Feb 8, 2017
The social media fight against Trump is a modern battle of the presses
The most powerful battalions battling against Trump's frightening presidency -- fuelled by the hard work of the press -- are fighting it out on social media.
Media Matters
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Feb 8, 2017  Understanding climate change means reading beyond headlinesDavid Suzuki Trying to communicate complex ideas and distill entire studies into eye-catching headlines and brief stories can open the door to misinformation and limited understanding. |
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Feb 7, 2017  The shattered mirrorPenney Kome If you think news media cost too much, try making decisions in the dark. |
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Feb 6, 2017  Media literacy in a post-fact agePenney Kome Block fake news by learning how to spot it. |
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Feb 1, 2017  Cockroach Zine: DIY feminist publishingTalking Radical Radio Meg Crane talks about a Winnipeg-based grassroots ecofeminist publication called Cockroach Zine. |
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Jan 30, 2017  The #ProtectPressFreedom national day of action will tell Trudeau that we are watching closelyMarie Aspiazu The combination of multiple spying scandals involving Canadian journalists as well as powerful national opposition to Bill C-51 have sparked a national day of action on civil liberties. |
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Jan 27, 2017  In Greenspon report, corporate media blames everything but itselfNick Fillmore In his new report, Greenspon has the nerve to write that Canada needs mainstream media to protect democracy. Who endorsed Stephen Harper for a fifth term again? |
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Jan 27, 2017  Canadian newspaper industry advances on Ottawa, hands out, awash in red ink and democratic platitudesDavid J. Climenhaga Now that they are reaping what they sowed, Canadian newspaper owners want taxpayers to do the heavy lifting for them. |
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Jan 26, 2017  Police action at Trump anti-inauguration protests set grim tone for press freedomKevin Metcalf Evan Balgord Activists, members of the press and legal observers surrounded by police in Washington, D.C. during the January 20 inauguration of President Donald Trump. |
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Jan 25, 2017  Lies, truth and alternative facts: Trump's bad weekendOver the course of one weekend the press has realized the game has changed, social media killed it with savage, pointed satire and fact-checking of Trump's press secretary shredded his credibility. |
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Jan 19, 2017  Disgusted that Kevin O'Leary wants to be our Prime Minister? Thank Canada's public broadcaster.Michael Stewart The CBC groomed and incubated Kevin O'Leary's persona -- a sociopathic blowhard with a desperate chub for capitalism -- and now Canada is paying the price. |
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Jan 16, 2017  In his first press conference, President-Elect Trump faced nothing but dumb questionsJohn Miller Last week's press conference was a fiasco -- and the blame rests squarely on Washington's top reporters. |
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Jan 12, 2017  CJFE publishes new resource to help you secure your digital lifeTaryn Blanchard By educating ourselves and practicing safe behaviours online, we can make sure those who would violate human rights and hoard power do not have an easy time putting all Internet users at risk. |
 CJFE Publishes New Resource: Securing Your Digital LifeGuides Ensure those who would violate human rights and hoard power do not have an easy time putting all Internet users at risk. |
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Jan 10, 2017  Meryl Streep's extraordinary speech on press freedom is just as urgent for CanadiansDuncan Pike Despite the differences between our prime minister and the incoming U.S. president, press freedom in Canada will need to be defended every bit as vigorously in 2017 as in the United States. |
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Jan 10, 2017  Legislating against 'fake news' leads us down a path to censorshipMeghan Sali The fake news phenomenon is taking over the airwaves. But what does "fake news" even mean? Is it possible to legislate against it without sending us down a censorship rabbit hole? |
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Jan 7, 2017  Ezra Levant keeps shooting himself in the foot, again and againJohn Gordon Miller The latest libel suit against Levant, filed by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, suggests he never met a fact he didn't distrust. |
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Jan 2, 2017  Desmogging journalismGreen Majority Radio The incoming Trump administration *shudder* has put a sooty fog over the climate movement, but let's not stop paying attention to the areas where we can do some good. |
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Dec 24, 2016  The transformation of Canada's media landscapeRedeye Ian Gill, a former editor at the Vancouver Sun, and Marc Edge, journalism educator and media critic, address the present and future state of Canadian media in talks recorded in Vancouver on Nov 29. |
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Dec 23, 2016  There are good reasons to question everything we're being told about SyriaShenaz Kermalli There are no good guys in this war. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't hear both sides of the story. |
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Dec 21, 2016  Washington Post creating propaganda, not exposing itRedeye An article in the Washington Post on Nov 4 claimed to present evidence of Russian propaganda in the form of the website Prop-or-Not. Veteran reporter Dave Lindorff calls the article sloppy journalism. |
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Dec 21, 2016  The year in your ear: Instant replays from the rabble podcast networkVictoria Fenner There's lots of work for us to do in the New Year to help restore this planet to health and happiness. But for now, take a break and have a listen to some of our faves from the rabble podcast network. |
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Dec 20, 2016  Revolutionary program empowers girls with media literacy and activism skillsTania Ehret #HerDigitalVisions is an afterschool program that works with self-identified girls, building media literacy skills in order to better establish power in an online world. |
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Dec 19, 2016  Right-wing media takes an Islamophobic twist on the tragic deaths of two Ottawa sistersJ. Baglow The tragic deaths of two Somali women in Ottawa was an excuse for the Right to make more #FakeNews. |
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