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Weaponizing fact-checking: What Canada needs to know
A strong fact-checking industry can stop the normalization of lying and advocate for policy changes. But the weaponization of fact-checking can cause irreversible harm.
We need stronger anti-monopoly laws if we want to curb corporate influence in the news
Canada is no stranger to dynastic ownership of its media companies
No matter what your first issue is, media democracy is your second
Canadians need to face our history of violence, and we need a mediascape that can help us do this complicated, messy work.
The Monitor, July/August 2021
Media Democracy and Combatting Misinformation Download 2.9 MB “Canada is no stranger to dynastic ownership of its media companies,” writes Robin Shaban in her feature…
Applied Learning
Deconstructing the Neoliberal Template Attachments CCPA Monitor July August 2021 OSOS.pdf
Long-term care COVID-19 lessons from immigrant women health care aides
COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care homes were preventable and devastating; 25 immigrant women health care aides in Calgary recommend solutions to prevent similar outbreaks in future and better protect and remunerate workers.
Fast Facts: The Automatic Trigger For an Environmental Review Not so Automatic
What The Frack Manitoba (WTFMB) sent a 12-page letter in May, with supporting evidence, to the Federal Minister of the Environment and Climate Change and…
Provincial call for Winnipeg Public-Private Partnership for Sewage Stinks
Download 409.56 KB 7 pages In mId may, 2021 the province of Manitoba demanded the City undertake a single source contract with Deloitte LLP for…
Ontario’s plan for education hurts the most marginalized students
As classes across the province come to an end, it is time to take stock of Ontario’s approach to public education over the past year.…
Open letter: Recommendations for Building an Early Learning and Child Care System in Nova Scotia
Dear Honourable Derek Mombourquette, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, and Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s Minister of Families, Children and Social Development;…
Keys to tackling the affordable housing crisis in Nova Scotia
Like access to food, clean water, and health care, access to housing is a fundamental right to which all people are entitled.
Is Doug Ford’s government planning to cut taxes next year? Such a move would be an unmitigated disaster for Ontario
Less than a year out from the next Ontario election, campaign planning is in full swing for all parties. At this stage we know few…
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