About 3:20 p.m. today, I'm standing on Bathurst Street. It's been snowing and there is slush on the roads.

It's my misfortune to be standing there when the light turns yellow (pop quiz: In Toronto, what does a yellow light at an intersection mean?).

Toronto Star media critic Antonia Zerbisias has written a bit of a strange column on whether the media will continue to shine a white-hot light on the tsunami disaster forever and evermore.

I think it's a safe bet to say no, it won't (Read on: There's much, much more!).

Ontario's Attorney General wants to set up a committee so the justice system and the news media can understand each other a little better.

An excerpt from the Toronto Star article:

According to the BBC, the French paper Liberation has said it hasn't heard from correspondent Florence Aubenas or her assistant in 24 hours.

It didn't know whether they had been kidnapped.

The Toronto Star published a list Wednesday of Canadians missing in South and Southeast Asia as a result of the Dec. 26. One relative of some people on the list (who weren't actually missing), was ...   more »

Seems End of the Century (see my review; it plays the Royal again in Toronto Jan. 17-18 and the Revue Jan. 19-20) is opening across the pond, and so the Guardian has interviewed the last original surviving Ramone: Tommy Erdelyi, who now plays in a bluegrass duo (?!?!) called Uncle Monk.

CNN's new president Jonathan Klein says Crossfire will be cancelled and that conservative host Tucker Carlson won't have a continuing home on the network.

An excerpt from the NYT story: