Precedent reveals Ontario wasted $350 million on failed online court procedures

“If it’s possible to make millions playing poker online in pajamas, surely there ought to be a way to schedule a court appointment or file a document online as well.” -- Melissa Wilson , assistant editor of Precedent magazine and author of Ontario Government vs The 21st Century in Precedent magazineAn investigative feature  in the  fall issue of Precedent magazine, the independent magazine for

The Tyee names five winners of $5,000 journalism fellowships

The online magazine The Tyee should receive regular strokes from the rest of us for its independent journalism fellowships. These provide $5,000 to writers to fund labour-intensive and ambitious writing projects. 
The magazine received 60 proposals this time around and has selected what sound like five must-reads (which are usually published as a series of articles.) 
All the funding for the

Maclean's article digs down into the "flim-flam" surrounding Vancouver's safe injection site

A really very thorough report by John Geddes in Maclean's magazine (highlighted by columnist Paul Wells) demonstrates the depth of corruption and intrigue that has afflicted Canada's national policy force (and the federal Conservative government) when it comes to Vancouver's Insite safe injection site. As Wells puts it:"What’s at stake is not a simple matter of opinion about whether injection

What investigative journalism costs

Mother Jones asked the New York Times to provide a cost breakdown of the major investigative piece in the magazine this past weekend, done in collaboration with ProPublica: 2 years of reporting by a staff writer, full-time: 200kEditing for that period by 2 ProPublica editors: 30kLawyering hours at ProPublica: 20KEditing hours at the Times magazine over past year (from me to copy editors, 5

Andrew Mitrovica honoured for investigative journalism in The Walrus

Andrew Mitrovica was the winner in the magazine category of the Canadian Association of Journalists' annual awards for investigative journalism. It was for his article "Hear No Evil, Write No Lies", in The Walrus, published in the December/January 2007 issue. It explored the media's role in the Maher Arar case and particularly its complicity in allowing anonymous sources to smear Arar.The award