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    Toronto Star public editor: Cartoonists and the freedom to offend

    By Kathy English, for the Toronto Star Just as opinion columnists have wide latitude to express views that some readers may find offensive, so too do editorial cartoonists have considerable freedom to offend. Freedom of expression can be a messy business and that important principle that as someone who believes passionately in freedom of expression,…

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    Toronto Star public editor: When it’s more than a ‘typo’

    By Kathy English for the Toronto Star Sometimes a typo published in the Star is just that, a regrettable slip of the finger that makes little difference to readers’ understanding of the news at hand. Vigilant Star readers report dozens of typos every day, most of them minor slip-ups — usually resulting in garbled and…