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Or maybe you’re doing a breathtakingly crappy job – updated
Introducing Globe and Mail columnist and CTV host Jane Taber on a CBC panel today, Sunday Edition host Michael Enright said the following: She is often accused by Tories of being a Liberal, and by...
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CBC Radio’s iPhone app finds Nova Scotia (pretty soon)
CBC is awaiting approval from Apple for an update to the terrific CBC Radio iPhone app. The updated version, which should appear on iTunes soon, will include live streams of CBC stations Halifax,...
View ArticleCBC Radio iPhone app finds the Maritimes
The CBC Radio iPhone app has finally been updated, and now includes live streams from Halifax (and Fredericton and Saint John, but not Sydney or Charlottetown), and from at least one location in every...
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A shocking coywolf attack in Cape Breton – updated
A very sad update: The woman attacked by two coywolves succumbed to her injuries overnight. Deepest sympathy to her family and friends for their unimaginable loss. - – - The shocking news that a...
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Davis wastes first Massey lecture
Pop anthropologist Wade Davis, the first of whose CBC Radio Massey lectures¹ just ended in the Atlantic time zone, obviously has a lot of knowledge to impart about the Earth’s diverse human cultures....
View ArticleThe CBC defended
A reader writes: I understand you dislike CBC. Well that is fine for you, but for those of us who don’t want to listen to the local shows made up of canned music and dubious prattle, the CBC treats...
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From the folks who brought you a non-random, self-selecting census
A report last week in the prestigious scientific journal Nature revealed that the hole in the ozone layer over the Arctic was the largest ever recorded—comparable for the first time to the man-induced...
View ArticleWhy pols use talking points
Professors of journalism or public relations would do well to save a copy of today’s episode of CBC Radio’s “The House” for a classic example of how a politician can use talking points to hornswoggle...
View ArticleMulcair’s boycott of CBC Radio
I’m glad Thomas Mulcair won the leadership of the NDP Saturday. He has the best shot at retaining at least some of the party’s beachhead in Quebec. He’s said to be tough and politically shrewd, both of...
View ArticleMulcair’s CBC boycott ends
Contrarian reader Michael Colborne points out that NDP leader Tom Mulcair’s boycott of CBC Radio’s English service, if that’s what it was, ended tonight with an interview on As It Happens. He sounds...
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We are who we are and we love who we are
Last month, University of Massachusetts scientists working with laboratory cell cultures said they had succeeded in suppressing the extra chromosome associated with Down syndrome, a technique they...
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