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The Post’s selective MEMRI

11/02/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside National Post, flagship of the largest media conglomerate in Canadian history run by a foreign hedge fund, inhales a MEMRI “report” based on the online musings of four anonymous “known” jihadi dudes titled: “Pro-ISIS Activists React Joyously On Twitter To Canada’s Elections” Then they give it the fabulous new Trudeau-torqued headline you see at left. […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, ISIS, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, middle east, National Post, neoconservatism, newspapers, social media, Stewart Bell, twitter, VICE News

Gay allies: Are you really on side?

07/16/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Dave Brindle We’re in the middle of Pride season. The biggest of the top 10 festivals – Toronto, New York and San Francisco – are over now, but that leaves Montreal and Vancouver still to come in Canada, and a host of smaller ones around the world. They’re everywhere these days. Port Alberni, BC, will […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, civil rights, Facebook, family, GLBT, good behaviour, law, marriage, Pride, sex, sexuality, social media, Supreme Court, U.S.

Before the selfie was . . . the selfie

05/26/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw Some social media memes utterly escape me. Taking pictures of your feet or whatever you’re about to eat are part of that list. But topping them is the Selfie. Surprising as it might be to Millennials and their overlapping generations, taking a picture of yourself with your own phone is not something […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: family, internet, New York City, photography, social media

Gluten, and amusement, free

03/31/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw I’m not sure if this was a good month or a bad one for the people who enjoy annoying other people. On one side, actress Ashley Judd, after being threatened with sexual violence by Twitter trolls who didn’t like her playfully dissing their basketball team, sued her attackers. On the other, actress Eva […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: entertainment, food, health, religion, social media, spirituality

Mukbang: Eat, shoot, get rich

02/24/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw We’ve all had the (pleasure?) of having someone use Instagram, Twitter or Facebook to send us an image of what they’re about to have for lunch. Or dinner. Or breakfast. Or at 3:00 am after their local has closed and kicked them into the street. It’s an affliction I’ve never quite understood. […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Asia, Facebook, food, Instagram, internet, online media, social media, television, twitter

NationBuilder comes to Canada

02/04/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Ten years ago the Cons bought CIMS, their Constituent Information Management System, and began stuffing it with our phone numbers and adding smiley/frowny faces beside our names and whatever other info they could glean about us. The other parties had their own lesser versions. Most of us first took notice of CIMS when we […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: 2015 federal election, advertising, Canada, Facebook, LinkedIn, Malaysia, Manning Centre, mobile phones, social media, Stella Ambler, twitter, U.S., Venezuela

Programmed by Facebook

07/02/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw This week the President of the CBC shared his vision of the future of our national broadcaster. It was a vague vision. Something about being leaner by thousands of jobs and less real estate, not overly committed to documentary projects or news and accessing audiences via social media and mobile instead of […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: business, Canadian television, CNN, digital media, Facebook, Hubert T. Lacroix, online media, social media, television, TV, twitter

Leaked docs throw new light on Fair Elections Act

02/17/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Last week, the Star published a half dozen articles based on secret memos and a 70-page slide show about the Cons’ 2015 election war room strategies, anonymously leaked to them, and as presented to the Conservative National Council (above) by Harper’s former dcomm and now executive director of the CPC, Dimitri Soudas: “Everything we do […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Dimitri Soudas, Eve Adams, Facebook, Guy Giorno, James Moore, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Laureen Harper, Liberals, Maclean's, Manning Centre, Michael Sona, Peter MacKay, Shelly Glover, social media, Toronto Star

Thank god nobody’s reading this

02/02/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young Is anything private? A few weeks ago I was asked to fill out a survey from the Writer’s Union of Canada about “Spying and Harassment.” The union was asking writers whether living in a surveillance society was having an impact on their work. Years ago a friend was working on a TV […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books, Leiren-Young Tagged With: activism, Canada, CSIS, Facebook, government surveillance, online spying, social media, writers, writing

A Modest Opinion – A day in the life of our robot overlord

02/21/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Nathaniel Moher On Jan. 28th, Stephen Harper took a break from using the Internet for the purpose of helping all machines become sentient and thus beginning the robot revolution, in order to take to Twitter and post some pictures of a day in the life of Stephen “I Swear I’m Not A Robot — […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Ottawa, robots, social media, Stephen Harper, twitter

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