the Globe and Mail‘s web site and you get this link to a column printed in the Saturday Oct 15 Focus section: Rob Ford’s not popular despite being fat. He’s popular because of …Oct 15, 2010“Toronto municipal contender leads with his gut –…

Note: This came in to J-Source and seemed like it should be posted here. Comments, folks? I live in St. Marys, Ontario.  One of our newspapers in town is saying  some pretty nasty things about our mayor and the current council.  It supports the other candidate for mayor.  In fact, when he announced his candidacy,…

This is an interesting column on Right to Know Week and the viewpoint that Canadian scientists are muzzled by the government as Kathryn O’Hara asks “what happened to the transparency and accountability promised when the government formed the first of two minority administrations in 2006?”