MEDIATHE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS • SUMMER 2010 • VOLUME14, NUMBER THREE

BUSTY HOOKERS,POLITICAL MISFORTUNES AND UNREGISTERED LOBBYING How former cabinet minister and Conservative M.P. and her husband became fodder for sensational allegations that still have Parliament Hill reeling by Russ Martin Student Journalist Hong Kong Fellowship Exploring Asia’s world city MEDIA SUMMER 2010 • VOLUME 14, NUMBER THREE www.caj.ca/mediamag Hong Kong, Asia’s world city, is a a package including a five-day visit Special Administrative Region of the program with an economy class air ticket COLUMNS People’s Republic of China, run by Hong and hotel accommodation. In Hong Kong, 5 FIRST WORD by David McKie • Where are we going? Kong people under the “One Country, the winners will have the opportunity to Two Systems” principle. Hong Kong is visit various points of interest, and meet 6 WRITER’S TOOLBOX By Don Gibb • Make a plan before you write. Our writing coach completes his tip sheet with this simple one of the most open, externally oriented with people of diverse views and message: Tell stories. Tell them well. 9 JOURNALISMNET By Julian Sher . Digging for buried treasure. There are ways to navigate the invisible web. economies in the world. The city has been backgrounds. The selected student rated the world’s freest economy by the journalists must publish or broadcast at FEATURES Heritage Foundation and Fraser Institute. least three stories about Hong Kong within six months upon completion of the 10 MEDIA CIRCUS By Russ Martin • Busty hookers, political misfourtunes and unregisted lobbying: The story about how former What makes Hong Kong tick as a great cabinet minister and Conservative M.P. Helena Guergis and her husband, former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer, became fodder for trip in the local media or in their sensational allegations that still have Parliament Hill reeling. world city? …. Its unrivalled location; its university/school publications. They will liberal investment regime; its low tax enjoy complete editorial freedom. 13 WHERE DID THE 25-MILLION DOLLARS GO? • That question haunted CBC Investigative journalist, Harvey Cashore, for regime; its transparent common law legal the 15 years he investigated the Airbus scandal and money that was paid to former prime minister . In an interview system and rule of law; its world -class The award is open to any journalism with Media magazine, Cashore opens up about the price he paid to pursue the story and why he decided to chronicle the odyssey in his infrastructure; its free flow of student who is currently in a recognized new book The Truth Shows Up. - information; its entrepreneurial spirit; and university or college level journalism 16 A CULTURE OF IGNORANCE By Tiffany Narducci • Has censorship taken hold of the Canadian military’s official newspaper, a truly international lifestyle. program. Applicants must be a paid-in- the Maple Leaf? full member in good standing of the CAJ. Student journalists, who are interested in Non-members may take up membership 18 HOW I GOT THE STORY By Charles Rusnell • CBC investigative journalist Charles Rusnell explains how he broke what is believed to be the biggest mortgage fraud in Canadian history. gaining first-hand knowledge about Hong upon making an application. For Kong, are invited to apply for the application procedures, please visit the 20 SO LONG CANWEST • What does the future hold for the former newspaper chain? Journalism professor Christopher Waddell “Student Journalist Hong Kong CAJ website at www.caj.cawww.caj.ca. . ponders the question in a discussion with Media magazine. Fellowship” jointly organized by the Canadian Association of Journalists Selection of the successful candidates will 22 THIS HOUSE IS NOT A HOME • Stuart Thomson and Laura Osman explain how they used building inspections data for the city (CAJ), and the Hong Kong Economic and be made and