I don't know that I've been much help so far, but I'm on the advisory board for a new and, I think, exciting e-journalism program at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ont. Rob Washburn is the driving force behind this initiative. I met Rob very early in my career. He was ...   more »

FOX News commentator Bill O'Reilly says he's keen to broadcast to us Canucks. As my Globe and Mail colleague James Adams reports in today's paper, O'Reilly made mention of the fact that Canadian broadcast regulators had approved the distribution of FOX News here in Canada during a segment on ...   more »

There are some strange and, some say, wonderful things happening to the plumbing of the global network of computer networks that make up the Internet.
The plumbers working away on these things include the type of people you might expect to have an interest in improving the Internet -- computer ...   more »

The CRTC document explaining its rationale for allowing the FOX News channel -- and the NFL Channel (hooray!) -- to be added to the digital lineup of channels offered by Canadian cable and satellite television operators has been posted online. In it, the CRTC notes that it received "... 531 ...   more »

Earlier this year, the CRTC agreed to allow Canadian cable and satellite TV distributors to carry the Al-Jazeera network on their systems but under one impossibly strict condition: The Canadian distributors had to have someone sitting on what radio operators would call the seven-second delay button. To carry Al-Jazeera, the ...   more »

I can find no decision yet at the CRTC's site (Canada's federal broadcast regulator) but the Canadian cable television industry is already cheering a decision widely expected today that FOX News -- the (in)famous home of Bill O'Reilly and others -- can be carried on Canadian cable and satellite TV ...   more »

Henry Blodget was a Wall Street stock market analyst who had the mis/fortune one day to write a report that said, essentially, that Amazon.com was the greatest thing since sliced bread. For reasons neither he nor just about anyone can fathom, millions believed him and his prophecy about Amazon.com's stock ...   more »

If you're anywhere near the north end of Toronto Wednesday (NOV 17) and feel like taking in a morning of discussion about the practice of journalism in Canada, I'm sure the folks at Humber College would be happy to find you a seat for the panel discussion they've organized on ...   more »

Well, this is scary! Not only do I spend hours a day staring at a computer screen, I'm also near-sighted, two factors which researchers say increases my risk of developing glaucoma.
"Hours in front of a computer screen may increase the risk of glaucoma in people who are myopic ...   more »

Few events are as sad as the funeral of a child.
But today, in St. Catharines, Ont., more than a thousand gathered at a church to mourn the passing of seven children and their mother -- all of whom perished Monday night in a fire that burned their Lincoln, Ont. ...   more »