Globe and Mail: Communications culture is slow-rolling Canadians’ ability to get information they deserve
An opinion piece I published in The Globe and Mail this weekend, inspired by maddeningly true (and common) events
[Read the article in its original context.]
I did the unthinkable on a recent Monday afternoon: I picked up the phone and called a government biologist.
Even more unthinkable: She answered on the second ring. It was like talking to a ghost.
For Canadian journalists like me, this simply does not happen. But she picked up because she works in Montana, where …
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