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20 Aug

On profiling a serial killer

In a video, The Mark interviewed journalist Stevie Cameron to discuss her new book about Robert Pickton, Canada’s most prolific serial killer. The writing process took eight years, and can […]

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20 Aug

Hello! Canada gets new EIC

Alison Eastwood will take over for Ciara Hunt as Hello! Canada‘s new editor-in-chief, effective August 25. Eastwood is currently deputy editor Hello! Canada, and has worked for the weekly celebrity […]

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20 Aug

Guess which Toronto newspaper….

Not-a-lot-of-skill-testing question: which “local newspaper” does the Toronto Star mean when it reports: “Two and a half hours earlier, Ford was hosting a news conference to explain why it appeared […]

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20 Aug

What a magazine can do that an iPad can’t

Esquire‘s September issue back page lists “Things a magazine can do that an iPad can’t (Because our app will do a lot, but it won’t have cologne strips, either)”. The […]

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19 Aug

Stephen Harper voudrait placer un pion à la tête du CRTC

Le président du Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC), Konrad von Finckenstein, serait assis sur un siège éjectable. Selon le Globe and Mail, le premier ministre Harper […]

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19 Aug

Vuvuzela, overleveraged, bromance now in dictionary

The creators of the Oxford English Dictionary have added 2,000 new words and phrases, largely inspired by the Interweb (another new addition), the World Cup and the global economic meltdown. […]

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19 Aug

Weatherman appointed Colonel of Air Force academy

A Channel News Barrie broadcast journalist and weather specialist Bob McIntyre has been named the first Honorary Colonel of Canada’s Air Force school, the Air Command Academy. The Snowbirds fly […]

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18 Aug

L’idée d’un titre de journaliste professionnel refait surface

Réunis en congrès en fin de semaine dernière, les jeunes libéraux ont réclamé l’instauration d’un statut professionnel pour les journalistes. En 2002, la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) […]

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18 Aug

Times Colonist wins Justicia award

The Times Colonist has won the 2010 Justicia Award for Excellence in legal Journalism for its series on access to information in the B.C. court system. The Times Colonist reports: […]

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18 Aug

Pentagon to discuss Afghan files: WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the Pentagon is willing to discuss the leaked Afghan war logs in order to decide which files could potentially harm civilians and be removed. “This […]

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