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    Memo: A Message from Paul Godfrey – Getting the Facts Straight

    . Beginning on the front page of Saturday’s Toronto Star and taking up nearly the entire front page of the business section was a vicious attack on our company. This is just the latest of many attacks from The Toronto Star. The Toronto Star has made several scurrilous claims about our company, its investors and…

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    Striking Chronicle Herald journalists start their own news website

    By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Chronicle Herald staff are once again reporting, even though they are still on strike. Local Xpress, a news website entirely run by the journalists, officially went online Jan. 30 after a few teases in the days leading up to its debut. The wait is almost over. It won’t be long…

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    Right to information request reveals important ‘daycare deficiencies’

    By Madison Farkas for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression This story was written for Professor Sean Holman at Mount Royal University. It is the latest installment in CJFE’s #ATIreform series, where journalists, public interest researchers and other professionals share their stories about Canada’s Access to Information system. Telegraph-Journal reporter Karissa Donkin’s Right to Information request exposed a lack of proper regulation in…

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    Globe public editor: Media hurting but still producing memorable journalism

    By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail It has been a bad week for journalism: 200 jobs lost in the broadcast and publishing wings of Rogers Media, and the closing of one of the nation’s oldest daily newspapers. The Guelph Mercury would have celebrated its 150th anniversary along with Canada next year, and its…

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    Toronto Star public editor: The Trump show – a Rob Ford rerun?

    [[{"fid":"5394","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":153,"width":124,"style":"width: 75px; height: 93px; float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;","class":"media-element file-default"}}]]By Kathy English for the Toronto Star Daniel Dale, the Toronto Star’s Washington correspondent, had a moment of déjà vu last weekend when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made the outrageous claim he could go shoot someone on New York’s Fifth Ave. and not lose…