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Maggie Siggins, author of A Canadian Tragedy: Colin and Jo Ann Thatcher, had this to say about Colin, the just-paroled murderer, on CBC Radio's As It Happens: He's living in Regina in a half-way house, which is where I live … I didn't know that Maggie had recently done time. But I'm delighted she's out and that [...]
Thu, November 30 2006 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
To the surprise of no one, the great Canada Now experiment will be tossed on the ash heap of Corpse history in February. Instead, supper-hour newscasts will be local and one hour in length. Now, in the CBC story I heard on The World At Six, there was mention of myCBC. In the CBC.ca story, [...]
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The accompanying text: Edge Designs is an all-women-run company that designs interior office space. They had a recent opportunity to do an office project in NYC. The client allowed the women of this company a free hand in all design aspects. The client was a company that was also run by all women execs. The [...]
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The NYT reports on the interlocking plotlines of a U.S. Supreme Court case on whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant. An excerpt: On one level, the argument was about the meaning of the Clean Air Act, which the Environmental Protection Agency maintains does not treat carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases as air pollutants and [...]
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With the Village Voice's critical credibility in tatters after firing legends like Robert Christgau, Gawker Media's Idolator blog hopes to fill the roll of the music poll Pazz and Job with its own offering: Jackin' Pop. An excerpt from the NYT story: “For those who had long turned to The Voice to help guide them [...]
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The Huffington Post blog is actually going to send reporters out to cover the U.S. Congress and will gear up for the 2008 presidential campaign. Question: Will their reporters wear pyjamas? :) An excerpt from the NYT story: Arianna Huffington, who started HuffingtonPost.com, said yesterday that the site had hired Melinda Henneberger, a print journalist most [...]
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Thomas Homer Dixon argues there are limits to how far human inventiveness can take us when a critical resource becomes in short supply. Take oil, for example. Some excerpts from the NYT commentary: The most important resource to consider in this situation is energy, because it is our economy’s “master resource” — the one ingredient essential [...]
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It would appear that in North Waziristan, an erroneous report can trigger something a bit more serious than an outraged letter to the editor. An excerpt from the BBC story: Haji Pazir told the BBC that more than 20 armed men burned newspaper copies at his news agency and took away his son. The incident [...]
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From the BBC: One of Iran's most senior clergymen has issued a fatwa on an Azeri writer said to have insulted the Prophet Muhammad. The call on Muslims to murder Rafiq Tagi, who writes for Azerbaijan's Senet newspaper, echoes the Iranian fatwa against Indian writer Salman Rushdie. It was issued by the conservative Grand Ayatollah [...]
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Three British Airways aircraft that fly the London-Moscow route are being tested for radiation traces. Of the two in London, traces of radiation have been detected. Is this how the polonium that killed Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko got into Britain? An excerpt from the BBC story: The Boeing 767s, plus a third in Moscow, are [...]
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