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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  Do restos need 'no kids' sections?

This NYT story looks at the growing clash between those with kids and those without when they intersect in the public space of restos -- a problem that's worsening as young couples choose city living ...   more »

View Article  Judith Miller leaves NYT

Judith Miller and the NYT have agreed on the terms of her departure from the paper. Now she's free to peddle the Bush administration's spin on WMDs to whoever will have her.

Here's the NYT story. Here's a note from executive editor Bill Keller to NYT newsroom staff.

Editor and Publisher has some reaction from Miller and a preview of her farewell letter that will appear Thursday.

This New York Observer story offers a prelude of the behind-the-scenes stuff leading up to Wednesday's announcement.

View Article  GAM's Doyle craps on the Colbert Report

Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle isn't prepared to give The Colbert Report the benefit of any doubt.

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View Article  'A deadly interrogation'

The New Yorker's Jane Mayer on how a suspect at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison died while undergoing an interrogation by the CIA.

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View Article  CIA wants criminal investigation into 'secret prisons' story

The CIA wants the Justice Department to investigate the source of a Washington Post story that said the spy agency was operating a global network of covert prisons.

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View Article  Blair's gov't loses vote on terror suspect detention bill

British MPs have voted 322-291 against giving British police the power to hold terror suspects for up to 90 days without charge, although they did approve an expansion to 28 days.

Forty-nine Labour MPs voted against the bill, putting a dent in the authority of Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Here's the BBC story.

View Article  Washington Post criticized for not giving locations of U.S. secret prisons

The Washington Post revealed recently the CIA is operating a global network of secret prisons for terrorism suspects. But at the Pentagon's request, they wouldn't say where those prisons were.

The group Human Rights Watch, citing military flight records, says Poland and Romania, to name two (those countries deny the allegation; however, they are part of the "war on terrror.")

And one critic said the Post's refusal to give the prisons' locations was the greatest act of media self-censorship since the New York Times acquiesed to White House pressure on the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

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View Article  CIA was warned some interrogation techniques came close to torture

The CIA's inspector general warned the agency that some interrogation procedures approved in the wake of 9/11 might violate some parts of the International Convention Against Torture, the NYT is reporting today.

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View Article  File under 'who cares?'

This headline on CTV.ca caught my eye: Michael Jackson may never live in U.S. again.

View Article  Woodward on the rush-rush pace of modern journalism

The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias wrote Tuesday about the encounter between herself, four young journalists -- and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.

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