By Michael Conor McCarthy When Teresa Wright, chief political reporter for Charlottetown’s newspaper The Guardian, covered the news on March 31 that a clinic for women’s reproductive health would be constructed on P.E.I., she considered it an important moment in the island’s history. The choices women make about their bodies should be theirs alone. An…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Marc Ellison was standing near a village in Tanzania’s Mara Hills, working on a story about a safe house for girls escaping from female genital mutilation, when one of the activists told him there were a couple of girls who wanted to escape right then—and Ellison had a car. “It…
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 on radio, and had a column online. The online column linked directly to his company. There’s nothing wrong with using experts, but the…
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 cited the absence of the word “occupied” to describe the territories as one example, and felt the story did not make clear that…
By Matt Sutton A 2015 Access to Information (ATI) request for records related to Canada’s controversial anti-terror law, known as Bill C-51, returned a mass of blacked-out documents. Such redactions are not unusual but the extent raises important questions about the lack of transparency surrounding the Canadian federal government. In April 2015, Anna Mehler Paperny,…
By Eternity Martis On August 4, 2016, two innocent people—Ariela Navarro-Fenoy, 26, and Duvel Hibbert, 23— lost their lives at Muzik nightclub in Toronto when gunfire erupted. Instantly, people speculated that it had something to go with Caribbean Carnival weekend or Drake’s annual OVO Fest; online comment sections blamed black people, Hip-Hop and Jamaican culture…
By Matthew Burley Josh O’Kane is a small business writer for the Globe and Mail. In his five years with the Globe, O’Kane has been writing about business, growth strategies, commercial property and music. His new book, Nowhere With You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, The Emergency and Thrush Hermit is about Plaskett’s…
By Erin Sylvester I’m not a good flier. I get motion sick and nervous, and that’s when boarding a nice, steady jet. But to get to the remote, fly-in community of Peawanuck, Ontario, in mid-October to report for my feature in the RRJ, I had to get on two flights—the second in a tiny single-propeller…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor [<a href=”//storify.com/jsource/has-media-coverage-of-lgbt-issues-changed” target=”_blank”>View the story “Has media coverage of LGBT issues changed?” on Storify</a>] H.G. Watson can be reached at hgwatson@j-source.ca or on Twitter.
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 Criminal Code, which makes a ban on publication of the identity of a sexual assault complainant mandatory if requested by the Crown or…