Sean Craig

National Online Journalist

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• New report says half of Canada’s wildlife species are in decline: ‘We are going to lose ecosystems’

  New research, published today by the World Wildlife Fund Canada, shows 451 species across the country have seen their population decline by an average of 83 per cent since 1970.

  Canada

  Sep 13, 2017
• ‘Hell freezes over’: National Post staff announce union drive at Postmedia’s flagship paper

  Staff at the National Post, the flagship publication of Canada's largest newspaper company, announced Wednesday that they are beginning a union drive with CWA Canada.

  Canada

  Sep 13, 2017
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• A fight over a four-bedroom house: The Rebel Media meltdown and the full recording at the centre of the controversy

  Ezra Levant's Rebel Media found itself in hot water this week with staff leaving and politicians denouncing it. Here's the recording behind one of its most controversial disputes.

  Aug 19, 2017
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• Refugee claimants found in possession of child porn at Quebec border

  Multiple refugee claimants have been found in possession of child pornography at or near the Quebec border crossing, Global News has learned.

  Canada

  Aug 16, 2017
• Turns out action video games really can harm your brain, says Montreal study

  Those annoying gripes from your parents were true: your habitual obsession with first person shooter games could be harming your brain.

  Canada

  Aug 8, 2017
• Vice Media to cut ten jobs in Canada as part of global layoffs

  Millenial-focused media and news brand Vice is cutting its staff in Canada, laying off ten employees less than three years after striking an ambitious, $100 million partnership with Rogers Communications.

  Jul 21, 2017
• Government revokes group’s charity status, audit cites possible funding of Pakistani militants

  Federal regulators have revoked the charity status of a Canadian Islamic organization after an audit uncovered problems including tax receipts that were issued for donations that went to a Pakistani group linked to armed militancy.

  Canada

  Jul 19, 2017
• B.C. lumber, mining industries hit by wildfires; could lead to higher prices

  Wildfires in British Columbia are taking a toll on the province's resource sector, as blazes forced lumber and mining companies to shut down or cut back on operations Tuesday and damaged parts of the provincial hydro utility's electricity grid.

  Canada

  Jul 11, 2017
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• Bernier wing of Conservative Party spawns advocacy group ‘to keep pressure from within’

  A group of party activists from the party's classically liberal, or libertarian, wing have formed Conservative Futures, a non-profit advocacy organization designed, according to its founder, "to keep pressure on the Conservative Party from within."

  Canada

  Jul 5, 2017
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• Designer drug smuggling posing ‘greatest challenge’ to Canadian border agency: CBSA document

  CBSA says the designer and psychoactive drugs are "particularly popular with teenagers and young adults given their primary purpose as party drugs."

  Canada

  Jul 4, 2017
• Canadians – not Americans – are a greater risk to bring illegal guns into Canada: Border agency

  Canadian residents pose a greater risk of bringing guns meant for criminal use to Canada than Americans do, despite the fact that over 91 per cent of firearm seizures at the border are made from U.S. residents, according to a border agency document obtained by Global News.

  Canada

  Jun 29, 2017
• Toronto Star to shutter underperforming tablet app, lay off thirty

  The Toronto Star is shutting down Star Touch, the ambitious tablet app it launched less than two years ago in the hope of forging a digital future against dwindling returns on print media advertising and circulation revenue at its parent company.

  Canada

  Jun 26, 2017
• Yukon hotel robbed of mummified human toe it used to make cocktails, RCMP searching for the greedy fingers

  The RCMP are on the lookout for a man who stole a mummified toe that is used to make a special cocktail at a hotel bar in Dawson City.

  Canada

  Jun 20, 2017
• Canadians really like nurses and doctors, not big on politicians and car salespeople: poll

  If you're looking to have your confirmation bias vindicated, the cliche remains true: Canadians still don't like politicians or car salespeople all that much.

  Politics

  Jun 16, 2017
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• Opposition concerned Heritage Minister’s chief of staff lobbied 6 times in 2017 by former employer Google

  Joly's parliamentary critics say the active communication between her most senior staff member and her former employer, one of the media industry's biggest private sector stakeholders, raises concerns.

  Canada

  Jun 13, 2017
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• Trump’s NAFTA plans stall Canadian private market investment: report

  Investors in Canada's private equity sector raised just $990 million in the first four months of 2017, down from almost $3.4 billion at the same time last year.

  Canada

  Jun 8, 2017
• Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Sun workers vote in favour of strike mandate

  In January, six employees at the Citizen and Sun were laid off after Postmedia failed to reach a company-wide 20 per cent salary cost reduction target through voluntary buyouts.

  Canada

  Jun 7, 2017
• The giant Canada 150 duck is an ‘illegal counterfeit,’ Dutch design studio claims

  "The duck was never supposed to be for profit. It was designed to be a public art installation to bring joy and hope wherever it went."

  Canada

  Jun 1, 2017
• New Tory leader Andrew Scheer campaign linked with controversial Rebel Media

  Despite a string of controversies faced by The Rebel, newly minted Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer has so far continued to make himself available to the company.

  Politics

  May 29, 2017