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15 Mar

OLeary apologizes for “Indian giver” remark on CBC News

Kevin O’Leary, business commentator and co-host of The Lang & O’Leary Exchange on CBC News Network, has offered an apology for using the phrase “Indian giver” on-air last October. “In […]

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2 Mar

Should FOI requests be released to all media at the same time?

BC Ferries recently fell under provincial Freedom of Information law. Now, the company’s site promises to release information “to those interested when records are made available to a requestor.” The […]

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2 Mar

If you’re going to focus on Charlie Sheen, there are better ways to do it

The infamous party boy Charlie Sheen, recently outsed for his hit sitcom, has done no less than a dozen high-profile interviews in the past week to complain. Seems the media […]

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1 Mar

How a j-student broke the Bev Oda “not” story

<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Chantaie Allick</span><br /><br />Few people in the media know that the firestorm that has engulfed Bev Oda began, in part, as the result of the reporting efforts of a graduate student  at Carleton University.<br /><br /><img align="left" alt="Bev Oda memo" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/kairos_oda.jpg" title="Bev Oda memo" vspace="5" /></p>

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1 Mar

Forget the Canadian angle; give me the news.

By Claude Adams   Last night (Feb. 24) after a tumultuous day in Libya, all three Canadian networks–CBC, CTV and Global– decided that the prime story of the day was […]

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1 Mar

Henry Burgoyne was last of Ontario’s family-owned daily newspaper publishers

By John Nicol Henry Bartlett Burgoyne, the last of the family-owned daily newspaper publishers in Ontario, died Feb. 7 of cancer. He was 61. Murray Thomson, his long-time managing editor […]

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1 Mar

“Everybody talks”: Toronto Star’s Kevin Donovan on getting the story

Reporting by Dana Lacey, video and editing by Anand Ram What separates the Toronto Star‘s investigative reporting from the rest of Toronto’s newspapers? “For one, we’re actually doing it,” says […]

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1 Mar

The real consequences of the death of print: whither papier-mch?

The Onion News Network has broadcast a panel discussion video titled How will the end of print journalism affect old loons who hoard newspapers? A guest panellist suggests that “If […]

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1 Mar

Charlie Sheen and Qaddafi Cant Resist Interviews

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Charlie Sheen are “addicted to explaining” themselves, writes the New York Times, like many politicians and celebrities who turn to the media to rehabilitate their public […]

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25 Feb

Columnist calls out press for treatment of NDP

Rabble.ca president Duncan Cameron slams the press in a recent column for misrepresenting a meeting between Prime Minister Stephan Harper and NDP leader Jack Layton. This isn’t the first time, […]

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