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    #74 Suicide, Silence and the Star
    How the media handled a reporter’s death by suicide, controversy over a VICE documentary and the Chinese Foreign Minister berates a reporter.
    June 13, 2016
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    Hodan Nalayeh, founder of IntegrationTV, co-hosts.

    A reporter at the Toronto Star has died by suicide, which caused the paper’s union to call for an official, third-party investigation. Jesse and Hodan discuss how the Star handled Raveena Aulakh’s death.

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    VICE’s documentary This Is Dixon investigates whether gangs are a myth in a Toronto community. But Hodan says the doc just perpetuates steroetypes about the Somali community.

    The Chinese Foreign Minister berated a Canadian reporter for asking about human rights in China.

    Hodan’s Twitter: @HodanTV

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