After CBC’s report three days ago that the National Security Agency (NSA) had set up camp at the American embassy in Ottawa during the 2010 G20 Summit with support from the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), The Wall Street Journal reporter Alistair MacDonald tweeted: . @CBC admits it paid taxpayer’s money to @ggreenwald for access… Continue reading Wall Street Journal falsely claims that CBC paid for NSA docs”
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Friday Funny: the latest on Anna Nicole Smith
Had she lived, Anna Nicole Smith would have celebrated her 46th birthday yesterday. But as you may have heard, she died in 2007. You certainly heard if you were anywhere near CNN at the time. Kudos to Blitzer for keeping his legendary straight face through that one. Remember to follow the Review and its masthead… Continue reading Friday Funny: the latest on Anna Nicole Smith
Fatal Care” and the sad state of access to information
The Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald have rightly earned praise this week for their sprawling and devastating series, “Fatal Care,” on the unreported deaths of 145 children in foster care since 1999. It’s a masterwork of investigative reporting: a six-part series on a matter of public interest involving a vulnerable population; documents posted online; an… Continue reading Fatal Care” and the sad state of access to information
All journalism, all the time
Even though the Review has moved to a one-issue-per-year publishing schedule, we’re not about to leave you without thorough and thoughtful journalism until March. Today, we’ve posted senior editor Luc Rinaldi’s take on the Ontario Press Council hearings into the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail’s reporting on the Ford scandal. (Rinaldi previously wrote a quick take on the hearings for the… Continue reading All journalism, all the time
What we lose when we lose a magazine”
When the world’s oldest person dies, the joker’s natural response is, “Again?!” The punchlines are somewhat more difficult to come by when an institution passes. News came out this week that horseracing trade magazine The Canadian Sportsman, all of 143 years old, will not celebrate a 144th birthday. Three years younger than the country, it… Continue reading What we lose when we lose a magazine”