Examining issues including privacy and anonymity on the Internet, cyber surveillance, whistleblowers, access to information, and collaborative journalism, CJFE's third annual Review of Free Expression in Canada provides an overview of issues facing Canadians from coast to coast.
CJFE is calling for volunteers to help spread the message of World Press Freedom Day, and help us launch the 2011-2012 Review of Free Expression in Canada across the country.
Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, renowned human rights advocate, is entering his ninth week of a hunger strike he began on 8 February to protest his life sentence in prison for peacefully expressing his right to freedom of expression. Sign the petition calling for his release.
March 12 marks the annual World Day Against Cyber Censorship, a day to advance and celebrate a free Internet as an open window to the world and denounce the attacks made on the free flow of information online.
Halfway through his CJFE/Scotiabank Journalism Fellowship, Luis Horacio Nájera has provided us with a brief update on his time at Massey College so far. Applications for the 2012/2013 fellowship are now closed.
Three journalists with Canada’s state-owned CBC TV, who set off from Toronto today to cover a dispute between indigenous groups and Canadian and other international mining companies in Panama, fear that they may not be allowed into the country because a CBC fixer who was supposed to prepare their visit was denied entry 10 days ago.
Looking for the best way to stay organized in 2012? Compact, durable, and filled with information about free expression, our organizer is just the thing to start the new year off right.
All human rights defenders and those in detention as a result of the National Safety laws enacted in Bahrain should be freed immediately, said a delegation of six international rights organisations visiting the country this past week to investigate freedom of expression.
The 14th annual CJFE Gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting, on Thursday November 24, 2011, held at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto, was a great success! Once again, the evening was a mix of celebration and sombre reflection, as we looked back on a year of great bravery, and great sacrifice.
Friend of CJFE, Marian Botsford (Chair, Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC), PEN International) is writing from Bahrain where she is following Naser's case on behalf of CJFE and Amnesty International.
