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What you should worry about when you worry about President Trump (Hint: not where Ivanka sits!) | Feb 16 2017 | David J. Climenhaga | If you want to worry about the Trump Family, think about the fact Mr. Donald now has the firing codes to 4,000 nuclear weapons.
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The social media fight against Trump is a modern battle of the presses | Feb 8 2017 | Wayne MacPhail | The most powerful battalions battling against Trump's frightening presidency -- fuelled by the hard work of the press -- are fighting it out on social media.
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Understanding climate change means reading beyond headlines | Feb 8 2017 | David Suzuki | Trying to communicate complex ideas and distill entire studies into eye-catching headlines and brief stories can open the door to misinformation and limited understanding.
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The shattered mirror | Feb 7 2017 | Penney Kome | If you think news media cost too much, try making decisions in the dark.
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Media literacy in a post-fact age | Feb 6 2017 | Penney Kome | Block fake news by learning how to spot it.
Cockroach Zine: DIY feminist publishing | Feb 1 2017 | Scott Neigh | Meg Crane talks about a Winnipeg-based grassroots ecofeminist publication called Cockroach Zine.
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The #ProtectPressFreedom national day of action will tell Trudeau that we are watching closely | Jan 30 2017 | Marie Aspiazu | The combination of multiple spying scandals involving Canadian journalists as well as powerful national opposition to Bill C-51 have sparked a national day of action on civil liberties.
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Canadian newspaper industry advances on Ottawa, hands out, awash in red ink and democratic platitudes | Jan 27 2017 | David J. Climenhaga | Now that they are reaping what they sowed, Canadian newspaper owners want taxpayers to do the heavy lifting for them.
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In Greenspon report, corporate media blames everything but itself | Jan 27 2017 | Nick Fillmore | In his new report, Greenspon has the nerve to write that Canada needs mainstream media to protect democracy. Who endorsed Stephen Harper for a fifth term again?
Activists and journalists arrested in Washington DC during Trump's inauguration
Police action at Trump anti-inauguration protests set grim tone for press freedom | Jan 26 2017 | Evan Balgord, Kevin Metcalf | Activists, members of the press and legal observers surrounded by police in Washington, D.C. during the January 20 inauguration of President Donald Trump.
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Lies, truth and alternative facts: Trump's bad weekend | Jan 25 2017 | Wayne MacPhail | Over the course of one weekend the press has realized the game has changed, social media killed it with savage, pointed satire and fact-checking of Trump's press secretary shredded his credibility.
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Disgusted that Kevin O'Leary wants to be our Prime Minister? Thank Canada's public broadcaster. | Jan 19 2017 | Michael Stewart | The CBC groomed and incubated Kevin O'Leary's persona -- a sociopathic blowhard with a desperate chub for capitalism -- and now Canada is paying the price.

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Liberal climate change plan coming, $7 billion expenditure mark_alfred said... A document was leaked to the Globe and Mail, describing a $7 billion climate change plan of the...
Why is Rabble now sidelining Babblers in its comments section? mark_alfred said... It used to be that comments on articles in Rabble came exclusively from signed in Babblers. ...
CBC ends all comments on Aboriginal stories swallow said... Uncivil Dialogue: Commenting and stories about Indigenous Peoples Shorter CBC: Because racism. in
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NDP candidate said he is personally against same sex marriage and abortion takeitslowly said... “If I win, it will be easier. As a group, when we tell them, they definitely have to listen,”...
Censorship of political opinion as we head into an election ygtbk said... Well, obviously censorship of political opinion is a bad thing. Please let us know more... in
Elizabeth May Press Gallery speech mark_alfred said... I haven't been able to find a video of the whole speech.  But there is a description of it...
Please stop closing threads where productive discussion is happening jas said... Here were the last two posts that apparently were so offensive to Catchfire: jas wrote:Being new to...

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