The Myth of the Echo Chamber

Elizabeth Dubois, University of Ottawa and Grant Blank, University of Oxford “Information warfare” may be a top concern in the next Canadian election cycle, as a report on a workshop by CSIS suggests, but some fears about how people get their political information and the impact of social media are overstated. In

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How the Media Failed Colten Bushie

By Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia and Mary-Lynn Young, Associate professor, Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia What can the events surrounding Colten Boushie’s death, the trial verdict and its media coverage tell us about the role of journalism and

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The Pitfalls of Short-Circuited Project Reviews

Mark Winfield is professor of environmental studies at York University and co-chair of the university’s Sustainable Energy Initiative. This piece originally appeared on Policy Options. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Dwight Ball announced in late November a public inquiry into how the economically disastrous Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project was approved. In reality, there is

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