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19 Jan

Star, union reach tentative agreement

The Toronto Star has reached a tentative agreement with unionized staff, averting a strike, the Star reports. Details of the pact will not be released until workers have a chance […]

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18 Jan

Documentary filmmaker freed in Iran

A doctoral student at the University of Quebec in Montreal has been allowed to leave Iran after being detained for almost a year, the Gazette reports. Mehrnoushe Solouki, a French-Iranian […]

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16 Jan

Dubya’s doc doctors Dowd

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, a well-established Bush basher, found herself gratefully accepting medical help from the presidential entourage in the Middle East, the Washington Post reports in a blog item. She […]

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15 Jan

CRTC sets limits on media

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommuications Commission has ruled that private companies will not be allowed to control all three media in one market, Reuters reports. It has also set limits on mergers so […]

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14 Jan

Writer expelled from Pakistan

Nicholas Schmidle, who wrote a story about the rise of pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan, has been expelled from that country, the New York Times reports via Associated Press. Schmidle, an American […]

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14 Jan

France’s multilingual channel scrapped

(CBC.ca) Saying he is “not prepared to broadcast a channel that does not speak French,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Tuesday his plans to shut down the country’s fledgling multilingual […]

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11 Jan

Chicago Sun-Times to cut staff

Staff cuts began at the Chicago Sun-Times today as part of downsizing that may claim as many as 35 union positions in editorial.

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10 Jan

Arthur Kent enters Alberta politics

Canadian journalist Arthur Kent, known as the “Scud Stud” for his live reporting during the 1992 Gulf War, is throwing his hat into Alberta politics. Kent, 54, left NBC after […]

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4 Jan

Dunnell dies at 102

Milt Dunnell, a legendary sports writer and editor who was a member of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, has died, the Canadian Press reports. Dunnell, who wrote about 11,000 columns […]

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3 Jan

Kenyan media unite in plea

Kenya’s major newspapers printed the same plea on their front pages, for politicians to “save our beloved country,” Reuters reports. The common editorial, which was also read on TV and […]

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