Events from the year 1997 in Canada.
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Canada.
The Canadian Association of Journalists is one of several Canadian organizations of journalists. It was created to promote excellence in journalism and encourage investigative journalism. The CAJ is one of several national voices for Canadian journalists—the only one with a coast-to-coast presence and run by journalists practising across all media.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is a Canadian non-governmental organization supported by Canadian journalists and advocates of freedom of expression. The purpose of the organization is to defend the rights of journalists and contribute to the development of press freedom throughout the world. CJFE recognizes that these rights are not confined to journalists and strongly supports and defends the broader objective of freedom of expression in Canada and around the world.
Arab Canadians come from all of the countries of the Arab world. According to the 2016 Census there were 948,330 Canadians who claimed Arab ancestry. According to the 2011 Census there were 661,750 Canadians who claimed full or partial ancestry from an Arabic-speaking country. The large majority of the Canadians of Arab origin population live in either Ontario or Quebec. Not all Canadians from the Arab world are Arabs, there are also communities of Armenians, Assyrians, Copts, Kurds, Turcomans, Berbers, and those who espouse a Phoenician or Aramean heritage.
Paul Michael Szep is a political cartoonist. He was the chief editorial cartoonist at the Boston Globe from 1967–2001 and has been syndicated to hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice for Editorial Cartooning in 1974 and 1977. Szep also won the prestigious international Thomas Nast Prize (1983). The Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) honored him twice with its Distinguished Service Award for Editorial Cartooning. He won the National Headliner Award in 1977 and the National Cartoonists Society's Editorial Cartoonist of the year (1978). He has written more than a dozen books.
Jiang Weiping is a veteran mainland Chinese journalist known internationally for his arrest by the Communist Party of China in 2001.
Lyse Marie Doucet, is a Canadian journalist who is the BBC's chief international correspondent and an occasional contributing editor. She presents on BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television, also reports for BBC Radio 4 and BBC News in the United Kingdom, including reporting and occasionally presenting for Newsnight and World News Today. She also makes and presents documentaries.
The Michener Award is one of the highest distinctions in Canadian journalism. The award was founded in 1970 by Roland Michener, who was Governor General of Canada at the time, and his wife Norah. The idea for the award was developed in 1969 with Bill MacPherson, then president of the National Press Club and managing editor of the Ottawa Citizen, who remained a secretary of the committee administering the award until his death. Since 1970, the Michener Award has been presented yearly by the Governor General at Rideau Hall to a Canadian news organization "whose entry is judged to have made a significant impact on public policy or on the lives of Canadians".
Out In Canada is a travel magazine focused on gay and lesbian tourism, also known as LGBT tourism, exclusively within Canada. The magazine is printed twice yearly, and is distributed free in gay villages across North America.
Mark Bourrie is a Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, historian, and lecturer at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. His work has appeared in many major Canadian magazines and newspapers.
Michelle Justine Lang was a Canadian journalist. Lang was a Calgary Herald reporter and the first Canadian journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan.
George Herbert Sallans was a Canadian writer and journalist, whose novel Little Man won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction and the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1942.
Jineth Bedoya Lima is a Colombian journalist who was abducted in May 2000 and August 2003. In 2001, she was awarded the Courage In Journalism Award of the International Women's Media Foundation.
Terry Jones, nicknamed Large or Jonesy, is a Canadian journalist and author based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is currently a sports columnist with the Edmonton Sun.
Austin "Dink" Carroll was a Canadian sports journalist. A columnist for the Montréal Gazette, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He also won the Jack Graney Award in 1990 from the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1986). Carroll attended McGill University where he played on the football team. He earned a LL.B. degree from there in 1923, but never practiced law. He wrote a column for the Gazette from 1941 to 1987.
James A. Coleman was a Canadian sports journalist. A nationally syndicated columnist for the Southam Newspapers, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He also wrote for the Winnipeg Tribune, Edmonton Bulletin, and The Globe and Mail. His column was syndicated in 1950. Coleman was a member of the Order of Canada, Canadian News Hall of Fame, Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, Canada Sports Hall of Fame and Canadian Football Hall of Fame. He also hosted the Jim Coleman Show from 1959 to 1960.
Paula Simons is a Canadian Senator. She previously worked as a journalist and was a columnist for the Edmonton Journal in Edmonton, Alberta. She sits as an independent senator representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada, and is part of the Independent Senators Group caucus.
Cam Cole is a Canadian sports journalist. During his career, Cole has worked for the Edmonton Journal,National Post, and Vancouver Sun. After retiring in 2016, Cole was awarded the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame and Golf Canada’s Distinguished Service Award.
