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    Radio-Canada suspend Jacques Languirand

    Le directeur général de la radio de Radio-Canada, Patrick Beauduin, a annoncé ce matin la suspension du contrat de Jacques Languirand qui devait animer, cet automne, son émission Par 4 chemins pour la 41e année consécutive.

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    CBC Radio’s Kathleen Petty delays Calgary move due to illness

    Kathleen Petty was just about to leave Ottawa, after five years of hosting CBC Radio's The House and the local morning show, to move back to Calgary, when she announced she's staying in Ottawa to deal with a “significant health challenge”. Petty told Ottawa listeners she went public with her news because said she was…

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    Piraté, LeDevoir.com annonce la mort de Jean Charest

    Le site du Devoir a été la cible de pirates informatiques au cours de la nuit. À 1h09 du matin, un court texte annonçant la mort du Premier ministre Jean Charest a été publié en manchette, semant la pagaille sur les réseaux sociaux et dans les salles de rédaction.

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    La radio de Radio-Canada se renouvelle de l’intérieur

    Curiosité, audace, ouverture, passion et insolence. C'est le ton que la radio de Radio-Canada a souhaité donner à sa programmation automne-hiver 2011-2012 lancée ce matin. Au programme, des classiques comme la tribune de Pierre Maisonneuve et le retour à la maison de Michel Désautels, mais aussi 11 nouvelles émissions portées par presque autant de nouvelles…

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    More than five questions for Michael Hlinka

    We talk to Michael Hlinka, who reports on business issues of the day for CBC's Metro Morning, about the abysmal coverage of the latest installment of the U.S. debt crisis, political bias in business reporting, and the questions journalists are missing.

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    Policing the borders means policing Canadian journalism?

    Moments before Canada's Immigration Minister Jason Kenney delivered an important speech, Rabble journalist David P. Ball was kicked out of the press conference — despite having a press invite and the complimentary cookie they gave him in hand. This story originally appeared on Rabble.ca.

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    Fanning the flames of intolerance

    In framing Nycole Turmel's affiliation with the Bloc as a scandal, writes Nick Van der Graaf, The Globe and Mail revealed the dangerous nationalist underbelly of Canadian politics. This story was originally published in The Mark, and a version of it also appeared on Van der Graaf's blog.

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    Former NHL-er Alex Kovalev takes shots at Ottawa hockey media

    Former Ottawa Senator hockey player Alex Kovalev may have moved on to a two-year contract with the KHL, but he's not done with Ottawa yet. Kovalev gave an interview with Pavel Lysenkov of Sovetsky Sport recently and  had plenty to say about Ottawa sports journalists.

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    How business journos use the internet and social media

    A whopping 98 per cent of business journalists use the internet to read news, according to a new U.S. study by Arketi, a PR and marketing firm based in Atlanta. Maybe that's no big surprise. What about this: nearly as many also use it search for story sources and ideas.