Category: Weekly Wire

These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: White House press secretary Sean Spicer held the newly-minted Trump administration’s first, and impromptu, official press briefing Saturday. Depending on who you ask, though, it was closer to a press lecture. Spicer spent his time at the lectern denouncing claims that the… Continue reading January 23rd: Alternative facts, disrupted news, and more

These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: Last week, the Globe and Mail’s Mark Medley and CBC q’s Candy Palmater separately interviewed novelist Joseph Boyden, whose long-claimed Indigenous ancestry came into question after an APTN investigation last month found little to substantiate it. (Check Karen McCall’s take on the… Continue reading January 16th: Boyden responds, unverified allegations, and more

These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: On Friday, Walrus editor-in-chief Jonathan Kay and Walrus fellow Lauren Heuser published a piece on Justin Trottier, leader of the controversial mens’ rights group Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE). It originally failed to disclose that Kay’s mother, writer Barbara Kay, is one of CAFE’s advisory… Continue reading January 9th: An ethical lapse, why Montreal police spied on Patrick Lagacé, and more

These are the stories we’re watching over the next week. Here is your Weekly Wire: Two of Postmedia’s major west coast newspapers, the Vancouver Sun and The Province, are expected to lose up to two-dozen reporters and editors early next year, according to Unifor Local 2000, which represents workers for the two publications. Both newsrooms… Continue reading December 12th: Another round of Postmedia buyouts, the Globe’s new office, and more