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• Colvin may be mistaken on torture

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  One wonders if Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat whose warnings about torture of Taliban prisoners by Afghans has created a firestorm of recriminations, had any idea of what he was unleashing when he compiled his report? As an honest man, he might have been too prone to accept complaints by supposed victims. ...
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• Live-in caregivers

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 432
  Nanny wins landmark suit after Star investigation A foreign caregiver brought to Canada with a job offer from a “ghost employer” has been awarded $10,000 in damages in what is believed to be the first court victory against a nanny recruiter.
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• A friend, but not friendly

  
  Regret the Error — Authority: 503
  Tad Friend is the author of Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor. A Nov. 22 review and photo caption of the book incorrectly identified Friend as Tad Friendly. Link
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• Toronto Star wants to outsource 78 editing jobs

  
  Fagstein — Authority: 474
  The Toronto Star, Canadas national largest newspaper, has signed a deal with page-layout outsourcing firm Pagemasters and has informed its union that it plans to outsource 78 copy editing and layout jobs to this company, which form part of 121 job cuts it plans to save millions of dollars a year. Ive written ...
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• Urban panel ponders the in-between areas of Toronto

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 141
  A panel of Canadian urban studies specialists was brought together by the thestar.com (Toronto) to ponder the state of the Greater Toronto Area and the in-between areas that are ever growing. thestar.com feature starts….. According to a panel of leading Canadian city thinkers assembled recently by the Star ...
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• Last NYT Reporter In Iran Flees To Canada

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 799
  Here’s some news that has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. We’ve mentioned a couple of times on this blog before the New York Times reporter Nazila Fathi , who during the protests over the Iran election this past June was often the only reporter on the ground reporting for the Times . Last month Fathi ...
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• India’s nukes are ‘ground zero’ for jihadists: Canadian media

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Toronto, Nov 18 (IANS) Even as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resolved to deepen bilateral ties, the Canadian media says a nuclear deal could be risky because of terrorist threats to India’s sites. They cite the recent alert at India’s nuclear facilities as a ...
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• The Constitutionality of Publication Bans

  
  The Court — Authority: 493
  Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada heard two appeals testing the constitutionality of s. 517 - the publication ban provision - of the Criminal Code . In both cases, the Court found that s. 517 infringed the guarantee of freedom of expression under the s. 2(b) of the Charter . Opinions differed, however, as to ...
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• New Super Mario Bros. Wii now available; launch day pictures from Nintendo and … - Gaming Bits (blog)

  
  Nintendo Wii Game and Accessories Review — Authority: 159
  ABC News New Super Mario Bros. Wii now available; launch day pictures from Nintendo and ... Gaming Bits (blog) Nintendos New Super Mario Bros. Wii is now available. The new Wii game is bound to be one of this seasons top selling games as Mario, Luigi and company ... Nintendo ...
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• Editing the publisher

  
  gary scott — Authority: 430
  The publisher of the Toronto Star sent out a memo announcing the paper would outsource some of the editing functions at the paper, and so one of the editors took the opportunity to show the publisher, using a red pen, how important editing can be. Toronoist
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• Mayor whistles arenas in girls’ hockey fight - Toronto Star

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  Mayor whistles arenas in girls’ hockey fight - Toronto Star Mayor David Miller says adult male shinny groups and players in the competitive Greater Toronto Hockey League will be moved out of publicly owned arenas to accommodate the growing number of girls in the game. “They need to accept that they are less ...
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• Laid-off journalists in need of a pick-me-up, see this post

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 570
  Journalists are nothing if not a bunch of clever bastards. And this anonymous Toronto Star employee, looking to protect the interests of editors and copy editors, may be the most clever bastard we’ve seen in a while. (Hat tip Clint Howarth.) SOURCE &&&& Related posts: A shoutout to ...
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• Remembrance Day - A Different Angle

  
  Toronto Estate Law Blog — Authority: 469
  Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre houses Canada’s largest Veteran’s care facility , offering care to a current population of 500 vets, a few from the Korean War, but the majority of whom are from World War II. Residents are housed in two wings: the Kilgour Wing which promotes independent living, and the ...
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• Revenge of the Copy Editor

  
  Words at Work — Authority: 121
  HA HA HA! A copy editor strikes back. A copyeditor at the Toronto Star greeted the news that union copyeditor jobs were being eliminated in favor of freelancers by heavily editing the publishers memo announcing same, pointing out all the ways in which the publisher could benefit from editorial aid.
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• Textual Interventions

  
  First Person Irregular — Authority: 100
  Last week the Toronto Star announced it was going to sack about 100 in-house editors, and replace them with editors from somewhere else. Today the Torontoist blog is running  an internal memo to Star staffers from the publisher. What’s interesting about it is that a Star editor took a none-too-kind red pen to ...
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• Sub editor takes revenge on publisher

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 557
  The Toronto Star recently announced it was planning to outsource some one hundred in-house editing jobs. Now, one sub at the Star has heavily edited the internal memo from publisher John Cruickshank announcing the changes and it has been sent to the Torontoist website where you can view an enlarged version (or ...
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• HAS CHINA REALLY INVENTED THE SECRET OF MAKING THE WEATHER? - Daily Express

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  HAS CHINA REALLY INVENTED THE SECRET OF MAKING THE WEATHER? - Daily Express SATURDAY night in downtown Beijing was like any other autumn evening: overcast and gloomy. But when the residents awoke on Sunday morning they were greeted with a thick white carpet. Six inches of snow blanketed bicycles and cars, impromptu ...
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• Canadian Editors: Freaking The F**k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts [Blame Canada]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  Funny Canadians. Our editors get into knockdown-dragout brawls where they kick the shit out of each other just for bad writing. The Northern version? Your union editing job: outsourced. Take a memo,...
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• Toronto Star starts restructuring, offers buyouts

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Canadas largest circulation daily has launched what its publisher said will likely be the biggest restructuring in the newspapers history by offering voluntary buyouts to employees in all divisions of the company.
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• Mad News, October 28-November 3, 2009

  
  Basket of Kisses — Authority: 553
  Basketcase robert linked us up with Stephen Colbert interviewing Gail Collins about her new book, which addresses the progress of the women’s movement from 1960. Mad Men is referenced around the 3.22 mark, but watch the whole thing.From Basketcase BroncoRoger: A Mad Men guide to New York City.The Frisky argues for ...
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