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From business school to data reporter

CBC Winnipeg data reporter Jacques Marcoux brings together disparate data sources to create original stories nobody else has. [...]
Digging into the panama papers data

If you've been fascinated by the revelations in the Panama Papers leak, you can now delve into some of the data used by the international team of hundreds of journalists who spent a year on the project before going public in early April. [...]
Quicktip-Grab some data off a webpage and put it in a spreadsheet

This skill works with just about any spreadsheet program, on the desktop or in the cloud, and with any of the major browsers, Chrome, Edge, Explorer, Firefox, Opera or [...]
FOI Audit; the curse of the PDF

There are more open data sites than ever, at all levels of government. But the 2015 Newspapers Canada FOI Audit has found a huge discrepancy between the language of data openness, and the realities. [...]

The sudden silencing of Global News 16×9

Corus Entertainment has silenced one of Canada's top investigative television programs. That's something that should make us all pause and reflect. [...]
Open data on Canadian railway accidents

There have been eight reported railway accidents since 2004 that involved explosions. That's one fact you can glean from the Transportation Safety Board's railway occurrence database. [...]
Pothole reports in Fredericton: 2015 FOI Audit

For most Canadians, potholes are just part of life. The 2015 Newspapers Canada FOI Audit asked Fredericton for reports from residents on the springtime hazard. [...]
NWT Education Contracts, data printed to paper

The 2015 Newspapers Canada FOI Audit asked three departments in every province and territory for an electronic, machine-readable file of all contracts valued at $10,000 or more awarded by tender or [...]

From business school to data reporter