The British Columbia Court of Appeal has struck down the latest attempt of the government to restrict advertising ahead of provincial elections. Read more…

Lingistics professor George Lakoff, well known for his work on how politicians use language effectively or not in making arguments, has analyzed President Barrack Obama’s performance in last night’s debate and he’s not impressed. Read more…

With one year left in his three years of initial start-up funds, OpenFile’s founder has announced that he’s temporarily suspending publication in order to make changes to the online news start-up, leaving many with questions about what’s happening. While this ‘pause’ surprised readers and the Canadian journalism industry, regular contributors saw signs weeks ago that changes were coming. Read more…

A story by Ontario journalist Laura Robinson published by the Georgia Straight on Sept. 27 alleges that several of Vancouver 2010 Olympic CEO John Furlong's ex-students have filed affidavits claiming he abused them while he taught at Prince George Catholic school in the 1970s. Read more…

The Globe and Mail has taken undisclosed "appropriate action" with columnist Margaret Wente, and changed the reporting management structure for the paper's public editor, in response to allegations Wente plagiarized a 2008 column in the Ottawa Citizen. Read more…

The Tyee and The Tyee Solutions Society are well represented among nominees for the Canadian Online Publishing Awards announced today, receiving seven. Read more…

A freedom of information advocacy group filed a complaint with the province's information commissioner yesterday, claiming the number of times the B.C. government responds to a general FOI request by saying it has no documents has sharply risen over the last decade. Read more…

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has re-opened public consultations on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's upcoming television and radio license renewal.

This will be the broadcaster's first license renewal since 1999-2000. Since then, the advance of digital technology has been rapid and transformative. CBC is in the midst of pursuing its 2015: Everyone, Every Way plan, which places a heavy emphasis on providing users with more digital services. Read more…

The Montreal chapter of the Canadian Journalism Association may be disbanding, marking yet another decline in the country's largest media organization. Read more…

As the London 2012 Olympics came to a close one nation stood atop the podium reserved for bronzest nation: Canada. Read more…

After another tumultuous day of human striving on the playing fields and in the broadcast booths, Canada has climbed a notch in the race to be the bronzest nation at the 2012 London Olympics. Read more…

A look at the latest medal count at the London Olympics shows Canada may not be the greenest nation on Earth, but we are the third bronzest. Read more…

Is Enbridge truly "beleaguered", as one recent Los Angeles Times story described it? Not according to a new Bloomberg analysis, which reveals the pipeline company's shares to be trading at their highest level in nearly thirty years. Read more…

The mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, again raises a by now common concern in Canada. What risks stem from bordering a nation ten times as large with far more lax regulations on guns? From The Tyee's earliest days, our writers have examined the implications from various angles. Here's a sampling. Read more…

A U.S. consultant to dozens of broadcast news organizations warns of seven ways to go wrong in covering Friday's mass murder at a showing of the latest Batman film. Read more…

Having been north of the border for less than a year, satirical newspaper The Onion and its pop-culture counterpart The A.V. Club have been shut down by Star Media Group. Read more…

At a South Surrey "beans and jeans" BC Liberal fundraiser over the weekend, B.C. Premier Christy Clark took swipes at the Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer and her former employer CKNW, implying neither will give her government a fair shake. Today CKNW's Gord MacDonald issued a blistering editorial that signals a level of hostility rarely vented by a major B.C. media outlet towards a politician -- particularly one leading the pro-business party in power. Read more…

The leader of the federal New Democratic Party, Thomas Mulcair, defended a party advertisement released yesterday that attacks Prime Minister Stephen Harper's economic record. Read more…

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet has upheld a CRTC ruling that allows big telephone companies to compete against smaller ones in rural areas. Read more…

Had Suzanne Anton won Vancouver's last mayoral election, city hall would be a lot friendlier towards the oil sands industry and plans to greatly increase the amount of bitumen crude passing through Vancouver harbour. Read more…