Headlining CARinCanada
Six grads from Summer SchoolSix journalists from across Canada recently completed a week of intensive study in CAR methods as the second annual King’s Summer School in Computer-Assisted Reporting wrapped up.
This year’s school featured training on both Macs and PCs, a first for training in computer-assisted reporting in Canada.
King’s summer schools have now trained almost two dozen journalists in CAR [...]
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The Nova Scotia government has cut the application fee for freedom of information requests to $5.00 from $25.00, effective August 14.
The fee had been the highest in Canada, matched only by Alberta. Most jurisdictions charge $5.00 or have no fee at all. Saskatchewan municipalities charge a little more than $20.
When a member of the public [...]
CBC`s David McKie pointed us to this great story from the Winnipeg Free Press.
Reporter Jen Skerritt came to the CAJ conference in Vancouver in May and took the day of CAR training from McKie and Fred Vallance-Jones from King`s. She was so pumped, she headed right back to Winnipeg and asked the city and province [...]
Featured Data Resources
Cancer incidence data for Canada»The Public Health Agency of Canada provides a limited range of data on cancer incidence in Canada, by province, age group and type of cancer. It’s a bit clunky because you have to access and download each piece of data separately, but you can build fairly comprehensive tables to look at cancer incidence across the [...]
Charities listings (Canada Revenue Agency)»Search about 80,000 charities registered with the Canada Revenue Agency. In many cases, you can also download the charity’s annual information return. Returns are available for several years back and allow you to compare how much a charity raises with how much it spends to raise the money. Indispensible whenever you are investigating a single charity, [...]