College of the North Atlantic Journalism Program

06/05/2026

“Indigenous people are not just here in the U.S. They’re not just in Canada. These lines were drawn to divide Indigenous lands. We exist as Indigenous peoples globally.”

The Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA) has spent more than four decades advocating for press freedom, mentorship and more accurate coverage of Indigenous communities. What began as an effort to protect tribal media has evolved into a global network supporting journalists, students and news org...

06/02/2026

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05/26/2026

Rachel Gilmore flirts with the line at times, but she has been quite successful in making journalism more approachable. She goes after followers where they are instead of expecting them to come to her. Gilmore's below column exposes a new challenge for journalists.

By Rachel Gilmore
Bubble Pop

Lately, when I’m scrolling online and following our political discourse, I have this really unpleasant feeling in my belly.

I’m finding myself increasingly horrified at how low some politicians are willing to go.

They’re willing to mislead the public despite being clearly fact-checked, they’re willing to downplay the accusations of residential school denialism, and they’re willing to lend their credibility to an increasingly worrying cast of characters.

But there’s something that makes this topic difficult to talk about, as a journalist: it’s an issue that is almost unique to the Conservative Party.

That’s not to say that Liberals or other politicians don’t ever lie, mislead or amplify a bad source. But the bulk of this problem — and the constant refusal to course correct — is really dominated by Conservatives.

Because of that reality, it’s near-impossible to report on this dangerous trend without being smeared as partisan, or anti-Conservative.

I actually think this was part of what made me so unpopular with the right wing starting years ago: I was debunking dogwhistles and conspiracies. It was just a fact that both were more commonly deployed by the political right, so I tended to have more of those fact-checking pieces focused on conservative politicians. Then folks would scream about my critical reporting on conservatives, as if I should manufacture a false balance to pretend this is happening equally across the political spectrum — when it isn’t.

But it’s an issue that hasn’t improved in recent years. If anything, it’s worsened.

We have a political leadership hopeful in B.C. touting the work of Mario Zelaya in “explaining how policy decisions affect all of us in very real ways.”

That’s the same Mario Zelaya who AFP has repeatedly fact-checked as he spread misleading claims. Zelaya also got a personal call from Pierre Poilievre thanking him for his work.

Conservatives have freaked out over a media industry representative who works in entertainment — fictional entertainment — saying he has Carney’s back. This clip was used to discredit news media as partisan, despite the man having no ties to the news industry. MPs refused to correct this lie, instead repeating the claim several times over.

Many of the same Conservative MPs are now attacking CBC and APTN over a parody show. They’re accusing the show (which isn’t affiliated with the news arm of either organization) of “targeting conservatives” — but it targeted individuals accused of downplaying the horrors of residential schools. Perhaps, to those MPs, those groups are one and the same.

I could list more examples, and in today’s video, I will. But the overarching question I ask in today’s piece is this: where are ethics going in Canadian politics? How low are we willing to go?

05/20/2026

The Eganville Leader is a legendary community paper in Ontario. They are looking for a news editor. The contact information is below:

John Hueston
Co-Publisher The Eganville Leader
c/o The Aylmer Express
390 Talbot Street East
PO Box 160
Aylmer, Ontario
N5H 2R9

Phone: 519-773-3126
Toll-Free: 1-800-465-9433
Fax: 519-773-3147
E-mail: [email protected]
https://www.eganvilleleader.ca/

05/06/2026

Congratulations to CNA journalism alum Mary Kate O'Neill, Bailey Howard and Cameron Kilfoy for their AJA nominations.
Good luck. You make us proud.

05/05/2026

https://nna-ccj.ca/national-newspaper-awards-announce-2025-winners/

The Nunatsiaq News won its first National Newspaper Award for a special section published in Inuktitut and English – one of 27 awards announced at a […]

05/05/2026

https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2026

04/27/2026

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-shooter/

An attacker cut short the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but reporters in formalwear quickly pivoted from celebration to coverage

04/20/2026

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02/06/2026

"This is how press freedom erodes. Not with a dramatic crackdown, but with a shrug."
https://www.rtdna.org/news/the-arrest-of-journalists-is-a-democratic-alarm-bell-were-ignoring-it?fbclid=IwY2xjawPyz5tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe6heG_cHILFqLJGIp7NK_O_7Rwt37Li7RYQ3mqaB5hWHX5OuNXmid_SKMixg_aem_ZzdcF5tbSAjzZ3Ll3jo1qQ

In recent weeks, we’ve seen journalists detained and arrested, court proceedings pushed behind closed doors, and regulatory pressure creep closer to editorial decision-making. Each incident is explained away as unique. Procedural. Technical. An exception. But taken together, they form a clear and ...