Chapter 7 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- How do you find accurate information?
- How do we become better critical thinkers?
- What is the difference between real and perceived bias?
- Why is it important to ask complete questions?
- Is it harder to find the truth in today's world?
- Do you think journalism is a force for good?
- What is a reliable source?
- Do you understand the difference between fact and opinion?
Hot Takes (From Your Inquiry Media)
We’re featuring two prominent voices from your Inquiry Media that have different takes on the question you’ve been exploring. Listen to the podcast and read the interview, and really try to understand and empathize with the different perspectives.
Louis-René Sénéchal
Parks Canada is the steward of some of Canada’s wildest and most spectacular landscapes. But rarely do we get to pull back the curtain...
- Which perspective resonates with you? One, both or none? Why?
- Do you understand the perspective you disagree with?
- What is the bias of each expert? How are you able to identify that bias?
- Do you understand that everyone has a bias? Is bias always a bad thing?
Rick Antonson
Ever travel to Timbuktu for a haircut? Have you been to the top of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey? Rick Antonson has. The former...
Activity
- Get together in small groups and discuss the entire Inquiry Media story, and the featured podcasts. Do you think we should save the economy to save nature? Is there a solution to this issue or even a way forward? Which voices in the story did you agree with? Who did you disagree with and why? If there are different perspectives within your group, try to understand them, while also working to identify the commonalities between your perspectives.
More From the Podcast Pool
Dr. Mike Flannigan
Most people think of forest fires as natural disasters, but according to the former senior research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, wildland fire...
James Michels
Visual storytelling can be a picture, a painting, a documentary or a plate of stunning food. It can also be a bent cedar box....
Referenced Resources
- Grizzly bears benefit from forestry – except for the roads
- An Independent Audit on Grizzly Bear Management
- Different Times: When Walter Cronkite Told Us the News
- Walter Cronkite and a Different Era of News
- Peter Mansbridge's legacy
- Why Peter Mansbridge’s departure represents the end of an illusion
- Echo Chambers: A Further Dystopia of Media Generated Fragmentation
- Media fragmentation and the rise of the gated news community
- Canada’s trust divide is growing, and that could spell bad news for the future
- Confirmation bias: ignoring the facts we don’t fancy
- Boris Johnson's Lies Worked for Years, Until They Didn't
- Under pressure: Canadians are losing trust in their governments, adding stress to our public institutions
- Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks.
- Fake heiress Anna Sorokin: 'Crime pays, in a way'
- How Instagram influencers can fake their way to online fame
- Unconscious Bias: How It Affects Us More Than We Know
- Biases Are Neither All Good Nor All Bad
- Counting the Job Cost of Halting Old-Growth Logging
- Forest companies won't invest in B.C. without changes by government
- Major flooding in Canada leads to widespread supply chain disruptions
- B.C. flooding could be Canada's costliest disaster as cut-off Port of Vancouver snarls supply chain
- ‘A tipping point’: how poor forestry fuels floods and fires in western Canada
- Reform the logging industry to slow climate crises in B.C., expert says
- Groupthink
- What Is Confirmation Bias?
- Canadian Association of Girls in Science
- When science-based wildlife management isn’t… and a solution to fix it
- Fear and caring are what’s at the core of divisive wolf debate
- A New Report Says We’re Hunting the World’s Mammals to Death. What Can Be Done?
- Hunting can be good for wildlife populations
- How the Left and Right Undermined Trust in Government
- British Columbia Ends the Grizzly Bear Hunt: The Right Decision?
- When Science-Based Management Isn’t
- I thought Britain had biased, Left-wing media – until I spent time in Canada
- Does Canadian Media Have a Right-wing Bias?
- Don’t ‘bothsides’ the just transition
- Don't believe promises of 'well-paying jobs' from Trudeau's Just Transition plan
- Liberal Party continues balancing act with unnecessarily vague plan on climate
- Trudeau Pushes Back Against Accusations He Has Done Nothing for the Environment
- Millions of Canadians Lack Trust in Government and News Media
- What to expect from Doug Ford's government in 2023
- New B.C. mandate letters send right signal on climate action
- People Don’t Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved
- Environmentalists accused of “cherry picking” official data on wind and solar power
- BC Leads the World in Sustainable Forestry
- Protect B.C.’s old-growth forests from logging!
- Hundreds of wolves killed, caribou remain at risk, Alberta scientists say
- Wolf Cull a Necessary, ‘Desperate’ Strategy to Save Caribou, Says Conservationist
- New study finds wolf culls will not save endangered caribou in Western Canada
- Canada’s Conservatives are adopting a disinformation strategy straight from Trump’s playbook
- How the Left Lost Its Mind
- Radical activists are a problem on the Left, too
- Fake news is fooling more conservatives than liberals. Why?
- Liberal-funded 'misinformation' study itself full of misinformation
- Growing ‘generational divide’ as younger Canadians report lower trust in government, greater economic anxiety: poll
- Crude Oil Forecast
- David Suzuki Foundation: Science Integrity Protocol
- Syncrude’s Bison Herd Thriving on reclaimed oil sands land
- Paradigm shift needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss
- Stantec: Bringing together the right expertise
- Media Bias: Toronto Star
- Media Bias: National Post
- National Post: Opinion
- National Post: Star Columnists
- What’s the difference between a news story and a column?
- The Bias in Media Bias Charts
- Readers need to distinguish news from opinion: Public Editor
- Media Bias: North 99
- Media Bias: The Rebel
- Canadians’ trust in the news media hits a new low
- The politics of fear: How fear goes tribal, allowing us to be manipulated
- Poll finds 90% of Canadians have fallen for fake news
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- United Nations
- Our Respect For Debate Is Spiraling Out Of Control
- How is skepticism different than cynicism? Find the answer in ancient Greece
- One quarter of Canadians believe online conspiracy theories, expert tells MPs
- Rise of conspiracy theories shows Canada not immune from U.S. problems
- Canada Fact Check
- Global News has won the Radio Television Digital News Association's (RTNDA) National Edward R Murrow award for Overall Excellence for network television.
- People increasingly distrust media, avoid news out of fatigue, report finds
- Political Ideology and Consumption: Perspectives and Effects
- Canadians’ trust in the news media hits a new low
- CBC News: Climate
- Let's talk about CBC and their very obvious bias
- Oil companies don’t care about you or the planet
- 'Pipelines will be blown up,' says David Suzuki, if leaders don't act on climate change
- Will Postmedia Face a Reckoning for Its Climate Coverage?