The suggestion that increased racial sensitivity by Canada’s public broadcaster is the effect of elite American liberal posturing is flatly bizarre, writes columnist Sandy Garossino.
While criticism is an integral part of journalism and democracy, there can be no tolerance for hate and harassment of journalists or for incitement of attacks on journalists for doing their jobs.
The deep impacts of the climate crisis means Canadian media needs to do a better job at illustrating the connections on seemingly disparate issues, and come up with better solutions to mitigate global warming, says journalist Sean Holman.
Canada’s National Observer has been nominated for the Jack Webster Foundation’s Environmental Reporting Award for Marc Fawcett-Atkinson’s “Canada is drowning in plastic waste — and recycling won’t save us.”
Canada’s National Observer, along with several other news organizations, is planning to file a legal application requesting the RCMP allow journalists fair access to cover the Fairy Creek blockades happening on Vancouver Island.
Since becoming president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, Brent Jolly has witnessed how COVID-19 has not only crippled the health of Canadian citizens but also damaged the health of democracy in Canada.
In examining powerful institutions like Big Oil, costly investigative journalism takes a backseat to reactive coverage, write Robert Hackett and Hanna Araza.
Neither Australia nor Canada should bend over backwards for Google or Facebook, writes Dwayne Winseck, a professor at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication.
