Read Zerby's post Closed Doors, about the story done by the Montreal Gazette's Elizabeth Thompson on the advice given to the Tories by Republican pollster Frank Luntz.

Barry Reuger posted at Canadian Journalist about a plan by HBO to do a comedy based on journos at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad! A true WTFF story! According to Barry,  the Wonkette headline was "Iraq War Jumps Shark" (!!!)

Update

Luntz appeared on CTV Newsnet's Mike Duffy Live on Tuesday. Right at the end of the interview, he dissed Thompson -- although he didn't specify the nature of his complaints about her story. He asked people to dig up her email addy and write the Globe and ask her to be more accurate (ironically, Duffy pointed out she was a Gazette writer; the Globe picked up the CP version of her story).

This is a disturbing little NYT feature on the near poor. We start off with the story of the Abbott family.

A CP story reported the Taliban are frustrated they can't penetrate the armour on Canada's personnel carriers. So they're going shopping.

A Los Angeles district attorney has issued grand jury subpoenas to the San Franciso Chronicle and two of its reporters for work done on the steroids-in-sports scandal.

A new rock festival  in Ukraine did its part to try and stem the tide of Russian pop music sweeping over the former Soviet satellite.

The U.S. killed four Taliban with a missile strike near the border with Pakistan, who reacted to the attack with a protest.

The BBC's Aamer Ahmed Khan reports from North Waziristan, where the Taliban have ordered a ceasefire for a religious holiday -- a ceasefire that ends Friday.

In opposition, the Conservatives fought in the courts to obtain ministerial agendas. And in government? Well, just guess what they're going to do.