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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 Vanishing Newspaper

The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias listened in to a webinar this Wednesday on the vanishing newspaper, based on the title of a new book by U.S. journalism professor Philip Meyer.

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View Article  Tsunami news explosion sucked all the media air

The tsunami got more media attention in six weeks than all the other world's top 10 "forgotten emergencies" did over the past year, says a new report.

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View Article  A powerful ad on a serious subject

I saw this mentioned at WarrenKinsella.com: The website StopLandmines.org has posted the video of an ad that was considered too graphic for Aussie TV.

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View Article  Speaking of chemical weapons ...

This story is about the tossing of a lawsuit by a U.S. judge against the manufacturers of Agent Orange, a defoliant used by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, on behalf of Vietnamese children affected by it.

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View Article  Sedan, Sudan ... what's in a letter?

This little yarn is about how the government of Sudan got a start when it read on a U.S. Congressional website that the U.S. government had conducted nuclear (or nook-eww-leer, in the pronunciation of some senior Bush Administration officials) tests there in the 1960s.

Oopsie, just a typo!

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View Article  Criminal Code a 'colossal failure': critics

The Criminal Code of Canada has failed to prevent crime and should be scrapped immediately, say its opponents.

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