The colourful, graffiti-splashed office of Now magazine, Canada’s largest weekly, is being demolished
Category: Spring 2017
Trump flip-flops on meeting with New York Times
Tuesday morning, President-elect Donald Trump backed out of a meeting with the New York Times, claiming that the paper changed the ground rules. After calling off the meeting, Trump followed up with a tweet. Then, several hours later, he posted that the meeting was back on. I cancelled today’s meeting with the failing @nytimes when… Continue reading Trump flip-flops on meeting with New York Times
November 21: The RCMP, Facebook’s Fake News, and More
These are the stories we’re watching over the next week. Here is your Weekly Wire: The RCMP revealed top secret files to the CBC and Toronto Star to make its case for broader surveillance powers, including the authority to force people to unlock their phones and for telecoms to provide subscriber information upon request. Police… Continue reading November 21: The RCMP, Facebook’s Fake News, and More
Canada has a Press Freedom Problem
Too many cases of journalistic restrictions have continued into Trudeau’s era, citing security concerns.
Frustrated Chronicle Herald Strikers Target Local Businesses
Tom Ayers and two of his colleagues walk the most remote picket of the Chronicle Herald’s strike. Five days a week for the last 10 months, the three reporters—Ayers, Erin Pottie, and Andrew Rankin—pace up and down a stretch of sidewalk outside their bureau in downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia, across from “the busiest Tim Horton’s… Continue reading Frustrated Chronicle Herald Strikers Target Local Businesses