WERE NON-LEFTIST JOURNALISTS NOT INVITED?

  A group of journalists gathered Thursday evening for a public discussion at Ottawa’s Carleton University to discuss what they describe as a rise in online hate targeting journalists.
  The event titled “Journalists and Online Hate: What to do when the battlefield is everywhere” was moderated by CTV News’ parliamentary bureau chief Joyce Napier. It featured Global News journalist Rachel Gilmore, The Hill Times columnist Erica Ifill, Toronto Star journalist Saba Eitizaz, as well as Liberal public safety minister Marco Mendicino, CBC/Radio Canada president Catherine Tait and Global News’ editor-in-chief Sonia Verma

  Ifill noted it was problematic that an hour into the panel, the far-right had not been brought up. She said a source of the hate received has been the journalism done on the far right and its rise. She added that “convoy people, convoy adjacent people, and white supremacists” are part of the problem.