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An illustration of five Canadian media company logos sitting in a courtroom. The five companies are the Globe and Mail, CBC-Radio, Toronto Star, Postmedia, and The Canadian Press.

Big Tech, Big Lawsuit

“Big tech, again and again, shows itself to be an industry that moves with entitlement and lack of care,” wrote author Michael Melgaard in a contribution for The Walrus in 2023. Not long before the magazine’s interviews with Melgaard and other Canadian writers, The Atlantic’s Alex Reisner had exposed the contents of Books3, a text database used to train LLaMA, Meta’s large language model (LLM) for AI-generated text.

Let’s Get Personal

Back in December, I shared a personal experience of a microaggression in an episode of We Met U When . . . , a documentary podcast series that explores the power of news stories and the experiences of the people in them. I recorded this experience unexpectedly while wrapping up a phone interview with a professor about a Black scholar she mentored.
An Illustration of a person’s hand holding a newspaper, flipping through the pages.

In the Year 2025…

Journalism is facing a tough choice: evolve or die. Journalism has always thrived on asking tough questions, so here’s one for the industry itself: What should we do better this year?

The Last Dance

Just a couple of decades ago, dance journalism was common in Canadian magazines such as The Dance Current, Dance International, and Dance in Canada, with dance reviews and dancer profiles present in major publications and radio shows.
Gabby McMann (right) and Carrie Davis (left) are hip-hip. McMann wears a white tank top and a floral satin skirt. The colors are pink, magenta, black, blue, orange and green. The skirt has embroidered flowers and leaves with green and pink, and larger blue tulip petals with a pink flower bud. To the left, Davis wears an orange Saagajiwe Indigenous Studio orange t-shirt that has a blue, green, orange, logo shaped symmetrically in an embroidered stitched pattern in the centre.

Journalists: Report Indigenous Joy

A CBC News article recently caught the attention of Gabrielle McMann, an Ojibwe journalist, advisor and lecturer on Indigenous reporting, and a member of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation—but not for the right reason.