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  Clayton Thomas-Muller spoke to trade unionists, social justice activists, environmentalists and youth at Toronto's Good Green Jobs Conference on Saturday. (Photo: Charlotte Ireland)

  
  

• Hundreds dream green at Good Jobs conference

  November 10, 2009

  | By Peter Hogarth and Charlotte Ireland

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  Hundreds came together for the Good Green Jobs Conference on Saturday to start building a green future that is economically viable, environmentally sustainable, equitable and just for all.

An Interesting Outlook And A Brave One

DiManno: Advice to cuckholded women, man up a bit

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Message To Iggy

Election chatter: Don't go there

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Remember these party leaders, seen posing before a TV debate Oct. 2, 2008? If Canada has another federal election in 2009, it will be the fourth in five years.

James Travers

OTTAWA

Naive and churlish as it is to mention it, something is missing from all this sudden election chatter. Forgotten or forgiven is that the last, wholly unnecessary, entirely self-serving campaign was considerably less than a year ago.

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Like A Bad Smell The Environuts Finally Showed.....

Guns, Guns, Guns.......

Malcom: Obama way wrong on US guns in Mexico

On his recently concluded first visit to Mexico as president, a week after telling Europeans...

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Enough About Galloway....We Have Layton, Kormas, Et Al

A Note to George Galloway: We owe you nothingGeorge Galloway, the radical British MP who praises terrorists, is being denied entry into Canada. Predictably, George Galloway is whining about his rights. George Galloway has rights, of course. They're just entirely irrelevant in this situation. Radical British MP George Galloway is furious because there is a country on this planet that has decided not to open its doors to him Angry in the Great White North

Let's Hold A Wake For Journalism And Celebrate Show Business

Who, what, why, where and when no longer seem to be foundation of journalism.....thank gawd for Chrissie, Rosie, Ann, Sue Ann. et all.

Journalism or cheap parlour trick? TheStar.com - News - Journalism or cheap parlour trick?

September 15, 2008

Rosie DiManno

At the recent Republican convention, a reporter recounted how he'd spent two months working as a volunteer with the Barack Obama camp during the primaries.

At first I was stunned that any journalist would so closely align himself with a candidate's campaign. Surely non-partisanship is a basic requirement of reporting, as distinct from opinion writing. But it was all a ruse, you see. The assignment had been to examine politicking from the inside out by venturing – under trench coat cloak and ballpoint dagger – into the belly of the beast. In the event, all this scribe had to show for his stealth was an autographed photo of himself with Obama. Stop the presses.

Going "undercover" to tell a story is just about the laziest form of reporting existent. The conceit is that a reporter masquerading as a citizen sign-up – or homeless person or religious cultist or domestic – can better grasp the matter by providing a first-person in-those-shoes account. But this is shortcut journalism and intrinsically dishonest.

I say dishonest not because of the core misrepresentation – duplicity is a common tactic in reporting, if only by posing as a sympathetic audience – but because a story thus told becomes more about the narrator and less about the subject. Why bother asking the relevant questions or doing the time-consuming research when the reporter can just "see for himself"?

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