Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers
Your grades are in: Here’s how you scored Canada on its 2014 Free Expression Report Card
By Alexandra Theodorakidis
An important feature of our annual Review of Free Expression in Canada is CJFE’s Free Expression Report Card. Each year we assign grades to various Canadian institutions based on how well they have upheld free expression values over the past year. In our fifth Review, released earlier this month, the institutions we graded ranged from Canada’s outdated Access to Information Act to Anti-SLAPP legislation in Ontario.
Federal Government receives failing grade as freedom of expression in Canada declines
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression launches fifth Review of Free Expression in Canada
C-461: MP Kills His Own Bill, Eliminates Threat to CBC Journalism
TORONTO, ON – Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) celebrates the principled stand taken yesterday by independent MP Brent Rathgeber in killing his own private member’s bill, C-461.
"The bill would have forced the CBC to disclose journalistic, creative and programming information – including information that would jeopardize the identity of its confidential sources – that no other Canadian media outlet has to release," said Peter Jacobsen, Chair of CJFE's Canadian Issues Committee. "The public broadcaster would have seen its journalistic integrity compromised."
16th Annual Gala celebrates journalists and individuals defending free expression
Adrienne Arsenault and Beverly Thomson to co-host A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting
TORONTO - On December 4, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) will host its 16th annual gala. Four journalists will be honoured with International Press Freedom Awards: Dessale Berekhet Abraham, Mebrahtu Teclesion Berhe and Ruth Zecarias Ghebre from Eritrea, and Ahmet Şik from Turkey. Bob Thomson, from Canada, will receive CJFE’s Integrity Award.
