[Image-1] We get a lot of press releases during our day. Some of them are useful, others not so much. Presented without judgment or context, this past month’s weirdest releases. 3 gifts that help #SaveTheBees TSN’s James Duthie sports chicken suit for charity “Not everyone has the pluck to step into a chicken suit and […]
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Chaos at the Chronicle Herald
[Image-1] This story’s kept changing. At first, 20 newsroom employees at the Chronicle Herald were to be victims of cost-cutting layoffs. Then the number started to drop, as some employees left for early retirement and others took buyouts. This past weekend, the Halifax Typographical Union voted in favour of concessions that dropped the layoff list […]
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Bylines back at the Herald
[Image-1] It’s maybe less newsworthy than their other efforts this month to name names, but reporter bylines are back at The Chronicle Herald. For all of November, journalists had pulled their names from the Herald’s stories in protest of sweeping newsroom layoffs announced on Halloween. [Image-2] Originally, 20 reporters, editors and photographers were set to […]
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Why I’m cancelling my subscription
[Image-1] I am a 25-year-old subscriber to the print edition of the Chronicle-Herald—a rare breed these days. I became a new subscriber back in the spring. I was excited. I woke up every day looking forward to reading a new edition of your independent and comprehensive news coverage—delivered right to my door! I enjoyed being […]
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Herald lays off 20 workers
[Image-1] UPDATE: Herald reporters have pulled their bylines on tomorrow’s weekend newspaper in protest of today’s layoffs. According to sources, several reporters have taken their names off their stories after 20 layoffs were handed out to new and senior newsroom talent. The mood in the office is one of confusion, say staffers. “I think people […]
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Journalism still awful
[Image-1] The horror movie that is the current journalism landscape continues to eviscerate any college coeds dumb enough to enter its dilapidated farmhouse of an industry. Just yesterday, CBC president Hubert Lacroix met with union leaders to detail the expansion of corporate cuts first announced back in the summer. The national broadcaster will lose an […]
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Shooting on Parliament Hill
[Image-1] Canada is on high alert after a man or several men opened fire today on Parliament Hill. At least one soldier who was standing guard at the National War Memorial was shot in the chest. CBC reports his condition is not known at present. The shooting has caused a lockdown in areas around downtown […]
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Gottingen’s still Got A Voice
Seth Glasgow will never forget the day Got A Voice, the official radio station of the Gottingen 250 festival, started broadcasting. He was an intern helping to run the show when the fire alarms were triggered in the North Memorial Public Library, where they had set up. Everyone evacuated, and once they were back inside […]
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Corporate Research Associates poll is completely meaningless
The Chronicle-Herald, CBC and Metro have completely botched their reporting of a Corporate Research Associates poll that supposedly showed a collapse in support for the provincial NDP. In truth, the NDP may or may not be losing support, but the polling data doesn’t support either conclusion. At issue are the responses to one of three […]
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The People Won’t Stop
A few old lessons I’ve re-learned from the Copenhagen climate conference so far: -The rich and the poor resent each other. They don’t trust each other. -Assembly and free speech are no long accepted human rights in the corridors of power. Our so-called democratic leaders would rather crack the whip than listen to millions of […]
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Foul language
Veteran Israeli journalist Amira Hass received a lifetime achievement award last week in New York for her unrelenting coverage of the oppression of Palestinians in Israel’s occupied territories. During her acceptance speech to the International Women’s Media Foundation, Hass confessed that she didn’t really have a lifetime of “achievement,” only a long record of failure. […]
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Peter Duffy to do something or another for Peter Kelly
Update, 2 September, 2009: Coast listings editor Holly Gordon has discovered Duffy’s “raped by a ghost” columns archived, here. I often dream of doing an April Fool’s Day all-satire version of The Coast, with utterly ridiculous articles throughout. Problem is, reality trumps anything we could come up with. Today, there’s this news: A former columnist […]
