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David Slater

MacEwan needs to talk about Palestine

MacEwan University’s support for Ukraine and silence on Israel-Palestine leaves some students, faculty, and staff frustrated

10 min readNov 23, 2023

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MacEwan needs to talk about Palestine

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David Slater

How a UFC Comm Strategy Made us Stop Worrying About Domestic Violence

With the help of TMZ and other weak-kneed journalists, Dana White developed a comm strategy that wouldn’t have worked in any other sport

2 min readJan 27, 2023

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How a UFC Comm Strategy Made us Stop Worrying About Domestic Violence

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David Slater

Aaron Swartz — The Real One

January 11 marks the ten year anniversary of Aaron Swartz’s death.

2 min readJan 18, 2023

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Aaron Swartz — The Real One

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David Slater

Media Hypocrisy while Assange Remains in Prison.

This April marks three years that Assange has remained in Belmarsh prison.

3 min readApr 16, 2022

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Media Hypocrisy while Assange Remains in Prison.

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David Slater

America’s Atomic Bombs: Did They End the War?

Seventy-six years ago, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan…and they were undeniably completely avoidable.

14 min readAug 6, 2021

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America’s Atomic Bombs: Did They End the War?

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David Slater

The Iraq War Logs Ten Years Later

Ten years ago, Wikileaks released the Iraq War Logs — approximately 400,000 secret US Army field reports. The reports detail torture…

5 min readOct 25, 2020

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The Iraq War Logs Ten Years Later

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David Slater

Fixing Journalism

A short essay and interview with Dave Cournoyer and Adam Rozenhart to help answer a journalism class assignment: “how to fix journalism?”

7 min readApr 22, 2020

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Fixing Journalism

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David Slater

How ‘Both-Sides’ Helps the Far Right

The Canadian media landscape displays an attempt to remain neutral and unbiased. This isn’t the case as the business of media is often…

6 min readApr 24, 2019

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How ‘Both-Sides’ Helps the Far Right

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David Slater

Noam Chomsky’s 90, His Work Has Not Been More Important.

Noam Chomsky has turned 90 years old.

10 min readDec 30, 2018

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Noam Chomsky’s 90, His Work Has Not Been More Important.

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David Slater

It Was A Slow Walk In A Sad Rain

Though written years earlier, “Drive On,” is Johnny Cash’s Vietnam ballad. It was released in 1993, on ‘American Recordings,’ which was…

2 min readNov 12, 2018

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It Was A Slow Walk In A Sad Rain

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David Slater

David Slater

Journalist and writer | contributor to The Fifth Column & Pontiac Tribune | I write mostly about media criticism, militarism, war crimes

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