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An Ontario Superior Court judge has given a partial victory to Ottawa Citizen reporter, who had her home invaded by the RMCP over the Maher Arar affair. Here's some excerpts from the Globe and Mail story: Citing the importance of open courts, an Ottawa judge yesterday ordered the RCMP to disclose much of the evidence [...]
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Slinging out defamatory e-mail messages from behind the curtain of the Internet can come back to bite you in the butt. Here's an excerpt from a Globe and Mail story: An Ontario judge has awarded an archeologist $125,000 in damages after a native man used e-mails to smear her as a “grave robber.” The archeologist's lawyer [...]
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From an Associated Press story: The International Federation of Journalists says more than 100 journalists have been killed since January. This makes 2004 one of the deadliest for the craft. The slayings of three journalists in recent days in Ivory Coast, Nicaragua and the Philippines pushed this year's total to 101, the International Federation of [...]
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This article is from The Guardian. Silvio Berlusconi is Italy's prime minister. He's something of a Conrad Black-like figure with his hands on the levers of both government and significant chunks of Italy's media. Italy's most respected newscaster has been abruptly moved from his prime-time news programme on a network owned by Silvio Berlusconi, raising [...]
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I love Japanese food and I adore the 1985 movie Tampopo, which this article references. So, to kill two birds with one stone: S a Tokyo-based jazz musician, Shigeto Kamada used to book gigs for his band in remote towns in Hokkaido (the Japanese equivalent of, say, northern Wisconsin), just so he could taste the ramen [...]
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The NYT reports that left-wing claims of voting irregularities, if not fraud, have been debunked. he e-mail messages and Web postings had all the twitchy cloak-and-dagger thrust of a Hollywood blockbuster. “Evidence mounts that the vote may have been hacked,” trumpeted a headline on the Web site CommonDreams.org. “Fraud took place in the 2004 election [...]
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The BBC is going to be investigated for giving short shrift to European Union skeptics. Here's an excerpt from the story: The independent panel will investigate claims the BBC is “systematically Europhile” and has excluded pro-withdrawal voices from its coverage. It will be chaired by former Cabinet Secretary Lord Wilson and include two pro-Europeans and [...]
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Five were put through their paces: Google, MSN (just rolled out), Yahoo!, Amazon and AskJeeves. And the winner is … But first the questions: First a search for “raleigh” – chosen as it is a word with several meanings including the bike company, the US city, the expedition charity and the Elizabethan explorer. How fast? [...]
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More housecleaning. Toronto Star ombudsman Don Sellar had a very interesting column last Saturday about the Mohamed Elmasry affair and what the media missed. On Oct. 19, Elmasry was on the cable TV show of one Michael Coren, an author and shit-disturber. The National Post went after Elmasry for saying: They (Israeli adults) are not innocent [...]
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A bit of a late posting. Toronto Star media critic Antonia Zerbisias thinks Fox will likely get approved for distribution in Canada. Oh, boy: Bill O'Reilly's gonna tell us all to Shut Up!! Here's an excerpt from her Nov. 9 column: Fox News among CRTC hot buttons Fox News Network. Those wanting to receive the [...]
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