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Why is Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper courting American journalists when Canadian journalists, and our audience, are almost shut out?

B.C. journalist and blogger Sean Holman takes Peter Legge, publisher of B.C. Business Magazine, to task for an unabashed — and unannounced — promo of the politician Legge supports in the upcoming election.

CBC to cut up to 800 jobs, sell assets….

Mother Jones asked Michael Pollan about the transition to being the public face of food activism. His response: You still have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. When Obama announced his pick for agriculture secretary I was disappointed, and I said so in some interviews. I got calls from very prominent…

Charlie Smith of Vancouver’s Georgia Straight wondered whether libertarian columnist Terence Corcoran, for whom broadcast regulators (well, most regulators) were favourite targets, continued to excoriate the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission after CanWest took over his employer, the National Post. Noted Smith, “Corcoran found himself in the uncomfortable position where if he ripped into the…

Well, make that three photos. But the top one gets my vote. From the Silicon Alley Insider, photos by Noah Berger of AP.

B.C. community newspaper publisher David Black has enough faith in newspapers that he’s involved himself in bigger American leagues….

Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin: “To save journalism, bring on that Jon Stewart outrage…”

“The Daily Me” means going online as our own editor/gatekeeper, to select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. So what’s the problem?

Science journalism is in decline; science blogging is growing. The Science journal Nature looks at the issue — with a focus on the implications for science.