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“The indomitable cussedness that made him unique”

11/07/2014 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh Paul St. Pierre, B.C.’s superb chronicler of the beautiful Chilcotin and its all-too-human characters, passed away last July. But friends and family waited until Sunday, the weekend of Mexico’s Day of the Dead, to formally say goodbye to the former Vancouver Sun columnist, Liberal MP, gifted writer, and, in the words of […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: authors, British Columbia, Canada, literature, Paul St. Pierre, Vancouver, Vancouver Sun, writing

Extra, extra, not dead yet

02/08/2014 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh The trend is not good for newspapers. Ad revenue is down, circulation is down, the number of stories are down, employment is down. Newspapers are starting to look like vinyl did when shiny new CDs showed up. So old-fashioned, a refuge only for fuddy-duddies and luddites. Record buyers everywhere ditched their collections […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: blogs, Globe, internet, internet journalism, newspapers, online me, Vancouver, Vancouver Sun

The Province’s big, gooey Enbridge mess

06/29/2012 by backofthebook.ca

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

Postmedia: The way the words end

06/22/2012 by backofthebook.ca

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

Death in Vancouver, bluster on Twitter

11/06/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher A young woman died of a drug overdose in Vancouver yesterday. Her name was Ashley. She became one of the approximately 120 people who will die of drug overdoses in Vancouver this year. She happened to be at the Occupy Vancouver encampment when she died. Or perhaps it wasn’t coincidental. Perhaps she […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: British Columbia, Globe and Mail, Gregor Robertson, journalism, Maclean's, Occupy the World, twitter, Vancouver, Vancouver Sun

Postmedia: Layoffs? What layoffs?

09/08/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Brian Brennan Television reporter Tom Clark parts company with CTV News, and the network issues a public statement to that effect. Kevin Newman steps down as Global anchor, and his network does the same. But what happens when dozens, perhaps hundreds of print reporters in this country leave their jobs, either voluntarily or otherwise? […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: CanWest, CTV, Edmonton Journal, Global Television, Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, National Post, newspapers, Ottawa Citizen, Paul Godfrey, Postmedia, Toronto Star, Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times-Colonist

White wash

10/16/2008 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher The various human rights commissions that rejected the complaint against Maclean’s magazine — most recently the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal — were right to do so, of course. Members of the Canadian Islamic Congress had charged Maclean’s with inciting hatred and contempt towards Muslims when it published an excerpt from Mark Steyn’s […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, Canada, Canadian Islamic Congress, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, newspapers, Vancouver Sun

The issue with “At Issue”

05/30/2008 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Calgary Herald columnist Don Martin offered an unfortunate comment during last night’s broadcast of “At Issue,” The National‘s equally unfortunate political affairs panel. Discussing the Conservatives’ plunging poll numbers, Martin derided the “line of pale male faces, with one exception” on their parliamentary front bench. He was sharing the screen at the […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Alan Gregg, Andrew Coyne, Calgary Herald, Canada, Canadian politics, CBC, Chantal Hebert, Don Martin, journalism, Maclean's, National Post, television, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun

Dumb and dumber

01/12/2007 by backofthebook.ca

By guest blogger Brian Brennan Update to story below: CBC Radio announced on January 18 that it is cancelling the pop-culture show “Freestyle” effective mid-March and replacing it with an as yet unnamed daily arts magazine program hosted by Jian Ghomeshi. A CBC executive told the Globe and Mail “this does not mean an increased […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Calgary Herald, CanWest, CBC, Edmonton Journal, Jian Ghomeshi, newspapers, Vancouver Sun

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

Trudeau on quantum computing

The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

Stephen Colbert on Late Night set

Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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