The President of the Canadian Media Guild has confirmed to CANADALAND that a threatening message was posted in a CBC TV newsroom. The message, spelled out with children's fridge letter magnets, read: "jesse BROwn snitches get STITCHES".
January 19, 2015
By Jesse Brown
Short Cuts
#4 Ghomeshi/Rehtaeh/Ferguson
Denise Balkissoon joins to talk about how insecure employment impacts journalism, why we need to say her name, and why there's no "Canadian angle" on Ferguson.
November 27, 2014
CBC brass “encouraged” Peter’s paid oil gigs
First it was Rex, then it was Peter. Now, personal appearances at oil industry events by Amanda Lang, Mark Kelly, and Ian Hanomansing are coming to light. Were they paid too?...
February 27, 2014
By Jesse Brown
Shree Paradkar out as Toronto Star’s Ombud on Discrimination and Bias
Shree Paradkar's management role has been eliminated
December 13, 2023
By Jesse Brown
Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano on the decline of press freedom in Canada
And how the industry outsources much of its riskiest work to freelance photographers and videographers like themselves
December 6, 2021
By CANADALAND
That Time I Took on Toronto’s Sexist Restaurant Industry
Toronto restaurant Weslodge today issued an apology (of sorts) for what former pastry-chef Kate Burnham describes as chronic, tolerated, sexual harassment in their kitchen. Inspired by Burnham's bravery, I started to let loose on Twitter.
June 18, 2015
By Jen Agg
Ezra Levant’s Goons Threw Me Out of His “Open, Non-Partisan, Public” Meeting
I’d become somewhat of a thorn in Levant’s side, it was my possession of the only recording of his racist anti-Roma tirade after Sun News thought they’d effectively purged it from existence - a recording which aided in forcing him to, again,...
