Lifelong Learning Mississauga – A Deep Dive into the World of Investigative Journalism

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April 11 – May 30, 2024

April 11

Session recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpYz3GZ9iRU

What is investigative journalism?

Investigative journalism involves uncovering hidden truths. There are present-day examples. The Globe and Mail’s award-winning probe into the way Hockey Canada dealt with sexual assault allegations; The Toronto Star, The Narwhal and Canada’s National Observer produced exposés into Doug Ford government’s use of so-called municipal zoning orders in Ontario to green light development on environmentally sensitive lands, a precursor to the Greenbelt fiasco now the target of a police investigation.

Examples of investigative journalism projects

Muckrakers… or Investigative Journalists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdiUMgavSak

UNDERCOVER IN TEMP NATION
https://bit.ly/3TPvObT

Undercover Temp Nation story was a year in the making
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVF1-NjDjB0

Nursing home hidden camera investigation: Understaffed and overworked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CppkSWRdVTo

Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/hockey-canada/

Outrage over Hockey Canada’s fund to settle sexual assault claims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFdZ7QWd5J4

The Michener Awards 2022 Finalists / Les finalistes des Michener Awards 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt6CN8f117g

2018 CAJ Awards
https://caj.ca/congratulations-to-the-2018-caj-awards-recipients/

2018 CAJ Awards – CATEGORY 106 – Data journalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6JJ7EDXu9M

Announcing the 2023 IRE Award winners & finalists
https://www.ire.org/announcing-the-2023-ire-award-winners-and-finalists/
https://www.ire.org/awards/

Secret Canada
https://www.secretcanada.com/

Canadian Association of Journalists
https://caj.ca/programs/awards/

National Newspaper Awards — 2023 finalists
https://nna-ccj.ca/2022-finalists/

Michener Award finalists
https://www.michenerawards.ca/the-michener-award/finalists-and-winners/

The Canadian Journalism Foundation
https://cjf-fjc.ca/cjf-awards/2024-cjf-awards-evening/

April 18, 2024

Session recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o1D1A39DFE

The history of investigative journalism and why it became connected to a distrust in government.

Contemporary examples of investigative journalism arguably took shape in the United States during the 1960s and the Vietnam War in the seventies with the Pentagon Papers, and Watergate, respectively. These two watershed moments gave rise to what some scholars dub the golden age of investigative journalism. Canada experienced its own heyday. The arrival of Conrad Black’s National Post in 1998, the paper’s subsequent investigations into the so-called Shawinigate, and The Globe and Mail’s probe into the sponsorship scandal helped to inspire a wave of investigative reporting that persists to this day.

Links

The Pentagon Papers
https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers

Watergate Trial Tapes
https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/index.php/watergate-trial-tapes

Watergate: Inside the scandal that took down a presidency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZSGMMUC7FQ

YouTube excerpt from the movie Spotlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR8Z64v7-mU

Summary of the sponsorship program: to promote “visibility of Canada within Quebec” and not “about the Liberal Party” and “Liberal-friendly” ad agencies benefiting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpRSameiPo8

Twenty ways the National Post shaped Canada (whether Canada liked it or not)
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/twenty-ways-the-national-post-shaped-canada-whether-canada-liked-it-or-not

Sponsorship Scandal (Adscam)
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sponsorship-scandal-adscam
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sponsorship-scandal-adscam#:~:text=In%20an%20article%20published%20in%20the%20Globe%20and%20Mail%20on%2031%20December%201999%2C%20journalists%20Daniel

Are Political Scandals Shaking Our Faith?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHDTMUvIeLQ

Airbus Affair mulroney testifies in front of a MPs hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKN3JwIyfC4

Harvey Cashore on What it Takes to do investigative journalism – the fifth estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gelggKlAWOU

Harvey Cashore of the fifth estate wrote a book about the Airbus Affair
https://cjf-fjc.ca/getting-truth-mulroney-schreiber-affair/

Brian Mulroney coverup allegations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSuzyhwAt_4

The Chess Master – Brian Mulroney CBC News: the fifth estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlkEkyS3gOQ

The Big Story
https://thebigstorypodcast.ca/about/

Peter Mansbridge on how Canadians lost trust in media | The Big Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beBDGefVlPI

The Big Story – previous episodes
https://thebigstorypodcast.ca/archive/

Introducing the Pew-Knight Initiative
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/21/introducing-the-pew-knight-initiative/

PCO poll finds many do not trust the media and do not believe news outlets are closing
https://globalnews.ca/news/10191697/pco-poll-media-trust-news-outlets-closing/#:~:text=The%20polling%20on%20trust%20in%20media%20was%20part%20of%20a%20broader%20series%20of%20questions%20on%20the%20media%20in%20Canada

Think we’re nothing like Americans? Some troubling findings in Canada are emerging, poll suggests
https://www.thestar.com/politics/think-were-nothing-like-americans-some-troubling-findings-in-canada-are-emerging-poll-suggests/article_0b00a8dc-d27a-11ee-808f-67ebf39920cb.html

Think we are nothing like Americans_ Think again, poll shows.pdf

Canadians trust in federal and provincial governments on the decline, survey finds – The Globe and Mail.pdf

Trust in Traditional News Rebounds
https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/trust-traditional-news-rebounds
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-06/RTDNA_Trust_in_News-Report-2021-06-03-v1_0.pdf

April 25, 2024

Session recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZCNFt3wC5c

What role does freedom-of-information and data play in investigative journalism?

Enacted on July 1, 1983, the federal Access to Information Act gives ALL citizens – not just journalists – the right to information, either for the asking, or paying a nominal fee. Similar rights exist under provincial and municipal freedom-of-information laws. Many journalists, including yours truly, have used access-to-information laws to tell stories about deadly prescription drugs maiming and killing Canadians; violence in nursing homes; the RCMP’s deadly use of Tasers and, more recently, the Ford government’s use of special zoning orders to gobble up environmentally sensitive land for development.

Question Period Notes
https://search.open.canada.ca/en/qp/

Completed Access to Information Requests
https://open.canada.ca/en/search/ati?_ga=2.69692565.406018153.1536604353-1818651053.1522773341

Access to information – general info, including filing formal and informal requests
https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy.html

Access to Information Act: Plain Language Guide to Exemptions and Exclusions
https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy/aia-plain-language-guide.html

Search Briefing Note Titles and Numbers
https://search.open.canada.ca/en/bn/

Open Government – Proactive disclosure and access to information
https://open.canada.ca/en

Sessional papers’ catalogue
https://bit.ly/3Fmk2yR

Handgun crime stats – sessional paper
https://parl-gc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/delivery/01CALP_INST:01CALP/12152289400002616?lang=en

Ottawa spent $2.2-million fighting emergencies act court challenge on convoy protest
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ottawa-emergencies-act-court-spending/

Ottawa spent 2.2-million fighting emergencies act court challenge on convoy protest – The Globe and Mail.pdf

How Free is Canada’s Information System? | The Agenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IabFJhuaIxY

Open By Default – Investigative Journalism Foundation
https://theijf.org/open-by-default

Secret Canada – The Globe and Mail’s access-to-information search tool
https://www.secretcanada.com/

CAIRS
http://www.davidmckie.com/coordination-of-access-to-information-requests-system-cairs/

Remembering CAIRS, the federal FOI database that was quietly shut down in 2008
https://www.secretcanada.com/news/cairs-foi-tracking-database

Ontario
https://www.ontario.ca/page/how-make-freedom-information-request

Toronto
https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/access-city-information-or-records/freedom-of-information/

Completed requests: https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/freedom-of-information-requests-summary/

Statistics on the Access to Information and Privacy Acts
https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy/statistics-atip.html

Info Matters podcast
https://www.ipc.on.ca/media-centre/info-matters-podcast/

Access-to-information driven stories

Trudeau won’t comment on future of TikTok in U.S., as Liberals tap app’s influencers
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2024/04/24/trudeau-wont-comment-on-future-of-tiktok-in-u-s-says-canadian-safety-a-priority

Just a few big landlords come up, again and again, in analysis of Ontario rent hikes
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/ontario-above-guideline-rent-increases-2022-data-1.7175254
https://www.instagram.com/p/C53fF_kgj6o/
Data set used for CBC story

ACORN
https://acorncanada.org/about/

Nuclear threat from Ukraine war prompts Ottawa to update plans for catastrophe

Secret UFO memo sent to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau over mystery object shot down over Yukon in February
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12500215/Secret-UFO-memo-sent-Canadian-PM-Justin-Trudeau-mystery-object-shot-Yukon-February.html

Read ‘Secret’ memo for Trudeau on unidentified object shot down over Yukon
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/read-secret-memo-for-trudeau-on-unidentified-object-shot-down-over-yukon-1.6548510

The Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS)
https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/publications/aviation-safety-letter/issue-2-2021/civil-aviation-daily-occurrence-reporting-system-cadors

CADORS main menu
https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/cadors-screaq/m.aspx

Ottawa warns LGBTQ travellers they could be hit by U.S. state laws
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/global-affairs-lgbt-unitedstates-warning-1.6950833

Travel and your sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics
https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/health-safety/lgbt-travel

LGBTQ access-to-information request
http://www.davidmckie.com/LGBTQ travel U.S. travel advisory_A-2023-01693.pdf

Example of an Ontario request:
http://www.davidmckie.com/Ontario%20Data%202018%20Request.pdf

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, automotive theft in Canada – briefing note uploaded to DocumentCloud
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24153101-innovation-science-and-economic-development-canada-oct-19-2023-formal-release-of-briefing-note-re-automotive-theft-in-canada-as-processed-on-a-2023-00346_a-2023-00395-ja

The Access to Information Act and Proposals for Reform
https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/200555E

Access to Information Act: Plain Language Guide to Exemptions and Exclusions
https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy/aia-plain-language-guide.html

Open Government – Proactive disclosure and access to information
https://open.canada.ca/en

Completed Access to Information Requests
https://open.canada.ca/en/search/ati?_ga=2.69692565.406018153.1536604353-1818651053.1522773341

Secret Canada – The Globe and Mail’s access-to-information search tool
https://www.secretcanada.com/

CAIRS
http://www.davidmckie.com/coordination-of-access-to-information-requests-system-cairs/

Remembering CAIRS, the federal FOI database that was quietly shut down in 2008
https://www.secretcanada.com/news/cairs-foi-tracking-database

Secret Canada
https://www.secretcanada.com/

Open By Default
https://theijf.org/open-by-default

How Free is Canada’s Information System? | The Agenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IabFJhuaIxY

Access to information – general information
http://www.davidmckie.com/access-to-information/

May 2, 2024

Session recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=527qtwEnJ88

Is investigative journalism the same as regular daily journalism?

No. If investigative journalism can force governments to act (The Globe and Mail’s stories on alleged Chinese interference, leading to the public inquiry being held as we speak), then surely regular journalism can – and should — do the same. While the sheer weight of regular, daily journalism focusing on a particular topic can lead to change (The Ford government’s decision to abandon its plans for portions of the Greenbelt), it does not enjoy the same status as investigative journalism, which takes longer, is costlier and involves difficult-to-obtain records from carefully cultivated sources.

Links

What Is Investigative Journalism? – David E. Kaplan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCVU52T6Cbs

2023 National Newspaper Award winners and finalists
https://nna-ccj.ca/2022-finalists/

Canadian Association of Journalists 2023 finalists
https://caj.ca/canadian-association-of-journalists-announces-finalists-for-this-years-top-investigative-journalism-awards-competition/

2023 Finalists announced for CJF Jackman Excellence Award
https://cjf-fjc.ca/cjf-jackman-award-excellence-journalism/

Finalists for the 2023 Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism
https://www.michenerawards.ca/media-release/michener-awards-foundation-announces-finalists-for-the-2023-michener-award-for-meritorious-public-service-journalism/

2023 IRE Award winners and finalists
https://www.ire.org/announcing-the-2023-ire-award-winners-and-finalists/

Winners of the 2023 Philip Meyer Journalism Award
https://www.ire.org/2023-meyer-winners/

Old Montreal fire 2023: our story
https://globalnews.ca/video/10200502/old-montreal-fire-2023-our-story

At least seven missing after fire in Old Montreal building; father says daughter, 18, among the victims
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-at-least-six-missing-after-fire-that-destroyed-old-montreal-building/

At least seven missing after fire in Old Montreal building – PDF version

New details emerge about Montreal’s deadliest fire in decades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LRGcfdHVxg

Montreal building that burned in deadly fire had repeated safety violations, documents show
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-montreal-building-that-burned-in-deadly-fire-had-repeated-safety/?login=true

Montreal building that burned in deadly fire had repeated safety violations – PDF version

Racism, prejudice contributed to Joyce Echaquan’s death in hospital, Quebec coroner’s inquiry concludes
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/joyce-echaquan-systemic-racism-quebec-government-1.6196038

Surviving Hate
https://www.nationalobserver.com/special-reports/surviving-hate

Finalists announced for CJF Jackman Excellence Award
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/finalists-announced-for-cjf-jackman-excellence-award-826248087.html#:~:text=published%20in%20Canada%27s%20National%20Observer

Additional resources:

What is Investigative Journalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPyRTG9o60

Tips from Bob Woodward on Investigative Journalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVKGUctuoXE

May 9, 2024

Session recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHYj5hAix3A

Is investigative journalism the best way to counter disinformation?

Yes. Verification techniques employed by investigative journalists such as geolocation techniques and satellite imagery to authenticate videos and photos, expose disinformation and misinformation peddlers, be they individuals, institutions, or governments. Newsrooms have also created new workflows to ensure routine verification take place. The advent of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT heighten the need for verification. Journalism organizations and schools of journalism are teaching these techniques.

Why Ontario school boards are suing social media platforms for causing an attention crisis
https://theconversation.com/why-ontario-school-boards-are-suing-social-media-platforms-for-causing-an-attention-crisis-226887

‘Fake News’ explained: How disinformation spreads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQdzVbQlaU

We need a law against lying in politics
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/05/09/opinion/we-need-law-against-lying-politics

Welsh Senedd members consider criminalising lying by politicians
https://bit.ly/44AVhdT

This Welsh lawmaker is trying to make it illegal for politicians to lie
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2-as-it-happens/clip/16061642-this-welsh-lawmaker-trying-illegal-politicians-lie

Daniel Dale
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/daniel-dale

The Canadian Press’ “baloney meter”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/topic/Tag/Baloney%20Meter

Baloney Meter: Did the Liberals promise electoral reform only with broad support?https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/electoral-reform-liberals-monsef-1.3876002

Pierre Poilievre: Memo to corporate Canada – fire your lobbyist. Ignore politicians. Go to the people
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/pierre-poilievre-corporate-lobbyists-keep-sucking-up-to-high-tax-anti-resource-liberals

Mushroom growers, Shopify and real estate: Poilievre says lobbyists are ‘useless,’ but here’s who he meets with anyway
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/mushroom-growers-shopify-and-real-estate-poilievre-says-lobbyists-are-useless-but-heres-who-he-meets-with-anyway

Poilievre fundraisers attract business executives and lobbyists: analysis | Power & Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58ox5HlZWn8

Storyful
https://storyful.com/

‘Fake News’ explained: How disinformation spreads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQdzVbQlaU

The new climate denial: How social media platforms and content producers profit by spreading new forms of climate denial
https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CCDH-The-New-Climate-Denial_FINAL.pdf

May 16, 2024

Session recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5w9ax5g9-g

What is the state of investigative journalism, and who is doing it?

The shrinking number of newsrooms mean fewer journalists. Fortunately, there is hope. The large outlets like The Globe and Mail, the CBC and the Toronto Star are more resolute than ever to deliver agenda-driving, investigative journalism. Digital outlets like the environmentally focused Narwhal, Canada’s National Observer (I’m the deputy managing editor), the U of T-based Investigative Journalism Bureau (I’m a board member) and countless others, are also getting in on the action and gaining more subscribers. Investigations can be good for business.

A front row to our funeral’: Canadian local news coverage erodes in 2023
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/a-front-row-to-our-funeral-canadian-local-news-coverage-erodes-in-2023/article_03f106dd-3bc6-54e1-aa36-6f4514ce834f.html

Desmog about
https://www.desmog.com/about/

Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups
https://www.desmog.com/2024/05/07/andrew-coyne-helped-run-charity-that-gave-6-4m-to-climate-crisis-denial-groups/

2023 NNA Winners and Nominees
https://nna-ccj.ca/2022-finalists/

The Narwhal
https://thenarwhal.ca/

Canada’s National Observer
https://www.nationalobserver.com/

La Presse
https://www.lapresse.ca/

Changing Models for Journalism Reinventing the Newsroom
https://bit.ly/3UKfh9L

Robert Picard – New Media Models that succeed in Post-Truth Era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RO3_ZXOCQk

Jane Mayer on Investigative Reporting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hif91RAWgQ

The Future of Investigative Journalism is Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcr6Ra5Ou9Q

What Is Substack and How Does It Work?
https://blog.hootsuite.com/what-is-substack/

Local News Research Project
https://localnewsresearchproject.ca/

The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/

The Trillium
https://www.thetrillium.ca/contact/about-us

Le Devoir
https://www.ledevoir.com/

Global Investigative Journalism Network
https://gijn.org/

Institute for Nonprofit News
https://inn.org/

Local Independent Online News Publishers
https://www.lionpublishers.com/

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/

Investigative Journalism Bureau
https://ijb.utoronto.ca/

Investigative Journalism Foundation
https://theijf.org/

Banking on Climate Chaos – Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2023
https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BOCC_2023_vF.pdf

InfluenceMap
https://influencemap.org/mission
https://influencemap.org/index.html
https://influencemap.org/briefing/The-Canadian-Oil-and-Gas-Industry-and-Climate-Policy-14696

May 23, 2024

Session recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JDxfVi20Y

How is investigative journalism used to dig into history?

Some critics call journalism history on the run, superficial snapshots of specific events, devoid of context. Take your pick from recent examples: the so-called Freedom Convoy that paralyzed Ottawa and border crossings in southern Ontario and Alberta during the first two months of 2022; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accusing India of being involved in the assassination of a B.C.-based Sikh separatist. These events share historical backstories. Some freedom-convoy advocates reflected anti-government sentiments dating back to the so-called Spanish flu that killed about 50,000 people in Canada between 1918 and 1920. Allegations against the Indian government can be linked to the 1985 Air India bombing, the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history that killed everyone on board. History still resonates.

Trudeau accuses India’s government of involvement in killing of Canadian Sikh leader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS0IxFGbNY

4th Indian national charged in murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar makes first court appearance
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/4th-indian-national-charged-in-murder-of-hardeep-singh-nijjar-makes-first-court-appearance-1.6888774

Who is Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Sikh leader Indian agents allegedly killed?https://globalnews.ca/news/9969537/who-is-hardeep-singh-nijjar/

Remembering Air India Flight 182
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/r-nd-flght-182/index-en.aspx

Air India Flight 182 Bombing
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/air-india-flight-182-bombing

Air India bomb-maker gets out 30 years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2f0FcJMtA4

Kim Bolan
https://x.com/kbolan

Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away With Murder Paperback – August 1, 2006
https://www.amazon.com/Loss-Faith-Air-India-Bombers-Murder/dp/0771011318

CJF Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 Acceptance Speech – Kim Bolan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dL7ZI9jZzA

The Spanish Flu in Canada (1918-1920) National Historic Event
https://parks.canada.ca/culture/designation/evenement-event/grippe-espagnole-spanish-flu

The Spanish Flu Was Deadlier Than WWI | History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZD95Lp7ikU

Pandemic Realities: How the 1918 flu pandemic revolutionized public health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcxzSwVZxks

1918 Spanish Flu in Canada
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/1918-spanish-flu-in-canada

Atlantic Canada’s pandemic responses, 100 years apart
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/03/24/atlantic-canadas-pandemic-responses-100-years-apart

New Brunswick’s COVID-19 contingency plan outlined in a freedom-of-information request
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23583890-nb-access-to-information-request#document/p324/a2560950

Globe wins journalism excellence award for investigation into Canada’s pandemic unpreparedness
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-globe-wins-journalism-excellence-award-for-investigation-into-canadas/

B’nai Brith Canada Condemns Parliament’s Standing Ovation for Nazi SS Veteran
https://www.bnaibrith.ca/bnai-brith-canada-condemns-parliaments-standing-ovation-for-nazi-ss-veteran/

‘Without early warning you can’t have early response’: How Canada’s world-class pandemic alert system failed
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-without-early-warning-you-cant-have-early-response-how-canadas/

‘It has been hell’: Liberal MP Rota on months since Speaker resignation
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/it-has-been-hell-liberal-mp-rota-on-months-since-speaker-resignation-1.6739122

Cotler calls Nazi invite result of ‘failure of indifference and inaction’, supports unsealing Deschenes records
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/cotler-calls-nazi-invite-result-of-failure-of-indifference-and-inaction-supports-unsealing-deschenes-records-1.6584723

Deschênes Commission report
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-crimes

1987: Deschenes Commission report released
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2775518

If Not Now, When?
https://www.bnaibrith.ca/if-not-now-when/

Search in completed access to information requests for report written by Alti Rodal
https://open.canada.ca/en/search/ati?search_api_fulltext=Alti+Rodal&sort_by=year&sort_order=DESC
https://open.canada.ca/en/search/ati?search_api_fulltext=Rodal+Report&sort_by=year&sort_order=DESC

Unsealed documents reveal how Canada let in war criminals and Nazi collaborators
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-war-crimes-inquiry

B’nai Brith Pleased After Declassification of Report on Canada’s Nazi Past
https://www.bnaibrith.ca/bnai-brith-pleased-after-declassification-of-report-on-canadas-nazi-past/

The mercury poisoning Grassy Narrows First Nation was supposed to go away over time. A new study reveals why it’s worse than it should be
https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/the-mercury-poisoning-grassy-narrows-first-nation-was-supposed-to-go-away-over-time-a/article_e3ee7be4-1841-11ef-a2c1-bbda5174813c.html

Historical Hansard
http://parl.canadiana.ca/
https://www.lipad.ca/

Early Canadiana
http://online.canadiana.ca/

Library and Archives Canada
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca

LAC Ask Us a Question
https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/services/public/ask-us-question/pages/ask-us-question.aspx

Investigative Journalism Foundation — National Library and archives search
https://theijf.org/open-by-default/search?sort=score&orgs=Library+and+Archives+Canada

CBC Digital Archives
http://archives.cbc.ca/

Newspaper database
http://www.newspapers.com

ArchivesCanada.ca: Gateway to Canada’s past
https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/

Canada Year Book – historical collection
https://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb_r000-eng.htm

University of Calgary digital collections
https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/

Internet archive
www.archive.org

May 30, 2024

Session recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko_Gwz99sbc

What is the emotional and ethical toll of investigative journalism?

Investigations can be time-consuming, expensive, and strewn with emotional toll and ethical questions seldom seen in daily journalism. For instance, Kim Bolan, the Vancouver Sun reporter who continues to follow and report on the fallout from the Air India bombing, has lived under the eye of police surveillance cameras to help protect her and her family from death threats too numerous to count. I know Bolan’s case intimately because I produced a documentary about her plight when I was a member of the CBC Radio’s investigative unit. While Bolan’s case may seem extreme, threats she faces can also be experienced by journalists digging for the truth, trying to uncover wrongdoing, attempting to hold suspected criminals, lawmakers, and bureaucrats to account.

Links

Air India bomb-maker gets out 30 years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2f0FcJMtA4

Kim Bolan
https://x.com/kbolan

Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away With Murder Paperback – August 1, 2006
https://www.amazon.com/Loss-Faith-Air-India-Bombers-Murder/dp/0771011318

CJF Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 Acceptance Speech – Kim Bolan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dL7ZI9jZzA

Journalist Tara Singh Hayer’s assassination still unsolved 20 years after fatal shooting
https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/journalist-tara-singh-hayers-assassination-still-unsolved-20-years-after-fatal-shooting

Kim Bolan interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYqgl2EK_Hk

Women journalists targeted in co-ordinated campaign of hate: Canadian Association of Journalists
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/women-journalists-targeted-in-co-ordinated-campaign-of-hate-canadian-association-of-journalists-1.6045856

Co-ordinated, vitriolic online attacks against female journalists prompt police reports, calls for action from media organizations
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2022/08/17/co-ordinated-vitriolic-online-attacks-against-female-journalists-prompt-police-reports-calls-for-action-from-media-organizations/231224/

Co-ordinated, vitriolic online attacks against female journalists prompt police reports, calls for action from media organizations – The Hill Times.pdf

Rachel Gilmore
https://x.com/atRachelGilmore

Erica Ifill
https://x.com/wickdchiq

Saba Eitizaz
https://x.com/sabaeitizaz

Journalists and Online Hate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1BdSYpICSE

Backgrounder – Government of Canada introduces legislation to combat harmful content online, including the sexual exploitation of children.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2024/02/backgrounder–government-of-canada-introduces-legislation-to-combat-harmful-content-online-including-the-sexual-exploitation-of-children.html

Ottawa issues ‘sunset clauses’ for historical records access
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ottawa-recommends-timelines-for-access-to-historical-records/

Ottawa issues ‘sunset clauses’ for historical records access – The Globe and Mail.pdf