André Pratte, La Presse | Il est de tradition pour les pages éditoriales des grands journaux en Amérique du Nord – du New York Times au Devoir en passant par le Globe and Mail – de prendre position à la veille des élections. Rien de plus logique: les éditorialistes exprimant un point de vue sur…
CommentaryTwo recent media victories in defamation cases do little to fix an underlying problem: Canada’s libel laws favour protecting reputations over free speech, lawyer and Humber College media law instructor Alan Shanoff argues in an October 2008 column in the Law Times. The law still presumes factual statements published by a defendant are false and, second, expressions…
A Toronto family’s lawsuit against The Globe and Mail and former reporter Jan Wong for invasion of privacy threatens to strengthen Canada’s privacy laws and, writes J-Source law editor Dean Jobb, create new risks for those who impersonate others in pursuit of a story.
How to interview a street person: “Don’t assume I’m stupid,” says an adviser quoted in the Globe and Mail. “Don’t assume I don’t have skills. Don’t assume I don’t come from your world.” The advice is part of a profile of Jody Paterson, former managing editor of the Victoria broadsheet who is now teaching writing…
Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec | L’Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec organise cet automne deux formations pour les travailleurs autonomes, portant sur la TPS/TVQ ainsi que sur les congés parentaux. Elles sont ouvertes à tous, membres ou non-membres, journalistes ou pas.
In the final weeks of the campaign, the economy is settling in as federal election 2008’s ballot box issue. But in our rush to define “the” issue, what happens to those other issues? The week’s Big Issue offers a little variety of voice on what matters: Canada-Europe trade talks nearly invisible – A trade deal…
Questions: people want to know… Is the CBC “trying to make itself more palatable to the majority Conservative government that may be coming our way?” Where, when it comes to Heather Mallick, are the defenders of free speech who supported Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant? And opinions: so far more than 73 per cent of J-Source…
“The news tornado of September has been a boon to the downtrodden traditional media,” reported Ian Brown in a Globe and Mail piece about web sites of big mainstream media scoring record audiences….
What’s the biggest social, political and economic issue in Canada right now? Social conservativism vs liberalism? Tax cuts? Bank regulations? Climate change? Plagiarism? None of the above, not in my opinion. I think the biggest story is a Canada-Europe trade deal…
Caroline Roy, Le Journal de Montréal | Sept familles sur dix estiment que la télévision les rapproche au lieu de les éloigner. Étonnamment, ce que les membres d’une même famille préfèrent regarder ensemble: les nouvelles télévisées.