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It’s Right to Know Week in Canada, but few journalists are celebrating. In the midst of an election, public servants aren’t talking to the public, and the prime minister’s ‘no reporter zone’ is enjoying some added muscle from the RCMP.…

With the election now in full swing, a survey of community online newspapers across Canada shows some outlets choose to highlight community-based stories with little (and sometimes no) coverage of the federal election while others provide exciting examples of what…

Is it within the RCMP’s mandate to stop the media from doing its job? That’s the question asked in a Canadian Press feature, with a news hook about Tory candidate Dona Cadman being whisked away from reporters. The story…

Kory Teneycke, spokesman for Tory leader Stephen Harper, on the non-role of journalists: it is not a candidates’ priority to speak to media — but rather to get elected. Teneycke was quoted in the Globe and Mail in a story…

Excerpts from a scathing piece by Andrew Coyne in Maclean’s on the performance of political journalism in Canada: “…in one respect every election is the same: the press coverage. It’s always an embarrassment, and always in exactly the same way.…