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Ottawa, le 21 décembre 2022 / CNW / - L'Association canadienne des journalistes (ACJ) est heureuse de publier les résultats de son deuxième sondage national annuel sur la diversité dans les salles de presse canadiennes. L'ACJ a recueilli des données sur 5 012 journalistes de 242 salles de presse de la radio, de la télévision, des médias numériques et de la presse écrite au Canada. Cela représente une augmentation par rapport aux 3 873 journalistes dans 209 salles de presse dans les résultats de l'enquête inaugurale de 2021. L’ACJ a travaillé avec des experts en données et en analyse de [...]

Mise à jour de cette histoire : https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/judge-denies-saskatchewan-request-for-publication-ban-during-saulteaux-sisters-bail-hearing/ REGINA, le 23 novembre 2022/ CNW/ - L'Association canadienne des journalistes (ACJ) demande au gouvernement de la Saskatchewan et au ministre de la Justice et procureur général de la province de retirer leur demande inutile d'interdiction de publication radicale qui empêcherait les journalistes de rendant compte de l'audience à venir sur le cautionnement d'une paire de sœurs Saulteaux dans une possible affaire de condamnation injustifiée. Les sœurs Nerissa et Odelia Quewezance doivent comparaître pour une enquête sur le cautionnement devant un tribunal de Yorkton, en Saskatchewan, les 24 et 25 novembre. Leur cas [...]

MISE À JOUR : Veuillez consulter le PDF pour la réponse du premier ministre Justin Trudeau Le 1er septembre 2022 Le très honorable Justin Trudeau, C.P., député Premier ministre du Canada 80, rue Wellington Ottawa (Ontario)  K1A 0T8 Par courriel Monsieur le Premier Ministre, Nous vous écrivons à propos du problème alarmant que posent de plus en plus la haine et le harcèlement en ligne envers les journalistes et le journalisme en tant que profession. Le problème est mondial et, outre la sécurité et le bien-être des journalistes, il menace le fonctionnement même de la démocratie. De nombreux pays élaborent actuellement [...]

WINNIPEG, MB, August 12, 2022 /CNW/ - The Canadian Association of Journalists is disturbed by new information about a neo-Nazi plot to kill a Winnipeg Free Press journalist, and calls on the RCMP to clarify what information it had obtained from U.S. police and what steps it took to investigate the murder plot. In 2019, Ryan Thorpe went undercover to expose Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Mathews as a member of neo-Nazi group The Base. Mathews subsequently fled to the U.S., where he was arrested and sentenced to nine years in prison for weapons charges and plotting violence. This week, [...]

Dear Interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell and Toronto Police Chief James Ramer, With copies to: David Lametti, Minister of Justice Marco Mendicino, Minister of Public Safety Pablo Rodriquez, Minister of Canadian Heritage Marci Ien, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth Brenda Lucki, Commissioner of the RCMP Doug Downey, Attorney General of Ontario We are writing in relation to several police reports filed in Ottawa and Toronto by journalists or columnists for the Toronto Star, The Hill Times and Global News over an incident of online abuse naming a contributor associated with each of these organizations. For the [...]

July 11, 2022- The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is pleased to announce that 199 media outlets have committed to participating in the 2022 Canadian Newsroom Diversity Survey, a landmark annual snapshot of the country’s media demographics. The survey measures the race and gender of journalists working in newsrooms nationwide. Last year, the CAJ collected data on 3,873 journalists working at 209 media outlets. So far this year, 143 media outlets have completed the survey ahead of the Friday, July 29 deadline, and another 56 news organizations have committed to providing data on the composition of their newsrooms. “Media outlets [...]

The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) will be offering free membership for a period of up to three years to any Afghan journalist who left Afghanistan after May 1, 2021 and settled in Canada.  The CAJ has spoken up in the past about Canada’s obligation to support Afghan journalists, many of whom have risked their personal safety to help Canadian reporters bear witness and report safely during the Afghan conflict. We continue to work with several industry partners to urge the federal government to fulfill its promises and to do everything in its power to provide safe passage to those [...]

For its persistent efforts to impede the free flow of information to the public, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy in the law enforcement category. The Mounties received an unprecedented double-citation from this year’s jury. The first citation was bestowed on the RCMP for their efforts to impede journalists from covering public opposition to the logging of an old-growth forest at Fairy Creek, on Vancouver Island. In particular, the jury took note of the RCMP’s efforts to obstruct journalists' access to [...]

The CAJ is concerned about recent accounts of police interference with journalists reporting in Ottawa. The following is an open letter from CAJ president Brent Jolly to Ottawa Police Service Chief, Steve Bell. If you are a reporter in need of assistance, please reach out to us.  Dear Mr. Steve Bell, interim Ottawa Police Service Chief, I'm writing to you in my capacity as national president of the Canadian Association of Journalists with some concerns about clear violations of press freedoms that have been shared with me by journalists currently reporting from Ottawa.   As you are aware, journalists have been [...]