On 6-7, evil-doing satirists spoofed one of Canwest Global's shining towers of truth -- the Vancouver Sun newspaper. Canwest, Canada's largest media company, has launched a Global War on Satire to ensure that...
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The Vancouver Sun is debuting a redesign tomorrow. This is the first time in nearly nine years that the paper has implemented a complete redesign of its format and layout. The new design includes a change of typography, headlines, layout, and in turn, the general vibe...
created by Blaine Metzgar | 34 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago 158 views | 13 recommendations | 2 comments
Earlier this week I wrote a brief story about a West Vancouver mother, Trina Campbell, who was outraged after discovering a gay porn magazine called BUTT in the backback of a display mannequin at the American...
opinion by Tina Kells | 41 wks ago | updated 41 wks ago 1144 views | 14 recommendations | 4 comments
The Vancouver Sun published a set of predictions this year and they included the words of Andrew Keen, notorious skeptic of the amateur. When he's not drumming up controversy to peddle his book about the...
opinion by mtippett | 43 wks ago | updated 43 wks ago 92 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
I am following up on the Open Letter to VANOC from Social Media Makers with a few notes as well as an invitation to continue the conversation with VANOC over a tasty beverage. The letter has made its way around the world with Twitters, comments, blog posts, and personal...
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Frances Bula has a new blog. Bula, a former Vancouver Sun reporter, now writes “The State of Vancouver,” a blog that serves up drama, comedy and character, and only occasionally slides into the dryly...
CanWest is going after the publisher who parodied the Vancouver Sun. According to the website supporting the parodist:"In early June, 2007, a parody of The Vancouver Sun newspaper was produced and copies...
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"The largest owner of Canadian newspapers, Canwest, has bought up the rights to the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Games to become the “Official Newspaper Chain of the 2010″.The deal includes all...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 341 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
This is a letter I recently wrote a fellow Director of the Board at the Carnegie Centre. He had written to the board asking for information about the barring of another Board Member, William Simpson, from the...
created by Rachel Davis | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 550 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Top News Executive A Director of St.Paul's Hospital Foundation
After Ms. Semin Ilman, a cancer patient, died under questionable circumstances at Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital, the family...
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On Friday November 09, 2007 Daphne Bramhman wrote
an article in the Vancouver Sun,
Lest we forget the stateless war brides
and their kids
in which she observed, in part, that:
"
For the past 60 years, Canadian war brides and
their children have believed that...
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After a career as a Vancouver Sun reporter spanning 25 years, Bob Sarti has admitted that he did not always let the facts get in the way of a good story. "But that's the way it was/is in the mainstream media," Sarti wrote in a letter published...
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Social Columnist Malcolm Parry reports on social happenings in Vancouver. His latest edition points to the unique Urban Mixer speed dating event happening next week featuring a "tiny fleet of smart cars".
The data is mostly from the late 1990s, and includes information on sexual abuse, HIV status and mental illness. The data tapes were sold under the direction of the B.C. Ministry of Labour in July 2005.
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