Chris Allen
Toronto
Covers:
Canadian governance, institutional accountability, and education policy
Doesn't Cover:
Lifestyle, product, or celebrity content
I ask the questions your echo chamber won't.
@theoldguardian_ | Investigative journalism.
No parties. No tribes. No narrative.
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Chris Allen’s Biography
Read Full Bio →I didn't set out to become a journalist. I set out to understand why things that should work don't and why the people responsible for fixing them so rarely do.
I've spent years working inside municipal systems, watching decisions get made, unmade, and buried in committee minutes that nobody reads. I've seen how institutional language is used not to communicate but to obscure. How accountability gets deferred indefinitely through process. How the gap between what institutions say publicly and wh…
Chris Allen’s Journalist Portfolio
Ontario Just Centralized Education Power. Here Is What Everyone Is Getting Wrong
Interview
See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
The Old Guardian, which is my own platform.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
I did a typewriter class in high school.
How is social media changing news?
Creating citizen Journalism, everyone with a smartphone can record sooner than press are able to show up.