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View Article  'Stevie Cameron denies being RCMP informant'

From CP via CTV.ca:

Investigative journalist Stevie Cameron denies that she was an informant for the RCMP in the Airbus affair.

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View Article  'Prophet cartoon sparks boycott call'

From al-Jazeera:

Muslims across the world have reacted angrily to the reprinting of political cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad by Danish newspapers, which they claim are offensive.
 
A Kuwaiti politician on Thursday called for a boycott of Denmark after 17 Danish newspapers ran an illustration of the prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb, with a lit fuse.

"We must impose a total political and economic boycott of Denmark," Waleed al-Tabtabai told the Kuwaiti parliament.
 
"This is a provocative and insulting act and we must take a strong reaction."

In the Gaza Strip, Hamas joined in the condemnation, saying the cartoon was an "offence to the feelings of tens of millions of Muslims".

There were also protests in Karachi, Pakistan. Iran summoned Denmark's ambassador to express its displeasure.

However, the story didn't report whether Hamas, Iran and the Karachi protesters also disapproved of the alleged plot to kill the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard of Jyllands-Posten, which first published the cartoons in 2005.

Plotting to kill someone over a cartoon seems a bit much, but I guess that's the secular humanist in me.

View Article  Putin's last presidential news conference

How beloved is Russia's Dear Leader? One reporter gave President Vladimir Putin a pink, heart-shaped Valentine's card after his last presidential news conference.

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View Article  Wanna get some? Be seen reading a newspaper

Wanna get more? Be seen reading lots of newspapers, and all the sections within it, if a newspaper industry-sponsored survey is to be believed.

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View Article  'As the media tilt rightward, so will the country'

Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin says the continuing ascendancy of the Asper family's CanWest Global media empire -- which has launched a service to compete with The Canadian Press and is now basing its national newscast in Ottawa -- is yet more evidence that Canada's news media are becoming ever more conservative.

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