Reporter fired over story about politician’s apparent links to organized crime

NewsReporters Without Borders condemns the dismissal of a Quebec province newspaper reporter, who was fired for investigating a parliamentary candidate’s suspected links with organized crime, and voices concern about the future of local independent journalism in Canada. Frédéric Marcoux, a young reporter for the French-language weekly L’Express in Drummondville, in the centre of the province, was fired on

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