Thursday, November 03, 2016

Sorry, have we met? Adventures in face blindness

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Have we met? You look familiar The New Yorker ran a fascinating story about “super-recognizers,” focusing on a small Scotland Yard tea...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Postmedia's strange $50-million bet on Mogo

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I wrote about information inequality for The Tyee this week, looking at what's happening as traditional news media fade to black and new...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Coca in Peru and Colombia, and the stupidity of the war on drugs

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"Why are Peru, Colombia Coca Numbers Going in Opposite Directions?" That was the headline on a recent Insight Crime report . ...
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Monday, October 17, 2016

The sad story of the little railway that couldn't

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I wrote about the Island Corridor Foundation and the E&N rail line for The Tyee. You can read the piece here .
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Letter from Managua: The working life

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Our house has a room for a servant. Well, not a room really. More like a cell. Nine feet long, less than six feet wide. There’s a single ...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

All in all, I'd rather have cheap, bad buses

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I've begun to treat my bus ride to work as a sign of how the day is going to go. If I have an OK seat, not too crunched, and arrive n...
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Monday, February 01, 2016

Nothing like a boat disaster to help you think about risk

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I've been thinking about my sense of travel risks since last week's boat disaster. Pangas - heavy fibreglass open boats, generally ...
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Saturday, January 30, 2016

A tale of three newspapers: Nanaimo, Guelph and Kelowna. Two closed, one survives

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The Guelph Mercury was selling about 9,000 papers in a metro area of 155,000 people. It closed. The Nanaimo Daily News was selling about 5,...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Ralph Sultan's very odd letter of instruction to Vancouver-Mt. Pleasant voters

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Vancouver-Mt. Pleasant, when Ralph Sultan lived there Odd. That's the only way I can describe MLA Ralph Sultan's letter on The ...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

The Sparwood 'Bogeyman' who slipped through the cracks

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From my piece in The Tyee today. Randall Hopley, the Sparwood bogeyman, was back in the news last week. Hopley is the scrawny loner...
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Monday, November 09, 2015

Letter from Managua: Bright lights, poor country

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If you’re in a window seat, you probably see the giant yellow trees of life before you land in Managua. They’re hard to miss. About 2...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Clark scandal is about corruption and an attack on democracy, not just FOI

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In my long-ago days running newspapers, we were preparing - once again - for a trip to the Labour Relations Board for some sort of hearing. ...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Who, or what, is behind Postmedia's election endorsements?

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Zip on over to The Tyee to read my attempt to answer that question.
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

A good - and bleak - look at Postmedia's drift toward the rocks

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The Globe and Mail’s James Bradshaw has a good piece on Postmedia today, confirming the bleak future and lack of any real plan for Canada...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Glacier Media, and more bad news for the future of newspapers

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It’s a bad sign when even newspaper companies no longer like the business. Glacier Media’s latest quarterly report, released last week, s...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Head on over to The Tyee to read my prescription for smarter campaign coverage

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You can find it here .
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Why are people defending Evan Solomon? I'd fire him

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I’m baffled by people arguing that CBC host Evan Solomon shouldn’t have been fired. The conflict of interest seems obvious. Solomon was...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Six thoughts on that Alberta election

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Six thoughts on the Alberta election. First, this is not that wild a swing. Rachel Notley is a moderate. That’s how she got elected. And,...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Another bleak update for Postmedia, with a shark waiting to be leaped

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It looks like Postmedia has moved into asset-strip mode, based on its latest quarterly report. The results were dismal, as they have been...
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Andrew Weaver, the National Post and media accountability

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The National Post devoted just 160 words to the news it had lost a defamation suit launched by Victoria  climate scientist and Green MLA ...
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