Tag / Harassment
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Inside media’s coverage of the trucker blockade
Journalists faced a torrent of abuse, harassment and threats during anti-mandate protesters’ weeks-long occupation of Ottawa. Here’s how media workers navigated reporting in the field Continue Reading Inside media’s coverage of the trucker blockade
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Laws must change, politician says after N.L. man acquitted of FHITP slur
JOHN’S, N.L. — A Newfoundland politician is hoping to change provincial harassment laws following the acquittal of a man who hurled sexual obscenities at a female TV reporter in St. John’s. Cathy…
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Toronto Star Public Editor: We need to stand together to fight ugly online abuse
By Kathy English for the Toronto Star What if all the women who have faced bullying and harassment in online spaces stood together and decided we will not take it any more?…
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Live Blog: Harassment of Women in Media
It is not just Internet trolls. These days, it is often not safe for women to speak up anywhere – online, on air and in print.
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Blessing or curse?
By Sydney Jones for The Signal On the morning of Halloween, 2014, adults disguised as ghouls and witches carried briefcases and purses as they walked to work, crunching across the leaves in…
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How Kevin Donovan investigated the secret life of Jian Ghomeshi
By Joe Smith-Engelhardt The journalistic and police investigations and subsequent trial and acquittal of disgraced CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault cases were very difficult for the public to grasp. Many…
