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A headline last month that referred to this winter’s weather as “schizophrenic” received an appropriately chilly response from many readers. By Patricia Graham for the Brunswick News A headline last month that…

  By Duncan Pike A new report from the global press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), describes the tenure of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a “dark age” for journalism in Canada,…

By Esther Enkin for the CBC In a story about conflict at a Montreal community college, the complainant, David Murrell, noted that another media outlet identified the religion of one of the…

By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Mark Wright, thought CBC in New Brunswick was providing free advertising to one of its regular columnists. The author of World of Work broadcast…

By Kathy English for the Toronto Star Reporting on the tabloid tizzy over a British court order blocking British media from publishing details of a celebrity sex scandal has embroiled the Toronto…

By Kathy English for the Toronto Star (ICIJ) came calling for Canadian journalists who could put collaboration above competition to investigate a gigantic global data leak, it is not surprising they reached…

FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting announced The Dalton Camp Award in 2002 to honour the memory of the late Dalton Camp, a distinguished commentator on Canadian public affairs. The Dalton Camp Award goes…

By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Mark Wright, thought CBC in New Brunswick was providing free advertising to one of its regular columnists. The author of World of Work broadcast…

By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, John Gilmore, thought that a news story about violence in the West Bank was biased because it did not present the Palestinian perspective. He…

By Kathy English for the Toronto Star  It has long been the Toronto Star’s policy not to name the victims of alleged sexual assault. That is in line with provisions of Canada’s…