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BUSTY HOOKERS,POLITICAL MISFORTUNES and UNREGISTERED LOBBYING How Former Cabinet Minister and Conservative M.P 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. Helena Guergis 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 Brian Mulroney. 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 announced around mid- of Ottawa to tell the story of a negligent landlord and the tenants it deprived of decent living conditions. Trade Office in Canada. August 2010. The visit program must be COLUMNS completed before the end of March 2011. Two student journalists will be selected 26 FINE PRINT By Dean Jobb • A message to bloggers. The Supreme Court of Canada says you better work hard to get it right. by CAJ each year. Each will be awarded 28 LEGAL UPDATE By Dean Jobb • Was the high court’s ruling in the Andrew McIntosh case a bad day for journalism? Not really. 30 COMPUTER-ASSISTED REPORTING By Fred Vallance-Jones • Disappearing data. Some federal government departments are Application must reach: making it more difficult to obtain. The Canadian Association of Journalists 1106 Wellington Street, P.O. Box 36030 33 INSIDE THE NUMBERS By Kelly Toughill • Passing the smell test. If a number seems too good to be true, it probably isn’t. Ottawa, ON. K1Y 4V3 34 RESEARCH ON THE NET By Lucas Timmons • Strategies for tracking people online. Using Google can be better than hiring a private eye. And cheaper, too! by Thursday, July 1530,, 2010 36 ETHICS By Stephen J.A. Ward • Fumbling toward open ethics. Central to the distinction between closed and open ethics is who has the power to control and shape the discourse. For enquiries, please contact: John Dickins, Executive Director, CAJ at email: dickens- 38 FEEDS AND LEDES By Mary Gazee • And speaking of Google, it has become the mother of all search engines. But there are [email protected] or alternatives. Stephen Siu, Assistant Director (Public Relations) 40 THE FUTURE OF NEWS By Simon Doyle • Curators. These “super copy editors” possess some of the new skills that will be Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office, at (416)924-5544 useful in an ever-changing world of information-gathering. or email: [email protected] FIRST WORD Where are we heading? his edition of Media magazine contains a little of the old and a lot of the new. First the old, as in Tthe kind of journalism that requires the digging and the shoe leather we’ve come to associate with investigative enterprises. In the cover story, Russ Martin takes us behind the scenes of what is arguably one of the most sensational stories to come out of Parliament Hill in years. The characters could be right out of a Hollywood movie: Helena Guergis, the glamorous ex-cabinet minister with a reputation for being a diva whose downfall began with an inexplicable meltdown at the Charlottetown airport and ended with allegations involving unsavory characters cutting backroom deals; her husband, Rahim Jaffer, the disgraced former Conservative MP who seemed to have it all – looks, smarts and the confidence of his fellow M.P.s. Together they were the power couple that jazzed up a dour Conservative brand. Rounding out the cast were suspicious businessmen, a debt-ridden private eye with possible secrets to tell, a prime minister looking to get rid of the unsavory mess, and, of course, those “busty hookers.” Yes, this story had it all. And journalists on Parliament Hill, and outside Ottawa, had fun digging into the allegations that so far still remain murky. The sensational allegations and tawdry subject matter notwithstanding, the Guergis-Jaffer affair also represented examples of supreme sleuthing as exemplified by the Toronto Star and Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin, the local newspaper in Guergis’ riding. Sleuthing was also at the heart of the Airbus affair with its allegations of kick-backs and suspicious payments to former prime minister Brian Mulroney. For the past 15 years, CBC investigative journalist Harvey Cashore attempted to answer MEDIA one simple question: What happened to the 25-million dollars in commissions that resulted from the sale of the Airbus jets SUMMER 2010 • VOLUME 14, NUMBER THREE to Air Canada? Cashore documents his quest for that answer in his highly readable new book The Truth Shows Up. There can be no finer example of shoe-leather journalism than his dogged pursuit of the main characters, including the shady middle man, and a former prime minister who was determined to spin his own version of the truth. Reading the book, I A PUBLICATION OF was astounded at Cashore’s (full disclosure, Harvey is also a colleague at the CBC) tenacity and refusal to accept pat and half-backed explanations, and his fearlessness in the face of lawsuits that could have destroyed his career. For anyone THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS passionate about investigative journalism or curious about the Airbus affair, I would recommend you add this book to your summer reading. As part of a transition towards the new – as in a new generation of journalists -- there is the story of a negligent land- EDITOR LEGAL ADVISOR ART DIRECTION and DESIGN lord in Ottawa that allowed tenants to live in deplorable conditions. Digging through building inspections data, Laura David McKie Peter Jacobsen, Bersenas Laura Osman Osman and Stuart Thomson (full disclosure again, two of my former students), identified the landlord, TransGlobe Prop- Jacobsen Chouest Thomson erty Management, and the tenants, low-income residents who were afraid to voice their concerns for fear of being evicted. Blackburn LL P EDIOTORIAL BOARD CONTRIBUTORS Laura and Stuart scoured the Internet to find people willing to talk, and then visited the neighborhood on a number of oc- Chris Cobb ADVERTISING SALES casions in an attempt to convince people to go on the record. In short, they combined shoe-leather with computer-assisted Catherine Ford John Dickins David McKie, Don Gibb, Julian Sher, reporting: the old and the new. Their efforts paid off handsomely. Their stories aired on CBC Radio, television and were Michelle MacAfee Russ Martin, Tiffany Narducci, published on cbcnews.ca. Lindsay Crysler ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR Charles Rusnell, Stuart Thomson, And in keeping with the spirit of the new, Media is fortunate to have two new columns.
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