A box full of private emails, handed over at a gas station across from Collins Bay Penitentiary in Kingston, helped change what Canadian journalists think of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network news and current affairs division. APTN National News, which first went on air in 2002, positions itself as an alternative to mainstream broadcast news… Continue reading APTN Is Breaking Big with a Small Team of Dedicated Journalists
The Journalist Is In—and Dishing about Doctors
One morning in 2009, Brian Goldman interviewed Michael Wansbrough in the doctors’ lounge at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. They discussed a pill the two had used to get through long night shifts. Modafinil, the generic name for a drug originally developed to treat narcolepsy, has been approved for shift workers, but it’s still a controversial… Continue reading The Journalist Is In—and Dishing about Doctors
The Most Tales: Charlie Smith
Georgia Straight editor, Charlie Smith, discusses the most outlandish thing the Straight has done.
Politics journalist and family man Thomas Van Dusen Sr. dies at the age of 91
“Have typewriter, will travel.” After struggling with dementia for years, Thomas Van Dusen Sr. died at the age of 90. The Quebec native was a fixture on Parliament Hill for 45 years, as a reporter and then as a political hand for prime ministers like John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney. Though he held… Continue reading Politics journalist and family man Thomas Van Dusen Sr. dies at the age of 91
Katherine Monk Goes to the Movies and Offers the View from Her
Few journalists showed up for the press conference at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie was terrible, but film critic Katherine Monk attended because “there was actually nothing else going on.” She was one of the only women in the room. The director was just “blabbing with the boys” when a reporter asked him for… Continue reading Katherine Monk Goes to the Movies and Offers the View from Her
