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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  The Colbert Report: Initial thoughts

A decent beginning, I say. But I can see some flaws in the Daily Show spinoff  The Colbert Report.

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View Article  Did France neglect the suburbs -- or just do a really lousy job of helping them?

This BBC report talks about how the French government spent billions of francs over the years trying to improve the suburbs that are now cauldrons of unrest. But critics are now saying it was done really badly.

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View Article  The torture barometer: Will it go up or down in the U.S.?
Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, has an interesting piece that puts the U.S. torture issue into context. The link here is to the Alternet version, but it was first posted to TomPaine.com .
View Article  Oh really, Dubya?

U.S. President George W. Bush put it about this simply: "We do not torture," he said Monday in Panama.

So then why is Dick Cheney working the Senate to get an exemption for the CIA to get a little rough-and-tumble with non-Americans if they see fit?

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View Article  'The American newspaper at a crossroads'

With U.S. newspaper circulation heading downward (H/T to Deb Jones for her Canadian Journalist post), the Columbia Journalism Review has editorialized on the problem.

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