- Christmas In The Newsroom
Monday, December 19th 2022
People might take holidays, but the news doesn't. For your holiday listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It's the good, the bad and the funny.
A Canadaland tradition, now updated with a new story.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer)
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- (Short Cuts) Trauma-informed Journalism: A Choice and a Voice
Thursday, December 15th 2022
Former crime reporter Tamara Cherry — who now works as a specialist-for-hire on trauma-informed practices — joins Jonathan Goldsbie to consider what allegations swirling around Leah McLaren’s memoir have taught us about what could be called “trauma-indifferent” writing. They also look at how publication bans on the identities of victims can sometimes serve to re-victimize them, and how Canada seems to be on the verge of finally addressing that.This episode contains discussions of sexual assault.
Links:
- I was sexually assaulted when I was 16. Penguin Random House Canada published a memoir by one of my assailants claiming it was consensual – Zoe Charlotte Greenberg on Medium
- my response – Leah McLaren on Substack
- A Statement from Penguin Random House Canada – PenguinRandomHouseCA on Twitter
- Trauma survivors and the media: A qualitative analysis – Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being
- She wanted to tell you about her sex assault. The court has finally let her – Toronto Star
- Victim Identity and Privacy – Justice Committee report on Improving Support for Victims of Crime
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- The Taking of Wood Buffalo
Monday, December 12th 2022
The largest National Park in Canada is Wood Buffalo, currently celebrating its 100th anniversary. But the people who inhabited it for thousands of years before that want it back. Brandi Morin travels to Wood Buffalo (and to Fort MacMurray and to Fort Chipewyan) to tell the real story of the Dene, the Cree, and the land they were expelled from to make way for Wood Buffalo National Park.
Further reading:
Wood Buffalo National Park: an Untold Story. An account from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.
http://acfn.woodbuffaloexpulsion.ca/
Wood Buffalo and the American Bison: Get to Know This Place and an Amazing Animal. (Doc Planet documentary referenced in this episode.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxQKVfIxzE
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Rakuten, Oxio, Freshbooks, Pig Iron
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- (Short Cuts) Happiness Is A Banned Gun
Thursday, December 8th 2022
Hunters are mad about the new big list of guns to be banned by the Liberals - but why should we care if it helps reduce gun violence? And the not so credible Blacklock’s reporter’s story about being evicted from the Press Gallery. Grant LaFleche co-hosts.
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Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)
Guest: Grant LaFleche
Further reading:
- How Bill C-21 turned from banning handguns to hunting guns - CBC
- Daughters of Morgan Harris call on Ottawa for help to find mother - APTN
- Blacklock’s Eviction By Police - Blacklock’s Reporter
- How an Ugly Feud Between Two Reporters Might Change Parliament’s Press Gallery Forever - Canadaland
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- The Food Bank Industrial Complex
Monday, December 5th 2022
It’s the holidays, and on your TV or radio you’re inevitably hit with ads telling you that this is the season of giving - it’s time to donate to a food drive. Conservative politicians, Liberal politicians, banks, broadcasters, grocery stores: they all are united in this message.
With the promotion of food banks from virtually every institution and elected official in the country, you might conclude that they are the best solution to food insecurity.
Except - they’re not. Food bank use in Canada is at an all-time high, and experts, community organizers, even staff at food banks say that the growing need just shows how our government has failed to address poverty and hold corporations to account.
In this episode:
Kitty Raman Costa, Executive Director, Parkdale Community Food Bank
Dr. Valerie Tarasuk, Principal Investigator at PROOF, University of Toronto.
Jade Guthrie, Community Learning and Engagement Manager, FoodShare
Professor Dennis Raphael of York’s School of Health Policy and Management
Further reading:
- HungerCount 2022, Food Banks Canada
- Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests, by Marco Chown Oved, Toronto Star
- Why are Canadians in need still forced to rely on food banks? By Jade Guthrie, rabble.ca
- Take the money and run: how food banks became complicit with Walmart Canada’s hunger producing employment practices, by Zsofia Mendly-Zambo, Dennis Raphael and Alan Taman
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