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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…