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CWA Canada joins effort to help journalists escape Afghanistan

2021-08-23 // 0 Comments

Canadian organizations that employ or represent media workers have been working feverishly since Kabul fell to the Taliban to help Afghan journalists and their families [Read more...]

World Press Freedom Day message from CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon

2021-05-03 // 0 Comments

We mark another World Press Freedom Day amid a continuing pandemic, but with the hope that the worst is over and things will soon improve. We mourn the media workers who have [Read more...]

Coalition seeks to bolster press freedom, protect media workers

2020-12-15 // 0 Comments

The recent Global Conference for Media Freedom resulted in a call for new measures to protect media workers, but CWA Canada says it’s going to take a lot of pressure [Read more...]

Labour Day message from CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon

2020-09-04 // 0 Comments

Dear fellow CWA Canada members, For the first time in memory, we will not be marching this Labour Day. But we will not be silent. As we mourn our fellow media workers and the [Read more...]

Media union says Canada denying entry to Danish journalist ‘troubling, unacceptable’

2020-08-25 // 0 Comments

CWA Canada is calling a decision by border officials to deny entry to a Danish journalist “troubling” and “unacceptable” and wants Public Safety Minister Bill Blair [Read more...]

CAJ: Alberta Press Gallery has a duty and a right to determine access

2020-08-19 // 0 Comments

TORONTO, Aug. 18, 2020 /CNW/ — This past Sunday, the national board of the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) gathered for a regular meeting. One of our main agenda [Read more...]

CWA Canada asks OPP to retract threat, apologize to CBC reporter

2020-08-05 // 0 Comments

Aug. 4, 2020 Commissioner Thomas Carrique Ontario Provincial Police Dear Commissioner Carrique, I am writing on behalf of CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, to [Read more...]

CWA Canada condemns attacks on media workers covering unrest in U.S.

2020-06-02 // 0 Comments

Statement by CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon: We have been watching with increasing concern, and shock, as many of our media colleagues in the [Read more...]

World Press Freedom Day message from CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon

2020-05-02 // 0 Comments

We mark World Press Freedom Day this year in the most unusual of circumstances: a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, crippled economies, and challenged [Read more...]

Get tough with those who suppress free expression, CWA Canada leader tells social media conference

2020-02-18 // 0 Comments

Martin O'Hanlon at social media conference

A two-day international conference — Social Media: Challenges and Ways to Promote Freedoms and Protect Activists — that wrapped up Monday in Doha, Qatar, drew more than [Read more...]