Every election, sans faute, much ink is spilled trying to declare the “ballot box question.” What is the burning issue that will decide how all Canadian voters make their...
Over the past half century, Hollywood’s silver screen has elevated journalists into the pantheon of popular culture. From the legendary All the President’s Men to the contemporary classic Spotlight,...
Canada is about to have its Gen X election – the three leaders of the largest parties were all born in the ’70s. Some Canadians in this cohort might...
Fifteen years ago, author and business executive Tim O’Reilly coined the term “Web 2.0” to describe a new wave of networked communication and information technologies that were emerging on...
C’ est un cliché, mais le paysage médiatique est en constante transformation. Les médias d’information sont en perte de vitesse partout dans le monde, et le Canada ne fait...
When the Senate expenses scandal hit in 2012, it left the parties scrambling to reform the deeply unpopular institution. Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper had taken small steps over the...
The threat posed by disinformation on elections is well known. At First Draft, we have monitored false and misleading content that emerged in the lead-up to the 2016 US...
“Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear — and what they want to hear is what won’t happen.” Paul Samuelson In September 2006, a then relatively...
Newsrooms in Canada are disproportionately white. This inequity means Canadian news coverage is less inclusive and therefore not truly representative of our country’s racial diversity. We’ve known all this...
With Canada’s 43rd federal election campaign about to unfold, political parties are fine-tuning their messaging aimed at the one-in-five Canadians living in rural areas. It is a familiar narrative:...
