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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.

I don't speak for my employer on this blog. I don't comment about the internal affairs of my employer.

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View Article  May I be so insensitive as to ask who 'Duib' is?

From globeandmail.com:

Here's the story link.

Besides the most perplexing headline, the Globe also had the most terrifying one today:

Plastics ingredient linked to smaller penises

Update

I checked back at 11:48 p.m. Duib was out, Dion was in. BTW, reporters generally don't write headlines.

View Article  'One of the things I think I have learned is the value of my own life'

The Globe and Mail's Graeme Smith talks with CBC Radio's Dispatches about his tour of duty in Afghanistan.

"It's been frightening, at a lot of times. My car has been followed -- repeatedly. I've been shot at, rocketed, mortared, hit by a suicide bomber -- lots of nasty stuff."

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View Article  Georgia: Outpost of democracy, if you don't count the lousy state of press freedom

From the NYT:

Georgia and its American backers, including the Republican and Democratic United States presidential contenders, have presented Georgia as a plucky little democracy in an unstable region, a country deserving of generous aid and NATO membership. But a growing number of critics inside and outside the country argue that it falls well short of Western democratic standards and cite a lack of press freedom as a glaring example.

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View Article  A nicely-written lede

For the NYT story Global fears of a recession grow stronger:

When the White House brought out its $700 billion rescue plan two weeks ago, its sheer size was meant to soothe the global financial system, restoring trust and confidence. Three days after the plan was approved, it looks like a pebble tossed into a churning sea.

View Article  Mallick on the Palin column fallout

From CBC.ca:

Two things about the whole debacle are of interest. One is the matter of protecting writers' safety when villagers approach with torches and pitchforks. One of my employers immediately provided me with a security guard. I had offered to cancel a speech I was giving at a Catholic university in Canada - I didn't want to embarrass them - but they refused, on the grounds of free speech, and they had also liked the column.

The other matter is the vexed state of cyberspace. Online has brought instant media democratization as well as the erasure of national borders. And websites have not devised a way to keep online forums civilized. "There's no point debating anything online," writes the columnist Charlie Brooker. "You might as well hurl shoes in the air to knock clouds from the sky."

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