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The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has thrown out a complaint alleging that a Mark Steyn piece in Maclean’s exposed Muslims to hatred and contempt, on the basis of their religion, in…

An attempt by prosecutors and Conrad Black to have evidence about his case sealed indefinitely has failed, with a final refusal by the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the case “Conrad…

How to interview a street person: “Don’t assume I’m stupid,” says an adviser quoted in the Globe and Mail.  “Don’t assume I don’t have skills. Don’t assume I don’t come from your…

Questions: people want to  know… Is the CBC “trying to make itself more palatable to the majority Conservative government that may be coming our way?” Where, when it comes to Heather Mallick,…

 Amy Goodman, founder and host of the U.S. syndicated radio and television program “Democracy Now!” was named as a recipient of the  Right Livelihood Award …

A case study in crisis management and media relations, China, 2008: “Please can the government increase control and coordination of the media, to create a good environment for the recall of the…

Owen Lippert, a PhD historian with a lengthy track record in Canadian public policy and politics, including a term on the Globe and Mail’s editorial board in 1996, has admitted to plagiarism,…

An editorial in the New York Times urges the American Senate to support legislation to prevent American courts from enforcing libel judgments obtained in foreign countries if those countries provide less free…

You cannot, in Canada, link a U.S. vice-presidential candidate with the phrases “white trash” and “porn-actress look” and get away with it, as columnist Heather Mallick found out this week when the…

A bilingual newspaper has been established on the Dutch-German border. Reports Der Spiegel: “The first issue of Buren (Neighbors) has just landed on the doormats of 400,000 residents in the region around…