The Canadian government’s refusal to modernize freedom of information laws means we’re now 51st in the world on a list rating 89 countries with freedom of information laws. [http://www.law-democracy.org/?page_id=1114] We’re behind Mexico, The United States, Columbia, and Uganda among others. Our…
Governor General David Johnston awarded 43 military decorations at Rideau Hall yesterday. Included in the recipients is a Burlington native, Corporal Joy Francis. The MSM is a decoration normally reserved for senior officers, and some senior non-commissioned. It is rarely given to non-officers, especially of such low rank as Corporal.…
I rather enjoy Gawker articles, but I don’t actually follow the site and only visit when I link from someone’s tweet. On Thursday, media types went wild with glee linking to the Gawker smackdown [http://gawker.com/5920269/the-new-york-times-profiled-the-brant-brothers-because-the-new-york-times-hates-you] of NYT’s profile of two rich teens. It’…
The Hamilton Spectator confused the name of a new restaurant in an article announcing the restaurant’s plans to hire. The restaurant’s name Sarcoa was mistakenly reported as Sarcoma – a type of cancer. It was noted [http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/177659/paper-confuses-name-of-local-restaurant-with-form-of-cancer/] on Poynter and then today…
Hamilton City HallThe city’s municipal heritage committee approved a request from the city government to allow minor renovations within City Hall to build racks for hanging the pictures of the city’s past mayors and…
Tabaret Hall at the University of Ottawa. A University of Ottawa student [is going to court](http://cupwire.ca/articles/52835) in an attempt to leave his student union.It all began…
The web wants longer, more informative, more interesting content. That’s the trend among web-first web-native video and it will quickly spread across the web, much as other trends among this influential sub-set of Internet users have. As with previous trends, professional journalism is betting in the other direction. For-profit/…
The LA Riots shocked me as a child, I remember being glued to the coverage and trying to understand the seemingly senselessness of it all. I remember King’s statement on the third day of the riot “People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we…