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Upbeat media coverage of MAID may trigger mentally ill to request death
Illustration by Grok
Two weeks ago, the CBC ran an article about a middle-aged Torontonian named Claire Elyse Brosseau.
48-year-old Brosseau suffers from a multitude of mental health issues and has done for decades. She has spent the past...
Taxpayer-funded mockumentary exposed; most legacy media steer clear of graves dissidents
Frame grab from Frances Widdowson’s video
The history of journalism - and its use for entertainment purposes - is filled with trickery.
Many people will fondly remember Rick Mercer’s Talking to Americans program in which we all shared lau...
Minister mixes his funding forecasts as media mega millions become billions for broadcasters
Six billion dollars.
That’s how much, in a moment of confusion, Culture and Identity Minister Marc Miller said it will cost the federal treasury if he confirms the expansion of the Journalism Labour Tax Credit to include licensed radio and...
Lilley and Menzies on finding a dignified path forward for news media and a restoration of trust
The Rewrite launched just over two years ago to patrol journalism and shed light on the Canadian media’s growing dependence on the government it is expected to hold to account. The latter was in large part due to the fact that subsidized me...
News, hyperbolic alarmism and sports are the new journalism staples
Almost everyone knows the quote “everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” No one seems to know, though, whether it came from Mark Twain or his neighbour, Charles Dudley Warner.
The Rewrite is a reader-supported...
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Three decades in newspapers, 1 National Newspaper Award. 10 years as a CRTC Commissioner/vice chair, six years running the Royal Sask Museum, Alberta Centennial medal, Saskatchewan Jubilee medal.
Freelance writer. My interests are catholic. My drink of choice is an Old Fashioned, just in case you're buying.
Peter Stockland has been Publisher-Editor of The Catholic Register, Publisher of Convivium Magazine and Editor-in-Chief of the Montreal Gazette. He is in the MFA program at St. Thomas University, Houston TX.
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