En juin 2010, alors que sa carrière était en pleine ascension, le journaliste Alexis Deschênes causait une onde de choc en quittant la profession pour entreprendre des études de droit. Aujourd'hui aux portes de sa nouvelle carrière d'avocat, il nous donne de ses nouvelles.
A senior Department of Justice lawyer has been suspended from his job without pay after bringing a case before the Federal Court alleging that his department is not properly screening proposed legislation for compliance with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other legislation.
The Canadian Association of Journalists is accepting applications for its 2012 awards program until Feb. 8.
Imaginez chatter avec un robot pendant des heures en pensant qu'un être humain se trouve derrière l'écran. Seriez-vous effrayé d'apprendre que vous n'avez pas su faire la différence ? «En 1950, 99 % des participants au test de Turing pouvaient arriver à détecter si leur interlocuteur était humain. Aujourd'hui, la moitié des gens n'arrivent plus à le savoir»…
Student journalists from across the country were in Toronto last week for Canadian University Press’ 75th annual national conference, which included Saturday evening’s John H. McDonald Journalism Awards.
Esther Enkin, who began in her new role as CBC Ombudsman on Jan. 1, released her first review last week. In it, she examined CBC Radio’s The Current’s use of satire in its broadcast.
On Wednesday, The Canadian Press published its first Storify on Toronto Maple Leafs' General Manager Brian Burke's firing. Mel Coulson got in touch with Andrew Lundy, CP's new Director of Digital, to ask why CP is doing this and what it means that a wire service is producing curated social media content.
The movement that has criticized changes to legislation the federal government has proposed in Bill C-45, better-known as the Idle No More movement, took a while before it became the topic of mainstream political panels and front-page stories. But over the course of the movement and with her well-publicized hunger strike, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence became a…
Kai Benson explains why the federal government's attempt to muzzle its scientists hinders public knowledge and damages science discourse in Canada in the latest issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
You may think chronicling the lives of the dead is either the first or the last job you could have on a newspaper. But after years of writing obituaries for The Globe and Mail, Sandra Martin argues that it taught her there’s “no such thing as an uninteresting or insignificant life.” Martin reflects on how she applied her…