The Unwitting Role of Canadian Media in Marketing Hatred
What responsibility do mainstream journalists have when reporting on the antics and ideas of far-right provocateurs?
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Does Canadian Media Have a Right-wing Bias?
While the far right appears on daily news, the far left has yet to break through the mainstream
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Omar Khadr and the Shame of the Canadian Press
Anger over the settlement has never been about law or even policy. It’s about how we see the crimes of people who do not look like us
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A New Host Won’t Save The National
CBC’s flagship news segment needs more than a cosmetic change—it needs an overhaul
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Why ‘Checking Your Privilege’ Doesn’t Work
We’re more aware than ever of even the smallest injustices—and doing nothing about them
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On Cultural Appropriation, Canadians Are Hypocrites
Citizens of this country believe in the value of protecting one’s culture—except when it comes to Indigenous people
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Thinking About Facts in the Digital Age
Our educational system and our reliance on the Internet has led to a generation that does not know what they don’t know
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How Climate Change Denial Set the Stage for Fake News
I wasn’t worried when the newspaper I worked for started publishing “climate skeptics.” I should have been
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Why Jian Ghomeshi’s New Podcast Is Absolutely Guaranteed to Fail
A friend recently asked me if his firm should consider representing the former CBC Radio host’s media business. Here’s what I told him
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The Globe’s Hypocrisy Is Showing Through Its Starched Shirt
Hit-hungry editors encourage confessional journalism. But when things get too hot, they let writers like Leah McLaren take the fall
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