This week, the program is presented by Lynn Desjardins, Terry Haig and Carmel Kilkenny.
ListenJournalism Is…
Our first story is on the new campaign to raise the profile of journalism in Canada. The goal is to launch a national debate about what makes good journalism. A broad coalition of unions, media owners and journalists set up JournalismIs.ca website, and will run ads and videos in newspapers, on radio and television as well as in social media.
“We’re very deliberately trying to reach out to…the younger generation on Twitter, on Facebook who might not realize that the majority of the news that they get comes from ‘mainstream professional journalists,” says Mary Agnes Welch, who speaks for the campaign and is a reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press.
Quebec challenge to British Line of Succession
Britain’s Line of Succession, which formerly guaranteed the first-born male the right to succeed to the throne, was changed with the contribution of the ‘Canadian Succession to the Throne Act of 2013’. Or so many people thought!
Andre Binette, a Canadian constitutional lawyer, says, however, Canada should have followed Australia’s example, and only changed the succession law, after having the gained the consent of the provinces and territories in this federation.
He is one of several parties challenging the 2013 Act in Quebec Superior Court. If the challenge is successful, it will open a new round of constitutional debate in Canada, and put the modernization of the British Line of Succession rules in limbo, for the time being.
Goodnews TV.org
If you’re tired of all the bad news that appears to dominate the media, the Terry Haig has a website for you! Created by Montreal actor Laurent Imbault and his wife, Katherine Adams, who is an artist, the site now has over 8,000 videos in 21 languages with viewers in 145 countries. What these videos have in common is that they focus on the positive; stories about people working for the betterment of humanity. Terry Haig gets the story behind the good news.
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