Juno News - March 26, 2026


Toronto Star rips off Juno News reporting

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Hamilton Kristen Rocheway Paul Calandra Calandra
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

179.65

Word count

376

Sentence count

18


Summary

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In this episode, we discuss a recent leak of information from the Hamilton Board of Control, and how it was stolen from a reporter at an independent news outlet. We also discuss the implications of this leak, and what it means for the people who trust me.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The story is written by this reporter, Kristen Rocheway, a senior writer with the Toronto Star.
00:00:06.260 She writes about the ministry and Paul Klander's statements and what he is trying to do.
00:00:11.460 And then later in the piece, it says this all came from the Hamilton Board's memo
00:00:15.580 focused on the anti-oppressive, anti-racist, anti-colonial lens that they were pushing
00:00:20.060 and basically copies your reporting and, again, doesn't give you any mention
00:00:26.420 that this was actually written by another reporter in an independent news outlet.
00:00:30.300 Really outrageous. What do you think?
00:00:31.780 Well, I want to say that this kind of, I guess, leak is unique to me.
00:00:37.700 There is no other place that this journalist could have obtained this information.
00:00:43.380 I mean, I suppose there's a possibility that, you know, she might have seen it.
00:00:48.060 But it's so infinitesimally small that that would have happened.
00:00:52.020 And at the time before Calandra actually came out and said what he said in the legislature about Hamilton, directly referencing the memo in Hamilton, this is when the Toronto Star article came out, right?
00:01:06.480 So before the legislature speech by Calandra.
00:01:10.080 And the journalist, like you said, references that this may be in part due to a memo from Hamilton.
00:01:16.060 Well, where did she get that?
00:01:17.560 She got that from me.
00:01:18.320 And the funny thing is, it was actually another source that I was speaking to yesterday morning who sent me a link and said, can you unpaywall this? And I was helping her out. And as I unpaywalled it, I looked at it. And I was absolutely livid, if I'm going to be perfectly honest, because it is not the first time that journalists take my work or cleverly paraphrase my work, which is originating from me because of the relationships that I've developed with these people over a long period of time.
00:01:44.020 So not only is this journalist stealing from another news organization, another journalist, but they're stealing from members of the public who want this information to be out there, who want it to be shared with the public.
00:01:57.200 They trust me. So I'm not nuclear simply because of me. I'm also very upset because of what this means for all the other people that they're shafting.