Open File Closed?
Same problem as all of these new media ventures: there didn’t seem to be an obviously sustainable source of income. The problem is, there may never be one. All these…
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Someone’s Gonna Shit
…when they read this. The shitting will likely begin here, and spread quickly to other parts of the Internet. Is the on-line world broad enough to contain the veritable storm…
I Should Have Thought Of That When I Was 27
From the U.K Daily Mail: It might have helped end a particularly miserable stretch of my life a few years early. But I would have used any monies raised to…
Quebecor Sacks More Staff
From the bottom of a very long memo from the beloved PKP: Unfortunately there are people impacted by the implementation of the new model. We very much appreciate their service…
Your Daily Nazi: This Is Floating Around The Quebec Education System??
A few days ago, the Tory government invited reps from the Canadian Immigration Report to testify on government immigration policy. They were swiftly uninvited when the NDP discovered, via the…
Another Globe Writer In Dutch
Last week, Leah Maclaren used a free lance piece in the Globe real estate section to market her own home. This week, scandal plagued public editor Sylvia Stead will be…
Tories Invite, Then Boot, Racist Group
CBC has the general story, but more can be gleaned from cireport website: Earlier today, the webmasters of cireport.ca were scheduled to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee…
How Times Change
This is a picture of the National Post’s Jonathon Kay. I know its hard to look at, but bear with me. Note the cup he’s holding. It’s demonstrates solidarity with…
CBC Disowns Wente
As those of you in our audience know, Margaret Wente has served as a regular face and voice on our Q media panel for the last three years. In that…
From The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
* The neural substrates of emotions do not appear to be confined to cortical structures. In fact, subcortical neural networks aroused during affective states in humans are also critically important…
Tuesday Tidbits
As the Margaret Wente plagiarism story finally hits the mainstream, she discovers a lone defender…yeah, Ezra Levant, and for him it really all comes down to The Muslims. Ah well,…
Coming Soon?
Once you start, who knows where it ends? And in Canada, naturally, it will start in Quebec. Original story here.
The Roma, Jason Kenny, And The University of Haifa
The Roma Community Centre of Toronto, Canada has sent a letter–their second, because their first from earlier this month has not been responded to–to the University of Haifa in Northern…
McGuinty’s Legacy
The Bruce Power revitalization program is an essential element to Ontario’s plan to phase out coal generation in 2014. Coal output over the past decade has dropped by nearly 90…
Update On Levant’s Roma Rant
It has now drawn a complaint to the Alberta law society: Roma Community Centre (RCC) of Toronto, Ontario, wishes to file a complaint with Alberta Law Society (ALS) against Ezra…
Andrew Weaver To Run For B.C. Greens
UVIC climate scientist (and Nobel Peace Price recipient) Andrew Weaver will be running under the GP banner in B.C.’s next provincial election. Imp’s
Kinder Morgan Hurls Pipeline Revenue Hot Potato Back To Alberta, Federal Government
B.C. Premier Christy Clark has lain down five conditions for having any new “heavy oil” pipeline traverse provincial territory. These are: …successful completion of the environmental-review process; world-leading marine and…
Santa Should Straighten Up And Fly Right
He should dump the pipe. Kids staying up late Xmas night, hiding behind the couch to catch a glimpse, will see him with the thing and take up the habit…
Maybe Wente Should Just Go
Tell me that what Media Culpa illustrates here isn’t an example of what John Mashey refers to in the comments as “mosaic plagiarism”. MC concludes as follows: Like journalists, kids…
Die Media Die More!
From the accompanying post: Journalism professor Jay Rosen of NYU observes that the peak year was the one in which blogging software first appeared.Glad we could help.