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Coup in Canada? Who’s asking?

01/07/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Ottawa Citizen: Some say PM could justifiably shut down Parliament in crisis: survey A small but growing minority of Canadians says the prime minister would be justified in closing down Parliament and the Supreme Court in the face of ‘very difficult times,’ according to a survey” What a fabulously leading survey question! Who wants […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian Parliament, Conservatives, Environics, Global Television, Industry Canada, Ottawa Citizen, polling, Postmedia, Supreme Court of Canada, U.S.

“The Province”: Doing it right for the petroleum producers

11/24/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside h/t Waterbaby That’s very good, isn’t it? “Kinder Morgan has solved the NIMBY problem by taking the backyard.” I also liked his debunking of the attempt to de-legitimize protest itself — the argument that “protesters undermine the rule of law by claiming to speak for the whole community.” Hey, here’s one now from […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 24 Hours, British Columbia, Burnaby, Canada, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, civil liberties, Kinder Morgan, newspapers, oil sands, Postmedia, protest, RCMP, Rick Perry, Sun Media, tar sands, Texas, The Province, Trans Mountain pipeline, USA, Vancouver

PostMedia, post newspaper

07/16/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Hey kids, remember PostMedia’s pitch for their tarsands promotion partnership with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers?: Postmedia is proud to present its 2013 media partnership with CAPP. We are a media company national in scope but community-focused. Canadians know our brands, trust our content, and welcome us as a vital member of their […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, business, Canada, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, David Walmsley, Enbridge Pipeline, Globe and, Keystone Pipeline, newspapers, Northern Gateway Pipeline, Postmedia

Text of Duffy: “I met the Prime Minister and Nigel Wright. Just the three of us.”

10/22/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Sen. Mike Duffy addressed the Senate Tuesday evening regarding allegations of misspending and the motion to suspend him. Here is the text of his notes. Honourable Senators, I rise today against the orders of my doctors who fear my heart condition has worsened after months of unrelenting stress. However the sad truth is, I allowed […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian Senate, Carolyn Stewart-Olson, Conservatives, David Tkachuk, Marjory LeBreton, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, PMO, Postmedia, Prince Edward Island, Ray Novak, Senate scandal, Stephen Harper

Meanwhile, still no convictions in the robocalls scandal

06/03/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand has come out to say finally that the Conservatives are not cooperating with the investigation into the robocall election fraud of 2011. I do not find this surprising, and if you’ve been reading my blog the past year, you’d know that’s because the evidence points […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, crime, Election Canada, Marc Mayrand, Michael Den Tandt, Michael Sona, Postmedia, robocall scandal, robocalls

Not much media behind Postmedia’s paywalls

05/14/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher As suddenly as the Berlin Wall fell, paywalls went up today across the Postmedia “content network,” or whatever we call what we used to call “newspaper chains.” Steve Ladurantaye, media reporter for the competing Globe, broke the news to a non-waiting nation by posting the death notice internal memo on his personal website. […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: business, Canada, Globe and Mail, Gordon Fisher, internet journalism, journalism, New York Times, newspapers, Pacific Newspaper Group, Phillip Crawley, Postmedia

The Province’s big, gooey Enbridge mess

06/29/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher Now that we know just how much financial trouble Postmedia is in (see here, and here, and here), the question becomes: How well are they going to balance journalistic and money problems as they attempt, pell-mell, to transition to a digital-first strategy? On the basis of the Vancouver Province/Enbridge-parody furor, the answer […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, Canada, CBC, copyright, Enbridge, newspapers, Pacific Newspaper Group, Postmedia, The Province, Vancouver Sun

Cartoonist: Enbridge parody pulled on orders from Postmedia

06/27/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The cartoonist whose animated parody of an Enbridge ad was removed from the website of Vancouver’s The Province on Friday says the newspaper was told to take it down by a Postmedia executive, after Enbridge threatened to pull $1 million in ads from the company. “It was up for awhile,” Dan Murphy, […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, Canada, CBC, copyright, Enbridge, newspapers, Postmedia, The Province

Vancouver’s Province pulls animation satirizing Enbridge

06/25/2012 by backofthebook.ca 7 Comments

Update: Cartoonist: Enbridge parody pulled on orders from Postmedia executive The Vancouver Province has pulled from its website an animation created by its editorial cartoonist, Dan Murphy, that satirizes Enbridge’s massive ad campaign in support of its Northern Gateway pipeline. In the original ad, Enbridge claims that the pipeline is “a path to our future,” […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, Canada, copyright, Enbridge, newspapers, Postmedia, The Province

Postmedia: The way the words end

06/22/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Zoe Grams Many arts supporters are just regaining their breath after the cuts, no cuts, debacle around the Literary Press Group of Canada, which sent waves of disbelief and frustration across the publishing community. But it’s not time to celebrate yet; now the Postmedia Network has announced a slew of job cuts at Canada’s […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, dance, newspapers, online media, Postmedia, Vancouver Sun, visual arts

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