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NYT Caucus Midterm elections ; Washington Post Post Politics ; Tracking the campaigns of 2010
Rougher Road for Democrats With Obama Off Ticket
The anti-Washington mood threatens to sweep away many well-known incumbents and put Democratic control of Congress at risk in November, when all 435 House of Representatives seats, 36 of 100 Senate seats and 37 […]

Munk Debates 2009: Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response.
December 2009 Munk Debate on Climate Change “Be it resolved: climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response.” George Monbiot and Elizabeth May took the affirmative; Bjørn Lomborg and Lord Nigel Lawson the negative. [Watch the debate]
Lomborg […]

 
Reckless editing
(Ottawa Citizen) Two incidents of Wikipedia vandalism that seem to come from Canadian government computers raise an important question: Just how involved in the nuts and bolts of new media should public servants be?
Neither of the two incidents in question was an official government action. In one case, an article on the Joint Strike […]

Global voices Iranian elections 2009 ; NYT Topics Iran; The Economist Iran archives & country briefing
(Chatham House) Preliminary Analysis of the Voting Figures in Iran’s 2009 Presidential Election
Tehran’s Take: Understanding Iran’s US Policy (Foreign Affairs July/August 2009)
Iran Clamps Down on Reporting on Protest Leaders
In a further clampdown on Iran’s cowed political opposition, the authorities have […]

Inside the CBC.com
Name change for the Facebook group to Montreal CBC watch given that the Nancy Wood cause is lost.
“The orginal purpose of this group was to demonstrate to the brass at CBC Montreal that we want Nancy Wood to remain as host of the popular Daybreak morning show, it looks as if they could […]

(CBC Archive) Conrad Black: Tracking the media tycoon’s career and conviction (National Post) Conrad Black
Conrad Black: My prison education
In my 28 months as a guest of the U.S. government, I often wondered how my time in that role would end. I never expected that I would have to serve the whole term, though I was, […]

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press ; Reporters without borders ; Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ; Media Research Center (the conservative media watchdog) ; Society of Professional Journalists ; The Media Consortium (network of leading, progressive, independent media outlets in U.S.) ; Media Matters for America
CBC At Issue panel
Is Jon Stewart […]

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China’s Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet
Han Chinese workers, investors, merchants, teachers and soldiers are pouring into remote Tibet. After the violence that ravaged this region in 2008, China’s aim is to make Tibet wealthier — and more Chinese.
Chinese leaders see development, along with an […]

The Gazette: Westmount’s ‘civic conscience’ dies at 79
Don and Sylvia Wedge were waiting for a train while vacationing in Italy, more than 40 years ago, when Don decided to buy a copy of the local paper.
“You don’t speak Italian,” Sylvia said.
But that didn’t matter to her husband. For Don, understanding a word here or there […]

France, Mauritania in desert strike on al Qaeda
(Reuters) - France and Mauritania said on Friday they carried out a military operation against al Qaeda’s North African wing, believed to be holding a 78-year-old French hostage in the desert Sahel region.
Fanning the Flames of Jihad
On July 11, 2010, al-Malahim Media, the media arm of al Qaeda […]