Should I finally drop my subscription?
https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/11/24/jordan-bitove-to-take-ownership-of-the-toronto-star.html
https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/11/24/jordan-bitove-to-take-ownership-of-the-toronto-star.html
Canadian Media: A Departure and a Revival
Jan. 19th, 2022 07:01 amCanada got a bit of a shock last night: Carol Off is ending 16 years as co-host of As It Happens on CBC Radio at the end of next month. Hers is a voice I've gotten used to hearing on the radio, of course, being a longtime CBC listener. The series will continue, of course, well into what we hope is its next full half-century.
The town of Tilbury, Ontario is getting a pleasant shock of its own: they're going to have a newspaper of their own again. Mohsin Abbas, a journalist originally from Pakistan now calling Canada home, is doing the work to make that happen for the Tilbury Times, liberating the brand - so we hope - from Postmedia control. The CBC News report goes into a lot more detail about Tilbury, Mr. Abbas, and the process of rescue and revival.
The town of Tilbury, Ontario is getting a pleasant shock of its own: they're going to have a newspaper of their own again. Mohsin Abbas, a journalist originally from Pakistan now calling Canada home, is doing the work to make that happen for the Tilbury Times, liberating the brand - so we hope - from Postmedia control. The CBC News report goes into a lot more detail about Tilbury, Mr. Abbas, and the process of rescue and revival.
Representation, Reconciliation
Jan. 7th, 2022 08:09 pmI'm listening to this tonight as I type these words:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/connie-walker-on-how-lived-experience-can-help-indigenous-journalists-expose-truth-1.6307328
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/connie-walker-on-how-lived-experience-can-help-indigenous-journalists-expose-truth-1.6307328
Calling Vancouver City and Island Region
May. 9th, 2021 08:02 pmIf you live out that way, please check in, okay?
Canadian Comics News
Jul. 16th, 2020 02:49 pmThree of the Montréal shops aligned with the Montréal + Ottawa Comiccons are jointly setting up a web-retail arm:
https://comiclist.ca/
There's a magazine about Canadian comic books, Canadian SF&F in general that you might be interested in supporting:
http://sequentialpulp.ca/sequential-magazine/
https://comiclist.ca/
There's a magazine about Canadian comic books, Canadian SF&F in general that you might be interested in supporting:
http://sequentialpulp.ca/sequential-magazine/
NEWS: CBC Radio's _The House_
Apr. 25th, 2020 02:56 pmListening to this from three weeks ago:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/cbc-radio-s-the-house-mar-28-2020-1.5512731
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/cbc-radio-s-the-house-mar-28-2020-1.5512731
An Infernal Reminder About the Economy
Mar. 29th, 2020 09:24 amTabitha Southey types a reminder about the economics of the moment with a Hellish pedigree. You may file it next to The Screwtape Letters, perhaps.
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james_davis_nicoll just alerted me to this thing going on in Kitchener-Waterloo that Facebook management doesn't seem to want the word getting out about.Quoth the report by CBC News Kitchener-Waterloo's Jackie Sharkey:
"Organizers of a fledgling theatre festival with more than 40 events in March across Kitchener and Waterloo say they're having a hard time getting the word out after Facebook blocked the festival's ads on its platforms.
The social network, which also owns Instagram, said Pat the Dog Theatre Creation wasn't authorized to run its ad for the Femme Folks Fest.
The automated message goes on to say Facebook "requires people to complete an ID confirmation to run ads about social issues, elections or politics.""
Meanwhile, I'm listening to a report on Spark dealing with censorship and walling-off as it's being done to the larger global internet by national governments, corporate bosses, etc. right now.
In Brasil, we see another sort of madness: protests against democracy.
Pharmacare
Dec. 13th, 2019 10:12 pmSo, some good news, I suspect: national universal pharmacare is now in the plans spelled out in the mandate letters Trudeau sent to his cabinet and shared with the public at large as of today.
Yes, I know it's going to come from our taxes. Seeing as they're meant to be spent in defence of life, liberty and security of the person, as well as peace, order and the general welfare...I'm okay with this.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-mandate-letters-cabinet-1.5395151
Yes, I know it's going to come from our taxes. Seeing as they're meant to be spent in defence of life, liberty and security of the person, as well as peace, order and the general welfare...I'm okay with this.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-mandate-letters-cabinet-1.5395151
CBC: The Next Era of the Current...
Oct. 25th, 2019 05:47 am...starts in January 2020 with Matt Galloway getting the host's chair.
Congratulations to Mr. Galloway!
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/matt-galloway-the-current-host-1.5333490
Congratulations to Mr. Galloway!
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/matt-galloway-the-current-host-1.5333490
NO thanks to Wexit!
Oct. 22nd, 2019 07:29 pmSo I was on my stationary bike, listening to As It Happens and hearing this guy whining about we'd better let them have the pipelines and the oil money or watch Alberta and Saskatchewan become a country together. The idea that tarsands oil money is important enough to make people in the oil business and their hangers-on want to force people like, say, me to get a visa and passport to visit my grandparents' graves burns my guts. It also got me to stay on the bike for six minutes instead of five.
Further on Dean French
Apr. 26th, 2019 07:30 pmhttps://torontolife.com/city/toronto-politics/dean-french-doug-fords-now-undisputed-second-command/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/11/ontario-doug-ford-premier-democratic
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-meet-dean-french-the-political-unknown-who-has-become-an-omnipresent/
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2018/11/23/ford-fears-disgruntled-tory-mpps-might-defect-to-liberalssource-says.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/03/21/how-dean-french-doug-fords-right-hand-man-influenced-ron-taverners-opp-appointment_a_23697982/
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/03/26/doug-ford-controls-mpps-with-fear-and-intimidation-randy-hillier-says_a_23700855/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/11/ontario-doug-ford-premier-democratic
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-meet-dean-french-the-political-unknown-who-has-become-an-omnipresent/
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2018/11/23/ford-fears-disgruntled-tory-mpps-might-defect-to-liberalssource-says.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/03/21/how-dean-french-doug-fords-right-hand-man-influenced-ron-taverners-opp-appointment_a_23697982/
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/03/26/doug-ford-controls-mpps-with-fear-and-intimidation-randy-hillier-says_a_23700855/
Noting for Continuing Reference
Feb. 21st, 2018 05:53 amOn restaurant workers from Taiwan losing jobs at restaurants owned/managed by people from mainland China...in Australian restaurants:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/australia/china-taiwan-discrimination.html
Heather Mallick noting the possibilities for Problems in Canadian news services - specifically Postmedia newspapers - from a friend of DT-45 who runs the National Enquirer (warning for language of some people quoted therein):
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/02/19/can-trump-be-blackmailed-over-sex.html
"(David) Pecker sits on the board of Postmedia, which is currently cutting newspapers across Canada down to the bone.
Media companies seeking various kinds of help from Ottawa to survive their ongoing financial catastrophe should be alarmed. In no way can the Canadian government be seen as providing a benefit that would even indirectly fatten the profits of a creature like Pecker. Postmedia is bad enough, but the presence of Pecker is an indelible taint."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/australia/china-taiwan-discrimination.html
Heather Mallick noting the possibilities for Problems in Canadian news services - specifically Postmedia newspapers - from a friend of DT-45 who runs the National Enquirer (warning for language of some people quoted therein):
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/02/19/can-trump-be-blackmailed-over-sex.html
"(David) Pecker sits on the board of Postmedia, which is currently cutting newspapers across Canada down to the bone.
Media companies seeking various kinds of help from Ottawa to survive their ongoing financial catastrophe should be alarmed. In no way can the Canadian government be seen as providing a benefit that would even indirectly fatten the profits of a creature like Pecker. Postmedia is bad enough, but the presence of Pecker is an indelible taint."
For your political entertainment tonight. How seriously you choose to take this suggestion is up to you.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/its-time-for-scotland-to-find-a-new-home-in-canada/article34583830/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/its-time-for-scotland-to-find-a-new-home-in-canada/article34583830/
Politicians of Note and Substance
Mar. 12th, 2017 09:12 amI would argue that at least two of our politicians at the federal level in Canada are among many people worthy of our attention and respect for coping with hard situations, even if/when we watch them in the midst of coping with errors strategic and/or tactical.
Ahmed Hussen is our current minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. Erin Andersson and Michelle Zilio filed a piece with the Globe and Mail that gives us a sense of his progress, from Somali refugee to federal cabinet minister.
Chrystia Freeland went from reporter to minister for Global Affairs and International Trade. Being of Ukrainian ancestry and opposed to Russian interventions in her family's old country, that has made her a target for desinformatsiya efforts centered upon her maternal grandfather's role in local media as dictacted by the Nazi regime in Germany during World War II. There are two opinion pieces, one by Paul Wells for the Toronto Star and another by Michael Harris for iPolitics, that frame some of my thinking on the matter.
The situations each of them are now facing will change - at times, dramatically, I expect - in the days and months ahead. But I do believe each of them is working to rise to the challenges of these moments.
Ahmed Hussen is our current minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. Erin Andersson and Michelle Zilio filed a piece with the Globe and Mail that gives us a sense of his progress, from Somali refugee to federal cabinet minister.
Chrystia Freeland went from reporter to minister for Global Affairs and International Trade. Being of Ukrainian ancestry and opposed to Russian interventions in her family's old country, that has made her a target for desinformatsiya efforts centered upon her maternal grandfather's role in local media as dictacted by the Nazi regime in Germany during World War II. There are two opinion pieces, one by Paul Wells for the Toronto Star and another by Michael Harris for iPolitics, that frame some of my thinking on the matter.
The situations each of them are now facing will change - at times, dramatically, I expect - in the days and months ahead. But I do believe each of them is working to rise to the challenges of these moments.
Speaking of TV-Watching...
Feb. 3rd, 2017 01:26 pm...I changed my mind. Agents of SHIELD can wait an hour or two.
CBC News Network (which really ought to be an over-the-air service) is broadcasting the funerals of the second trio of victims from the murders in Ville de Québec live as I type this.
CBC News Network (which really ought to be an over-the-air service) is broadcasting the funerals of the second trio of victims from the murders in Ville de Québec live as I type this.
Ottawa Cabinet Shuffle Today
Jan. 10th, 2017 10:31 amThis is also happening today. Whether or not it's a good thing...?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-government-cabinet-shuffle-2017-1.3928723
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-government-cabinet-shuffle-2017-1.3928723
Unwanted News
Aug. 4th, 2016 05:58 am1. Mel Hurtig is dead. We owe him a debt of joyous gratitude that the Canadian Encyclopedia exists in any format today.
2. Randall Denley used his column in today's hardcopy edition of the Ottawa Citizen to call for the dismantling of medicare in Canada.
These are not things anyone sane should have to process on the way to work.
2. Randall Denley used his column in today's hardcopy edition of the Ottawa Citizen to call for the dismantling of medicare in Canada.
These are not things anyone sane should have to process on the way to work.
Disturbances in the News-Sphere
Mar. 28th, 2016 02:04 pmWe have some comparisons of how the end of the Ghomeshi trial was opined about by news services inside and outside of Canada. Warnings for trigger-topics in the links. Also, I have to say that I don't think I was going to be even remotely pleased by the verdict, whatever it ended up being for a whole mess (and "mess" is the operative word here) of reasons and/or excuses.
Our trade arrangements with the House of Saud are still on. Cause for concern, also. And there's other stuff to consider as well.
The ideology of the President and Board currently in place at CBC/Radio Canada seems to still be in force, despite the change of government. I have issues with that. Also, issues with the relative paucity of funding being restored to CBC/SRC.
More on other topics later during this laundry day...
Our trade arrangements with the House of Saud are still on. Cause for concern, also. And there's other stuff to consider as well.
The ideology of the President and Board currently in place at CBC/Radio Canada seems to still be in force, despite the change of government. I have issues with that. Also, issues with the relative paucity of funding being restored to CBC/SRC.
More on other topics later during this laundry day...
