Q&A: Buck 65
An interview with CBC Radio 2 host Rich Terfry about his hip hop alter ego
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Editor’s Note
I find radio and television advertising irritating. It’s intrusive and often insulting (are twentysomethings really as empty headed as they appear in Budweiser commercials?). Newspaper advertisements are less annoying—if you …
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This Is Your Life
Timeline, Facebook’s latest bid to keep you in its grasp, is unsettling—and unexpectedly beautiful
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My guide in matters pertaining to journalism is A.J. Liebling who, from 1946 to 1963, wrote a column in The New Yorker called The Wayward Press. (He also wrote Between …
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Giving Offence
Gavin McInnes co-founded Vice magazine. As it got big, he got ousted
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The assassination of Osama bin Laden by United States Navy SEALs on May 1 was first reported on Twitter. At 9:45 p.m., White House communications director Daniel Pfeiffer alerted the …
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Divine Inspiration
How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and finest thinkers
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Crime rates have been declining in Canada for decades, as a result of demographics rather than policy initiatives. Here, as in other countries, most crimes are committed by young men, …
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Editor’s Note
In the early 1980s, I was the publisher of Saturday Night, a magazine much like The Walrus. Founded in 1887 as a weekly newspaper, it thrived between the two world …
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Station Break
The dawn of private broadcasting
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