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Today is one of the watershed moments in the seasonal rhythms of my neighborhood: the Big Chill, the local ice cream stand, is closing for the season. That is a bad thing, ameliorated by the fact that it offered free ice cream today — with a prominent donation box for the Sick Kids hospital on [...]
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I saw the original 'Journeys with George' and it was a heckofa little film that said as much about the media as it did about politics. Maybe us Canuckistanis will have to wait until it shows up on the Passionate Eye or something similar. ———— Filmmaker captures American campaign process Associated Press NEW YORK – [...]
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Here is a couple of pieces of note from my weekend reading that some may or may not be interested in. Why new drugs need close scrutiny Toronto Star ombudsman Don Sellar wrote in his Saturday column that the story of Vioxx is a good cautionary tale for journos. Out of curiosity, the ombud traced [...]
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For your reading pleasure, please find enclosed some links to articles on covering the ongoing conflict in Iraq. From Dexter Filkins of the NYT: Get me rewrite. Now. The bullets are flying. He talks about the conditions being faced by reporters there and also talks about the e-mail from Farnaz Fassihi of the Wall Street Journal [...]
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