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Is our speech really free?

TV is just unfunny – the scripted comedies, anyway. That’s what Russell Peters and I chatted about during an interview

On CBC’s Dragons’ Den (and subsequently ABC’s Shark Tank) we hear how the millionaire and billionaire investors have great success

The CBC is doomed… again. There’s really no other way to start this column. For years the public broadcaster’s budget

There are two stories in the news I want to comment on and I couldn’t choose between them so let’s

More and more we are seeing statistics that traditional TV is on the way out. Even with the convenience of

I remember getting goosebumps when I was an aspiring journalist and CNN’s important-sounding newsy music came on and the words

We’ve already figured out that the Kardashian reality show is far from real — much like many of their body

I kind of laugh but cringe at the same time when a trending news story’s headline is, “NYC Firefighters, Police

Like most Canadians I didn’t watch the Junos. Unlike most Canadians, I know what the Junos is. And it is

You know you’re in a really small town — or at least a cool town, anyway — when you arrive