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Weaponizing fact-checking: What Canada needs to know
A strong fact-checking industry can stop the normalization of lying and advocate for policy changes. But the weaponization of fact-checking can cause irreversible harm.
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The media hasn’t even begun to reckon with sexual violence and neither have we
For decades, the media has been circling the issue of sexual violence, mirroring society’s discomfort.
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Why can’t we know more about what political parties know about us?
As it stands right now, political parties in Canada face little oversight or transparency requirements for the data they collect and create about Canadian citizens.
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“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
Media concentration in [the U.S. and Brazil] has reached phenomenal levels, and it is compounded by the massive spread of pernicious fake news.
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No matter what your first issue is, media democracy is your second
Canadians need to face our history of violence, and we need a mediascape that can help us do this complicated, messy work.
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Long-term care COVID-19 lessons from immigrant women health care aides
COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care homes were preventable and devastating; 25 immigrant women health care aides in Calgary recommend solutions to prevent similar outbreaks in future and better protect and remunerate workers.
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Provincial call for Winnipeg Public-Private Partnership for Sewage Stinks
Download 409.56 KB 7 pages In mId may, 2021 the province of Manitoba demanded the City undertake a single source contract with Deloitte LLP for…
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Ontario’s plan for education hurts the most marginalized students
As classes across the province come to an end, it is time to take stock of Ontario’s approach to public education over the past year.…
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Open letter: Recommendations for Building an Early Learning and Child Care System in Nova Scotia
Dear Honourable Derek Mombourquette, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, and Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s Minister of Families, Children and Social Development;…
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Keys to tackling the affordable housing crisis in Nova Scotia
Like access to food, clean water, and health care, access to housing is a fundamental right to which all people are entitled.
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Is Doug Ford’s government planning to cut taxes next year? Such a move would be an unmitigated disaster for Ontario
Less than a year out from the next Ontario election, campaign planning is in full swing for all parties. At this stage we know few…
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Fast Facts: Time to flush P3 process for waste plant
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Friday June 18, 2021 When the province of Manitoba ordered the City of Winnipeg to undertake a market…
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