Celine Cooper: In this changing world, good journalism matters

I began writing a weekly column for the Montreal Gazette back in December 2012.
Quebec’s 2012 printemps érable — the massive student demonstrations characterized by the banging of pots and pans and those iconic red squares — had contributed to the fall of Premier Jean Charest’s Liberals and the election of Pauline Marois’s minority Parti Québécois government. Stephen Harper was prime minister of Canada, having been returned with a majo