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My corporate cousins at The Globe and Mail (I work for CTV News; both CTV News and The Globe are part of Bell Globemedia) launched a revamped sports news website on Wednesday: Globesports. All fine and dandy, but with one crucial missing bit of information: TV times and broadcasters!!! Being from Alberta, I am very [...]
Thu, October 5 2006 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Rand Beers worked in counter-terrorism in the administrations of four different U.S. presidents (he quit Dubya's over differences on Iraq). Democracy Now! talked to him about the controversy over the Condi Rice/George Tenet meeting over a looming threat of a terror attack on the United States itself. An excerpt: AMY GOODMAN: Can you tell us [...]
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In no particular order: 1. The Trailer Park Boys. 2. The Departed 3. The Last King of Scotland Gotta see the Boys! They are classic characters of Canadian white trash culture! :) The Departed is a Martin Scorsese remake of Infernal Affairs, a fine 2003 Hong Kong film starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung. And [...]
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An AP story out of Afghanistan has 17 militants captured there by Afghan intelligence saying they trained in Pakistan for suicide bombing missions in Afghanistan. From the story on CTV.ca: (Said) Ansari (spokesman for Afghanistan's national intelligence agency) said militants in Pakistan encourage fighters to carry out suicide attacks by telling them girls in Afghanistan [...]
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Interesting catch by The Daily Show tonight: In some Fox News footage of disgraced ex-congressman Mark Foley, the notoriously conservative network “supered” him thusly: D-FL. Well, ‘R’ (Foley is a Republican) and ‘D’ are very close together on a standard keyboard, so it was probably just a typo. Fox News: They report. You decide. Jonno [...]