Globe public editor: There was a good reason to hold publication of the Ontario teachers’ payment

Voters were being asked Monday to elect a federal government, not an Ontario government. [[{“fid”:”4881″,”view_mode”:”default”,”fields”:{“format”:”default”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:””,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:””},”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“height”:444,”width”:361,”style”:”width: 75px; height: 92px; float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;”,”class”:”media-element file-default”},”link_text”:null}]]By Sylvia Stead, for the Globe and Mail On Wednesday morning, The Globe flared (top of the front page) anexclusive story by Adrian Morrow with the headline “Ontario paid $1-million to teachers’…

Voters were being asked Monday to elect a federal government, not an Ontario government.

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On Wednesday morning, The Globe flared (top of the front page) anexclusive story by Adrian Morrow with the headline “Ontario paid $1-million to teachers’ union.”

That was followed the next day by a second story: “Multiple payouts given to teacher unions” which added another $1.5-million in payouts to teachers unions to cover their bargaining costs. Followed by one more: “Ontario never sought receipts before paying teacher unions.”

I heard from a number of readers on Twitter and by e-mail who were suspicious of the timing of this story and wondered whether The Globe held it back.

To read the rest of this column, please go to the Globe and Mail's website, where it was originally published.

H.G. Watson

H.G. Watson was J-Source's managing editor from 2015 to 2018. She is a journalist based in Toronto. You can learn more about her at hgwatson.com.