Newspapers Used to be Pretty Wild

May 23, 2023

In most respects, the media has greatly evolved in the past 100 years. But in some respects, it hasn’t.

Four explanations for how BlackBerry blew it

May 8, 2023

Yes, they got killed by the iPhone. But wasn’t just the iPhone.

Karyn Pugliese (Pabàmàdiz) named new Editor-in-Chief of Canadaland

May 2, 2023

Distinguished newsroom leader joins country’s premier independent podcast network

What happens when a “Safe Third Country” is no longer safe?

April 24, 2023

As the U.S. becomes an increasingly harsh place to claim asylum, Canada is telling more people than ever that that’s where they ought to go

Gillian Findlay leaves CBC over “inequitable” treatment

April 17, 2023

In an email sent to her colleagues last week, Findlay wrote, “I am leaving the CBC because I have been unable to negotiate a remote work arrangement that is acceptable to me or in keeping with arrangements afforded peers.”

Down the Rabbit Hole: The Story of the UVic Bunnies

April 10, 2023

The University of Victoria got rid of its rabbits. Then the problems started elsewhere.

Sen. Paula Simons “unhopeful” about plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news

March 27, 2023

Government should’ve focused on “insane corporate concentration,” she says, rather than the notion the platforms are “stealing” content

“I thought this would be about hope. But we’re not at a point of hope yet.”

March 13, 2023

Instead, canadaLANDBACK offers Indigenous women’s stories of resilience

“Fear and loathing” at the Montreal Gazette

March 9, 2023

A staffer reflects on the deep cuts to Montreal’s only English daily newspaper

The unravelling of “Buy Black Birchtown”

February 27, 2023

How a plan to create a BIPOC retreat in Nova Scotia went off the rails