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The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) was extremely disappointed to learn that nearly three dozen unionized journalists at Global News bureaus spread across the country were laid off this week. According to reporting by CBC News, 35 jobs have been lost. Twenty-five positions were cut in Western Canada, with 13 in Calgary, eight in Edmonton, one in Vancouver and three in Lethbridge. The remaining 10 losses come from Ontario: three in Global’s Ottawa bureau and seven in Toronto. Corus, the parent company of Global News, has not yet issued an official statement to confirm the total number of jobs lost [...]

TORONTO, ONT., June 5, 2024 / CNW/ - The Vancouver Fire Rescue Services (VFRS) has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy in the municipal category for its efforts to charge exorbitantly high fees for access to a fire investigation report already paid for by taxpayers.In June 2022 a Value Village store on East Hastings Street was burned to the ground. According to a story published by The Tyee, a local journalist filed an access to information request to obtain a copy of the VFRS fire investigation report to learn [...]

TORONTO, ONT., Jun 1, 2024 / CNW/ - The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) has awarded this year’s prestigious Charles Bury Award to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) for their continued commitment to ensuring the safety and security of journalists working in some of the most dangerous environments around the world. “Amidst today’s cacophony of global chaos, the world needs a Red Cross for journalism,” said CAJ president Brent Jolly, in presenting the award earlier this evening at the association’s annual awards ceremony at Toronto’s Reference Library. “For decades, the CPJ has saved countless lives of journalists while simultaneously [...]

TORONTO, ONT., Jun 1, 2024 / CNW/ - The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) was pleased to acknowledge and celebrate the recipients of this year’s CAJ Awards for outstanding investigative journalism at an awards gala held earlier this evening at Toronto’s historic Reference Library. The Montreal Gazette’s Aaron Derfel was awarded this year’s McGillivray Award, which recognizes the program’s best investigative journalism published or broadcast in 2023. Derfel’s work exposed egregious failures in care within the city’s Lakeshore Hospital emergency department. His empathetic reporting showed how family members and staff members struggled with how a number of patients died in [...]

TORONTO, ONT., May 28, 2024 / CNW/ - A new report from the Inspirit Foundation, the Local News Research Project and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) aims to provide journalists and media organizations with guidance and best practices about how news organizations can explore philanthropic funding as a means of supporting the creation of quality public service journalism. The report, Funding Journalism: A Guide to Philanthropic Support for Canadian Media, is the final installment in a three-part series of resources produced by the Inspirit Foundation, the Local News Research Project at Toronto Metropolitan University, the CAJ, and Philanthropic Foundations [...]

TORONTO, ONT., May 22, 2024 / CNW/ - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston’s office has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy for its decision to walk back a plan that would have given order-making power to the province’s information and privacy commissioner. During the 2021 provincial election campaign, Houston, the leader of then-opposition Progress Conservative Party, promised voters that he would lead reforms that would overhaul the province’s transparency practices. Nova Scotia, for example, is the only province where the information and privacy commissioner is not an independent [...]