Prospects for freelance journalists like Charmaine are particularly uncertain right now. Confronted with the generalized economic uncertainty of the recovery, they are also faced with growing corporate consolidation within Canadian media – a sector where ownership was already concentrated in the hands of a few big media corps.
Even before the downturn, freelance writers [...]
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August 20th 2010 No Comments
Charmaine enters unfamiliar territory
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August 17th 2010 No Comments
Sudbury settles: Lessons learned
When we first encountered Nancy – the featured subject of our photo-essay On the line – she and her fellow workers at the nickel mine in Sudbury had already been on strike for 5 months.
That conflict would last another seven months. It ended on July 8, when 75 percent of strikers voted in favour of [...]
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August 13th 2010 No Comments
Rivers of Insecurity & Pennies of Prosperity
“Insecurity is the river that runs through it,” said economist Trish Hennessy when we asked her and her colleagues at the Centre for Policy Alternatives to identify some key characteristics of Canada’s economic recovery. They generously made time to talk to us earlier this summer – helping to put our work on the GDP Project [...]
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August 11th 2010 No Comments
Mackenzie: What a difference a year makes
Among the first postings we made to the GDP Project last year was Brian Howell’s series of photo-essays on Mackenzie, a BC logging town that had been walloped by the crisis in the forestry sector. At the time six mills had recently closed within the immediate area, putting 1,500 people out of work. The local [...]
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August 4th 2010 2 Comments
Beastly: Wildlife Rehab Hit by Crisis
By all official indicators, the Canadian economy has been in recovery for months now, but the human – and animal – index tells another story.
Barry Rothfuss and Pam Novak, the team that runs New Brunswick’s Atlantic Wildlife Institute, recently got some disappointing news.
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August 2nd 2010 No Comments
Retour Ă la vie Ă Mackenzie
L’an dernier, le photographe Brian Howell se rendait à Mackenzie réaliser quatre essais photographiques. Dans cette petite ville mono-industrielle de Colombie-Britannique, le secteur forestier s’était effondré (fermeture des 6 moulins de la région), provoquant des ravages sociaux. Le chômage y était tel (1500 emplois perdus) que certains résidents ont dû chercher du travail dans des [...]
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July 14th 2010 No Comments
Winds of Recovery on Great Lakes
While the winds of recovery are blowing some life back into Great Lakes shipping, industry insiders are still cautious about the long-term forecast.
Last summer Dominic Morissette, one of the GDP Project’s resident photographers, travelled to the shores of Lake Ontario. His mission: to gauge the recession’s impact on the vital shipping arteries of the continent’s [...]
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July 7th 2010 No Comments
Austerity or stimulus? Krugman throws down the gloves
Is now really the best time to slash public spending and downsize government – or does the ongoing economic uncertainly call for additional Keynesian-type stimulus?
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July 5th 2010 No Comments
Farmers unite to save Battle River Railway
With all the talk of Recession in the air, it hasn’t been easy for organizations that depend on community fundraising for their survival. All the more impressive then that a group of western grain farmers – the people behind the Battle River Railway New Generation Co-op (BRR)— have managed to raise about $3.5 million from their [...]
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June 22nd 2010 No Comments
Silver lining? The Crisis & Canadian media
Freelance journalists like the one featured in By-line: Charmaine are facing a complicated set of challenges right now. Traditional media has been scrambling to make do with falling ad revenues – while haemorrhaging readers and audiences to competing internet news-sources. Indeed CanWest – one of the country’s biggest media players – has gone down in [...]
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