Globe and Mail

Leah McLaren: This is not a witch hunt, it’s the truth. Sexual harassment is dangerous and ubiquitous in Canada and it’s not going away.

Who’s the audience for Redford’s astonishing interview? Not the people of Alberta, writes Colby Cosh

A CBSA lawyer warned the government was ‘perpetuating a fraud’ with its denial

Rob Ford’s public soap opera is as convoluted as it is fascinating, but is there a finale in sight?

But it actually should have been a more political project

France threatens to take the Internet search giant to court over getting rich from revenue-starved media sites

The Globe is giving us no practical indication whatsoever of how seriously it takes plagiarism

How the Internet first killed, then crowdsourced fact-checking

In January, the Globe and Mail appointed longtime editor and correspondent Sylvia Stead its first “public editor”. What say we pause right there, before we go any further? The job of “public editor” is one most closely associated with the New York Times, which has had five different people doing the job since it created a post with that title in 2003—soon after the Jayson Blair fabrication scandal. The function of the public editor at the Times, as the title suggests, is to advocate for journalism ethics, fairness, and proper practice on behalf of the paper’s readership, dealing with concerns and challenges as they arise.

Inflated expectations, not paycheques, are the problem

Wong’s new book ‘Out of the Blue’ is the first of a new genre: the workplace divorce memoir

I don’t know much about the Globe & Mail’s strategy for dominating the National Newspaper Awards, but it’s working. They received an outlandish 24 nominations for the highest honours in Canadian fishwrap this year. And 23 of them are probably rock solid! But I believe there’s a problem with the one they’re proudest of—at least, it’s the first piece they mention in their own story on the nominations, and the first item on the list of links they have attached.