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Corus puts forth news channel by Emily Claire Afan
Corus Entertainment is proposing to launch what it describes as a "hyper-local" news channel serving communities in Western Canada.
Categories: Media News
Episode Ten - EduPunks
We may be the last generation to attend traditional schools. Classrooms are becoming more reliant on technology and ordinary people are starting to take education into their own hands.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
Beware the mall, watch out for that cow, carry a big gun, zombies are everywhere
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
NEW NUMBERS PROVE BROADCASTERS NEED MORE RULES
Nice of the CRTC to release the broadcasters’ and cable co’s financials on the eve of announcing their TV policy since the numbers show YET AGAIN why we need to end the free ride for both of them!
Categories: Media News
A whole lot of 'kvetching' going on
There's a whole lot of hand-wringing -- or, to use a technical poli-sci term, kvetching -- going on about the "broken" state of democracy, as CNN calls it. You see it in the United States, where health-care reform is mired in bipartisan name-calling, and in Canada, where Stephen Harper now prorogues Parliament whenever he doesn't want to deal with something. People howl but to no effect; that's why they say it's broken.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
Declining ad sales hurting broadcasters
CRTC data show Canada's private broadcasters saw their profit margins fall 5.9 per cent in the last year as declining advertising sales took a bite out of revenues.
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Canucks-Oilers-Flames partnership crumbles by Bruce Dowbiggin
A disagreement between The Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames and Canucks as produced a breakdown in negotiations to form a broadcast partnership among the teams.
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To rob a country, own a bank
William Black, author of "Best way to rob a bank is to own one" talks about deliberate fraud on Wall St.
Categories: Media News, World Public Service News
Guantanamo update
Bengali: Cleared of crimes or lack of evidence, many prisoners continue to be held in Guantanamo
Categories: Media News, World Public Service News
Kroeger Award for Policy Leadership
I am honoured and delighted to report that I have been named one of the winners of the annual Arthur Kroeger College Awards for Public Affairs. I received the award for Policy Leadership. Other winners include Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson, Purdy Crawford, Hire Immigrants Ottawa, and Al Johnson.
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