So, within a week, the senior director of Radio-Canada’s new media operations and the senior director of CBC.ca both take their careers in new directions outside the public broadcaster.

In the case of the latter, she's just leaving.

Whatever does it mean? The e-mail address link is to the right at 2 o'clock. :)

Update

None of my regular sources are ponying up anything. The irregular ones aren't saying anything either. That means either nothing was going on, or something.

I know what my bet is! :)

Afterthought

I wonder if Ms. Gardner will land on her feet at Alliance-Atlantis. :)

This Ouimet posting has much discussion on Sue Gardner's tenure as CBC.ca director.

This New Scientist article addresses the 26 main myths and misconceptions about climate change.

From the Washington Post:

Months before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies predicted that it would be likely to spark violent sectarian divides and provide al-Qaeda with new opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report released yesterday by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Analysts warned that war in Iraq also could provoke Iran to assert its regional influence and "probably would result in a surge of political Islam and increased funding for terrorist groups" in the Muslim world.

The intelligence assessments, made in January 2003 and widely circulated within the Bush administration before the war, said that establishing democracy in Iraq would be "a long, difficult and probably turbulent challenge." The assessments noted that Iraqi political culture was "largely bereft of the social underpinnings" to support democratic development.

More than four years after the March 2003 invasion, with Iraq still mired in violence and 150,000 U.S. troops there under continued attack from al-Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents, the intelligence warnings seem prophetic. Other predictions, however, were less than accurate. Intelligence analysts assessed that any postwar increase in terrorism would slowly subside in three to five years, and that Iraq's vast oil reserves would quickly facilitate economic reconstruction.

The fad of allowing civilians to create advertising spots for them isn't exactly providing H.J. Heinz with a wealth of brand-building opportunities to choose from.

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Everyone got hot and bothered this past winter when Dubya mentioned the phrase "serious challenge of global climate change." But in talks leading up to the G8 summit next month, the U.S. is rejecting the notion that the climate change situation is urgent or that emissions must be cut by mid-century.

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio spoke for an hour on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week saying Iraq is all about the oil, which isn't an unusual claim. However, he claims Democrats are helping the Bush adminstration privatize Iraqi oilfields, which, er, is.

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From Editor and Publisher via truthout:

New York staffers at McClatchy's Washington, D.C., Bureau - one of the few major news outlets skeptical of intelligence reports during the run-up to the war in Iraq - claims it is now being punished for that coverage.

Bureau Chief John Walcott and current and former McClatchy Pentagon correspondents say they have not been allowed on the Defense Secretary's plane for at least three years, claiming the news company is being retaliated against for its reporting.

"It is because our coverage of Iraq policy has been quite critical," Walcott told E&P. He added, "I think the idea of public officials barring coverage by people they've decided they don't like is at best unprofessional, at worst undemocratic and petty."

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman called such assertions "absurd," adding, "There is no basis of fact for that allegation. It is not true. There are always more people who would like to travel with the secretary than seats available."