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2 Feb

Sports journalist Jack Matheson dies

Canadian sports journalism icon Jack Matheson died last week at the age of 86, the CBC reports. Matheson, an inductee in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Manitoba Hockey […]

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1 Feb

JdeM: la loi anti-briseurs de grève divise

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">En resserrant les dispositions anti-briseurs de grève pour tenir compte du travail à distance, le gouvernement pénaliserait l'économie du Québec, «à cause d'un conflit qui concerne moins de 200 personnes» au <i>Journal de Montréal</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, estime</span><i> </i>le président de Quebecor, Pierre Karl Péladeau, invité à témoigner ce matin devant <span style="font-style: normal;">la commission de l'économie et du travail.</span></p>

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1 Feb

Breaking up with WikiLeaks

In last Friday’s episode of CBC’s The Current, host Anna Maria Tremonti speaks with the New York Time‘s London Bureau Chief John Burns, who contributed to the paper’s first e-book, […]

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1 Feb

Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis join Postmedia’s new digital advisory board

Postmedia Network Inc. has recruited online experts Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Janet Bannister and Judy Simms to its new digital advisory board. The board is headed by Postmedia’s executive VP, […]

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1 Feb

When media giants merge, what’s the worry?

US regulators fret about competition a lot more than our CRTC. Check the BCE-CTVglobemedia hearings. Michael Geist reports. This week the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will hold hearings on […]

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1 Feb

Who is Don Burroughs and why is he saying these things?

Vancouver blogger Adrian McNair has taken issue with a column by Susan Delacourt on the possibility of a spring federal election. Delacourt quotes Don Burroughs in her story, noting he […]

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1 Feb

Bell and CTV sweeten acquisition proposal

As the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission  prepares to review BCE Inc.’s proposed acquisition of CTVglobemedia, the two companies have offered up a benefits package worth between $143 million and […]

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1 Feb

JdeM: Commission parlementaire en cours

Les parlementaires se penchent aujourd’hui et demain sur le conflit de travail au Journal de Montréal dans le cadre des travaux de la Commission de l’économie et du travail. Ils […]

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1 Feb

Nominations open for women’s health reporting awards

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada and the Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health has opened applications for its 2011 Journalism Awards for Excellence in Women’s Health Reporting, which […]

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1 Feb

Egypt media coverage

As turmoil deepens in Egypt, media critics accuse U.S. broadcasters of serving up “blather and confusion” from the mouths of “unqualified panellists.” Most columnists agree that Al Jazeera continues to […]

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