Sumayyah Hussein

They Make Us Look Like Dorks!

They Make Us Look Like Dorks!

Why many Canadian Muslims believe the media have an anti-Islam bias—and what two journalistic heavyweights are doing about it

The downtown Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ottawa seems an unlikely place for a conference on religion and the media. It’s about as secular as a building can be, save perhaps for those Gideon Bibles in every room. But on this weekend in late October about eighty people, mostly journalists, have registered for a two-day event […]

 Sumayyah Hussein

Spoiling for a Fight

Two Toronto hospitals, two in-depth series, two newspapers... same day. How did it happen? How did they get access? And what was in it for the hospitals? A behind-the-scenes look

The day before her “Situation Critical” series on Sunnybrook hospital’s critical care unit was set to be published in The Toronto Star, health policy reporter Tanya Talaga caught a glimpse of an open spread of that day’s edition of The Globe and Mail on a colleague’s desk. A half-page ad jumped out at her: “Life […]