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The year of Newfoundland’s triumph
1974. For most of us, it’s just a year – either one buried in distant memory, or one we are too young to have even experienced. Places have a longer memory, however, and for Newfoundland and Labrador, the year was a momentous one. It marked the province’s twenty-fifth anniversary of Confederation with Canada: an event celebrated with awkward abandon, including a series of disastrous dinners and fishing expeditions with the country’s premiers. For a new generation that had grown up after the entire Confederation imbroglio, it was an exciting time, and one aptly reflected in the province’s first big national game-show triumph. Reach For the Top was a quiz-style trivia program broadcast nationally on CBC television from 1966 to 1989 (with a brief revival in the mid 2000s). Teams of high school students across the country competed for prominence, and no Newfoundland team had ever won. But that year—1974—a team…
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Ed Riche on satire and our capacity for self-delusion
Ed Riche is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and more. However, he’s perhaps best known for his humour, and especially his satire. But according to Riche, we are now living in a “post-satiric” age. It’s one in which the seemingly satirical often turns out to be true; and in which there is a feeling in some quarters that speech which hurts should be shut down. How does a satirist ply their trade in a post-satiric age? “You just get ready to absorb more blows,” he says. “We’ve got the unthinkable – Donald Trump in the White House. That’s a punch line. It’s beyond all comprehension. Every day we look at that same reality and go ‘How could this have ever happened?’ He’s a horror clown, he’s a con man, he’s a grifter, he’s an idiot, he’s a crook, and yet he’s the most powerful man in the world. “And on…
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Colonialism, hate, and the media
Racism and hatred are growing in Canada. The role of the media should be to combat it, not promote it.
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Canada’s legal system is sexist and broken
The Ghomeshi ruling is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Don’t talk down to us
‘Professionals’ are killing democracy.
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Indy Editor Justin Brake’s interview on CBC Radio’s Labrador Morning
Justin Brake talks about #GoIndy2015 and why independent journalism and independent media are important for Newfoundland and Labrador.
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How long must the ink bleed?
Challenges faced by women in the workforce show feminism is just as important now as ever
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Talking Turkeys
Food banks were supposed to be a temporary measure, not an institution. Could our energies be better spent tackling income inequality, rather than institutionalizing charity?
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Jian is only the tip of the iceberg
The tumultuous events of the past week have opened the door for a national public discussion that needs to happen
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The trouble with charity
Giving and generosity may reduce the burden of immediate suffering and desperation, but if we’re serious about finding long term solutions we can begin by questioning why some have so much while others have so little
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CBC journalist John Furlong dead at 63
A veteran journalist in Newfoundland and Labrador, Furlong succumbed to cancer just weeks after learning of his illness
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Labrador columnist cut from newspapers over criticism of Nalcor and provincial government
Award-winning journalist says editor of Labrador newspapers refused to run articles involving NL government and crown energy corporation; TC Media managing editor denies censorship
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Innu-vate, don’t perpetuate
The CBC has apologized for its problematic coverage of Innu communities. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
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Media watchdog says CBC at risk of being turned into a ‘state broadcaster’
With its back to the wall, will Canada’s public broadcaster stand up to a government that is tightening its grip on the network’s freedom? Or should ‘friends’ intervene?
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Penashue dodges CBC reporter’s question … again
On March 5 CBC reporter Peter Cowan asked former Labrador MP Peter Penashue how donation errors were made in his 2011 campaign. Penashue dodged the question, as he has in the past, and instead turned the conversation around, accusing Cowan and the CBC of treating him “unfairly”. Penashue also told Cowan he had learned one of Cowan’s colleagues was running the Liberal campaign, referring to former CBC radio host Cindy Wall, who retired two years ago and is now running the campaign for Liberal candidate Yvonne Jones. Penashue’s former Labrador adviser, Donna Paddon, also used to work for CBC. Read CBC’s full story here.
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Poll-itics
They manipulate the polls. You always knew it. You let them.
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The case of Theresa Spence and the barely spoken racism of Canadian media
The swift slide from unreasonable to mad
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A message from the Universe
Renowned physicist and 2012 Massey Lecturer Neil Turok talks about the coming quantum revolution, why it shouldn’t be dismissed as our next big paradigm shift, and the incredible possibilities we hold in our hands.
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2012 Massey Lectures to kick off in St. John’s
In what could be the most exciting CBC Massey Lecture series yet, world renowned theoretical physicist Neil Turok will share his thoughts and beliefs about the coming paradigm shift, the quantum revolution, when he delivers his first lecture at the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre on Oct. 10. His new CBC Massey Lectures book, “The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos”, was published by Anansi Press earlier this month. Turok is the Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and previously held positions as professor of physics at Princeton and Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge. He has developed fundamental theories of the cosmos and, with colleague Stephen Hawking, developed the Hawking-Turok Instanton Theory, which describes the birth of inflationary universes. Further, he developed a cyclic universe scenario with Paul Steinhardt which is outlined in their critically acclaimed book Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang – Rewriting Cosmic History. Stay tuned…
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