Journalists

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …

publicising “abuse” of the welfare system, but even journalists of a different political persuasion have not … opinion pieces on workhouses.30 By the 1840s, journalists were covering and reporting discussions in Board …

The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by …

members of these groups more readily agree to meet journalists and researchers. Just a few years before, the … researcher. The amalgam between researchers and journalists and the anti-science posture of several far-right … monitor mainly street groups and skinhead gangs; journalists who have been on the far-right “beat,” and former … critical distance, by academics and the media. Journalists have played an instrumental role in popularizing …

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …

Church of Canada—Clergy— Biography. | LCSH: Journalists—Canada—Biography. | LCGFT: Autobiographies. Classification: … was consensual but obviously inappropriate. Journalists from the popular press crowded at the school … got to know him, Johnny — like so many other journalists — was working on a subject that held a dark dom- … articles and becoming familiar with the work of journalists I particularly admired. Back then, only two universities …

Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …

fortunate to work with the best of democratic journalists and then the best of academic colleagues. I …

101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Do you know who was in the first on-screen nude scene in a Canadian feature film? Or which David Cronenberg …

interview game show where a panel of Canadian journalists had to identify a guest and why they would be …

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

in the form of neo-traditionist intellectual journalists of the right, such as Ross Douthat (in The New …

The federal government has introduced three new social programs since 2021, increasing permanent spending. This analysis investigates if the media questioned whether the government’s new programs observed its own fiscal …

far as to claim that it would be a way for journalists to hold the government to account: “And that … them. Summary It has been well documented that journalists tend to focus on strategy and process and not … unreasonable for the public to expect that Canadian journalists critically evaluate these programs, particularly … Public Policy in Canada, Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News, and Cross-Media Ownership …

The federal government has introduced three new social programs since 2021, increasing permanent spending. This analysis investigates if the media questioned whether the government’s new programs observed its own fiscal …

not unreasonable for the public to expect that journalists critically evaluate these programs, particularly …

At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it …

60 To Paul de Saint-Victor and the various journalists taking up his phrase, it must have seemed con- …

Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …

contem- poraries and commentators over time. Some journalists and historians have described the famine as …