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If you just report what a politician says, you get called nothing more than a lackey or a mindless stenographer. Report on whether the politician got the facts right, and you’ll likely…

Postmedia Network has laid off five parliamentary bureau staff and the remaining four staff members and manager Christina Spencer will join the Ottawa Citizen’s national political desk. Meanwhile, the Citizen is offering…

With the federal budget upon us next week, Ellen Russell, a journalism professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and former senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Ottawa, offers her…

Tom Marshall, interim premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, has announced that three independent experts will review the province’s controversial access-to-information law, The Canadian Press reported. 

Toronto Star columnist Tim Harper talks about access to information and the evolving relationship between politicians and the media in the latest installment of Wilfrid Laurier University's Journalism Symposium in Brantford, Ont.…

When a cougar swimming in the ocean bests news about the political future of an entire province, something is amiss in the newsrooms, living rooms and legislatures of this nation, writes columnist…

When Ryerson professors Ivor Shapiro and Brian MacLeod Rogers sat down to plan their annual graduate seminar in ethics and law for last fall, they quickly realized that they wouldn’t need to…

Barry Wilson, who is one of the deans of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery, retires this month after 34 years as the Western Producer's Ottawa correspondent. He firmly identifies himself as a political reporter…

There aren’t many freelancers who do what Justin Ling does. The Ottawa-based journalist spends his days in the Press Gallery covering the news coming out of Parliament Hill. He’s had his work published in the National Post,…

Alberta’s Bill 45—which imposes fines for illegal strikes and bans counselling encouragement to strike—does not affect columnists and news reporters, said the press secretary for deputy premier Dave Hancock.