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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  'No success without suffering. No freedom without sacrifice'

CTV's Paul Workman writes that murdered Afghan journalist Javed 'Jojo' Yazamy -- a freelance CTV cameraman and 'fixer' in Afghanistan -- lived those words until bullets cut him down in Kandahar city on Tuesday.

For background, until he became Washington bureau chief, Workman had been South Asia bureau chief and one of our main correspondents in Afghanistan (I work for CTV.ca News).

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View Article  Stewart vs. Cramer

From AP via CTV.ca:

Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on "The Daily Show," repeatedly chastising the "Mad Money" host for putting entertainment above journalism.

"I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a ... game," Stewart told Cramer, adding in an expletive during the show's Thursday taping. The episode aired at 11 p.m. ET on The Comedy Network and 12:00 a.m. on CTV in Canada.

It was perhaps the hardest lashing Stewart has given to a TV commentator since 2004 when he called Tucker Carlson and his then co-host Paul Begala "partisan hacks" on CNN's "Crossfire," the since cancelled political commentary program.

I will try to find time to say something about this tonight, but here's some tweets I made this morning:

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View Article  World on its way to 'worst-case' climate scenarios being realized

A meeting of the world's climate scientists, designed to bring everyone up to speed on advances in research since the 2007 IPCC report, finds that things are bleaker than that report found.

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