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Canada Plummets On Index Of Press Freedom

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 01.31.2013 | Canada Business
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Canada has dropped ten spots on Reporters Without Borders’ annual press freedom index on concerns about government access-to-information policies an...

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Watching the Watchdog: Inside a War Correspondent's Head

Tim Knight | Posted 09.16.2012 | Canada
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Tim Knight

In this edition of One On One, Mansbridge does a competent job debriefing the distinguished CBC foreign correspondent Susan Ormiston, back in London after her latest foreign assignment. So why do journalists like Susan Ormiston volunteer to go to all these places where people kill each other, and too often kill journalists who might as well have targets painted on their flak jackets?

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Canada's Press Freedom: Better than Iran's but Worse than Finland's

Peter Worthington | Posted 04.10.2012 | Canada
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Peter Worthington

To the surprise of some, Canada is 10th on the scale of press freedom in the world, as determined by Reporters Without Borders (RWB). A lot of Canadians would probably expect us to be number one, but that's only because journalists here aren't often assassinated, arrested, or beaten up by government thugs.

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