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I am a staff writer with CTV.ca News. That operation is part of CTV News, which is of course nestled into CTV Inc. and CTVglobemedia.

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View Article  Under-reported tragedies in 2006

Now Magazine reported on Doctors without Borders' list of most under-reported stories of 2006.

Here's three:

Haiti

Even with the presence of a UN stabilization team, confrontations between various armed groups and impoverished conditions in the capital have cut thousands off from health care and contributed to a high maternal mortality rate.

Colombia

After a 50-year civil war, only Sudan has more internally displaced people. Thousands are retreating to shantytowns springing up everywhere across the country. Mental disorders caused by witnessing or experiencing violence continue to go largely untreated.

Chechnya

Thousands of displaced Chechens returning after a bitter 12-year war find themselves without homes and facing violence, abduction and abuse at the hands of Russian-backed security forces.

Here's the organization's report.

View Article  A breach develops in the globeandmail.com content firewall

Globeandmail.com now allows access to online columns and editorials to five or six-days-per-week subscribers to the newspaper.

Before, even subscribers had to pay about seven bucks per month for the privilege of being a "Globe Insider."

I don't know when this change was made (I stumbled across it). I didn't get any email notification from globeandmail.com.

FWIW, globeandmail.com is a corporate cousin of my employer, CTV.ca News.

View Article  Iranian bloggers angry about new law
Iran wants bloggers to register with the government. The BBC asks some Iranian bloggers for their reaction.
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