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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
Citizens organize for democracy and accountability
On Sunday, February 28th Sidney Crosby scored an overtime goal that lifted a nation. From coast to coast Canadians spilled into the streets to wave our flag, to sing our anthem, and to revel in our national spirit. We were unapologetically proud of what we had just accomplished.
In the wake of the Vancouver Winter Olympics many social and political commentators have asked a poignant question: how have these 17 days changed Canada?
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
Healthy mothers come from healthy communities
The Harper government's claim that it plans to make maternal health a G8 priority is at odds with its efforts to prevent water from being recognized as a human right in international law and its promotion of water privatization in Canada and around the world. Good health begins with access to clean, safe drinking water and women are disproportionately affected when governments fail to provide adequate water and sanitation services.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
Tuberculosis among Inuit
The health of a people -- their vulnerability to illnesses and diseases -- is often an indicator of something larger. A new report shows that the rate of tuberculosis among Inuit is 185 times greater than for the rest of the country. That's an incredible number and, sadly, it's the product of our unfair social institutions.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
A tragic loss for Quebec cinema
The article below is a tribute to Marcel Simard, a central figure in Quebec cinema who is barely known in English Canada. Last Saturday, Marcel committed suicide after a long depression. His death is a terrible loss to cinema throughout Canada because, as his friend Marquise Lepage says in the extraordinary piece below, he made provocative films often about the people society prefers not to see.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
Immigration opponents take a turn for the worse
As grassroots support for the pro-immigration reform March for America grows, anti-immigration groups and their allies are trying to use racial tension to stop the momentum. Opposition groups like NumbersUSA and the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC announced plans this week to partner with Tea Party activists in response to the event, which is expected to draw as many as 100,000 people to the National Mall on March 21.
Their hope? To scare the public into opposing a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
A libertarian take on health care
Matt Welch, editor of the libertarian magazine Reason.com, discusses health care with Paul Jay
Categories: Media News, World Public Service News
Canwest publishing employees get legal representation
Employees from the publishing division of Canwest Global Communications have been appointed representation to keep apprised of the division's ongoing restructuring.
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Gambling with Canadian culture by Nicholas Hirst
Columnist asks whether Canadian cultural protection works best without foreign investment or with it.
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Alice's Adventures in Filmland
“It was she who first tempted him,” we’re told about Wendy by the disturbingly confused narrator in J. M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, the basis for Peter Pan. But it’s Alice who’s tempted so many filmmakers for so long, the Alice of Lewis Carroll’s two classics Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872).
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
Is Canada a Mobile Laggard?
Find this article in The Tyee, rabble.ca, and VUE Weekly.
Categories: Media News
The F Word vs The Olympics!
Alissa Westergard-Thorpe, one of the key organizers from The Olympic Resistance Network, speaks with Meghan Murphy about the anti-Olympics movement in Vancouver.
Recorded February 25, 2010.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
Harper to Answer Questions on YouTube
Prime Minister Harper will be answering questions on YouTube over the next week, providing a chance to raise digital strategy issues in a digital environment
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Australia Says No Domestic Changes Due To ACTA
The Australian government has stated that it does not expect to make any changes to its domestic laws due to ACTA, hoping to persuade others to follow the Australian approach.
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Ontario Adds Internet Safety to School Curriculum
The Canadian Press reports that the Ontario government is adding Internet safety to the provincial elementary school curriculum.
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U.S. healthcare, Harper budgets and more
Who counts? In Harper's budget world it isn't women, the environment or indigenous issues. But he counts deficits. And plenty is being counted for the U.S. health care bill but not necessarily what matters - like universal coverage. That said, maybe the progressives have something up their sleeves. Single payer does exist in parts of the bill, if we can only get it to count. And we also serve up some rumours about something Obama might do and if he does, it will be very bad.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
Kenney nixes queer content from guide for new Canadians
A freedom of information request by Canadian Press revealed that the office of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney deleted references to the civil rights of queer Canadians from a guide for immigrants. We speak with NDP MP for Burnaby, Bill Siksay.
To find out more about Redeye,check out our website.
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Kenney nixes queer content from guide for new Canadians
A freedom of information request by Canadian Press revealed that the office of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney deleted references to the civil rights of queer Canadians from a guide for immigrants. We speak with NDP MP for Burnaby, Bill Siksay.
To find out more about Redeye,check out our website.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
Vancouver's Megaphone speaks out
Casey Leung talks to writer and editor Kevin Hollett about Megaphone, the Downtown Eastside, and the Olympics.
Categories: Canadian Public Service News
false hope or cautionary tale
[Guest post by karenatcmg.]
Could a robot do your job? A lab on the Northwestern University campus near Chicago already has a prototype artificial intelligence program that can report on baseball games and will soon develop programs to cover football and basketball.
“It’s the dream of every managing editor: a reporter who is cheap, works fast and isn’t moody,” writes Le Monde correspondent Yves Eudes, who recently visited the lab.
Could a robot do your job? A lab on the Northwestern University campus near Chicago already has a prototype artificial intelligence program that can report on baseball games and will soon develop programs to cover football and basketball.
“It’s the dream of every managing editor: a reporter who is cheap, works fast and isn’t moody,” writes Le Monde correspondent Yves Eudes, who recently visited the lab.
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