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2. Rollin' papers: Newspaper coverage of cannabis legalization in Canada.
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Aversa, Joseph, Cleave, Evan, Jacobson, Jenna, Hernandez, Tony, Dizonno, Stephanie, and Macdonald, Michael
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LEGALIZATION , *NEWSPAPERS , *ATTRIBUTION of news , *REPORTERS & reporting , *PUBLIC opinion , *DRUG legalization - Abstract
With Canada becoming the first G20 country to legalize the recreational use of cannabis, there has been increasing interest in the emergence of this new marketplace. Newspaper framing helps to shape public opinion on legalization and news sources play a role in determining how the public perceives the use of cannabis. This research analyzes how mainstream newspapers reported on the legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada in the years before and after legalization (between 2016 and 2019). Using a content analysis of 1,390 cannabis-related articles, 11 dominant reporting themes are identified. Over time, there was a shift from negative and sensationalist cannabis news coverage toward more balanced and progressive framing. The findings identify the influence of editorial political stance on thematic coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Widening Notions of Personhood: Stories and Identity
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Schwartz, Karen D.
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In the course of the author's research into media representations of vulnerability and disability at end of life, she came across two local news stories, both thoroughly reported on by the "Winnipeg Free Press". In November 1998, doctors at a long term health care facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba insisted on entering a "do not resuscitate" order on the chart of 79 year old Mr. Andrew Sawatzky. In December 2007, doctors in the intensive care unit of a Winnipeg hospital opted to disconnect the ventilator and remove the feeding tube of Mr. Samuel Golubchuk, an 84 year old man. Doctors evaluated both Mr. Sawatzky and Mr. Golubchuk by assessing their levels of awareness and consciousness. Neither man was able to speak, although relatives of both men claimed each was capable of communicating and expressing his wishes. For this reason, both of these medical decisions went against the wishes of their respective families, who then sought judicial intervention to reverse them. At the heart of both these cases was the pivotal debate over the entitlement to the designation of "person" and the moral status that it confers. In this paper, the author focuses on this debate and its conflicting narratives. She aims to deconstruct the newspaper accounts of the different narratives in the cases of Mr. Sawatzky and Mr. Golubchuk. She then uses the news accounts to demonstrate the implications that such narratives can have on the lives of these two vulnerable people, as well as people with intellectual disabilities. She begins by describing the law and policy for providing life-sustaining treatments in Manitoba. She follows this description with a summary of the above-mentioned two cases and continues with a brief review of the literature highlighting the relevant philosophical, ethical and medical concepts which are central to understanding these stories. She concludes this paper with a discussion of the implications that these different narratives can have for people with intellectual disabilities. (Contains 1 footnote.)
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- 2009
4. Mary Miles Bibb: Education and Moral Improvement in the 'Voice of the Fugitive.'
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Tripp, Bernell E.
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An ardent antislavery supporter and teacher, Mary Elizabeth Miles Bibb (c.1820-1877) knew the significance of an education and the purpose it would serve, in the classroom and in the newsroom, in establishing a better life for blacks prior to the Civil War. In 1847, her antislavery involvement allowed her to meet her future husband, Henry Bibb, who became well known throughout the United States and Canada as a primary participant in the antislavery movement. The Bibbs joined thousands of blacks who escaped to Canada in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Mary solicited funds from American abolitionists to start a school, and Henry raised money to start a newspaper, the "Voice of the Fugitive," which appealed to fugitive slaves who found sanctuary in Canada. Education was a recurring topic in the "Voice," probably due to Mary's influence. Henry Bibb went on several extended antislavery lecture tours, leaving Mary to oversee all the operations of the newspaper. Mary used the guise of the editor to speak out on issues of moral elevation, religion, education, the influence of the church, slavery, and food and shelter for newly arrived fugitives. Financial trouble plagued the "Fugitive," and when the offices burned in October 1853, the paper suspended publication. Henry Bibb died in 1854, and Mary moved to Windsor, established another private school, and eventually married Isaac N. Cary, who shared her enthusiasm for moral and social causes. While given little credit for her activities on the "Voice," Mary Bibb Cary significantly influenced the role the newspaper played in shaping the lives of black society in the U.S. and Canada. Promoting education as vital to black freedom and well-being, she used her own education to speak out at a time when women were expected to remain silent and so opened doors for both women and blacks that might otherwise have remained closed. (Eighty-one notes are included.) (RS)
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- 1993
5. Canada Sees the World through U. S. Eyes: One Case Study in Cultural Domination.
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Scanlon, Joseph
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This paper attempts to document the cultural influences which the United States exerts over Canada because of Canadian reliance on foreign news agencies, especially news services that are located in the United States. The print material used to document this paper was drawn from a 1967 study of news flows for the Canadian Department of External Affairs and a 1969 content analysis of 30 Canadian dailies for the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media. The broadcast material was gathered in a series of interviews done especially for this paper. The data in this case study is presented in both narrative and table form and the extent to which Canadian newscasts follow the American format and content when they are recorded for rebroadcast is examined. This news policy is especially significant when news is translated into French, but contains an American perspective on world events. The paper concludes with a five-point plan to solve the problem of Canadian reliance on foreign agencies for news. (RB)
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- 1973
6. Corpus Approaches to Language Ideology
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Vessey, Rachelle
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This paper outlines how corpus linguistics--and more specifically the corpus-assisted discourse studies approach--can add useful dimensions to studies of language ideology. First, it is argued that the identification of words of high, low, and statistically significant frequency can help in the identification and exploration of language ideologies within corpora. The frequency of linguistic patterns and discursive representations may reveal trends in explicit representations of languages (i.e. metalanguage) and elisions where assumptions are made about the role of languages (i.e. implicit language ideologies). Secondly, collocation data can aid researchers in gaining greater insight into the ways in which languages are being represented (or not) within sites identified through frequency and statistical significance. Finally, the use of dispersion plots can help researchers to identify sites with high- and low-frequency items for closer analysis. The paper concludes with some of the limitations of the corpus linguistic approach in studying language ideologies. Examples are drawn from a larger comparative study of French and English language ideologies in corpora of Canadian newspapers.
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- 2017
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7. Fixing Higher Education through Technology: Canadian Media Coverage of Massive Open Online Courses
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Dumitrica, Delia
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The popularization of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been shrouded in promises of disruption and radical change in education. In Canada, official partnerships struck by higher education institutions with platform providers such as "Coursera", "Udacity" and "edX" were publicized by dailies and professional magazines. This print coverage of MOOCs captures the contemporary ideological struggle over the meaning of both technology and higher education. By means of a thematic analysis of the English Canadian print coverage of MOOCs (2012-2014), this paper shows that both online educational technologies and higher education are constructed through an economic frame. However, this frame does not go unchallenged. Where newspapers construct MOOCs as an easy fix for an allegedly inefficient and outdated higher education system, professional magazines question the relationship between technology, higher education and money. These different representations point to the efforts of academic communities to develop alternative social imaginaries of education as public good within a dominant neoliberal framing of MOOCs and of the higher education system. In conclusion, the paper reflects on how the academic community can create alternative discursive spaces by shifting the discussion of MOOCs from economic concerns to civic goals.
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- 2017
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8. Accountability Synopticism: How a Think Tank and the Media Developed a Quasimarket for School Choice in British Columbia
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Simmonds, Michael and Webb, P. Taylor
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This paper describes how a locally developed school ranking system affected student enrolment patterns in British Columbia over time. In developing an annual school "report card" that was published in newspapers and online, the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute created a marketplace for school choice by devising an accountability scheme that highlighted and concealed visibility asymmetries between schools. Against the backdrop of a shifting political landscape, report cards helped focus the public's attention on school achievement scores that identified low-, mid-, and high-performing schools. A quasi-market for education emerged in the non-place of language and discourse when school ranking results became the basis by which parents made decisions about where to send their children to school. When student achievement data is used to identify British Columbia's "best" and "worst" performing secondary schools in this way, standardized assessment practices may be considered high-stakes.
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- 2013
9. Debating Global Warming in Media Discussion Forums: Strategies Enacted by 'Persistent Deniers' and Implications for Schooling
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Bowen, G. Michael and Rodger, Valerie
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Newspapers and other media are often used as a source of information on science issues, both by the public and teachers in classrooms. Over six months, we collected discussions of global warming issues from the online forums of a national newspaper. Our analysis of these contributions suggests there is a considerable effort in these forums, especially from certain individual posters, to detract from the arguments in support of global warming by using a variety of strategies. This paper summarizes strategies employed by these frequent posters and discusses how we see many of them emerging from traditional classroom science environments. (Contains 1 note.)
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- 2008
10. Paper usage increases.
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Pattillo, Gary
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PAPER products , *PAPER products industry , *PRINTING equipment , *NEWSPAPERS , *INTERNATIONAL trade - Abstract
The Canadian Pulp and Paper Association reports in 2004 that Canadian exports of paper products are continuing to increase, and 'world demand is projected to rise by 50% over the next 20 years.' Some of the indicators mentioned in the association's annual review are the 200 million personal printers sold since 2001 and the new daily newspapers being provided free to subway riders in major cities.
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- 2004
11. Coverage of Jamaica in the U.S. and Canadian Press in 1976: A Study of Press Bias and Effect.
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Cuthbert, Marlene and Sparkes, Vernone
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In 1976, Jamaican government officals claimed that their island had received an especially negative press in the United States during 1975 and 1976 with serious consequences for the economy and tourist trade. This accusation was not made about Canadian coverage, with one major exception, and Canadian tourism to Jamaica increased during those years while U.S. tourism fell off considerably. A study was conducted with the hypothesis that coverage of Jamaica by the Canadian press was more positive than that of the U.S. press and that coverage of social change was less often presented in a cold war context in the Canadian press. An analysis of six daily newspapers in the U.S. and three in Canada showed that negative coverage in the two countries was about the same but that U.S. coverage did tend to emphasize the cold war context more than the Canadian coverage did. In addition, interviews with travel agents in both countries revealed that Canadian travel agents discounted negative news much more than their U.S. counterparts. It is suggested that media coverage had less effect on tourism than did the mediated influence of travel agents. (TJ)
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- 1978
12. International News in the Canadian and American Press: A Comparative News Flow Study.
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Sparkes, Vernone M. and Robinson, Gertrude Joch
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This study tested the power of "elite nation" factors (trade, population, and gross national product) to predict the amount of foreign news coverage for specific countries. A composite week for the first quarter of 1975 was randomly drawn, and ten Canadian and twenty-nine United States newspapers were coded for all news items reported on those days, yielding the total number of column-inches of foreign news coverage in each country, with a breakdown by country or geographical area. As expected, a rather large discrepancy was found between Canadian coverage of the United States (49% of foreign news) and United States coverage of Canada (1.72%). However, elite nation factors proved to be poor predictors for the United States foreign news coverage, and only one of the factors, trade, showed any predictive ability for the Canadian press. The results suggest that the elite nations themselves do not base their foreign news coverage on such matters as trade relations, population distribution, or economic development. (Author/RL)
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- 1976
13. A Canadian Woman Journalist Covers the Spanish-American War: 'Kit' in Cuba 1898.
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Freeman, Barbara
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Kathleen Blake Watkins Coleman, known to her readers as "Kit," was a late nineteenth-century journalist who tried to escape the limitations of the woman's sphere in journalism through travel writing, while still complying with the expectation that she describe her adventures from a "woman's point of view." Among her many accomplishments, "Kit" went to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American war for the Toronto "Mail and Empire," a stunt the newspaper hoped would boost circulation. Coleman's work in Cuba was recognized because of her determination to overcome almost insurmountable opposition by American authorities and many male colleagues who refused to recognize her as a professional and allow her to travel with the troops as most correspondents did. She was pressured to produce stories from a woman's angle, which meant that her work was seen as marginal. It also appears that her newspaper did not pay her full remuneration for her services. While (like her male colleagues) paying some lip service to American military interests, "Kit" was able to condemn the war from a "female" perspective--expressing concern, for example, for the soldiers on all sides of the conflict. "Kit's" enduring appeal throughout her 25 years as Canada's most successful woman journalist was due to her combination of "masculine" and "feminine" characteristics--she was outspoken, intellectual, emotional, and maternal. (Seventy-five notes are included.) (SR)
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- 1989
14. Representations of Language Education in Canadian Newspapers
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Vessey, Rachelle
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This article examines the salience and content of representations of language education in a corpus of English- and French-Canadian newspapers. Findings suggest that English-Canadian newspapers foreground official-language education issues, in which public schools are represented as the primary means by which Canadians can gain equal access to social resources. In contrast, French-Canadian newspapers do not foreground language education issues; in the few cases where these are discussed, the focus tends to be specifically on immigrant acquisition of French. Since representations of these issues reflect beliefs and attitudes toward languages, the paper concludes that they also reveal the successes and failures of discourses concomitant with Canada's language policy.
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- 2017
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15. Problemes et methodes de la lexicographie quebecoise (Problems and Methods of Quebec Lexicography).
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International Center for Research on Language Planning, Quebec (Quebec)., Cormier, Monique C., Francoeur, Aline, Cormier, Monique C., Francoeur, Aline, and International Center for Research on Language Planning, Quebec (Quebec).
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Papers on lexicographic research in Quebec (Canada) include: "Indications semantiques dans les dictionnaires bilingues" ("Semantic Indications in Bilingual Dictionaries) (Johanne Blais, Roda P. Roberts); "Definitions predictionnairiques de 'maison, batiment, et pavillon'" ("Pre-dictionary definitions of 'house, building, and pavillon'") (Helene D'Amours, Pierre Martel); "Ma nation, ton peuple, notre pays. Analyse lexicographique d'un corpus sociolinguistique quebecois" ("My Nation, Your People, Our Land. Lexical Analysis of a Quebec Sociolinguistic Corpus") (Nadine Vincent); "Le dictionnaire et l'ideologie dominante: le portrait des groupes marginaux" ("The Dictionary and Dominant Ideology: The Portrait of Marginal Groups") (Matthew Ball); "Traitement et evolution des termes medicaux dans un dictionnaire de langue generale" ("Treatment and Evolution of Medical Terms in a General Language Dictionary") (Isabelle Bigras, Isabelle Simard); "Quelques reflections sur le traitement de lexies semantiquement apparentees dans les dictionnaires bilingues" ("Some Reflections on the Treatment of Semantically Linked Words in Bilingual Dictionaries") (Sophie Campbell, Aline Francoeur, Rene Gemme); "Les marques d'usage et le lexique des journaux quebecois" ("Usage Markings and the Lexicon on Quebec Newspapers") (Pierre Cardinal, Jean-Pierre Jousselin); "Problematique de marquage des emprunts de sens" ("Problems in Marking Borrowed Meanings") (Ines Escayola, Marie-Claude Lavallee, Sylvie Thiboutot, Marie-France Langlois); "Etude comparative des particularites lexicales du francais et de l'anglais au Canada" ("Comparative Study of the Lexical Peculiarities of Canadian French and English") (Chantale Grenon-Nyenhuis, Catherine Ouimet); and "L'utilite des exemples dans les dictionnaires biligues francais-anglais pour les etudiants de traduction" ("The Usefulness of Examples in French-English Bilingual Dictionaries for Translation Students") (Virginia Martin-Rutledge). (MSE)
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- 1997
16. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Journalism Historians' Association (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 3-5, 1991).
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American Journalism Historians' Association.
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The 24 papers in this collection discuss a variety of issues concerning the history of journalism in many countries. The papers are: "The East-Indian American Press" (Arthi Subramaniam); "The World's Oldest Magazine and Its Place in the Evolution of British Periodicals" (Sam G. Riley); "Donna Allen and the Women's Institute: A Feminist Perspective on the First Amendment" (Maurine H. Beasley); "Warning Visions: A Case Study of Three Canadian Documentaries" (Maureen J. Nemecek); "The Press and the Execution of the Rosenbergs" (Arlene Tyner); "Ethnic Community or Workers' Solidarity? Class and Ethnicity in the Foreign Language Press" (Jon Bekken); "Struggle for Free Expression: Case Studies of African-American Journalists" (Maurine H. Beasley); "Rediscovering Zona Gale, Journalist" (Elizabeth Burt); "E.L. Godkin and the Meaning of Journalism" (Edward Caudill); "Parliament and Expression of Opinion: 17th-Century England" (Kenneth Campbell); "'The Freeman' to 'The Tribune': Black Journalism in the Colonial Bahamas" (Howard S. Pactor); "Victorian Proletarian Spiritualism: God, Workers and Canadian Labour Journalism" (David R. Spencer); "A Pennsylvania Newspaper publisher as Captain of 'Gideon's Army': J.W. Gitt, Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party" (Mary A. Hamilton); "War, Women and Work: A Study of Gender Displays in Advertising Images during World War II" (Charles Lewis and John Neville); "The Only Good Indians: A Comparative Examination of Press Coverage of the War with the Southern Cheyennes (1864-1868)" (Patricia A. Curtin); "The Valley Tan: An Early Free Press Challenge in the Tops of the Mountains" (Jack A. Nelson and Ed Adams); "An International View of the Professionalization of Journalists: The International Congress of the Press, 1894-1914" (Ulf Jonas Bjork); "The Railroad Industry and Its Early Periodicals, 1831 to 1850, Exploring the History of the Business/Trade Press" (Kathleeen L. Endres); "The Mormon Problem: The Press Reacts to Mormons, Polygamy, and 'Reynolds v. United States' in 1879" (David A. Copeland); "How Advertisers Defined the Role of Women during World War II: An Analysis of Advertisements Appearing in 'Ladies Home Journal', 1940-1945" (Margaret Mary Gike); "Grim 'Slices of Life'--Disaster Reporting in the Gilded Age" (Paulette D. Kilmer); "The Newspaper Industry's Campaign against SpaceGrabbers, 1917-1921" (Susan M. L. Caudill); "American Propaganda in Britain during World War I" (James D. Startt); and "Greater Distance = Declining Interest: Massachusetts Printers and Protections for a Free Press, 1783-1791" (Carol Sue Humphrey). (RS)
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- 1991
17. Proceedings of the American Journalism Historians' Association Conference (Salt Lake City, Utah, October 5-7, 1993). Part I: Newspapers and Journalism.
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American Journalism Historians' Association.
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The Newspapers and Journalism section of the proceedings of this conference of journalism historians contains the following 22 papers: "'For Want of the Actual Necessaries of Life': Survival Strategies of Frontier Journalists in the Trans-Mississippi West" (Larry Cebula); "'Legal Immunity for Free Speaking': Judge Thomas M. Cooley, 'The Detroit Evening News,' and 'New York Times v. Sullivan'" (Richard Digby-Junger); "The Dilemma of Femininity: Gender and Journalistic Professionalism in World War II" (Mei-ling Yang); "'An American Conspiracy': The Post-Watergate Press and the CIA" (Kathryn S. Olmsted); "Female Arguments: An Examination of the Utah Woman's Suffrage Debates of 1880 and 1895 as Represented in Utah Women's Newspapers" (Janika Isakson); "Back Channel: What Readers Learned of the 'Tri-City Herald's' Lobbying for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation" (Thomas H. Heuterman); "The Canadian Dragon Slayer: The Reform Press of Upper Canada" (Karla K. Gower); "The Campaign for Libel Reform: State Press Associations in the Late 1800s" (Tim Gleason); "Partisan News in the Nineteenth-Century: Detroit's Dailies in the Reconstruction Era, 1865-1876" (Richard L. Kaplan); "'Pikadon (The Flash-Boom)': A Study of Press Coverage of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6-12 August, 1945" (Thomas William McCaskey); "A Preliminary Profile of the Nineteenth Century U.S. Peace Advocacy Press" (Nancy L. Roberts); "'A Receipt against the Plague': How Colonial Newspapers Presented Diseases and Their Remedies for Their Readers" (David A. Copeland); "A Grim Elation: Press Reaction to the Atomic Bomb, August 1945" (Cara D. Runsick); "Sun Yat-Sen, the Press, and the 1911 Chinese Revolution" (Xuejun Yu); "Walter M. Camp: Reporter of the Little Big Horn" (Warren E. Barnard); "Captive Audiences: Handwritten Prisoner-of-War Newspapers of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition and the War Between the States" (Roy Alden Atwood); "An Applied Social Science: Journalism Education and Professionalization, 1900-1955" (Brad Asher); "Savannah's Little Watchdog Weekly: The 'Georgia Gazette,' 1978-1985" (Ford Risley); "Exposing the Foundation: The Cultural Underpinnings of the Hutchins Commission" (Jane S. McConnell); "'The Truth about What Happens': Katherine Anne Porter and Journalism" (Jan Whitt); and "The Joint Operating Agreement between the Daily Newspapers in Knoxville, Tennessee--A Unique Situation" (Susan R. Siler). (RS)
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- 1993
18. Positioning Mathematics Education Researchers to Influence Storylines
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Herbel-Eisenmann, Beth, Sinclair, Nathalie, Chval, Kathryn B., Clements, Douglas H., Civil, Marta, Pape, Stephen J., Stephan, Michelle, Wanko, Jeffrey J., and Wilkerson, Trena L.
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The NCTM Research Committee identifies key influences on mathematics education that are largely outside the domain of the academic world in which most mathematics education researchers live. The groups that are identified--including the media, companies and foundations, and other academic domains--affect the public's perception of mathematics and mathematics education. They argue that mathematics education researchers can intervene to shift these storylines and positionings and have greater impact on policy, practice, and public perception in the future.
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- 2016
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19. The 'Bended Elbow' News, Kenora 1974: How a Small-Town Newspaper Promoted Colonization
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Anderson, Mark and Robertson, Carmen
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By exploring the ways in which Kenora's daily newspaper spoke to the deep-seated, endemic, systemic anti-native racism woven into the fabric of Canadian society since its inception as a political entity in the nineteenth century, this paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the nature of Canada's colonial imagination as expressed in the popular press. Kenora, after all, can lay claim to near complete Canadian ordinariness. While the images discussed in this article speak to a single newspaper's yearlong coverage, with special emphasis on a charged yet discrete incident, there are grounds to suggest that the "Miner & News" depictions of aboriginals typified (and typify) Canadian newspaper representations of natives since Confederation. To begin with, as noted, scholars have identified the mainstream press as a central instrument in structuring and naturalizing colonialism. In short, then, one may argue that the "Miner & News," in addition to serving its business masters and the local reading audience with the "news," also contributed to the Canadian imperialism by promoting racist notions about the alleged inferiority of aboriginal peoples. Further, that the images reflect the racialized image patterning common in other colonial societies, as noted, and that the press has been found to serve a key role in the promotion and affirmation of colonialism in such societies, again as noted, shows that the "Bended Elbow" narrative qua news story also very much served to add yet another brick in the wall of the Canadian colonial project. The research presented and discussed here, albeit limited temporally and by geography, also fits neatly within historical molds of press treatment of natives in Canada, though more work needs to be done. (Contains 99 notes.)
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- 2007
20. Reading Youth Writing: Grazing in the Pastures of Cultural Studies and Education
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Hoechsmann, Michael
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Reading youth writing is an avenue for the youth where they can express their opinions and ideas. In this article, the author questions whether practitioners in the field of cultural studies are actually engaged in this particular dialogue. The author has examined several articles written by young people from "Toronto Star." He realized that while those writings are most often incomplete "readings" of everyday life, they came with socio-historical urgency. He also observed that while individual pieces of writing represent profoundly different class, race and gender positions, hybrid moments bring them together in shared tropes such as body image, media stereotypes, peer pressure, parental and other forms of authority, generalized bias towards youth, antiracism, global consciousness, sexuality, concern about education and jobs, and social change. (Contains 6 notes.)
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- 2004
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21. Databases and Search Services North of the Border.
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Janke, Richard V.
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This paper presents an overview of the major Canadian online systems, which account for approximately 5% of information vendors and databases worldwide. Also described is DATAPAC, Canada's national telecommunications network, and DATAPAC's X.75 interface with TELENET, TYMNET, UNINET, and France's TRANSPAC. The online systems described include: (1) CAN/OLE, the online system of the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), Ottawa, which provides access to some 20 databases of which 9 are Canadian; (2) IDRC/MINISIS, an information retrieval system developed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, which is used as a training system because it can be searched without charge by all Canadian online search centers; (3) QL/SEARCH, the online system developed by QL Systems Ltd., Ontario, which provides access to over 60 databases with emphasis on Canadian information; (4) INFO GLOBE, the full-text online version of the Globe and Mail (Toronto), one of Canada's leading newspapers; and (5) INFORMATECH/QUESTEL, a completely French-language online system operated under the auspices of the Quebec government's Ministry of Communications. The importance of Canadian online and telecommunications sytems, both to Canadian searchers and others, is emphasized. A list of the addresses of Canadian online services and a 16-item bibliography are also provided. (Author/ESR)
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- 1982
22. The Southam Press Acquisition of 'The Windsor Star': A Case Study of Change.
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Romanow, W. I. and Soderlund, W. C.
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To investigate changes attendant upon the 1971 transfer of ownership of "The Windsor (Ontario) Star" from an independent owner to Southam Press Limited, owner of several Canadian newspapers, a content analysis was conducted of newspapers from the four-year period of independent ownership and the four-year period of Southam Press ownership surrounding the date of the transfer. Approximately 40 issues from each year were analyzed. All editorials and features on the editorial and opinion-editorial pages were examined with respect to area of interest, source of content, and direction of partisan political commentary. Editorial cartoons, letters to the editor, and front page lead stories were also examined. Among the major conclusions were that the change of ownership has not resulted in change in area of interest in any consistent pattern; that there has been a significant increase in the use of Canadian, rather than United States, sources in both front page leads and feature materials; and that more politically-oriented editorial and feature content is now being presented. The results suggest that the chain-ownership question cannot be dealt with adequately by the divergent hypotheses (socially desirable or undesirable) evident in the literature, but that the changes may be evaluated positively or negatively, depending on one's view of the role of a newspaper in a community. (GW)
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- 1977
23. Newspaper in Education: New Readers for Newspapers.
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Newton, Ray
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Starting with the observation that unless young people begin reading the newspaper for information rather than entertainment they are not likely to sustain a newspaper reading habit into adulthood, this paper goes on to describe a national movement that has begun in the United States to take the newspaper into the public schools. An estimated 600 newspapers in the United States and Canada participate in the Newspaper in Education (NIE) program, intended to encourage use of newspapers as an educational tool. The newspapers are used in virtually every discipline, and the NIE program provides additional resource materials, teaching tips, and external assistance to any participating teacher. Objectives of the program include improving writing, reading and oral communication skills; enriching all content area courses; and familiarizing students with their community and nation, as well as the world--thus helping them to become better citizens. The NIE program provides a variety of services to participating teachers and schools, including (1) newspapers at reduced rates, (2) NIE activity booklets, (3) teacher workshops, (4) newspaper tours, (5) in-class presentations, (6) parent brochures and workshops, and (7) college credit courses. While studies evaluating the impact of the program present mixed results, one comprehensive study indicated that students in the program felt they were likely to be regular newspaper readers as adults, and that the students recognized the importance of freedom of the press. (Materials illustrating how the newspaper can be used in the classroom are included.) (HTH)
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- 1985
24. Topic Today. Report for 1974/75.
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Gunn, Angus M.
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Presented in this document is a report of an innovative approach to social studies through the use of newspapers in the classrooms in Canada. Topic Today is a one-page newspaper of current affairs geared to grades 6 through 8, but applicable to secondary grades, developed to make available resources of current affairs found in regular newspapers and magazines. The development of this resource is based on the premise that textbooks are outdated, news magazines are unpredictable, and regular newspaper coverage is rarely concentrated enough to be of real benefit for a single course. Topic Today brings together on a single page pictures, maps, statistical data, references to Canada, and descriptions that focus on a single current issue and place, with reference to specific classroom courses. The questionnaire that was sent to 300 participants to evaluate and aid in the future issues of the paper is also contained in the document. An extract of a research study of the newspaper is included which shows the results of student knowledge and attitudes of cultural differences after using Topic Today. (Author/JR)
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- 1975
25. Argumentation in the Canadian House of Commons on the Issue of Nuclear Weapons for Canada.
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Jones, John Alfr
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The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 forced the Canadian House of Commons to consider whether Canadian forces in NORAD and NATO were effective without nuclear warheads on special weapons systems. This paper provides an overview of the debates and their milieu, identifies the issues involved, and analyzes the effects of the argumentation. The shifting and reformulating of opinions by the nation's press as the debate progressed demonstrated that oral arguments were a means of challenging and informing opinion-making groups such as newspaper editors and reporters. The debate resulted in the defeat of the Conservative party, the return of the Liberal party to power, and a change in Canada's nuclear weapons policy. (Author/AA)
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- 1976
26. Effective Alumni Marketing Research: Theory Put to Use or, Practicing What We Preach.
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Greene, Robert C. and Weldon, Peter K.
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A telephone survey of 328 graduates of a major Canadian university strongly supports continuation of the alumni newspaper, and found that: features are popular with specific subgroups; willingness to pay for the publication shows support for the paper but not a subscription fee; paid advertisements are acceptable; the university is popular in specific regions; and women alumni are extremely supportive. (MSE)
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- 1996
27. Arch Dale and Prairie Politics in the 1930s.
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Levine, Allan G.
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Demonstrates how political cartoons may be used to teach Canadian history using the cartoons of Arch Dale, who worked for the Winnipeg Free Press between 1927 and 1954. Provides six cartoons and a collection of study questions for classroom use. (JDH)
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- 1987
28. Accident Journalism and Traffic Safety Education: A Three-Phase Investigation of Accident Reporting in the Canadian Daily Press.
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Wilde, Gerald J. S. and Ackersviller, Melody J.
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A study examined the potential for development of a traffic accident-reporting form in the Canadian daily press that strengthens concern for road safety in the general population and enhances knowledge, attitudes, and behavior leading to greater safety. The investigation was conducted on three levels: a content analysis, a readership analysis, and a field experiment of a modified accident-reporting style. First, 12 daily newspapers in Ontario and Quebec were investigated on the manner in which they reported on traffic accidents. Very small percentages of accidents that actually occurred with little information on causes were found to be reported. Secondly, telephone interviews with 392 holders of valid driver's licenses in Kingston, Ontario, yielded data on motivations and reactions to the reading of traffic accident reports in the daily paper. Thirdly, a prototype of a more educational accident journalism was developed and implemented by the daily newspaper in Kingston; Belleville served as control. After 8 weeks structured telephone interviews with approximately 1200 licensed drivers showed significant changes in people's opinions of accident reporting, in their perceptions of the magnitude of the accident problem and traffic accident risks, and in the attribution of accident causes. (YLB)
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- 1981
29. Literacy. LeaderPost Special Report.
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This special report is a look at illiteracy across Canada and in Saskatchewan. It includes stories by Peter Calamai, a national correspondent with Southam News, and by Regina Leader-Post reporters Kevin O'Connor, Zena Olijnyk, Ron Petrie, and Beverley Spencer. The publication also includes stories by the Canadian press. Calamai's stories are the result of almost a year of intensive research, based on a national literacy survey by Southam News. Topics discussed in the articles include the following: the survey, who are illiterates, the schools' role, the immigrant, literacy pays, learning behind bars, government gibberish, bluffing it, getting help, a short story, native needs, failed attempts, programs that work, read all about it, making the grade, and warring ideologies. A section on literacy instruction using the newspaper lists numerous teaching strategies for the regular classroom, English as a second language, and adult education. (KC)
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- 1987
30. Facts about Newspapers '86: A Statistical Summary of the Newspaper Business.
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American Newspaper Publishers Association, Washington, DC.
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Attesting to the continuing economic strength and institutional vitality of the newspaper business in 1985, this booklet presents a statistical summary of the industry in the United States and Canada. The statistics cover a wide range of topics, including (1) number of daily newspapers, (2) daily newspaper circulation, (3) daily newspapers by circulation groups, (4) single copy sales prices, (5) daily newspaper advertising volume, (6) newspapers' share of advertising expenditures, (7) ratio of advertising to total content of daily and sunday newspapers, (8) United States newsprint consumption compared to national economic growth 1970-85, (9) general newspaper prices in the eastern U.S. per metric ton, (10) newspaper employment compared to total U.S. employment 1947-85, (11) employment patterns of journalism school graduates, (12) U.S. weekly newspapers and circulation 1960-86, (13) U.S. daily newspaper circulation of the 20 largest papers in 1985, (14) the 20 largest U.S. newspaper companies in 1985, (15) total number and circulation of Canadian daily newspapers 1946-85, (16) the growth of newspaper advertising and the Canadian economy 1962-85, and (17) comparison of various Canadian advertising media in 1984 and 1985. (HOD)
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- 1986
31. Funkbrucke Conference Call.
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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Support Branch. and Wicke, Rainer E.
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A guide to the use of radio and telecommunications to promote international student communication describes a project in which teenagers from Cologne (West Germany) and Edmonton (Alberta) discuss their concerns via radio as well as provide descriptions of life in West Germany and Canada. Transcripts from two radio programs--one in English and one in German--illustrate the exchange of ideas on how to solve international problems such as pollution, international warfare, and starvation in the Third World, and discuss topics such as lifestyles, school, leisure time, and hopes for the future. Other materials included are photographs of the students and production staff, teaching tips, worksheets, and newspaper articles about the project. The materials are suggested for use in German language teaching, social studies instruction, and promotion of German language study. (MSE)
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- 1989
32. Does Illiteracy Run Rampant in Newspapers?
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Kreutzweiser, Erwin
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Examines cliches, vogue words, redundancies, ungrammatical constructions and lapses in style occurring in various Canadian newspapers. (HTH)
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- 1981
33. An energy superpower? Building the case through an examination of Canada's national newspapers coverage of oil sands.
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Way, Laura
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NEWSPAPERS , *OIL sands , *ADVERTISING campaigns , *DISCOURSE analysis - Abstract
In 2006, Stephen Harper boldly pronounced Canada as an "emerging energy superpower" to a variety of international audiences, including the G8 meeting. While this label is likely more representative of a marketing campaign than reality (Hester, 2007), it is important to understand the degree that the Canadian media have embraced it. This paper determines the extent to which Canada's national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and the National Post, adopted the "energy superpower" frame in their reporting about Alberta's oil sands over a two-year time period. The oil sands were selected as a case study because proponents of Canada as an "energy superpower" cite the development of Alberta's oil sands as a key component of the country's new-found status. To discover how this new label was intertwined into the broader discourse on Canada/U.S. energy relations, I use content and discourse analysis to examine newspaper stories over 300 words in length that contain "oil sands or tar sands" in the lead paragraph and/or headline. While my study found few instances of the national newspapers using the term in relation to oil sands development, it did find the national newspapers more closely adopted Harper's underlying ideas about what an energy superpower was than the more activist state advanced by Hester. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
34. A paper king.
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Winter, James
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FREEDOM of the press , *NEWSPAPERS - Abstract
Editorial. Comments on the influence on press freedom of Conrad Black's dominance in Canada's newspapers. Scope of Black's clout in the newspaper industry; Concerns on Black's neo-conservative political beliefs on media integrity; Importance of diversifying media ownership.
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- 1995
35. Why the daily papers `pick up the rear' rather than set the national agenda.
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Byfield, Ted
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JOURNALISM , *NEWSPAPERS - Abstract
Opinion. Investigates the failure of daily newspapers in Canada to take the forefront in news gathering and agenda setting. Possible causes for the poor performance of newspapers, including the rise of the electronic media and the focus on journalistic objectivity; Reference to a story related in the book `Alberta Was My Beat: Memoirs of a Western Newspaperman,' by Fred Kennedy.
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- 1997
36. Papers move.
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NEWSPAPERS - Abstract
Reports on the relocation of the Vancouver Sun and Province newspapers in Canada. Where papers are relocating to.
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- 1996
37. Toronto Papers Vie for Readers In Bitter Battle.
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Cherney, Elena
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NEWSPAPERS , *CANADIAN newspapers , *MASS media , *ECONOMICS ,COMPETITION - Abstract
Reports on efforts to sell newspapers in Toronto, Ontario. Fierce competition between the 'Globe and Mail,' 'The National Post,' 'The Toronto Sun' and 'The Toronto Star'; Beginnings of the competition when Conrad Black could not acquire the 'Globe and Mail' in 1998; Financial problems with all four newspapers, which have slashed prices and increased staff in attempts to compete.
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- 2001
38. Canada Weighs Relaxing Paper-Ownership Rules.
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NEWSPAPERS , *FOREIGN investments , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Reports on the plans of the Canadian government regarding the restriction against foreign ownership of country's newspapers. Plans of Hollinger Inc. with its smaller newspapers; Opinion of Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canada, on the plans of the Canadian Government.
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- 2000
39. Torstar ends Sun Media bid, but gets four papers.
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Neuwirth, Robert
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NEWSPAPERS - Abstract
Reports on Quebecor Inc.'s agreement to spin off to Torstar Corp. four of Sun Media's Ontario broadsheets. Amount that Torstar agreed to pay for the newspapers; Canada's largest newspaper group; Plan by the two companies to work together on future deals.
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- 1998
40. English and Chinese papers team up.
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NEWSPAPERS - Abstract
Discusses `Toronto Star' newspaper's purchase of an equity interest in the parent company of Sing Tao Daily, a Chinese newspaper printed in Canada. Terms under agreement; Chinese readers' interest in Canadian news reporting.
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- 1998
41. Southam readies Canada-wide paper.
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NEWSPAPERS - Abstract
Reports that Southam, Canada's number 1 newspaper, could launch its new national newspaper by the spring of 1997. Reasons for Southam's creation of another newspaper.
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- 1997
42. Resistance, mobilization and militancy: nurses on strike.
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Briskin, Linda
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HISTORY of strikes & lockouts , *STRIKES & lockouts , *CARING , *DISMISSAL of employees , *HEALTH care reform , *NEWSPAPERS , *NURSES , *PUBLIC opinion , *RESEARCH funding , *SEXISM , *LABOR unions , *QUALITATIVE research , *PROFESSIONALISM , *THEMATIC analysis - Abstract
BRISKIN L. Nursing Inquiry 2012; 19: 285-296 Resistance, mobilization and militancy: nurses on strike Drawing on nurses' strikes in many countries, this paper explores nurse militancy with reference to professionalism and the commitment to service; patriarchal practices and gendered subordination; and proletarianization and the confrontation with healthcare restructuring. These deeply entangled trajectories have had a significant impact on the work, consciousness and militancy of nurses and have shaped occupation-specific forms of resistance. They have produced a pattern of overlapping solidarities - occupational solidarity, gendered alliances and coalitions around healthcare restructuring - which have supported, indeed promoted, militancy among nurses, despite the multiple forces arrayed against them. The professional commitments of nurses to the provision of care have confronted healthcare restructuring, nursing shortages, intensification of work, precarious employment and gendered hierarchies with a militant discourse around the public interest, and a reconstitution and reclamation of 'caring', what I call the politicisation of caring. In fact, nurses' dedication to caring work in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries may encourage rather than dissuade them from going on strike. This paper uses a trans-disciplinary methodology, qualitative material in the form of strike narratives constructed from newspaper archives, and references to the popular and scholarly literature on nursing militancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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43. Telling stories: News media, health literacy and public policy in Canada
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Hayes, Michael, Ross, Ian E., Gasher, Mike, Gutstein, Donald, Dunn, James R., and Hackett, Robert A.
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MASS media , *HEALTH , *NEWSPAPERS , *HEALTH policy , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors - Abstract
Abstract: Mass media are very influential in shaping discourses about health but few studies have examined the extent to which newspaper coverage of such stories reflect issues embedded in health policy documents. We estimate the relative distribution of health stories using content analysis. Nine meta-topics are used to sort stories across a range of major influences shaping the health status of populations adapted from the document Toward a Healthy Future (Second Report on the Health of Canadians (1999)) (TAHF). A total of 4732 stories were analyzed from 13 Canadian daily newspapers (10 English, 3 French language) using a constructed week per quarter method. Stories were sampled from each chosen newspaper for the years 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2001. 72% (n=3405) of stories in this analysis were from English-language papers, 28% (n=1327) were from French-language papers. Topics related to health care (dealing either with issues of service provision and delivery or management and regulation) dominated newspaper stories, accounting for 65% of all stories. Physical environment topics accounted for about 13% of all stories, the socio-economic environment about 6% of stories, personal health practices about 5% of stories, and scientific advances in health research about 4% of stories. Other influences upon health identified in TAHF were rarely mentioned. The overall prominence of topics in newspapers is not consistent with the relative importance assigned to health influences in TAHF. Canadian newspapers rarely report on socio-economic influences frequently cited in the research literature (and reflected in TAHF) as being most influential in shaping population health outcomes. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2007
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44. THE VIEW FROM HERE.
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Gasher, Mike
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JOURNALISM research , *NEWSPAPERS , *GEOGRAPHY , *INTERNET - Abstract
This paper posits journalists as cartographers who, through their reporting, produce a news geography which maps the world and sketches the contours and connections of their communities within that world. Employing a methodology adapted to the analysis of newspaper sites on the World Wide Web, this paper reports on an intensive news-flow study of the on-line editions of Canada's three national newspapers - the Globe and Mail, the National Post and Le Devoir - to determine whether these newspapers are taking advantage of the Internet's technological capacity to expand their news geographies beyond conventional borders. We argue that not only do these newspapers portray a highly circumscribed world, but they fail to exploit fully even the national space of Canada, thus reinforcing the conventional news value of proximity - physical, cultural or emotional closeness - as a strongly determinant factor in mapping their news worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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45. Newspaper Coverage of Early Professional Ice Hockey: the discourses of class and control.
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MASON, DANIEL S. and DUQUETTE, GREGORY H.
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NEWSPAPERS , *MASS media , *HOCKEY teams , *SPORTS teams , *NEWSPAPER publishing - Abstract
This paper explores the manner through which the International Hockey League (IHL) and its operations were portrayed in newspaper coverage in the larger urban centers of eastern Canada, where hockey had its developmental and organizational roots within the middle- and upper-middle-class community, and compares it to coverage that appeared in newspapers in the communities that hosted IHL teams, which were communities driven by industry and had large working-class populations. To do so, a comparison of newspaper coverage of the IHL in local IHL newspapers with reports published in newspapers in major Canadian cities strongly associated with the origins, development, and organizational control of ice hockey, is undertaken. The development of the sport of ice hockey in both Canada and the USA, and newspaper coverage generally, and hockey specifically, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is reviewed. Representative examples of the coverage of IHL games and operations over the course of its three-year operations are then provided. Having compared the coverage of games and operations of the IHL between IHL and Canadian-based newspapers, the paper concludes with a discussion of how business competition, competing ideologies toward high-level sport, and class-based perceptions regarding violence, aggression, and masculinity can affect the newspaper coverage of sporting events.
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- 2004
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46. Increasing circulation? a comparative news-flow study of the Montreal Gazette 's hard-copy and on-line editions.
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Gasher, Mike and Gabriele, Sandra
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PERIODICALS , *NEWSPAPERS , *ELECTRONIC publications , *ONLINE journalism , *DIGITAL media , *JOURNALISM - Abstract
International news-flow research has repeatedly identified significant imbalances in the global exchange of news among regions of the world. With the emergence of thousands of news sites on the World Wide Web, and the corresponding ability of news audiences to access these sites, the Internet offers the technological capacity to globalize media content. This paper seeks to test that possibility by exploring the way one Canadian daily newspaper, the Montreal Gazette , occupies the geography of the Internet with its on-line news operation. The paper reports on an exploratory comparative news-flow study of the Gazette 's hard-copy and on-line editions to determine whether on-line publishing has prompted the Gazette to alter the boundaries of its news coverage. While the paper concludes that, indeed, the Gazette 's website consistently carried far more international news items than its hard-copy edition, it also notes that this distinction is largely explained by the website's very heavy reliance on wire-service copy and its emphasis on sports news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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47. Tracing Corporate Influences on Press Content: a summary of recent NewsWatch Canada Research.
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HACKETT, ROBERT A. and UZELMAN, SCOTT
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PRESS , *CORPORATE culture , *MASS media , *NEWSPAPERS - Abstract
Drawing from Shoemaker and Reese's hierarchical model of influences on media content, this paper summarizes content analyses by NewsWatch Canada on different dimensions of potential corporate influence on Canadian newspaper content: (1) the offsetting tendencies of content rationalization and duplication in chain papers; (2) newspaper coverage of their own parent companies, and of the media industry; (3) the influence of newspaper editorial positions on news coverage; (4) some potential impacts of advertising; (5) potential double standards related to politics and social class. While the research is exploratory, there is evidence of systemic corporate influence, particularly on the second, third and fifth dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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48. A History of Suicide Reporting in Canadian Newspapers, 1844-1990.
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Richardson, Gemma
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SUICIDE , *NEWSPAPERS , *HISTORY of communication , *PRINT culture , *JOURNALISM - Abstract
This paper explores Canadian reporting on suicide and the ways it changed over 150 years. Archival research on the reporting practices of two long-standing newspapers presented here shows that suicide was not always taboo in the media. In fact, the silencing and tip-toeing around reporting on suicide only began in the mid-twentieth century. Early newspaper accounts frequently included reports on suicides, both local and far removed, including details on the exact manner of death. As public perceptions of suicide, and the laws surrounding it, gradually shifted from considering the act a crime to an aspect of psychiatric malady, reporting on suicide changed. Once suicide became an untouchable subject in newsrooms the stigma became entrenched, making it hard to address in any meaningful way for decades [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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49. "THE NATIONAL GAIN IS NIL": INFANT MORTALITY AS FAILED REPRODUCTION IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY ALBERTA.
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KALER, AMY
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INFANT mortality , *INFANTS , *VITAL statistics , *DEATH rate , *BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology) , *POPULATION , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history - Abstract
This article contributes to the sociology of vital statistics by examining the understandings of infant mortality which circulated in Alberta in the early 20th century. In those years, infant mortality came to be represented as an unnatural and unacceptable diminishment of Alberta's population and an appropriate object of political concern. This paper deals with the ways in which infant mortality became saturated with symbolism, even before the full emergence of policies and programs for reducing it. Using a database of 73 digitized Alberta newspapers, I identify the dominant metaphors for infant mortality as economic inefficiency and military defeat. I also set this concern for lost infant life within the context of other population anxieties, including xenophobic fears about "unnatural increase" through immigration and fears about "population quality" which culminated in calls for eugenic sterilization. I argue that infant mortality is a unique form of population process in that it temporally fuses birth and death, creating, in the collective imagination, a spectral collection of those who might have lived, had they not been deprived of life unnaturally soon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
50. Too much French? Not enough French?: The Vancouver Olympics and a very Canadian language ideological debate.
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Vessey, Rachelle
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FRENCH language , *OLYMPIC Winter Games (21st : 2010 : Vancouver, B.C.) , *DEBATE , *IDEOLOGICAL conflict , *SOCIAL groups , *NATIONALISM , *NATIONAL character - Abstract
This paper discusses a language ideological debate that took place in Canadian national newspapers following the opening ceremonies for the 2011 Vancouver Olympics. Reports on the insufficient use of French during the opening ceremonies sparked protest from politicians, official commentators, citizens and online newsreaders alike. Previous research has suggested that language ideological 'debates' (i.e. overt manifestations of ideologies) are a useful site for studying the role that languages play in the construction of social groups (see Blommaert 1999a, b). In Canada, a national cliché is that Canadian identity is fractured both linguistically and geographically. Thus, the debate over the status of French in the Vancouver Olympics involves not only ideologies of language, but also ideologies of identity and belonging. An analysis of this language ideological debate, then, can shed light on the often naturalised and commonsensical understandings of Canadian national identity. The data consist of articles and commentary drawn from two national newspapers ( The Globe and Mail and Le Devoir). The findings suggest some of the ways in which languages are represented as unifying and dividing characteristics of Canadian identity, representations of which often differ according to the language of the newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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