Colleague Daniel Renaud reports on this odd image, reproduced on the front page of Le Journal de Montréal (below) this morning: Charest Mort au pied du Khadir. It is a poster, found but not seized, apparently, by police investigators in the house of Amir Khadir, the separatist Québec Solidaire MLA. Police were at his house after the arrest of his daughter Yalda during the student protests. Continue reading A separatist fantasy: The death of Charest?
Month: June 2012
Getting oil from Kitimat to the open ocean: Can we do that?
I’m looking to tap the brainpower of the blogosphere for a very specific question:
Can we safely move oil from Kitimat, B.C., down the Douglas Channel, and into the open Pacific Ocean?
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Lousy poll numbers prompts B.C. Premier to slag pollster
Premiers Brad Wall and Alison Redford, of Saskatchewan and Alberta respectively, are the country’s most popular premiers, pollster Angus Reid says in a new survey.
At the other end of the scale are Nova Scotia’s Darrel Dexter — just 27 per cent approve of the way he’s doing his job — and B.C.’s Christy Clark – second lowest at 30%.
Continue reading Lousy poll numbers prompts B.C. Premier to slag pollster
In London UK: Where the press is going gaga for Queen's floating pageant
I’m in London, England right now, covering the visit by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his wife Laureen, and their children Ben and Rachel as they represent Canada at Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. The big event Sunday – in driving rain and chilly temperatures (10 C) — was the Thames Pageant. The Queen, in her royal barge, the Spirit of Chartwell, led a flotilla of 1,000 boats of all kinds down a seven-mile stretch of the Thames. Some of my favourite paragraphs from the wall-to-wall-to-wall coverage in the papers here:
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Media Ownership and Convergence in Canada: Alternate Take
Recently, the Library of Parliament published a paper titled “Media Ownership and Convergence in Canada”. It is, as I said on Twitter when I first read it, a shabby piece of scholarship that the Library ought to withdraw or revise.
Why? It is an inaccurate and wholly incomplete picture of media ownership and convergence in Canada. Policy makers, Members of Parliament, and every day Canadians who might rely on this paper to advocate for the change of any laws or regulations (or to decline to change any laws and regulations) could very likely make some bad decisions. Continue reading Media Ownership and Convergence in Canada: Alternate Take
The week in Canadian journalism: It was a strange one
It’s been a slightly crazy week if you’re a Canadian in the news business. We start with a friend in Montreal, a top editor at a national wire service, who summed up the feeling in newsrooms across the country quite nicely with these 140 characters:
Continue reading The week in Canadian journalism: It was a strange one