Archive
1 Mar

Fishy tale

Vanity Fair’s website has a story about the story — of the celebrity magazine’s quest to find out if a Victoria, B.C. resident was the son of J.F. Kennedy.It’s a […]

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1 Mar

Sun completes takeover of MySQL

Sun Microsystems has announced the completion of its $1 billion takeover of MySQL. You can read the official details in this February 26 news release and get the take of Sun’s […]

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1 Mar

Testimony ends notes impasse

A lawyer has ended his effort to gain access to journalist Lon Appleby’s notes in exchange for Appleby’s testimony in a murder case, the Globe and Mail reports. The lawyer […]

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29 Feb

Does tough-guy image harm journalists’ health?

As a preview of the Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma’s February 2008 conference, University of Western Ontario’s Dawn Milne interviews UWO lecturer Cliff Lonsdale about his experiences dealing with trauma. […]

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29 Feb

Police investigation: 1, Journalist sources: 0

Ontario’s highest court has set the interest of police criminal investigations above the need of journalists to protect confidential sources, in a ruling against the National Post (and the Globe […]

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29 Feb

Feet-to-ground, pen-to-paper

By Stephany Tlalka Kroners fly out of my pocket and into a muddy puddle near the trams. I pick them up and jam them into the phone. Looks like I […]

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29 Feb

Human rights complaints much ado about nothing

In a piece for The Gazette called “Media are getting all lathered up over nothing,” human-rights lawyer Pearl Eliadis gives three reasons why the outrage over the Mark Steyn/Maclean’s/Ezra Levant human rights […]

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29 Feb

Sources journalistiques: la GRC s’oppose au projet de loi de Serge Ménard

Gilles Toupin, La Presse | La GRC a recommandé au ministre de la Sécurité publique, Stockwell Day, de ne pas appuyer le projet de loi privé du député bloquiste Serge […]

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28 Feb

Le journalisme sportif, une science… inexacte

Michel Laliberté, Cyberpresse.ca | Les journalistes et commentateurs qui rôdent dans l’entourage du Canadien parlent de la venue de Hossa depuis quelques semaines. Ce sont eux qui ont suscité des […]

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28 Feb

Stable funding recommended for CBC

The House of Commons heritage committee recommended that the federal government commit “stable, multi-year funding” to the CBC, though the committee split along party lines over the future of the […]

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