By Grant Buckler Last week, the Ontario Superior Court ruled that Vice News reporter Ben Makuch must hand over all communications between him and an IS fighter, Farah Mohamed Shirdon, to the RCMP. It’s a worrying decision, because the news media need to be independent, not to be co-opted to do the work of the police.…
By Ashley Robinson In November 2015, a series about youth concussions was published in the National Post. Written by Vicki Hall and John Kryk, the series was sparked by the death of Rowen Stringer, a 17-year-old rugby player who died in 2013 after suffering repeated concussions. The series highlighted the lack of concussion protocols in Canadian…
By Steph Wechsler Digital photography and the capacity to edit pictures quickly and affordably have reopened debate over what editorializing means in images and the nature of photojournalistic neutrality, says award-winning photographer Peter Bregg. New technologies have expanded the options for manipulating photographs, Bregg said during a panel discussion organized by the Ryerson Journalism Research…
By Stéphane Baillargeon Jeff Heinrich starts off by talking about Ross Teague, one of his former bosses at The Gazette. In the fall of 2014, the senior manager had finished helping launch an important new digital platform at the Montreal daily newspaper. His workday over, Teague sent one last tweet (“My weekend project? Reimagine sleep!”) and…
By Nicole Williams, IRB Reporter Migrants fleeing Syria face an incredibly dangerous and chaotic journey. Most make the journey with very little reliable information about where to go, what to do and how to do it. A non-profit website, News That Moves, is working to provide that critical information to refugees. The campaign was developed…
By Canadian Journalists for Free Expression The undersigned organizations have issued a joint letter to Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale expressing alarm over the Ontario Superior Court ruling that Vice News reporter Ben Makuch must hand over all communications between him and an ISIS fighter to the RCMP. The coalition urges the RCMP and Public Safety Canada to…
The complainant, Andrew Sprague, said that CBC News wrongly identified the status of an emotional support dog that was banned from an Edmonton base.
Vice Canada and reporter-editor Ben Makuch looking into appeal of the decision.
Metroland West includes both the Hamilton Spectator and Waterloo Region Record.
By Sylvia Stead, for the Globe and Mail Last week, an arbitration review of Senate expenses by former Supreme Court justice Ian Binnie cut the amount of disputed expenses owed by 14 senators. And when the RCMP dropped its investigation of 24 out of 30 senators on expenses, the only senator who took part in the…