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Our Need to Shock to Make a Point
The National Post’s Jonathan Kay wrote a great piece on the York University Professor who made a remark to illustrate a point. He allegedly shocked and offended some of his class by saying that “All...
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Should Media Report the Majority or the Minority?
Today’s Edmonton Journal printed a story about a Texan gun dealer who has said that he will refuse to allow Democrats, non-Christians, Arabs and Muslims to enrol in a weapons course that he provides in...
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The Tweet … Retweeted By The CAJ
The CAJ’s Media magazine takes on The Sad Triumph of The Tweet. Many thanks to Editor David McKie of Media magazine, the publication of the Canadian Association of Journalists, for re-publishing my...
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Rob Ford, Ethics And The Toronto Star
Here’s a rather odd letter responding to my recent post on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s public-relations problems. It has been edited for good taste: Hi Ken, Question: So, you’d have no issue if a...
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A Lost Innocence (Jimmy Savile)
As Canadian as I am, I try to keep up with news of what is happening in the UK (which is where I hail from). So when I heard about the recent controversy surrounding the late Jimmy Savile (a highly...
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Randy Bachman on radio, touring and countless stories
What: Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap live Where & when: National tour begins Feb. 28 at Algonquin College in Ottawa. Get information on tickets and location on campus by clicking here. See the full list...
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Ottawa city staff prohibited from sending media emails
UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST. A few days ago, David Reevely and I were contacted by our digital editor, who had to forward us an email from the City of Ottawa employee who regularly sends us the...
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A dedicated Canadian
My career as a classical background musician often placed me in The Centre Block while the Peace Tower bell tolled double digits into the darkened Ottawa sky. I was free to play my flute on my breaks...
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The lies my brain told me
The Confabulist Steven Galloway (Random House Canada) In town: The author will appear at the Ottawa Writers Festival on April 26 at 6:30 p.m. on a panel with Sean Michaels and Eva Stachniak at Knox...
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Award-winning series debuts in Canada
Prepare yourself for one of the most haunting, beautiful TV dramas you will ever see. It’s from France. It’s in French with English subtitles, and it has already won the 2013 International Emmy for...
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Jimmy Fallon mocks Popadick case (with video link)
OTTAWA — What started as allegations of indecent exposure have become a confirmed case of over-exposure for an Ottawa man with an situationally suggestive surname. Late night TV host Jimmy Fallon on...
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A river runs through it
The River Burns By Trevor Ferguson Simon & Schuster Canada One can imagine the conversations among Wakefield residents after they read the new book by Trevor Ferguson about their town. “Who is...
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Adama’s way: Battlestar Galactica lives on for Edward James Olmos
Not many cast members from a television show get a chance to speak to a gathering of representatives at the United Nations. But that is what happened to Edward James Olmos and others from the cult...
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Harper's methods
Re: Harper’s reputation as strategist obscures his screw-ups, April 29. Kudos to Andrew Coyne for his insightful column about the disruptive and extremely partisan governing methods deployed by Prime...
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Seats pricey for journalists on election trail
OTTAWA — The wheels on the bus … cost a lot of cash. Or rather, a seat does. In keeping with past election campaigns, the Liberals, Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats have all invited...
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Meet the new, four-platform Ottawa Citizen
Postmedia and the Ottawa Citizen today unveil a reinvention of the local news business based on a “four-platform strategy” more than two years in the making. The strategy represents a bold investment...
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Key events on the road to Postmedia Re-Imagined
July 2010 Postmedia Network Canada Corp. buys the country’s largest English-language newspaper chain from Canwest Global Communications for $1.1 billion. January 2012 Senior Postmedia executives...
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U of O goes digital in its new journalism program
It’s out with the old journalism and in with the new digital version at the University of Ottawa. University officials announced Tuesday that the institution is starting a bilingual digital journalism...
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THE GARGOYLE – Former Kingston editor to land in PMO
Derek Shelly Though the Harper Administration functions in an often testy relationship with the Parliamentary Press Gallery, the prime minister isn’t above staffing his own ranks with former...
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Gormley: Governments are laughing at media
It was a kangaroo court of such flagrant absurdity that you half-expected the prosecutor to submit an actual kangaroo as Exhibit A. He didn’t, but he did the next best thing: he submitted an Australian...
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