Posted by Ivor Shapiro | Andrew Coyne said it best, blogging half way through the campaign: “In one respect every election is the same: the press coverage. It’s always an embarrassment, and always in exactly the same way. Politicians learn from their mistakes, sometimes. We just go on repeating ours. … After every election we…
In an election campaign with Twittering, Blogging, and Facebook mainstreeting this instant information world is suddenly going dark tonight. Elections Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada seem to think most Canadians are content with learning about poll results the way we did in an era of cathode ray tubes and the wireless (radio). Who…
Election Act: 329. No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another electoral district before the close of all of the polling stations in that other electoral district.In an election where strategic voting sits front and centre, it seems like the Election Act…
Florence Vergne, journalismes.net | Vous êtes au cœur de Jérusalem. Une bombe explose. Qui est l’auteur de cet attentat ? Quelles vont être les conséquences ? Comment relater cet événement ? C’est à vous de répondre à ces questions en tant que journaliste indépendant parachuté au cœur du conflit israélo-palestinien. Bienvenue dans Global Conflicts :…
CBC and CTV made the unusual move of disassociating themselves from Peter Kent, former broadcast journalist and now a Conservative candidate in the Toronto area riding of Thornhill. Kent’s promo video (here, on youtube.com) includes praise by Peter Mansbridge of the CBC, Lloyd Robertson of CTV and former CTV journalist Pamela Wallin.
David Ljunggren of Reuters reports on covering the Canadian election amid surreal political perspectives of the economy, and an economic reporter’s attempts to get a handle on Conservative policy positions. The piece is part reality-check, part critical analysis and part humour.
Back in February, media watcher Robert Hackett argued media reform should be a top priority in the impending (even back then) federal election. Hackett saw a disturbing constellation forming: an industry push for deregulation, a new market-friendly CRTC head, and a government bent on pursuing a majority. But between collapsing markets and pooping puffins, only…
Why do newspapers endorse political parties during elections?
If the election in the riding of Peterborough was decided by Facebook friends, the small Ontario city would likely send a Green Party MP to Ottawa on Oct. 14. Social media sites like Facebook are this federal election’s newest – if still minor – battleground. An article in the Peterborough Examiner looks at how that’s…
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has thrown out a complaint alleging that a Mark Steyn piece in Maclean’s exposed Muslims to hatred and contempt, on the basis of their religion, in breach of s. 7(1)(b) of the Human Rights Code…