Opinion: Legal protections for journalists' sources are important

An effective press depends on information supplied by sources. But, many of the sources are likely to dry up unless journalists can credibly promise to keep their identities confidential.
Those are the simple premises at the heart of the Journalistic Sources Protection Act, Canada’s recently enacted “shield” law that makes it harder to force journalists to reveal the identity of their confidential sources. The law was rightly heralded as an important victory for democracy and f