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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the Canadian Newspaper Association and the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association issued a joint “Letter to Prime Minister Harper: Honour your access to information election promises.”

Steve Anderson, national coordinator of the Campaign For Democratic Media and the SaveOurNet.ca Coalition, wants Canadians to consider the media during the general election campaign. Anderson writes in British Columbia’s online magazine…

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’…

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…

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…

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…

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…