March 5, 2014 – Global News
The company whose northern Alberta spills have been oozing bitumen for 10 months nonstop has asked the province to let it start high-pressure steam operations less than a kilometre away from one of the spill areas.
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Would tougher NCR rules keep Vince Li from reoffending?
Feb. 28, 2014 – Global News
The federal government seized on the news this week that Vince Li, who beheaded a man on a Greyhound bus six years ago, has been granted unescorted trips outside the forensic psychiatric hospital where he’s been in custody.
How safe is your wastewater? Environment Canada won’t tell you
Feb. 26, 2014 – Global News
Is your community’s wastewater treatment safe? The federal government won’t say.
A column for J-Source
Feb. 20, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, J-Source.ca
Why bother with data-driven journalism?
Because there’s more data out there than ever before and not nearly enough people asking it questions.
Because trend stories aren’t good enough. Nor is telling readers something they already know.
Because tweeting, posting to YouTube and selectively releasing datasets do not a transparent government make.
Because your role as reporter is more microscope than conduit.
We asked what CBC paid for the Olympics. Here’s what we got back:
Feb. 4, 2014 – Global News
How much is Canada’s public broadcaster paying for the Olympics?
That information is not for public consumption.
Ontario’s new minimum wage: A 75-cent raise?
Jan. 27, 2014 – Global News
Ontario could tie its minimum wage retroactively to four years of inflation and still leave the province’s lowest-paid workers well below the poverty line.
Immigrant unemployment: The more education, the bigger the gap
Jan. 10, 2014 – Global News
Friday’s employment numbers may’ve been lacklustre. But the job search is far bleaker for new Canadians: Years after the recession officially ended, you’re still more likely to be out of a job if you’re an immigrant.
And the gap between immigrants and Canadian-born workers is biggest for those with the most education: University graduates who’ve been in Canada five years or less are more than four times more likely to be unemployed than their Canadian counterparts.
Undercover FBI agent helped investigate VIA terror plot suspects: Court documents
Dec. 20, 2013 – Global News
Hundreds of pages of warrants investigating VIA terror suspects were released Friday – but much of their contents remain under publication ban.
Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier were arrested last spring, accused of plotting to attack a train.
The newly released documents indicate officers investigating Jaser and Esseghaier worked with an undercover FBI agent who was in communication with the suspects.
Legal challenges could be Northern Gateway’s undoing
Dec. 20, 2013 – Global News
Some time in the next six months, Ottawa will probably give Northern Gateway the go-ahead.
And that’s where it runs into trouble.
Where do you set the minimum wage?
Dec. 16, 2013 – Global News
What’s the bare minimum you need to get by?
Across Canada, the minimum wage won’t get you there.
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