Should reporters have access to the locker room?
Aron Winter, the new head coach of the Toronto Football Club, doesn’t think so.
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Toronto Sun columnist: “Selective scandal coverage is a disservice”
Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley thinks the media is giving Michael Ignatieff a free pass when it comes to reporting potentially scandalous stories.
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Toronto Standard launches tonight
It’s no easy task launching a new publication. Take Christopher Frey’s tweet this morning: “9 HOURS TIL LAUNCH. @cf_huzun hasn’t had a shower in two days.” No big surprise there, Frey is the editorial director of the Toronto Standard, a new online publication set to launch tonight at 8 p.m.
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Bogus National Magazine Awards nominees list goes live
Ah, what a tease. Many mag writers were surprised and delighted (and in some cases, disappointed) when a nominee list went up on the National Magazine Awards website Wednesday — way ahead of the previously-announced May 2 release date. But, alas, just as congratulatory tweets started flying, the NMA Foundation said the list wasn’t right.
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Toronto city staffers trash NOW’s near-nude Rob Ford issue
It didn’t take long for Toronto city staffers to react after copies of NOW Magazine’s March 31st edition hit Toronto City Hall newsstands. Staff were sent to scour City of Toronto locations, trashing every copy of the issue featuring the now infamous photoshopped pic of the Mayor. But did NOW also go too far?
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Gotcha!
Who says Canadians don’t have a sense of humour? It’s now after noon — the generally agreed-to expiry date for all April Fool’s pranks — in all of Canada. In honour of protecting our right to call ourselves a funny nation, J-Source presents a round-up of this year’s Canuck media pranks.
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Mayor’s brother bemoans Star’s “ruthlessness”
In the midst of a battle over reporters’ ease of access to Toronto City Hall, Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, Councillor Doug Ford, has accused the Toronto Star of being “ruthless” in its reporting. The paper’s offences apparently include filing too many access to information requests and “stalking” the Ford brothers’ 76-year-old mother.
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Now THIS is a job ad
And I want to work for this guy. It’s all here.
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Forget the Canadian angle; give me the news.
Last night (Feb. 24) after a tumultuous day in Libya, all three Canadian networks — CBC, CTV and Global — decided that the important story of the day was NOT an African people’s brave and bloody struggle for freedom, but rather how that revolution is inconveniencing Canadians. CTV led with higher gasoline prices at the…
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Charlie Sheen and Qaddafi Cant Resist Interviews
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Charlie Sheen are “addicted to explaining” themselves, writes the New York Times, like many politicians and celebrities who turn to the media to rehabilitate their public image.