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CBC has released a new poll, conducted by Environics, and it has found “poor government or leadership” / “the Gomery inquiry revelations” is the top concern of Canadians. Poor government took 14 per cent and Gomery another 10, for a total of 24 per cent. That displaced health as the top concern of Canadians, which came [...]
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This column from the NYT's Nicholas Kristoff looks at the decline in public support for mainstream journalism in the United States — and what can be done about it. Excerpt: Those of us in the press tend to get defensive about our dwindling credibility. We protest that we've been made scapegoats by partisan demagogues, particularly [...]
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Two Brit journalists trying to cover Zimbabwe's elections were arrested. Fortunately, they had an honest judge. An excerpt from the BBC story: The government previously blocked a court order to bail the men Sunday Telegraph correspondent Toby Harnden, 37, and photographer Julian Simmonds, 46, were arrested in March. The magistrate said there was no proof [...]
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Sigh. One more threat for people people to worry about, although if you read the full BBC Online article, it sounds simple enough to dodge if you practice good cyber-hygiene: An excerpt: The bogus web journals are being used as traps that infect visitor's machines with keylogging software or viruses. Filtering firm Websense said it [...]
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The Salon.com blurb: New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says that Bush's plan to remake the Middle East will fail unless the U.S. starts guzzling less gas — and that if asked, Americans will pay $4 a gallon. An excerpt: (free with a 'day pass') As the green movement fends off accusations of impotence, Thomas [...]
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Being Pope 800 to 1,100 years ago was not for the faint of heart, if this Globe and Mail story by Michael Valpy is to be believed. Having a little gangsta in your soul to go with the holiness couldn't have hurt. An excerpt: Three freshly elected popes were strangled by poor losers. Another was banished [...]
Thu, April 14 2005 » Main Page, Minutiae » 4 Comments
The indignities just keep piling up for poor Conrad Black. Now Hollinger has ordered the personnel of Ravelston Corp. out of 10 Toronto St. by May 31 — and that includes Mr. Black. An excerpt from the Globe story: Lord Black, who once ruled his business empire from a second-floor office at the stately location, [...]
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If you didn't hear, Wolfgang Droege — one-time leader of the Heritage Front in Canada and a hardcore white supremacist — was shot to death Wednesday. There was a story about him on CTV.ca — one that was then linked to by a white supremacist website (dig around. I don't want to make it easy to [...]
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