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Connecting Crisis Communication Theory and Canadian Communication Research

In the first article in this special issue, "Crisis, Communication, and Canadian Hospitals: An Analysis and Evaluation of Risk Preparedness and Crisis Communication Efforts of Ontario Hospitals," Sebastian Dobosz presents the findings of interviews with 14 communication practitioners from Ontario hospitals about the state of crisis communication and management Timothy Coombs' (2004) Situational Crisis Communication Theory posits that victims of crises face no blame from the public because they have no control over their causes (public blame is a key consideration in crisis communication research as it hurts one's public reputation, which is valuable currency in the public sphere) On politics and crisis communication, the third article in this special issue, "The Anatomy of a National Crisis: The Canadian Federal Government's Response to the 2015 Kurdi Refugee Case" by Sara Siddiqi and Duncan Koerber, similarly considers a crisis that grabbed the world's attention and negatively affected the public reputations of two Canadian politicians who actually had no hand in causing it The article examines in detail the crisis response after the 2014 terrorist attack on Parliament Hill in Ottawa that killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo Since no single governing body existed in Canada to deal with terrorist attacks, several organizations came together