CP: National Post loses secret source case in top court

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Fri May-07-10 09:17 AM
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CP: National Post loses secret source case in top court

The Supreme Court of Canada says journalists have no constitutional right to protect confidential sources.

The court has ruled 8-1 against the National Post in a decade-old case dealing with a possibly forged document linked to the Shawinigate scandal.

The justices upheld the legality of a search warrant and assistance order that demanded that the National Post and former reporter Andrew McIntosh hand over a brown envelope and a document supplied by a confidential source.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/05/07/shawinigate-confidential-sources-protection-cp.html

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