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Thanks
ehind the scenes of every great
conference there’s a group of
people that often get overlooked—
our sponsors. Without them we wouldn’t
be able to give our delegates great meals,
comfortable accommodations, or even
lanyards for their delegate badges. With
this in mind we’d like to take this space
to thank the many sponsors that helped
bring this conference to fruition.
Of course our biggest sponsor and most
resilient backer of the conference through the
years has been Campus Plus. Robert May and
the crew at C Plus always donate generously
to the conference through funding, time, and
speakers. We hope they know how much we
genuinely appreciate their support.
This year we were also privileged to
receive generous sponsorships from the
University of Ottawa community. The
University of Ottawa and the Student
Federation of the University of Ottawa, not
only matched each other in funding, but
Merci!
are also responsible for providing pens,
lanyards, and bags for our delegates. We
would also be remiss in not mentioning the
University of Ottawa Alumni Association
for their generous donation and support.
In addition to this, we would like also like to
thank the Ottawa Citizen for donating both
funding and lanyards for the conference;
Campus Plus, Canadian Press, and the Tyee
for funding the JHM awards; Algonquin
College for providing space for our design
seminars; Maclean’s, This Magazine, and
The Walrus for providing magazines for
the delegate bags; the Algonquin College
Students’ Association, the Ottawa Sun,
University of Ottawa International House,
and University of Ottawa Sports Services
for donating lanyards; Mint records
for providing CDs; the Glue Pot Pub for
providing our delegates with a generous
discount; and Jeff Merriam of Merriam
Print for putting together this delegate
guide and all the promotional materials
for the conference.
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Message
his conference is about the power of the word. The
ability for us to teach, persuade, and depict opportunities for positive change. Whether for you that
is covering a social justice issue or helping to develop your campus community, I sincerely hope that the
next four days inspire you to push yourself to use your
words with confidence and integrity.
If this is your first CUP conference, welcome! If
you’ve done it before, welcome back! The skills you take
away from this conference and from your time at your
newspaper are skills that you can apply to any future
you wish to create for yourself, so make the very most
of it. For this one week I encourage you to work hard
(attend sessions), play hard (mingle with your peers),
take multivitamins and drink lots of water so that you
don’t get sick the moment you get home.
I would like to say a special welcome to this year’s new
members: the Charlatan, l’Esprit Simple, @UW, UWO
Gazette, the Scanner, the Gauntlet, the Runner, Ginger
Magazine, and the Spit.
The Runner and Ginger Magazine are both brand new
publications with delegates in attendance at this conference. The Runner will be looking for advice and volunteers
to help with their referenda, and they will begin publishing
this spring.
If you have the opportunity to run into delegates from
any of these papers, please make them feel at home!
Newspapers from the Western region has been having a rough year. The Other Press, the Navigator, and
the Gleaner have all had funding withheld or unusual
requests made to them by their student societies (for
more, read my report in the delegate binder). I hope
members of this region will all attend the regional ple-
nary and take the time to plan measures of support to
avoid occurrences such as these in the future.
Regional plenaries will be held to vote on hosts for the
spring regional conferences in Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies, and the West. If you are interested in hosting the
spring regional conference, please contact any CUP staff
with questions.
This year the commissions will be holding brainstorming dialogues to help facilitate your brilliant ideas
for CUP. Attend, because this is a co-operative and it is
through our collective genius that it stays strong.
I send my love and appreciation out to the CUP board
—Angie Barrington, Jared Book, Jason Chiu, Vanessa
Larkey, Tessa Vanderhart, and Ricardo Bortolon — who
worked so well together that I actually felt relaxed after
our November board meeting. They have been a huge
asset for Will and I on all our projects. Special thanks to
Jason Chiu who has put in effort above and beyond his
requirements helping me with projects and the conferences.
Thanks also to Wassim Garzouzi, CUP’s first National
Francophonie Representative. He has been a great help
in developing the French branch of CUP, and I hope that
CUP is lucky enough to find someone as ambitious and
thoughtful as he is for CUP71.
Finally, I would like to thank Rob and Mel, this years’
conference coordinators. From chains of nonsensical
emails between Mel and I to Rob’s daily phone check-ins
I could not have asked for a team who was better at communication or organization than them. Not to mention
more hilarious. Word.
Amanda McCuaig
President, CUP 70
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elcome to CUP’s national conference. Whether
this is your inaugural CUP experience or you are
a veteran revisiting the battlefields of wars past,
“Nash” is always an adventure.
Nash is a collection of the greatest student journalists in
the country. Walking through the hallways around you is a
pool of business, photographic, editorial and design talent
that is beyond comprehension. The more people to whom
you introduce yourself, the better connected you’ll be for the
rest of your journalism career. You’ll also make some awesome friends because, let’s face it, CUPpies are just hilarious
people to hang out with.
Rob and Mel, the conference coordinators, have presented us with an impressive collection of media professionals. Try introducing yourselves after the seminars and
spend some time talking about life in the media world.
This has been an exciting year for CUP. Amanda and I
worked really hard with the board and a fabulous collection of bureau chiefs to expand CUP’s services, improve
what was already there and provide a solid foundation
for the next generation of CUPpies to continue offering a
broad range of services to our member papers. With that
in mind, this is also the week where we decide who will
be leading the next generation of CUpies.
Be sure to attend mid-week plenary on Saturday to
meet the candidates for National Bureau Chief and President. These are the people who will be in charge of guiding
CUP into the future and addressing any concerns that you
might have in the coming year. Listen to what they have to
say and ask any questions that you feel are relevant — your
votes, after all, will bring them into office. Then be sure to
come to closing plenary on Monday: the final showdown
when your votes are tallied and the winners declared.
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In the mean time, there are dozens of sessions about
every aspect of running your newspaper. Refer to the design critique schedule (p. 24) to see your paper’s designated time with a design critic to start the long process
of making your paper pretty, readable and accessible
(while learning to appreciate the term “big honking dominance.”) Learn to write heart-wrenching features and
knuckle-biting sports stories in one of the many how-to
seminars. Bring your paper to solid financial footing at
the management and advertising sessions. Regardless of
your interests, there’s something for you here.
Of course, CUP staff are constantly walking around,
too. Talk to your regional bureau chief and gossip about
the latest scoops in your region. If you’re interested in
more specific content like arts or sports, track down the
relevant specialty bureau chief and ask if you can help
produce content for the wire. Concerned about CUP policy or have a great idea for a new service? Board members
are also in the hotel this week and ready to chat about
anything at all.
Since most of you will be going into production at
some point this week, the wire will be running its regular schedule throughout the conference. If you have any
special requests, needs or concerns, get in touch with me
any time and we’ll see what we can do.
This week is your opportunity to become as intimately
involved with CUP as you might dare. The cooperative
is driven by the membership and it is only through the
active involvement of people like you that the organization can move forward as smoothly as it has for the past
70 years.
William Wolfe-Wylie
National Bureau Chief, CUP 70
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hen we bid for the conference
last spring everyone told us
we were crazy. They said the
workload is unbelievable and that
we’d eventually lose our minds. To
the detractors I say… maybe you
were right. But in addition to being
a wild ride, planning this conference
has been amazing.
The most fun day of my year was
probably a week before the conference when I exchanged over 130
emails with speakers and conference
staff. Sharing the excitement of booking some of Ottawa’s (and perhaps
Canada’s) best journalists with the
Fulcrum staff was way too much fun.
What you’ll find at this conference
is a crash-course on not only what
it means to be a member of CUP,
but also the realities of working as
a journalist in the nation’s capital.
The 60(ish) speakers you have a
chance to listen to are out there every day, bringing news to Canadians
from coast-to-coast, not unlike the
staff of CUP’s member papers.
Perhaps the most pleasant surprise of conference planning was the
generosity of everyone that I contacted (who subsequently returned my
emails). Whether a young journalist
fresh out of J-school, or a bureau
chief at one of the country’s most influential newspapers, everyone presenting this weekend is taking time
out of their incredibly busy schedules
just because we asked. Many thanks.
In addition to thanking every
speaker that is presenting this
weekend, there are a number of
people that deserve a shout out, as
this would have been a decidedly
less-awesome conference without
their help. Ian Capstick and Denise
Brunsdon in particular where huge
in helping me make contact with
a large number of those speaking
this weekend. Their commitment to
CUP after having moved on to bigger
and better things, and willingness to
coach me through some conferencecoordinating snafoos was incredible.
Every staff member and volunteer at
the Fulcrum deserves credit for this
weekend as well. Their ability to do
their jobs well week-in and week-out
allowed me delegate and multi-task.
Jason Chiu, Tyler Parrott, and Samnang Touch are also awesome people
for making this conference pretty by
designing all conference material,
the website, and logo, respectively.
Most of all though I must give mad
props to my partner-in-crime, Rob
Fishbook, and CUP President Amanda
Melanie and Rob’s
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McCuaig. Contrary to other warnings
while we were bidding, my friendship with Rob remains in-tact, and I
couldn’t have picked a better person
to see this through with. Amanda offered the perfect balance of support
and faith in our ability to get the job
done that allowed us do just that.
To those considering bidding for a
conference: do it. The month before
will be the busiest month of your
life, but also the most rewarding.
Melanie Wood
Co-Conference Coordinator
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elcome to Ottawa, and especially welcome to Word.
The 70th annual Canadian
University Press Conference. I hope
everyone is ready for a week of great
seminars and activities in the nation’s capital; and on behalf of the
Fulcrum, thank you for coming.
We’ve assembled a top-notch list
of speakers this year, and I know
you’ll drain every piece of journalistic know-how you can out of
them. In addition to this there are
seminars on business, production,
photography, and for the first time
in CUP history, a fully French day
of seminars. Of course equally important in any CUP conference,
there will be plenty of time for you
to socialize and learn how things are
done at papers across the country.
When we bid for this conference
last spring it wasn’t without a little
bit of hesitation. After a somewhat
rocky autonomy process, the Fulcrum has spent the last few years
working our way onto solid footing
and we weren’t sure that adding a
conference to the mix was the best
plan. But then we realized that hosting the conference would not only be
an awesome experience, but a great
way to show that we’re through it all
and ready to make our mark on Ottawa, CUP, and the world.
Conference coordination hasn’t
been without its trials, but I think
Mel and I can both agree that the
many sleepless nights beforehand
will be more than made up for by
the (I’m sure just as sleepless but infinitely more fun) nights you’ll all be
having during this conference.
Speaking of Mel, my partner-incrime, I need to mention just how
amazing it’s been working with her
throughout this process. We were
warned in advance that if we valued
our friendship, coordinating this
conference together was probably a
bad idea. But flying in the face of all
that, our friendship remains intact
and has been strengthened even further by our time “in the trenches”.
She’s always there to back me up
and cover the little things I forget,
and I do the same for her (sometimes we can even read each other’s
minds; she’s been thinking about
peanuts the entire time I’ve been
writing this).
I also need to give a big shout out
to Amanda McCuaig for putting up
with three months of daily calls to
the CUP office to run ideas by her
and get information, and for her
support and friendship throughout everything. Aside from that, I
would be remiss in not thanking
Jason Chiu for designing this guide,
the posters, delegate badges, and
for putting up with 8 million lastminute changes we made him put
in; Samnang Touch for our bitchin’
logo; Tyler Parrott for an awesome
website; Ian Capstick for his help
and infinite wisdom; the Board of
Directors, Editorial Board, and staff
of the Fulcrum for letting Mel and I
do this and for all the help and support they provided throughout; and
all of our sponsors and supporters
throughout the planning of this conference. Without all of these people
this conference would never have
come together.
Ten years down the road I’ll
probably have forgotten all of the
bad things about planning this conference and unfortunately some of
the good things as well; but hopefully I’ll never forget the 2 a.m. conversation in a random Toronto bar
in which Mel, Amanda and I tried
to distil the essence of journalism.
We came up with words… which
became Word. and became this
conference. Hopefully after this
week you’ll all have memories of
the conference as important to you
as this one is to me.
Rob Fishbook
Co-Conference Coordinator
Word. 2008
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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p10-13
p14-17
p18-21
p22-
p23-27
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Jan. 17
Jan. 18
Jan. 19
Jan. 20
Jan. 21
Bios&Maps
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CUP Code of conduct
Cup Code of Conduct
(In a nutshell)
By Johnathan C. Fleming,
2005-06 CUP Human Resources Representative
It is . . .
The CUP Code of Conduct is the official policy of the Canadian University Press regarding
appropriate behaviour, rights, harassment, and formal complaints in the CUP workplace (as
defined below).
Whom it
applies to
The code applies to all the officers of CUP (as defined in article 9 onf the constutition), and
any staff person or volunteer of a member paper while in the CUP workplace.
The CUP
Workplace
The Code defines the CUP workplace as the National Office, the time at the conferences
(sessions, networking events, meals, etc), board meetings and C+ meetings, the time spent
travelling to and from said conferences and meetings, all CUP listservs, communication
from CUP e-mail addresses, and any other time that one is representing CUP. This includes
evening outings, social events, or any other informal/formal program during a CUP event.
The bare
bones
1. CUP does not tolerate harassment or discrimination.
2. Members are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that is conducive to a positive environment (no person should ever feel uncomfortable in the CUP workplace), and
sustain from conduct that is detrimental to CUP.
Rights
CUP does not discriminate based on race, color, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital
status, political or religious affiliation, place of origin, socioeconomic status, or gender.
Harassment
Can be verbal, physical, or psychological. It is unwelcome and unsolicited. It may be an
incident or a series of incidences. It includes any vexatious comment or conducct that is
known to be offensive.
It includes but is not limited to: remarks, jokes, comments, innuendoes or taunts, gestures,
practical jokes, the display of pornographic or racist material, leering, refusing to co-operate
with another member based on discriminatory reasons, unwanted physical contact (patting,
touching, pinching, etc), assult (in any form), sexual overtures, or creating/threatening to
create a condition which endangers another member.
Violations
It is the HR rep’s mandate to assist members in resolving any incidence(s) which violate
the Code.
After consultation with the HR Rep, the complaintant may choose to do one or more of the
following:
1. Take no further action
2. To proceed with informal conflict resolution,
3. To pursue any other course of action available at law, or
4. Make a formal complaint
Formal
complaint
The formal complaint process is expeditious, fair, and effective — outlined in Part V, Section 1, Sub-section 1.9 of the CUP constitution
HR Rep
Mark Cluett
[email protected]
709-685-4409
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Thursday
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Jan. 17
9
12-5 P.M.
Registration
If you’re reading this, you’ve
already done it!
5 p.m.
Word. index
Opening Plenary
Newspapers travelling the
farthest to get here:
Ballroom B/C
6:30 P.M.
Navigator: 4,884km
Martlet: 4,767km
Over the Edge: 4,725km
KEYNOTE
Jack Layton
BALLROOM B/C
7:30 p.m.
Paper Caucus’
Ballroom B/C and Joliet
Word. index
Largest delegation from
WRCUP:
Capilano Courier: 11
Largest delegation from
ARCUP: Xaverian Weekly: 10
Please refer to your delgate binder
for more information pertaining to
caucuses.
Largest delegation from
PNCUP:
Gateway: 13
Tied for largest delegation
from ORCUP:
Brock Press: 12 Window: 12
9:30 p.m.
Gather in the lobby for a karaoke night at
the Cock and Lion!
Largest delegation from
CUPbeq:
Link: 12
Friday
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Jan. 18
BALLROOM B/C
8:00
8:15
8:30
8:45
9:00
9:15
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9:45
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10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
Noon
12:15
12:30
12:45
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1:45
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5:30
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6:15
6:30
6:45
7:00
7:15
7:30
CHAUDIERE
JOLIET
Breakfast
Foreign Correspondance
See page 12
Investigative journalism
with David McKie
Digital Rights with
Michael Geist
Lunch (find your own)
Ottawa Bureau Chief Panel with Hélène Buzzetti, Stephen Maher, and Bruce Campion-Smith
What’s the deal with
Campus Plus?
Interview Techniques
with Ken Rockburn
All about Mass Audience
with Chris Dinn
What do Stephen Harper and Drag Queens
have in common? with Mitchel Raphael
C+ Design Tips with
Production Guru Cluett
Campus Plus Meet and Greet (Hotel Lounge)
Dinner
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keynote 7:30 P.M.
Juliet O’Neill of the Ottawa Citizen
BALLROOM B/C
FRONTENAC
YORK
CONFEDERATION
Sports Reporting
with Stephen Brunt
Arts Roundtable
SerFin & InA Com
present: CUP services
Unionized Journalists
with Michael D’Souza
News Roundtable
Roundtable with SerFin
& InA Com: See page 12
Lunch (find your own)
Women’s Caucus
Diversity/Racial
Caucus
LGBTTTQ Caucus
Community and Campus
radio with Erin Flynn
Opinions Roundtable
HR: Why you should
work for CUP!
Photography 101 with
Jake Wright
Opinions Roundtable
Production Roundtable
A Case Study for Media
Bias? with Penny Collenette
Features Roundtable
Sports Roundtable
Campus Plus Meet and Greet (Hotel Lounge)
9:30 P.m.
Social
PUB Night
See page 27
8:00
8:15
8:30
8:45
9:00
9:15
9:30
9:45
10:00
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
Noon
12:15
12:30
12:45
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1:15
1:30
1:45
2:00
2:15
2:30
2:45
3:00
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Friday
Jan. 18
note:
8 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
Breakfast
Digital Rights with Michael Geist
Ballroom B/C
Joliet
9:30 a.m.
Investigative Journalism with David McKie
Chaudiere*
Bring your laptops for this one. CBC investigative
journalist and author of Digging Deeper, a textbook on investigative research techniques, will
walk you through a variety of websites and techniques that will make your investigations more efficient and rock-solid.
Foreign Correspondence with Norma
Greenaway and Roger Smith
Joliet
Norma Greenaway, a national affairs writer for the
Ottawa Citizen/Canwest News, and Roger Smith
of CTV’s Ottawa bureau, will talk about the rollercoaster of being a foreign correspondent, and provide some practical ideas on how aspiring foreign
correspondents can try to live their dream.
Sports Reporting with Stephen Brunt
Frotenac
Find out why sports is where it’s at and why it’s
great from one of the best out there, Globe and
Mail columnist Stephen Brunt. Brunt will discuss
the shifting demands of journalism and how it
specifically applies to sports.
Arts Roundtable
York
12:45 P.m.
Women’s Caucus
Frontenac
The Canada Research Chair of Internet and Ecommerce Law at the University of Ottawa will
discuss the battle over Canadian copyright with
emphasis on the role played by social media and
citizen journalists.
Confederation
Stop by to ensure that you’re getting the most out
of your CUP member fees.
Diversity Caucus
York
LGBTTQ
Confederation
Unionized Journalists
with Michael D’Souza
Frontenac
2 P.M.
Everything an aspiring journalist needs to know
about unions, including who is unionized, an explanation of the Rand Formula in Canada—which
determines whom unions have to represent in the
workplace—what a union does for employees, and
what are the advantages of being in a unionized
workplace over a non-unionized one. D’Souza will
also talk about his experience working for the CBC
and the Canadian Media Guild, and give tips on
networking and finding a job.
Ottawa Bureau Chief Panel with Bruce
Campion-Smith, Hélène Buzzetti, and
Stephen Maher
News Roundtable
York
Chaudiere
What’s the deal with Schreiber? How hard is it to get
an answer out of the Prime Minister’s staff (let alone
the Big Guy himself)? How do you explain complex
reports and what they mean in 600 words? Ottawa
bureau chiefs from the Toronto Star, Le Devoir,
and the Halifax Chronicle Herald talk about what
it’s like covering news from the nation’s capital.
What’s the Deal With Campus Plus?
News editors and reporters will gather to talk about
why their sections put the news in newspapers.
And why news writers should never try to make a
joke when compiling delegate guides. Led by CUP
Ontario bureau chief Sarah Millar.
SerFin and InACom Roundtable
Confederation
Not satisfied with the answers given at the CUP
services seminar? Tell us what you want!
Joliet
What is CUP’s national advertising company doing
for its member papers? What is the benefit of booking
your ads through C+? Come and hear the answers to
these burning questions from the people behind the
organization, and ask a few of your own.
Community and Campus Radio
with Erin Flynn
Frontenac
The station manager of CHUO, the University of
Ottawa’s campus radio station, talks about why radio is a great alternative to the printed word.
Arts editors and journalists will gather to talk about
the difficulties and rewards in informing students
of what’s cool and what’s so last year. Led by CUP’s
arts bureau chief, Tina Hassania.
SerFin and InACom Present:
CUP services
An asterisk (*) adjacent to room names indicates that
the session runs for twice the normal length.
Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editors
Roundtable
12 P.m.
Lunch
Find your own
York
Those running the shows at papers across the
country will gather to discuss why it’s tough being
at the top. Led by CUP board of directors chair,
Tessa Vanderhart.
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3:15 P.M.
4:30 P.M.
The Craft of the Interview
with Ken Rockburn
What do Stephen Harper and drag
queens have in common?
with Mitchel Raphael
Chaudiere
An examination of the interview; styles of questioning; what makes a good guest; what makes a
good interviewer; various types of interviews. Be
prepared to ask you own questions.
All About Mass Audience with Chris Dinn
Joliet
An introduction to Campus Plus’s web publishing services, including free web-hosting, domain
name registration, publishing software, and online
advertising. Campus Plus provides the tools, papers provide the content.
Photography 101 with Jake Wright
Frontenac
Photojournalist Jake Wright will discuss the basics
of photography, the role of the photojournalist and
photo editor at a small newspaper and how accurate, fast, and efficient image gathering can improve a paper greatly. Also, what equipment and
applications can be used to create a professional
system with little money. Questions and dialogue
are encouraged during the session.
Opinions Roundtable
York
You better believe these writers and editors have
something to say about their jobs.
Production Roundtable
Confederation
Layout and design folks will gather to discuss why
their paper is sexier than yours. Led by CUP President Amanda McCuaig.
Chaudiere
From fetish parties to federal parties, 24-hour
raves to 24 Sussex, drag queens to the Queen’s
representative, Mitchel Raphael will be discussing how to cover different scenes and the similarities between them. He will explore being a
cultural ambassador between readers and subjects when it comes to politics, pop, and alternative cultures.
Campus Plus—Print Production
with Mark Cluett
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5:45 P.m.
Campus Plus Meet-and-Greet
Hotel Lounge
Come meet and share some drinks with
your friendly neighbourhood C+ staff.
Find out what it is they do, and how they
are working for student newspapers across
the country.
6:30 p.m.
Dinner
Ballroom B/C
Joliet
Don’t know a Pantone from Tommy Tutone?
Well hot crackers, kid, you’re in luck. Mark Cluett is going to get your paper’s ads print ready so
you can make the scrilla to pay the billa.
New Hampshire: A Case Study for
Media Bias? with Penny Collenette
Frontenac
A Liberal candidate for Ottawa Centre asks
whether or not the next generation of Canadian journalists think there was bias in the reporting of Hillary Clinton at the New Hampshire primaries. If so, could that bias happen
here?
Features Roundtable
York
Features writers and editors will discuss every possible angle to their work in an in-depth manner,
citing a variety of sources. Led by CUP’s Atlantic
Board Rep, Angie Barrington.
keynote 7:307:30
P.M. P.M.
Juliet O’Neill of the Ottawa Citizen
BALLROOM B/C
J
uliet O’Neill was a foreign affairs correspondent at the Ottawa Citizen when
on January 21, 2004, the RCMP raided her
home in an attempt to find the source of
an internal leak giving her access to privileged documents related to the Maher Arar
case. The raid seized notebooks, files, hard
drives, and other materials. O’Neill fought
the RCMP’s actions and eventually all materials were returned. O’Neill will explain
the press freedom issues she successfully
championed in court, and the impact of the
police bearing down on a reporter.
8:45 P.m.
Break
Take a break and prepare for a night out in Ottawa.
Sports Roundtable,
note:
Confederation
Attending as many seminars as possible
may result in a career in journalism. The
organizers of this conference and CUP bare
no resposibility for this outcome.
Are you ready for some footbaal!… coverage.
Sports writers and editors will ponder unanswerable questions like how in the world the Gee-Gees
lost to the Mustangs in the Yates Cup semi-final.
It was supposed to be our year!
9:30 P.m.
Social
Groups gather in lower lobby for a night out in one
of a variety of great Ottawa pubs or clubs. Listen at
dinner for some options to which Fulcrum volunteers
will lead delegates or checkout page 27.
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Saturday
Jan. 19
BALLROOM B/C
8:00
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CHAUDIERE
JOLIET
Parental Discretion Advised:
Sex Reporting with Marcus McCann
Court Reporting
with Sean McKibbon
Journalism in a War Zone
with Murray Brewser and Tim Michalak
Media Ethics
with David Tait
Breakfast
Lunch (find your own)
ORCUPbeq
Regional Plenary
WRCUP
Regional Plenary
Top 3 Story-making Issues From CFS and
CASA with Amanda Aziz and Zach Churchill
Women in Media
Zines
with Adam Thomlison
Scrum Training
with Ian Capstick
Reporting on the Envirnment with Mike De Souza
Midweek Plenary
Dinner
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KEYNOTE 7:30 P.M.
Ken Alexander, The Walrus
BALLROOM B/C
FRONTENAC
YORK
Indymedia: Ideologies
and Logistics
Business Reporting
with Christopher Waddell
BALLROOM A
Photography
Roundtable
Parliament
Hill Tours
See page
16 for
details
PNP Presents:
the JHM ideas session
Lunch (find your own)
PNPCUP
Regional Plenary
Good Reporting Habits
with Jennifer Ditchburn
Science and the Student
Press with Kenneth Moore
LOBBY
Design Critiques with
Mike Barker
Health and Science Reporting with André Picard
9:30 P.m.
Social (All Ages)
Glue Pot Pub
Design Critiques with
Ron Johnson
and Susan McDonough
8:00
8:15
8:30
8:45
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Saturday
Jan. 19
8 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
Breakfast
Journalism in a War Zone Panel with
Murray Brewster and Tom Michalak
Ballroom B/C
9 a.m.
Tour of Parliament Hill with Ian Capstick and Kady O’Malley
9:30 a.m.
Parental Discretion Advised: Reporting
on Sex with Marcus McCann
Chaudiere
Capital Xtra news editor Marcus McCann will explore sex-positive and pro-sex positions in reporting. What should student journalists ask themselves before writing about hookers, polyamourists, or sexually adventurous rez kids? May contain mature and immature subject matter.
Court Reporting with Sean McKibbon
WRCUP Plenary Session
Murray Brewster, a reporter for CP, and CTV cameraman Tom Michalak discuss what it’s really like
working as a journalist in Afghanistan, embedded
alongside the Canadian Armed Forces.
PrNCUP Plenary Session
Joliet
Carleton University professor David Tait discusses some of the burning questions that are so difficult for young journalists to answer. Where do
you draw the line when you’re so accustomed to
pushing it?
Business Reporting with Christopher
Waddell
Frontenac
Indymedia: Ideologies and Logistics
with Misha Warbanski
PNP Presents: John H MacDonald Programs and Ideas Session
Reclaim the airwaves! Independent Media Centres have taken shape at dozens of protests and
reach a worldwide audience over the Internet.
From Pirate Radio to live web streaming, IMCs
offer an alternative voice and inside coverage of
protest movements. They also aim to put the tools
of production into the hands of the public. Misha
Warbanski talks Indymedia at the Security and
Prosperity Partnership Summit in Montebello,
Quebec.
Photography Roundtable
York
We all know about the awards and the mentorship program (or if you don’t you will soon), but
what else can JHM offer to up-and-coming Canadian student journalists?
Frontenac
Top Three Story-Making Issues According to CASA and CFS with Zach
Churchill and Amanda Aziz
Chaudiere
You’ve no-doubt written about them, now you can meet
them! CASA’s national director and CFS’s national
chairperson run down their perspective on their person
top-three story-making issues for students today.
Journalistas unite! with Susan Riley, Julie
Van Dusen, Tonda MacCharles, and Lianne Laing
Joliet
While great female journalists are not hard to
find, why is it that they seem so outnumbered by
their male colleagues? What challenges do women face when entering the field, and how do their
experiences differ? Susan Riley of the Ottawa
Citizen, Julie Van Dusen of CBC, Tonda MacCharles of the Toronto Star, and Lianne Laing of A
Channel talk about the realities of chasing stories
and meeting deadlines for women.
Good Reporting Habits with Jennifer
Ditchburn
Frontenac
11 a.m.
Tour of Parliament Hill with Ian Capstick, and Kady O’Malley.
See page 17 for details.
York
Photo editors and photographers will come together in perfect lighting and depict the challenges of their jobs using no words at all. Or maybe
they’ll just talk about it. Led by Meaghan Walton,
Fulcrum Art Director.
Joliet
2 P.M.
Media Ethics with David Tait
Ottawa Sun reporter Sean McKibbon will fill
delegates in on how to follow a story through the
courts system, what are the rules that apply to the
media, and what you can and cannot print when
covering an ongoing court case.
Frontenac
Chaudiere
Chaudiere
Many reporters stay away from business journalism thinking it’s boring and only for those who
love dealing with numbers. In fact it’s anything but
boring. This session will discuss what you need to
know to write about business and explore some
of the reasons why those who get in to business
journalism, sometimes by accident, decide that’s
where they want to spend their whole careers.
Joliet
12:45 P.m.
ORCUPbeq Plenary Session
12 P.m.
Lunch
Find your own
Your apartment might like look like Katrina just
swept through it, and you always seem to be writing your papers at four in the morning. But keeping
your ideas, your contacts, and your mind organized
can be nine-tenths of the battle in being a good reporter. Hear how building a few good habits can
help you break stories and beat the competition.
Design Critiques,
Ballroom A, York
Please consult the design critique schedule and
arrive 10 minutes prior to your scheduled time.
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For those who signed up in advance, please meet in lower lobby for the walk to the Hill. Bring
identification for security. This will be a tour of the Hill like no other—stopping at all the major
media hot spots on Parliament Hill, participants will get a historical and current perspective of
parliamentary reporting.
3:15 P.M.
4:30 P.M.
Scrum Training with Ian Capstick
Clearing the Hot Air with Mike De Souza
Chaudiere*
Joliet
In the rough and tumble world of politics Ian
Capstick is usually found training politicians on
the finer points of handling 30 eager members of
the press who are circling for instant and quotable answers. In this session Capstick will reverse the role and teach student journalists how
to make sure their questions are answered in a
scrum. He will also provide tips and tricks for
convincing Ministers to talk, putting pressure on
MPs to agree to interviews and his top five Access
to Information tips.
How to sift through the science and the spin when
covering the politics of climate change.
DIY Journalism with Adam Thomlison
Joliet
Zines—hand-made magazines popular in the
indie-culture underground for as long as there’s
been such a thing—are a lot of things to a lot of
people, but one thing they are for sure is the only
truly free press that exists.
7:30 P.M.
A Prescription for Better Health with
André Picard
Frontenac
André Picard hosts an interactive forum on how
to improve health and science coverage in campus newspapers, and how to keep health stories
in newspapers relevant in the electronic age.
Reporters and editors are invited to bring clippings.
Design Critiques
Ballroom A, York
Please consult the design critique schedule and
arrive 10 minutes prior to your scheduled time.
Science and the student press with
Kenneth Moore
5:45 P.m.
Frontenac
Finding a science scoop as well as writing an interesting science article that may be understood
by the majority of readers are difficult objectives,
especially in an arts-major-dominated publication. Types of science articles, science writing
style, where and how to research, and how to find
the science in almost anything are topics that will
be discussed with Kenneth Moore, production
editor at Chemical & Engineering News magazine.
Design Critiques,
Ballroom A, York
Please consult the design critique schedule and
arrive 10 minutes prior to your scheduled time.
note:
Please see page 22 for the design critique schedule with Mike Barker, Susan
McDonough, and Ron Johnson.
BALLROOM B/C
Mid-week Plenary
Ken Alexander of the Walrus
CHAUDIERE
Housekeeping motions and a chance to hear
from your candidates for national office. All
papers must have one delegate present.
6:45 p.m.
Dinner
KEYNOTE
O
ne of the founders of the Canadian Magazine, The Walrus will
discuss his perspective on the
state of Canadian media and how
the “general interest magazine with
an international look” fits into the
mix.
Ballroom B/C
8:45 P.m.
Break
Take a break and prepare for a night out in Ottawa.
9:30 P.m.
Social
Glue Pot Pub
All-ages pub night at the Glue Pot Pub across the
street from the hotel.
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index
Most helpful CUP alumni of the year:
Ian Capstick (conference coordinator 2000, hosted
by the Fulcrum. Ian, you are our hero).
BALLROOM B/C
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Sunday
Jan. 20
CHAUDIERE
JOLIET
Breakfast
Freelancing with Marcus McCann,
Sarah Millar and Kevin Siu
Sports in a 24-hour
world with Ian Mendes
Young Journalist Panel with
Aaron Wherry and Allan Woods
Libel with
William Wolfe-Wylie
Lunch (find your own)
Education Reporting
with Pauline Tam
Plenary Primer
Reporting on Quebec
with Elizabeth Thompson
Internships
Sniffing out Scoops
with Alexander Panetta
Theatre Review
with Jessica Ruano
Break
Formal Dinner
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Keynote 7:30 P.M.
9:30 P.M.
Andrew Coyne of Maclean’s
JHM Gala
BALLROOM B/C
Parliament Hill
Meet in lobby
FRONTENAC
YORK
CONFEDERATION
Governance
with Fraser McCracken
News by Design
with Ron Johnson
Local Ad Sales
with Boris Shedov
Lunch (find your own)
Disabilty
Caucus
Progressive Media
Caucus
Create your own
Caucus!
Photography
Career Panel
Business Managers
Roundtable
Web Publishing
with Chris Dinn
Managing your Finances with James Patterson
Podcasting
with Lucas Timmons
Taking your paper autonomous with Mary Cummins
Break
8:00
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Sunday
Jan. 20
2 P.M.
8 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
Breakfast
Young Journalists Off the Record with
Aaron Wherry and Allan Woods
Ballroom B/C
Offsite Production Seminar
Meet in lower lobby
Chaudiere
9:30 a.m.
Taking the “Free” Out of Freelancing
with Kevin Siu, Marcus McCann, and
Sarah Millar
Chaudiere
Kevin Siu of The Globe and Mail’s Life section
has heard a lot of pitches. Likewise for Capital
Xtra’s news editor, Marcus McCann, while CUP’s
Ontario Bureau Chief Sarah Millar is not foreign
to the concept of making them. Come find out
what works and what doesn’t when trying to sell
yourself as a freelancer.
News by Design with Ron Johnson
Frontenac*
The editor of The Best of Newspaper Design will
start with the fundamentals and move into the
trends of news design. He’ll discuss what works
and what doesn’t work on a global tour of collegiate and commercial newspapers. Bring PDFs or
JPEGs of your own paper to see how it stacks up.
So you’ve finished university and are hoping to
start your journalism career. Maclean’s Aaron
Wherry and the Toronto Star’s Allan Woods will
tell you everything you won’t learn in J-school or
slaving away in campus journalism. How to go
about finding a job, how to deal with the neverending stress of deadlines, how to lead a normal
life, and everything that you don’t even know
you’re unprepared for yet.
Local Ad Sales with Boris Shedov
2 P.M.
Confederation
The Education Beat with Pauline Tam
How to sell your paper to local advertisers and
ensure that the dollars keep flowing in with the
McGill Daily’s advertising representative.
Libel seminar with William Wolfe-Wylie
Joliet
CUP’s National Bureau Chief will field questions
and gives a rundown on what will get your ass
sued.
Confederation
This seminar will explore the many challenges
associated with governing a student organization, and how to understand the role of the board,
management and other stakeholders. This presentation will discuss best-practices in this field,
as well as ways to assess the performance of a
board or council
Why does student journalism matter? Why does
media coverage of higher education matter? What
are the trends driving media coverage of higher
education? This workshop is a primer on what
reporters covering the beat need to know. The
session also includes an introduction to accessto-information laws and how they can be used to
cover universities and colleges effectively.
Joliet
12 P.m.
Lunch
Find your own
Joliet
A Guide to Student Governance with
Fraser McCracken
Chaudiere
Plenary Primer
The Changing World Of Sports
Broadcasting with Ian Mendes
The world of sports reporting has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. In the age of web sites and
text messaging, TV networks no longer wait until
six-o-clock to report breaking news. Find out how
this around-the-clock demand for information has
impacted sports reporters in the field.
Meet in the lower lobby to
attend off-site production
workshops with Mike Barker.
2:30 start-time at Algonquin
College. Sign up in advance at
the registration table.
12:45 P.m.
Disability Caucus
Frontenac
Progressive Media Caucus
York
Create Your Own Caucus Caucus
Confederation
Think there is an issue that CUP isn’t
discussing? Create your own caucus
and make recommendations to plenary.
Robert’s Rules and plenary etiquette with Misha
Warbanski and Ross Prusakowski.
Making it as a photographer with Blair
Gable and Fred Chartrand
Frontenac
So you can take a picture—now what? Former
Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association chair Blair Gable and Canadian Press photographer Fred Chartrand will talk to all budding
photojournalists about how to present their work,
freelance, and move their way up in the field.
Business Managers Roundtable
Confederation
All business staff at the conference will gather to
talk about the challenges of being a newspaper’s
moneybags. Delegates can discuss the problems
faced at their publication and seek advice from
their contemporaries from across the country.
Led by Rob Fishbook, conference coordinator
and business manager at the Fulcrum.
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It’s supposed to be -20 degrees celsius. Bundle up!
3:15 P.M.
4:30 P.M.
Offsite Production Seminar
Offsite Production Seminar
Meet in lower lobby
Meet in lower lobby
5:45 P.M.
Get gussied up
Get ready for dinner!
3:15 P.M.
4:30 P.M.
6:30 p.m.
Covering the Nation of Quebec,
en Anglais with Elizabeth Thompson
Sniffing Out Scoops with Alexander
Panetta
BALLROOM B/C
Chaudiere
Chaudiere
This Montreal Gazette reporter will talk about
the differences between pursuing a story in
Quebec than in Ontario, and the challenges of
working for an English publication in the French
province.
How do you crack a story that won’t necessarily
end up in your inbox in the form of a press release?
Alexander Panetta of Canadian Press talks about
how to tap into the instinct that tells you there’s
more to a story than appears on the surface.
Finding and Making the Most of an
Internship, with Jeanette Stewart, Laura
Payton, and Steve Rennie
What Every Theatre Critic Should Know
with Jessica Ruano
Joliet
Former interns and now working journalists will give
pointers on sniffing out the perfect internship, give tips
on how to apply, and advice on how to get the most out
of the experience and apply to your career path.
Web Publishing with Chris Dinn
Frontenac
Building a strong web presence is important
for the long term-relevance of campus publications. But, while papers have an extensive
understanding of the print production process, they’re just beginning to understand
web-publishing. This seminar is intended to
be an introduction to the technical side of
web-publishing for writers, editors and managers interested in improving their newspapers’ web-relevance.
Dinner, Semi Formal
KEYNOTE 7:30 P.M.
Andrew Coyne of the Maclean’s
BALLROOM B/C
Joliet
Freelance theatre critic Jessica Ruano will explain the difference between publicists and journalists and give tips on interviewing those in the
business, and writing reviews. She’ll also discuss
potential conflicts of interest when working in
the arts community, and whether they even exist.
Podcasting: Turning Student Journalism
onto Multimedia with Lucas Timmons
Frontenac
Podcasting is an easy way to reach your audience
with more engaging content. University students
constantly have headphones on; why shouldn’t
they be listening to your content? This session
will run through what is needed to set up, produce and then distribute a podcast at your own
paper.
Managing Your Finances with James
Patterson
Taking Your Paper Autonomous with
Mary Cummins
Confederation
Confederation
Just what do you owe the government? What’s
better for a student newspaper: Simply Accounting or Quicken? James Patterson talks dollars
and cents with business delegates.
Tired of living under the thumb of your student
union? Mary Cummins will fill you in on the Fulcrum’s long journey to autonomy, and how your
paper can do it too.
From a reluctant journalist, some
reflections on the profession,
its failings, and its redemptive
qualities.
8:45 P.m.
Break
It’s almost gala time!
9:30 P.m.
JHM Gala
Parliament Hill
Meet in the lobby
Time to party, Ottawa-style. JHM
awards will be given out, drinks
will be served, good times will be
had.
Bring your photo ID!
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Monday
Jan. 21
9 A.M.
Breakfast
Ballroom C
Hiring
Plenary
10 A.M.
AND
Ballroom A/B Ballroom C
National Staff Hiring Process
Deathstar funds, dance-offs, songs from the chair,
and a ton of other fun stuff! Also, policy… lots and
lots of policy. Every paper must have at least one
delegate present.
Mike Barker
Design
Critiques
SCHEDULE
Ballroom a Susan McDonough
Ballroom a Ron Johnson
York Room Mike Barker
Ron Johnson
2:00
Cadre
MacMedia
Grapevine
2:10
Intercamp
Interrobang
Underground
Caper Times
2:30
Sheaf
Ryerson Free
Press
Strand
Delit
Muse
2:40
Link
Gateway
Concordian
2:50
Peak
Other Press
Carillon
3:00
Charlatan
Campus
Ginger
3:10
Cord Weekly
Phoenix
Runner
3:20
Window
Lambda
Fulcrum
3:30
Cascade
Lance
Martlet
3:40
Nugget
Projector
Cap Courier
3:50
Plant
Navigator
Uniter
4:00
Nexus
Eyeopener
Quartier Libre
4:10
Meliorist
Omega
Manitoban
4:20
Sputnik
Pro Tem
Xaverian Weekly
4:30
Meliorist
Ontarion
Ubyssey
4:40
Sputnik
Over the Edge
Mars’ Hill
4:50
Meliorist
Projector
McGill Daily
5:00
Quill
La Rotonde
5:10
Gauntlet
imprint
2:20
Saturday , January 19 2008
Susan McDonough
5:20
Fulcrum
Bios
Ken Alexander is one of the
founders of The Walrus. He was
a high school English and history
teacher for eight years and was the
senior producer of the CBC Newsworld current-affairs show counterSpin. Author of Toward Freedom:
The African-Canadian Experience,
Alexander is currently working on
his second book. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Sharyn Langdon,
and their two children, Marcus and
Claire.
Amanda Aziz is the chairperson
of the Canadian Federation of Students. Amanda became politically
active at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, where she served
on the University of Manitoba Students’ Union Council for 3 years
(2001-2004) and as president of
the Union for two years (20042006). She was also very active with
a number of social justice organisations both on and off-campus,
including Amnesty International,
the Winnipeg Refugee Education
Network, the University of Manitoba Recycling and Environmental
Group and the campus Women’s
Centre. Amanda has a Bachelor’s
degree in economics and environmental science from the University
of Manitoba.
After over 10 years as a practising
designer, Mike Barker is now
ready to be a real designer. He specializes in newspaper and magazine
design, corporate branding, type
design, small exhibit installations,
and wayfinding. Current and past
clients/employers include: Alias
Systems (now Autodesk), Adbusters
Magazine, Canadian University
Press, Common Ground Magazine,
Dialog Newspaper, George Brown
College, Medusa Magazine and the
Xtra group of newspapers.
Hamilton-born Stephen Brunt
started at The Globe and Mail in
1982, after attending journalism
school at the University of Western
Ontario. He then worked in news,
covering the 1984 election, and began to write for the sports section
in 1985. His 1988 series on negli-
gence and corruption in boxing won
him the Michener award for public
service journalism. In 1989, he became a sports columnist. Nominated for several National Newspaper
Awards, Brunt is also the author of
seven books.
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is currently
the Ottawa defence reporter for Canadian Press and has been with the
wire service for 14 years. Brewster
has spent a total of four months on
the ground in Afghanistan embedded with Canadian troops.
year, he was elected President of the
Saint Mary’s University Students’
Association and was re-elected the
following year. During this time, he
also served as the Treasurer and vice
chair of the Alliance of Nova Scotia
Student Associations and initiated a
municipal lobbying effort in Halifax.
In March of 2007, Zach was elected
the position of national director of
the Canadian Alliance of Student
Associations. In this capacity, he
is the official spokesperson of the
organization and oversees all of its
activities.
Hélène Buzzetti is Ottawa’s
bureau chief for the Montréal newspaper Le Devoir. She has worked as
a political correspondent for eight
years. She is also a frequent commentator on SRC (CBC French) radio and TV. She obtained her BA in
Communication Studies from Concordia University.
Mark Cluett has been Campus
Plus’s production co-ordinator
since the fall of 2006. Before that
he was the atlantic board representative for CUP, and held a myriad of positions at The Muse in St.
John’s, Newfoundland, including
production manager and editorin-chief.
Bruce Campion-Smith
Penny Collenette
Murray Brewster
is the
Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily
newspaper. As the paper’s defence
writer, Bruce has travelled twice to
Afghanistan to report on Canada’s
Kandahar mission. Bruce joined the
Toronto Star in 1988 as a general
assignment reporter. In the years
since, he has worked as a transportation reporter, assistant city editor
and an editorial writer, writing analysis of municipal issues. He joined
the Ottawa bureau in 2003. Bruce
holds a commercial pilot licence and
is the author of four books on aviation.
Ian Capstick is a former Fulcrum
Managing Editor, and coordinated
the last CUP national conference
held in Ottawa. He is currently the
press secretary for the NDP.
Fred Chartrand is a staff photographer for the Canadian Press
based in Ottawa.
Zach Churchill was raised in
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and earned
a BA in history, heligious studies, and English from Saint Mary’s
University in 2007. In Zach’s third
is currently
an adjunct professor at both the
Faculty of Law and the Telfer School
of Mangement at the University of
Ottawa, where she specializes in
research relating to governance,
corporate social responsibility, and
ethics. Prior to that she was a Senior fellow at the Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard. She
was recently elected as the Liberal
Party’s federal candidate for Ottawa
Centre.
Andrew Coyne is National Editor of Maclean’s. A graduate of University of Toronto and the London
School of Economics, Mr. Coyne
was previously an editorial writer
and columnist for the National Post,
The Globe and Mail, and Southam
Newspapers. He has written for a
wide range of publications in Canada
and abroad, and appears frequently
on television and radio.
Mary Cummins is a former Ful-
crum editor-in-chief and the first
president of its board of directors.
Cummins successfully created the
Fulcrum Publishing Society and
took the Fulcrum autonomous in
the summer of 2005.
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Michael D’Souza is the Director
for human rights on the CBC Branch
of the Canadian Media Guild, as well
as the chair of the Human Rights and
Equity Committee of the Newspaper
Guild, based in Washington. He is
currently assigned to work as a senior writer/producer at The National
on CBC Television. D’Souza started
his career as the editor of Press, the
newspaper at Brock University in St.
Catharines, Ontario.
Mike De Souza is a national affairs reporter for the Ottawa Bureau
of the Canwest News Service. He
covers the politics of the environment at the federal government level in Canada as well as the ongoing
United Nations negotiations on the
international stage.
Jennifer Ditchburn is a former
Cuppie, who worked at John Abbott’s Bandersnatch and Concordia’s The Link and was briefly a
Quebec co-president. While finishing up J-school, she landed a job
at the Canadian Press in Montreal.
She later worked for CP in Toronto
and Edmonton, before transferring
to Parliament Hill in 1997. In 2001,
she took a job as a reporter with CBC
National Television in Ottawa, but
returned to CP in 2006. Ditchburn
has covered three federal elections,
several leadership and party conventions, major political upheavals and
prime ministerial visits abroad. She
also speaks Spanish and French.
Chris Dinn started off as a produc-
tion manager, then advertising and
business manager for the Muse. He
hosted a national conference in 2004
and was president for CUP 67, 20042005. After working for CUP Dinn
started working on production and
online development at Campus Plus,
where he’s been working ever since.
Erin Flynn is the station manager
at CHUO, the University of Ottawa’s
campus radio station. A fervent promoter of local culture and passionate concert-goer, Erin can be found
out late most nights, traipsing the
streets of Ottawa looking for her
next culture fix.
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Blair Gable is a photojournalist
based out of Ottawa. He works for
the Ottawa Sun, is the former chair
of the Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association, and a graduate of Loyalist College.
Michael Geist is the Canada
Research Chair of Internet and Ecommerce Law at the University of
Ottawa. He has obtained a Bachelor
of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto,
Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees
from Cambridge University in
the UK and Columbia Law School
in New York, and a Doctorate in
Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law
School. Dr. Geist serves on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Expert Advisory Board and maintains
privacyinfo.ca, a leading privacy
law resource. Dr. Geist has served
on the director and advisory boards
of several Internet and IT law organizations including spending six
years on the board of the Canadian
Internet Registration Authority and
three years with the Public Interest
Registry.
Norma Greenaway,
a national
affairs writer for the Ottawa Citizen/
Canwest News, spent nine years as
the Washington-based correspondent for Canadian Press and Southam
News Service, now known as CanWest News Service, and almost four
years as Southam’s Mideast correspondent. Since returning to Canada
in 1997, she has undertaken “firefighter” assignments in Washington,
Albania, and Macedonia.
Ron Johnson
is the director of
student publications at Kansas State
Univeristy and the editor of Best
of Newspaper Design. Johnson is
an annual CUP favourite, and has
spoken at an incalculable number
of national seminars for a variety
of organizations throughout his career. When asked for a ball-park
estimate, his response was, “Oh,
good God … On my bookshelves are
a few dozen name tags. Guess I average six or seven a year.” Seems we’ll
never know.
Lianne Laing is a former Canadian National Level Gymnast and
NCAA scholarship athlete. She is
currently a sports anchor-reporter
with A Channel. For almost 10 years
she has covered all professional, CIS
and amateur sports in Ottawa. In addition to regular sports assignments,
Laing also works on special features
for A Channel’s 6 p.m. programming. She sits on a variety of boards
including the Snow Suit Fund, and
the Women’s Health Council.
Since 2003 Jack Layton has been
leader of Canada’s New Democratic
Party. He is a former city councillor
and acting deputy mayor of Toronto.
On June 28, 2004, he was elected
Member of Parliament for the constituency of Toronto-Danforth. As
leader of the NDP he considerably
increased their support, almost doubling the party’s vote in the 2004
election. The 2006 election saw further gains, with the party winning
the most seats since its peak under
Ed Broadbent in the 1980s.
Tonda MacCharles is a reporter for the Toronto Star’s Ottawa bureau.
Stephen Maher is the Ottawa
Bureau Chief for the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
Marcus McCann
is the news
editor of Capital Xtra (a division
of Canada’s largest lesbian and gay
media conglomerate, Pink Triangle
Press) where he runs the assignment desk for the capital region and
Quebec. He is a former freelance
writer and student journo.
Fraser McCracken
has extensive experience with the growth of
student organizations and the associated challenges of volunteer/
staff training, policy development,
and financial planning. He has led a
number of student organizations in
both management and governance
roles. Throughout his academic career, his research focused on nonprofit governance and general business processes.
Sean McKibbon is a reporter for the
Ottawa Sun and a graduate of Carleton
University’s School of Journalism.
David McKie is an award-winning
reporter/producer with CBC Radio’s
Investigative Unit. He is the co-author of Digging Deeper: A Canadian
Reporter’s Research Guide, and is
presently working on a second text
book, this one on computer-assisted
reporting. David also edits Media
Magazine for the Canadian Association of Journalists and teaches
Investigative journalism at Carleton
University School of Journalism.
Tom Michalak
is a cameraman
for CTV, currently working in Ottawa. He also worked in Afghanistan, embedded with the Canadian
Armed Forces.
Ian Mendes
is in his sixth year
covering the Ottawa sports scene for
Rogers Sportsnet. He serves as the
host for Ottawa Senators broadcasts
on the network, as well as host of
Molson Senators Overtime. During
his time with the network, he has
also covered such sporting events as
the FIFA World Cup, the World Series, and Stanley Cup Finals.
Sarah Millar is the current CUP
Ontario Bureau Chief. She began her
career by turning a high school co-op
placement at the Hamilton Spectator
into a permanent freelance position.
She went on to freelance for the Ottawa
Citizen, the Owen Sound Sun Times,
The Kincardine Independent and the
Toronto Star. She currently works as a
copy editor at the National Post.
Kenneth Moore graduated from
Acadia University in 2007 with a BA
in Classics and Biology. He was the
Athenaeum’s Science Editor during
2006/2007 and is currently a production editor at Chemical & Engineering News magazine.
Kady O’Malley
is a popular
blogger for MacLean’s magazine.
“Inside the Queensway” covers life
on Parliament Hill and can be found
at www.insidethequeensway.com.
Juliet O’Neill is a veteran journalist with the Ottawa Citizen/
Canwest News Service who works
on Parliament Hill and has been a
foreign correspondent in Moscow,
London, U.K. and Washington.
O’Neill was a member of CUP as a
student at the University of Calgary
and says that one of the first organizations to express solidarity after
the RCMP raided her home almost
exactly four years ago was CUP.
Alexander Panetta is a reporter for Canadian Press.
James Patterson is the business manager for the Uniter at the
University of Winnipeg. He is also a
member of the Campus Plus board
of directors.
Laura Payton was probably first
drawn to reporting because it’s one
of the few careers where her incessant questions and utter cynicism
are considered assets. During the
two years she worked on her Master of Journalism at Carleton University, she had internships at the
Ottawa Citizen and the Vancouver
Province, and short-term placements at Maclean’s magazine and
CTV’s Parliamentary bureau. Laura
is now working full-time as a national news producer at CTV, and an
associate producer at CTV’s Question Period. She is also a former
Fulcrum editor.
André Picard is a health reporter
at The Globe and Mail. He is also an
ex-Fulcrum editor and former CUP
president.
Mitchel Raphael is a columnist with Maclean’s magazine where
he writes the political-scene column
“Capital Diary”. You can see his column outtakes at www.macleans.ca/
mitchelraphael. Before Maclean’s,
Mitchel was editor-in-chief of the
Toronto-based gay men’s magazine
fab for nearly four years where he
managed to get then-Toronto police
chief Julian Fantino to pose with
five models as the Village People on
the cover. Prior to that, he was at the
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National Post as an arts/life feature
writer from its inception in October
1998 until September 2001 where
he covered such things as drug cultures, electronic and mainstream
music, pop culture, hip hop, politics
and shemales. He holds an MA in
Interdisciplinary Studies from York
University. His BA was in Western
Literature and Civilization from the
University of Western Ontario. He
divides his time between Toronto
and Ottawa and often heads over to
Hull, Quebec, to eat at Chez Fatima.
Politics. He has worked as a broadcast journalist in private radio and
for both CBC radio and television.
He is the author of two books, Medium Rare - Jamming with Culture
(Stoddart 1995) and, Rockburn The CPAC Interviews (Penumbra
2007).
Steve Rennie is a reporter in
the Ottawa bureau of the Canadian
Press News Agency. He previosuly
held various positions at CP and has
also worked for the Toronto Star
and the Ottawa Sun. Steve holds a
master’s degree in journalism from
Carleton University and a bachelor’s
degree in English from the University of Ottawa.
Kevin Siu is the deputy editor of
the daily life section in The Globe
and Mail. Previously, he was the
deputy editor of the weekend Toronto section and an associate editor
on Report On Business magazine.
He has also worked as the associate
publisher and general manager of
Shift magazine.
Susan Riley graduated from Car-
leton University School of Journalism in 1968 and for the following
10 years worked at a variety of papers including the Oakville Journal Record, the Victoria Times,
the Kingston Whig-Standard, the
Belfast Sunday News, and the Ottawa Journal. From 1979 to 1984
she worked for Maclean’s magazine
both in the Ottawa bureau and as
a senior writer in Toronto. In 1987
she published a book entitled Political Wives: Lives of the Saints. Since
1984 she has worked for the Ottawa
Citizen in a variety of roles, including editorial writer, Parliamentary
reporter, and local and national columnist.
Jessica Ruano works ubiquitously in the Ottawa arts community
both as a publicist for various arts organizations and as a freelance writer
for the Ottawa Xpress and Capital
Xtra. This Canterbury Arts Graduate
is also in the midst of completing her
degree in English and theatre at the
University of Ottawa. Her main interests include directing, arts promotion, theatre criticism, photography,
and spoken word poetry.
Ken Rockburn is the host of the
CPAC public affairs program, Talk
Boris Shedov is the advertising
representative for the Daily Publications Society, publishers of the
McGill Daily and Le Délit. He is also
a Campus Plus board member.
Roger Smith
started his career
as a print reporter with Canadian
Press, then joined CTV in Ottawa in
1984 and took over the Beijing bureau a year later. As well as covering political and economic reform in
China, his travels took him to South
Korea, Pakistan and the Philippines,
where he reported on the “peoples’
power” revolution that ousted Ferdinand Marcos. Since returning to
Canada, Smith has concentrated
primarily on federal politics.
Dave Tait has taught at the Car-
leton University School of Journalism and Communication since 1994.
A graduate of its B.J. program, he
worked for the Ottawa Citizen, London Free Press, Whitehorse Star,
Calgary Albertan and Calgary Sun
before joining CBC Radio as an associate producer in the Yukon and
news editor in Inuvik, NWT. He
spent two years at Radio Beijing,
China’s shortwave service, and then
four and a half years on the road,
working in CBC North’s radio newsrooms and on broadcast training
projects in Asia and the Canadian
North. He served as program manager at CBC Western Arctic in Inuvik and training coordinator for CBC
North, and returned to Carleton for
an MJ in 1993.
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pauline Tam, a Vancouver native
and graduate of Carleton University,
works for the Ottawa Citizen. During a 15-year newspaper career, she
has covered arts, local news, business and technology. In 2006, she
was part of a reporting team that
won a National Newspaper Award
for a project on palliative care. Since
2003, she has covered universities
and colleges for the Citizen.
Adam Thomlison’s writing has appeared in forums both prestigious (the
Ottawa Citizen, Canadian Dimension
magazine) and lowly (the bathroom
stall at the bus terminal in Kingston,
Frank Magazine). It’s also appeared in
his own hand-made zines and a book
of fiction, We Were Writers for Disastrous Love Affairs Magazine.
Elizabeth Thompson is a reporter for the Montreal Gazette.
Lucas Timmons is the coordinator for the Cupcast—CUP’s weekly
podcast. He is also the editor-inchief of the Athenaeum at Acadia
University and has a BA in Music
from Acadia. When not working for
CUP or the Athenaeum he broadcasts CIS Basketball online on his
streaming video show—The Drive to
the Final 8.
Julie Van Dusen
has been a
reporter with CBC television since
1983. She has a degree in French
Literature and Communications
from the University of Ottawa.
Christopher Waddell
is the
associate director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and
Communication and holder of the
Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism. Prior to joining
Carleton in 2001 he was parliamentary bureau chief for CBC TV News,
executive producer of news specials
for CBC and a reporter and editor at
The Globe and Mail and The Financial Post.
misha Warbanski is the current
Quebec Bureau Chief for Canadian
Univeristy Press and studies journalism at Concordia University.
Samnang Touch is a former Art
Director of the Fulcrum and the
creative genius behind the typewriter
logo of Word. Jason Chiu is also a
former Art Director of the Fulcrum.
He is responsible for the design of
the Word. conference materials.
Any errors in design are his.
Aaron Wherry is an associate
editor at Maclean’s magazine. Currently based in Ottawa, he writes a
daily sketch from the House of Commons. Prior to joining Maclean’s, he
split four years at the National Post
between entertainment (primarily
music) and sports (primarily basketball). Much to his mother’s chagrin he spent most of his four years
at the University of Western Ontario
working for the student paper. After
editing The Gazette in his fourth
year, he spent a summer at The
Globe and Mail.
Allan Woods is a reporter for the
Toronto Star’s Ottawa bureau.
Jake Wright is a full time photojournalist who works at the Hill
Times and frequently freelances for
Maclean’s, La Press, Time Magazine and the Canadian Press. He has
photographed countless heads of
state, rock stars, and people of interest. He has made Parliament Hill his
home for the last five years.
William Wolfe-Wylie
is CUP’s
national bureau chief. He’s a pretty
cool guy.
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Dance club/Dress Club
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Byward
The Irish Village
Multi-bar Irish pub
The Hill
Sandy Hill
Swizzles
Gay bar
macLaren’s
Pool hall and sports bar
Elgin
Zaphod’s
Alternative hipster heaven
Music
Royal Oak
188 Bank St.
Pub (English)
Play
318 Bank St.
Pub (English)
161 Laurier Ave
Pub (English)
Chez Lucien
137 Murray St.
Pub (French)
Brixtons
210 Sparks St.
Pub (English)
D’Arcy mcGees
44 Sparks St.
Pub (Irish)
Earl of Sussex
431 Sussex Drive
Pub (English)
Freehouse
296 Elgin Street
Cocktails
Fox & Feather
283 Elgin St.
Pub
Heart&Crown/Irish
Village
67 Clarence St
Pub (Irish)
Lieutenant’s pump
361 Elgin St.
Resto-Pub
The manx
370 Elgin St.
Resto-Pub
Food
Centretown
The mayflower
247 Elgin St.
Restaurant and Pub
macLarens
Somerset and Elgin
Pool hall/Restaurant
Aunt Olives
209 Gilmour
Café and thrift shop
Black Tomato
11 George St.
Restaurant
Green Tea
280 Elgin St
Sushi
Stone Face Dolly’s
416 Preston
Breakfast
Blue Cactus
2 Byward Market
Restaurant (Tex-Mex)
Colonade pizza
280 Metcalfe St.
Pizza (Ottawa’s best)
pub Italia
434 1/2 Preston
Pub
Cathay Restaurant
228 Albert St.
Chinese
Dunn’s Famous
Deli 220 Elgin and 203
Queen
Deli/Diner
Barrymores music Hall
323 Bank St.
Hot peppers
201 Queen St.
Thai
persian Cuisine
Express
340 Laurier Ave.
Persian
Zak’s
16 Byward Market
Diner
Elgin St. Diner
374 Elgin St.
Diner
Shafali
308 Dalhousie St.
Indian
ByWard market
Assorted bakeries and
cafes
Ahora
307 Dalhousie
Mexican
Shawarma palace
464 Rideau Street
Lebanese (The best)
marroush
380 Elgin St.
Lebanese
The Table
1230 Wellington ave
Vegetarian
Avante-Garde
135 Besserer St.
Bar (Russian)
The Green Door
198 Main St.
Vegetarian
Sweetgrass
108 Murray St.
Aboriginal
perfection Satisfaction
167 Laurier Ave. E.
Vegetarian
Babylon Nightclub
317 Bank St.
Zaphod Breeblebrox
27 York St.
minglewoods
14 Waller St
18/Foundation
18 York St.
The Lookout
41 York St.
Edge
212 Sparks St.
Whiskey Bar
110 York St.
Collection/mercury
Lounge-56
Byward Market
Aloha Room
323 Bank St.
Hooley’s
292 Elgin St.
privilege
380 Elgin St.
museum of
Civilization100 Rue Laurier
Holt Renfrew
240 Sparks St
Rideau Centre
50 Rideau St.
Mall
museum of Nature
240 Mcleod St.
parliament Hill
Wellington St.
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Aunt Olives
209 Gilmour St.
Sugar mountain
71 William St. & 286 Elgin
St.
Norml
2 William St.
Top of the World
158 Rideau St.
Neon
60 George St.
Attic
203 Dalhousie St.
milk
236 Dalhousie St.
Sparks St. mall
320 Sparks St.
La Bottega
64 George St.
Domus
84 Murray St.
Amuse
246 Dalhousie St.
War museum
1 Vimy Place
University of Ottawa
Bordered by the canal
and King Edward Ave.
The Fulcrum
631 King Edward Ave.
National Arts Centre
53 Elgin St.
museum of
Contemporary
photography
1 Rideau St.
World Exchange
Cinema
111 Albert St
Bytowne Cinema
325 Rideau St.
Rideau Centre Theatres
50 Rideau St.
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