The two biggest unions representing media workers both blasted the new Conservative government's plans to limit media access.

Don't know how I wound up there, but this blurb on Canoe.ca caught my eye: "Recognizing the changing media landscape, Quebecor is converging its resources to create a new and exciting path to a successful future, ...   more »

Labour lawyer Thomas Geoghehan quite likes The Disposable American, by NYT economics writer Louis Uchitelle.

This BBC piece looks at the pressures on Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai as he wiggled Abdul Rahman off the hook of an apostasy charge by having the Muslim-turned-Christian declared mentally incompetent.

It's a decent general overview of the case at this point.

The fun fact: No one has ever been executed in Afghanistan for apostasy, even under the Taliban.

Here's a journo-centric bit of info:

In similar cases in recent years, two Afghan editors accused of blasphemy both faced the death sentence, but one claimed asylum abroad and the other was freed after a short spell in jail.

And here's a related story: Italy mulls Afghan convert asylum

What the hell, one more: What Islam says on religious freedom