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Category: Research

Media whining or democratic crisis?

Posted on March 30, 2017April 24, 2017 by Bruce Gillespie

In 2012, I began a small research project that examined how journalists at national newspapers wrote about the challenges they faced in getting information out of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. By that point, it was clear that Harper and his cabinet had little time for reporters — they granted few interviews (far fewer than most…

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Edna Staebler and the Lives of Women

Posted on December 9, 2015January 11, 2016 by Bruce Gillespie

For the past year or so, a lot of my research time has been focused on the magazine writing Edna Staebler did early in her career, mostly for Maclean’s and Chatelaine. As I’ve written before, it’s great stuff with a timeless quality to it; the stories are every bit as engaging and interesting today as…

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Edna Staebler, literary journalist

Posted on June 19, 2015December 9, 2015 by Bruce Gillespie

I’m pleased to share some research I’ve been working on for the past couple of years about Edna Staebler’s legacy as a pioneering female literary journalist in Canada. Most Canadians who know of Staebler probably think of her as a cookbook writer or philanthropist–and rightly so. That’s how I used to think of her, too….

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