So 3 months after the September 22 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center the Liberal government passed some knee-jerk legislation giving the police extraordinary powers of arrest, and compelling people to testify at secret hearings - the law had a 5 year sunset clause that has come and gone, and...

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BILL BRIOUX does some nice work contextualizing the Geri Hall 22 Minutes imbroglio, which I took on here, over at his digs, TV Feeds My Family. Farrell sent her to Queen`s Park at the invitation of the Queen`s Park Press Gallery, who suggested McGuinty needed tweaking about his self imposed five foo...

THAT IS ABSOLUTELY the worst post title I've ever made. Just a shitty bad pun. But I'm tired and working, so there you go. There's very little point of speculating about what will really happen down the road with this Canada Media Fund, because none of the details seem to be worked out. The major ch...

lifted this from ryan’s but the idea is all mine, well not really, just the idea that a ton of canadians would and could respond to these like he did and then it’ll just spread like a rash, smart guy sometimes that rye. you’ve likely seen the molson canadian spots currently in-rota...

Has MP Daryl Kramp (CPC Prince Edward—Hastings) belled the Jackal in the House of Commons? Will Iggy finally get the message? Will what’s left of the lazy national media crawl out from under its rock and report the story…Video soon. Update: Video Now at No-Libs. Can you imagine if ...

WELL, LET'S DO it this way, then. (Damn you, Freedom! I didn't launch you fast enough!) There'll be more later, but for now, here's your announcement by Heritage Minister James Moore from the Flashpoint set, via Twitter. (@Flashpoint_TV) 310 million over two years 1 minute ago from TwitterBerry Cbc ...

IT'S NOT LIKE Canadian media companies were alone in this -- remember how AOL TIME WARNER was going to do everything cause of "synergy?" Riiight. But U.S. media companies also invested heavily in Content by becoming their own TV studios: FOX now feeds FOX and F/X, NBC Universal, ABC Studios and CBS ...

BLOGGERS RULE at the Vancouver Opera... Live Blogging for Rigoletto! Opera is one of the most intercultural art forms.  It forces its audience to listen to foreign languages, as it tells stories from different cultures.  Okay, it also presents a lot of stereotypes and racial chariactures t...

Daniel Briere is getting over his groin adhesions; for this guy, the problems are just starting. Oh, the life of Daniel “Danny” Briere – it’s just one injury after another these days, isn’t it? If you’re a fantasy manager, you were stoked to see Briere finally bac...