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NEWS DECODER -- Does China’s Paralympics coverage mask rights flaws?

BY JILL MOFFATT (FGJ ‘22) -- China is providing extensive broadcast coverage of the Paralympic Games in Beijing, and its athletes are once again leading the medals table. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHY DEBATE -- For Olympic hopefuls, long COVID poses career threat

BY JILL MOFFATT AND ANTHONY FONG (FGJ ‘22) -- The Beijing Olympics are in the rearview mirror, the Omicron wave in Canada is receding, but world-class athletes are still facing the fact that age and fitness doesn’t spare them from prolonged COVID symptoms that could be career ending. READ MORE. 

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TORONTO STAR -- Search for missing Indigenous logging protester grows tense in B.C.

BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ’22) AND JILL MOFFATT (FGJ ‘22) -- PORT-RENFREW, B.C. Family and friends of an Indigenous protester missing for seven weeks in the woods near a logging blockade on Vancouver Island lashed out Saturday at a logging company’s security for hampering their increasingly frantic search. READ MORE. 

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NATIONAL POST -- The baby gap: For many Canadian Olympians, getting pregnant is considered an ‘injury'

BY JILL MOFFATT (FGJ ‘21) -- Kate Gillis is the most accomplished woman in Canadian field hockey history, and served as Team Canada captain for 10 years. When she wanted to become a mother, though, she was shocked that pregnancy was listed under the “injury card” provision for federal funding, alongside mental health and physical injuries. READ MORE.