A new poll done both here in Canada and the U.S. tells me I'm pretty much in the mainstream: I like America and my American neighbors, but I'm not so hot on Dubya and his ...   more »

OK. I've accepted the fact Dubya and I aren't going to have time for a completely honest, heart-to-heart chat on his whirlwind trip to Canada. But if we did, here's 10 questions I'd have asked:

In her Thanksgiving column entitled Blood Is Thicker Than Gravy, NYT writer Maureen Dowd gives her conservative brother Kevin's explanation of why the Republicans triumphed in Apocalypse 2004:

Ahh, making chicken salad out of chicken guano! There is no truer test of a reporter's mettle, I say!

This NYT yarn is about Ray Daniels, an overnight traffic reporter for radio station 1010 WINS. It seems that even in the city that never sleeps, there are news dead spots.

An amusing NYT yarn about a small (but in its own way, sophisticated) ad in a Catskills newspaper that put some noses out of joint.

In his Saturday column, Toronto Star Ombudsman Don Sellar writes about a how a start-up allowance for refugees was misinterpreted by a reader, who then spread his misinterpretation far and wide on the Net. But ...   more »

The Sunday Star held forth on the case of Hamilton Spectator reporter Ken Peters, who faces possible jailing for contempt of court because he's refusing to identify a confidential source.

It also talks about some ...   more »

Here's a roundup of some stuff I've found about Ukraine's and Russia's news media, normally compliant beasts, in these abnormal times:

A useful but not ground-breaking BBC piece:

Daniel Okrent, the NYT's public editor, looks at why editors didn't like the old NYT Sunday arts listings, the backlash by some readers against the changes, and has some critical words for the editors.

It's a particular ...   more »

Pakistan found the Nov. 22 issue of Newsweek had some content in it offensive to Islam; to wit, verses of the Koran appearing on a semi-naked woman's body.

The story was about the murder of ...   more »