The agony and ecstasy of cycling in Richard Poplak’s “The Pain Principle”
This 2013 Walrus feature is not only a meditation on cycling, but also a snapshot of a cyclist’s life on the brink of breakthrough—just before a doping scandal.
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Vivian Smith’s “Outsiders Still” a hard look at Canadian newspapers’ gender problem
Women, Smith writes, are still outsiders in the newspaper business, loving their jobs even as they think about moving on.
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Canadians care about healthcare, so why don’t we see more health policy news coverage?
The stories that help us understand what influences public policy and the factors that determine our health status are left largely untold.
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Coming to a screen near you: 27 cent-per-story journalism?
Some lessons learned from last month’s newspapers Canada Conference in Toronto.
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Document Disposal Act a slippery slope when it comes to FOI
Under the Act, government employees are allowed to delete transitory records—but the definition of what constitutes such a record can seem ambiguous.
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On profiling Bruce Arthur and Cathal Kelly for the Ryerson Review of Journalism
“Interviewing and meeting some of the writers and reporters I spent growing up reading was a privilege. I had to be critical but fair; opinionated but balanced.”
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This week in FOI news: Canada Post, asbestos and Parliamentary time machines
Much ink was spilled about the Harper administration’s plan to retroactively deny access to long gun registry records and its muzzling of federal scientists.
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When newspapers are inconsistent FOI allies
The Globe and Mail endorsed Suzanne Legault’s FOI reforms report—but its editorial board also been equivocal in its support for one of its main principles.
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It’s more important for journalists to be right than first online
One of the most frequent judgment calls journalists make is how much time to give someone to respond to a request for comment or information.
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B.C. spin doctors advise how to spin their spin
What started out as a B.C. government attempt to defend its communication staff has ended up revealing the weakness of the province’s freedom-of-information law.