Dru Oja Jay

On The Globe and Mail's High Standards

How flimsy can the basis for a "controversy" be? Dru Oja Jay looks at the Globe's example.

The Lancet, Haiti and the manufacture of controversy

Setting up a Stand for Justice

Lebanon, Israel, and one man's battle for a few feet of sidewalk in Montréal. Dru Oja Jay meets the "Tunisian hippy."

A battle for a few feet of sidewalk

New report suggests violence has become much worse in Haiti since Canadian intervention

Making War in Canada

Canadian firms help make for F-16s, F-15s and Apache helicopters used to bomb Lebanon and assassinate Palestinians, reports Dru Oja Jay.

Canada produces military equipment used in attacks on Lebanon, Palestine

Embedded Edits

Canadian journalists are embedded with soldiers in Afghanistan. But, Dru Oja Jay asks, are there other threats to accurate coverage?

Is news coverage of Afghanistan straight from the source?

Canadian troops knock down doors, interrogate civilians in Afghanistan: New footage

None of Our Business

Dru Oja Jay reads the business section, and finds the news that non-investor Canadians rarely see.

Canada's role in the world and the business press

René Préval Speaks in Montreal

Visite du président élu d'Haïti M. René Préval

Au cours de l'entrevue, M. Préval a clairement exprimé sa volonté de faire respecter la souveraineté nationale et de ne servir de marionnette à personne.

Haitian President-elect Preval Visits Canada

Is Military Using Hamilton in Six Nations Standoff?

Canada's Debt to Afghanistan

Afghan Women's Mission co-director Sonali Kolhatkar says that Canadians need to begin "undoing the damage" in Afghanistan

Canadians needs to "undo the damage": visiting activist

Declassifying Canada in Haiti: Part II

Was Canada an early backer of a coup against the democratically elected government of Haiti, led by the dreaded former military? New documents raise new questions.

Did Canada have plans to support another military coup in Haiti?

Declassifying Canada in Haiti: Part I

Documents acquired by the Dominion in a Access to Information Act request reveal that Canada was long planning a military intervention in Haiti.

Canadian officials planned military intervention weeks before Haitian coup

Peace from Above

Dru Oja Jay looks at where NATO dropped 20,000 tonnes of bombs in 1999 in the final part of the former Yugoslavia series

The final article in a five-part series on the former Yugoslavia

The Good Guys

Who was NATO supporting during the war? Part four of Dru Oja Jay's series on the former Yugoslavia takes a look

Part four in a five-part series on the former Yugoslavia

The Media War

Part three of Dru Oja Jay's series on the former Yugoslavia looks at the role of the media in shaping the conflict.

Part three in a five-part series on the former Yugoslavia

The Origins of the War in the Balkans

The second part of a series by Dru Oja Jay examines the role of the west in the breakup of Yugoslavia

Part two in a five part series on the former Yugoslavia

Milosevic the Guilty?

In the first of a five-part series, Dru Oja Jay looks at the media's guilty verdict in the case of Slobodan Milosevic.

Part one in a five-part series on the former Yugoslavia

"Holy Cow, Farmers Really Are Efficient"

Dru Oja Jay investigates what the National Farmers' Union says is a direct connection between corporate profits and farmers' losses.

Record corporate profits are linked to farmers' woes: NFU

Toronto clinic violates Canada Health Act: Coalition

Job growth, pay shrinkage last year in Canada

Criticism, calls for resolve as Canada relieves US in Afghanistan

Ce qui rend un scandale scandaleux

Dru Oja Jay s'interroge sur le silence des médias canadiens sur la question haïtienne alors que ceux-ci se sont acharnés sur l'affaire des voyages de Pierre Pettigrew.

Les médias et l'appartement de Pierre Pettigrew, rue Aristide Bruant

Your Local Farmers Marketing

Dru Oja Jay investigates how small farmers are cutting out the 'middle man' and doing the marketing themselves.

Ontario organic farmers form cooperative to offset razor-thin margins

Land Claims and Treaties and Bands, Oh My!

Canada's media stopped short of looking beyond the official line in coverage of the First Ministers' Meeting. Dru Oja Jay peeks at what they missed.

First Ministers' Meeting coverage begins and ends with official story

Beautiful -- Privatized -- British Columbia?

Why does BC's Liberal government keep picking major fights with trade unions? Dru Oja Jay asks around.

Health care workers, teachers, fight government over policy

What makes a scandal scandalous?

Dru Oja Jay asks why the Canadian media, despite pestering the Pierre Pettigrew about questionable trips, have yet to ask about Haiti

The media and Pierre Pettigrew's apartment on rue Aristide Bruant

FEMA Turned Away Aid, Rescue Crews, Cut Emergency Communication Lines: Witnesses

The Battle of New Orleans

In an extensive overview, Dru Oja Jay looks at the history of race and class iniquities that set the scene for the current tragedy.

Race, Class Disparity Set Stage for New Orleans Disaster