Harper Did The Dion Duffy Do-Over
Mike Duffy once mocked Stephane Dion for asking for restarts to questions for a TV interview. Journalists typically grant these requests, as was explained at the time by less biased…
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The Senate and Bank Mergers
L. Ian MacDonald wrote a defence of the Senate in today’s Montreal Gazette. He makes the familiar argument that it provides useful study of policy issues. However, his first example…
Some Nice Journalistic Data Visualization – Global’s Crude Awakening
Over at Global, David Skok and his team have created a very nice visualization of the over 28,666 crude oil spills that have happened on Alberta pipelines over the last…
South Asian Heritage Month at the Ontario Legislature
On May 28, 2013, the Network of Indian Professionals (NetIP) partnered with several other organizations to host an event at the Ontario Legislature to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month. The…
Review (and a personal retrospective) – Behind the Candelabra
With only the most scant help from Google I have been trying to remember more about my personal, professional meeting with Liberace (“Please, call me Lee.”) It was some time…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Murray Dobbin contrasts the B.C. NDP’s recent election loss against the type of popular focus which helped Saskatchewan’s CCF to earn a…
Regina Hosed by P3 Waste Water
Regina City Council has voted to proceed with a 30-year public-private partnership (P3) in which a private company would design, build, finance, operate and maintain the city’s new waste water…
CBC journalist Charles Rusnell: slaying Alberta’s Tory dragon, one scandal at a time …
Your blogger with CBC investigative reporter Charles Rusnell. Below: Edmonton-Manning MLA Peter Sandhu; Mr. Sandhu with Alison Redford in a Tory Party photo grabbed from the Daveberta.ca blog. The photo-bomber…
Don’t Privatize ISC
My op-ed in today’s Saskatoon StarPhoenix (page A11): Privatizing ISC is a poor deal for Saskatchewan The provincial government estimates that selling 60 per cent of the Information Services Corporation…
Worldviews Conference Looks at Media and Education
Universities and colleges do a lot of research and sometimes their findings can make a large difference on the world around us. Unfortunately, it can be hard to get the…
Your $60 million media monitoring programme
Note: This blog post below was written on March 9th but not published. Given this news of the past day, “Harper Government Spends Millions Monitoring Press Of Own MPs,” thought…
Your $60 million media monitoring programme
Note: This blog post below was written on March 9th but not published. Given this news of the past day, “Harper Government Spends Millions Monitoring Press Of Own MPs,” thought…
Immigrants: 70,000 People Tell The New York Times To Drop The I-Word [VIDEO]
We recommend:New York Times reconsidering the term ‘illegal immigrant’Associated Press Ditches “Illegal Immigrant”. And A Lesson For Jason KenneyFukushima’s victims show why Harper must update nuclear liability lawCanada, immigration…
Andrew Coyne’s Drive-by Attack on “Big Government”
Update: Andrew has suggested to me that it is unfair to judge the column by the title, since he didn’t write it, which is true, although it strikes me that…
Attention BC Liberals: Space for Rent
In regards to this… First of all, to the genius publishers of 24 Hours, nicely done. I know you’ve got a business to run, but all you’ve done is to…
Sixth Estate Endorses Mischa Popoff in BC 2013 Election
After a good and I like to think well-deserved hiatus, I’m going to be easing back into blogging now. And I thought that perhaps the way to do it would…
Terahertz Atheist Video Blog
I always have a number of long-term projects in my head. Reaching out via different mediums is one of them, and practice speaking and editing is always important for me.…
InsideClimate wins Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Canada’s tar sands
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: On Monday, three reporters from nonprofit online news site InsideClimate were honored with a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Canada’s tar sands and…
The Media Should Not Cover YouTube Attack Ads
If a political party isn’t willing to pay to put an ad into places people are likely to find it on their own (like TV, radio, newspaper or even paid…
Coronations are not held after 104,552 votes are counted…
Coronations are not held after 104,552 votes are counted, nor are coronations held in hotel conference rooms. *COUGH* Congratulations/Félicitations Justin Trudeau! 😀 SCC