Media & Communications
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From ![]() NEW! The Basics: The Origins of Law |
Chapter One provides a brief overview for understanding where the law comes from and breaks down the sources of these laws. Topics discussed include Indigenous law and government, the Indian Act, … | Mark Bourrie | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Civil Law System |
Chapter Six explores the Civil Law System. Topics addressed include Common Law, contracts, negligence and accidents, intentional torts, free expression and defamation, anti-SLAPP Law, and time … | Mark Bourrie | 67 | 2023 | $6.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Court System |
Chapter three explores the court system and how it operates in Canada. Topics discussed include Judges, Lawyers, Court Staff, Juries, the Courts (The Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Courts, … | Mark Bourrie | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Criminal Law System |
Chapter Five explains the Criminal Law System. Topics discussed include concepts in Criminal Law (Voluntariness, Causation, Strict Liability, Subjective, and Objective Mens Rea), murder, intent, … | Mark Bourrie | 48 | 2023 | $4.80 Add |
![]() The Imperilled OceanHuman Stories From a Changing Sea |
An exploration of the earth’s last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future. On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana … | 238 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! The Justice System and the Media |
Chapter Seven examines the Justice System and the Media. Topics discussed include breaches of Injunction and contempt, publication bans and other restrictions, what to do if you are arrested, the … | Mark Bourrie | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Parking LotFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry reflects on the concept of moral injury,the lack of emotional training and support for crime reporters, and how her life has been impacted by years of exposure to violence … | Tamara Cherry | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Scoop on Sensational StoriesFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the sensationalizing of "uncommon stories", how the boundary-less reporting of these a-typical events traumatically impacts the surviving family … | Tamara Cherry | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
![]() NEW! The Trauma BeatA Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News |
A groundbreaking and thorough examination of the trauma caused by the media covering crimes, both to victims and journalists, from a respected journalist and victim advocate In The Trauma Beat, … | Tamara Cherry | 332 | 2023 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Theories in MotionMapping the Roots and Routes of a Rebel Generation From: Thinking While Black |
In this chapter the author introduced the work of Paul Gilroy, a British scholar of global African American Studies and Armond White, an American music and film critic. | Daniel McNeil | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
![]() NEW! Thinking While BlackTranslating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation |
This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution. Drawing on an eclectic mix of archival … | Daniel McNeil | 222 | 2022 | View |
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From ![]() Three: Crossing the MediterraneanFrom: The Imperilled Ocean |
In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In this chapter Trethewey provides the … | Laura Trethewey | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() Two: Sailing the South PacificFrom: The Imperilled Ocean |
In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In this chapter Trethewey interviews Fiona … | Laura Trethewey | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Victims PeopleFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry examines how the public and accidental nature of traffic fatalities impact the tone and intensity of the media coverage that surrounds it. Cherry includes the comments of … | Tamara Cherry | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! When the News Trucks Go AwayFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the fatal Humboldt Broncos car crash that occurred in 2018. She includes excerpts of her interview with Laurie, whose son was among the passengers that did not … | Tamara Cherry | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Where is the “Labout Beat Reporter”?The Regina Refinery Lockout and the Many Crises of Journalism From: Unjust Transition |
Chapter Seven describes the need for a new approach to labour journalism, and transitioned during the 2019-2020 lockout from traditional “labour beat” reporting to independent media … | Andrew Steven; Emily Eaton; Sean Tucker | 23 | 2024 | $2.30 Add |








