Page 84 - Michael Geist News Today

Daniel Wood Has Months to Live. So the Writer Sent out a Funny Postcard It’s typical of the acclaimed journalist who’s made Vancouver his base for a world of stories. Heather Pringle has written four books and many hundreds of magazine articles for publications as diverse as National Geographic, Scientific American and Discover magazine. Based in Victoria, she is an editor emerita at Hakai magazine. SHARES ‘On a journey among Mongolia’s nomads in the Khorido...

The federal government will give the CRTC nine months to force international streaming giants to contribute to Canadian content.

We’re hiring a newsletter specialist, audience development analyst, and office co-ordinator. Check it out and spread the word!

Michelle Cyca: How would you describe your literary tastes? Jen Sookfong Lee: I mostly read novels — my favourites are really immersive novels that have a lot of different layers in terms of setting and character, and all those fictional elements. I look for something that will suck me in and not let me go. The last one was Songs for the End of the World by Saleema Nawaz, which is a pandemic novel. Oddly, she wrote it before any of this happened. It’s not that she was predicting the futur...

4 Min Read OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada vowed on Thursday to make Facebook Inc pay for news content, seeking allies in the media battle with tech giants and pledging not to back down if the social media platform shuts off the country’s news as it did in Australia. FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Facebook blocked all Australian news content on its service over proposed legislation requir...

Forty Years of Failure to Curb Media Monopolies A 1981 commission set out a plan to protect the public interest. It was ignored, and the Postmedia-Torstar machinations show we’re paying a high price. Taylor C. Noakes is an independent journalist, public historian and part-time iconoclast originally from Montreal. SHARES Torstar and Postmedia swapped 41 newspapers and immediately closed all but six in November 2017, without any consequences from the Competition Bur...

Documents from axed Competition Bureau probe appear to contradict Postmedia CEO. Bryan Carney reports on privacy, technology and freedom of information and is director of web production at The Tyee. You can follow his very occasional tweets at @bpcarney. SHARES Postmedia executive chair Paul Godfrey was the news giant’s president and CEO in 2017 when he said neither side of the newspaper swap knew that the other side planned cuts. Photo: Nathan Denette, The Canadi...

Francesca Ekwuyasi’s Butter Honey Pig Bread is the story of a fractured family: twins Taiye and Kehinde, who grew distant after a traumatic incident, and their troubled, dreamy mother Kambirinachi. Taiye, a queer chef living in Halifax, distracts herself with sex and partying to avoid confronting her guilt over the “bad thing” that happened to her sister. Kehinde, in Montreal, blossoms as an artist, falls in love and marries. After years of separation, both sisters return home to Lagos, ...

Andrea Smith, our second fellow, was nominated for a national Canadian Association of Journalists award for her Tyee work and continues to freelance for The Tyee. Jamin Mike, our third fellow, was also nominated for a national Canadian Association of Journalists award for his work. He is now an associate publicist at the House of Anansi. (Find our interview on his experience in our newsroom here.) “The Tyee was a great place to train as an Indigenous reporter because of the excellent mentors ...

Canada joins Australia in its unfriendly contest with Facebook PUBLISHED BY The spat between Facebook and some countries asking social media companies to pay up to publish or link news content on its social media platform has escalated with Canada joining the fray. Canada said it wants Facebook to pay for news content and said it would not back down if it shut down services in the country as it has already done in Australia. Facebook has blocked all sharing and posting of news on its site in A...