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12 Mar

Science “sexy” south of the border: Globe

<p>A <span style="font-style: italic;">Globe and Mail</span> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090311.wescience12/BNStory/specialComment/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">editorial </a>Thursday notes the paradigm shift in U.S. national policy under Obama to one which ideologically and financially supports science and open inquiry.

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11 Mar

Aspers and CanWest get reprieve

Canwest Global Communications Corp. won a reprieve on some of its debt problems until April 7. The company will use the time “to negotiate borrowing terms on its debt with […]

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11 Mar

Re-imagining journalism

The online magazine The Tyee is running a series on journalism by Steve Anderson, co-ordinator of Canadians for Democratic Media and the Stop the Big Media Takeover campaign. Anderson’s first […]

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11 Mar

Quebecor leaves CP

The Canadian Press, already embroiled in restructuring, took a major blow from Quebecor Inc., which announced it will pull out of the news co-operative in mid 2010 to cut costs, […]

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11 Mar

Photojournalist Tom Hanson dead at 41

Canadian Press reported that award-winning CP photojournalist Tom Hanson, “a fierce champion of journalistic rights whose sometimes brusque manner belied a devoted husband with a gentle soul,” has died suddenly […]

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11 Mar

Longtime CBC reporter interviewed on The Hour

“You always hear people say, ‘I remember where I was when Kennedy was shot.’ ‘I remember where I was when the space shuttle challenger blew up.’ Those moments stay with […]

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11 Mar

Censorship: Alberta to create movie czar

CBC reports on Alberta’s new censorship law, Bill 19, “New Alberta film bill creates movie czar, inspectors.” Cinema owners and movie distributors in Alberta are upset, said CBC, because the […]

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11 Mar

Rogers & Shaw to CRTC: CanCon web levy is illegal

Rogers Communications vice-chairman Phil Lind told the CRTC that a proposed small levy to support online Canadian content is illegal, a view later echoed by Shaw Communications, reports The Globe […]

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11 Mar

Rogers to Mag Awards: Cancel the show

According to a report in the Globe and Mail, Rogers Publishing CEO Brian Segal has told the National Magazine Awards Foundation to scrap this year’s program honouring magazine writers, photographers, […]

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9 Mar

Hand over Hearst’s legacy to us, says reporter

San Francisco Chronicle reporter Delfin Vigil has put his money where his job is: he’s taken out a substantial ad on page 9 of yesterday’s Chronicle, suggesting that if the […]

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