An award-winning investigative reporter and a founder of the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), Nick was a news editor and producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for more than 20 years. One of the founders of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), he was involved in helping press freedom organizations in developing countries for several years. Early in his career, Nick was publisher/editor of The 4th Estate newspaper in Halifax, worked with Reuters in London, Canadian Press in Toronto, and was one of the editors of THIS magazine. Nick is also the author of Maritime Radical: The Life and Times of Roscoe Fillmore.
Now based in Toronto, Nick is a freelance journalist and activist.
by Nick Fillmore
National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Their coverage, usually framed in disrespectful language, promotes untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of the region.
