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Free Conrad!

July 21st, 2010
To paraphrase Conrad Black, who was talking at the time about journalists: Ex-cons these days just seem so ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest and inadequately supervised. Crossharbour, until yesterday Prisoner No. 18330-424, has made his escape from the slammer after serving 28 months of a 61/2 year sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice. He will be out on bail pend ...
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Honey, I shrunk CP

July 7th, 2010
Just four years ago, a Senate committee examined the state of Canada's news media and made a prescient plea: Please support The Canadian Press wire service. It's vital to the country. Since then, the country's two largest newspaper companies -- CanWest (in 2007) and Sun Media (this month) -- have pulled out of CP and that has triggered a radical restructuring that threatens the future of the ...
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The future is white

June 8th, 2010
Just how far Canada's corporate sector is from recognizing diversity as a core business value was evident in yesterday's Globe and Mail. A special section with the unfortunate headline "Celebrating our own" presented the Top 40 Under 40 award-winners. Labelled "a new generation of young leaders," their pictures and profiles covered eight pages and the back page of the Globe's Report on Bus ...
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Sold to vultures

May 11th, 2010
Hundreds of thousands of readers woke up today to news that their local newspaper has been sold -- and the new owner is something called "the ad hoc committee of Canwest's unsecured bondholders." If I were those readers, I would be very, very angry. In a $1.1 billion stroke, the leading newspapers in cities like Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal have fallen into th ...
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Good journalism

May 10th, 2010
An important victory for investigative journalism has just been won in Quebec, but most journalists probably overlooked it. That's too bad, because it demonstrates that good journalism can sometimes be found in unlikely places and that "public interest" and "responsible journalism" are increasingly being recognized by the courts in Canada. Quebec Superior Court Justice Catherine Mandeville ...
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Cowards on the Net

April 17th, 2010
Not too long ago, I got an email from someone I will call pcavenger@redspur.com. Obviously someone with a hate on for political correctness. The message was two lines long and made some rather creative suggestions for what I could do with my head. I thought up a witty reply and tried to send it, but of course it bounced. The ranter wasn't interested in dialogue, just delivering abuse, a su ...
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Say goodnight, CAB

April 15th, 2010
So the Canadian Association of Broadcasters is disbanding. Should anyone care? Anyone who cares about the accurate portrayal of visible minorities on television should care a lot. That’s because the CAB’s decision to throw in the towel after 84 years of attempting to represent Canada’s private broadcasters also puts an end to the country’s most interesting experiment in making media toe th ...
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Readers grow here

April 11th, 2010
Research done recently in Vancouver may provide clues to Toronto news media on how to reach what is often called "the other 50 percent" – those Canadians in the GTA who were born in another country and tend to be increasingly non-white. As their overall readerships and viewerships stagnate or decline, mainstream daily newspapers and TV news stations might assume that the trend is common ac ...
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Dingbat academic

April 4th, 2010
Francois Houle, provost of the University of Ottawa, is the new poster boy for academic dingbat of the year. His ill-advised letter to American conservative commentator Ann Coulter, advising her to watch what she was planning to say at a campus speaking engagement, not only embarrassed his university, it should cause all academic administrators to question just how strongly they embrace acad ...
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Time to go local

January 12th, 2010
Let's say your mortgage is more than your house is worth and you've stiffed your banker for seven months because you can't afford to even pay the interest. Is anyone going to listen when you say my luck may change soon and property values could increase and it's not the time to foreclose? Hello there, Leonard Asper! The man who turned his father's $20-a-share legacy into something worth 6 ...
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