Marg Princess Warrior's greatest hits
In case you found it hard to understand the whole business of "Marg Princess Warrior" (in which a comedian/news reporter from the CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes dresses up like a middle-aged housewife...
View ArticlePetition to preserve the CBC's musical archive
Spider Robinson writes concerning a petition to rescue the 100,000 items from the musical archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that are in danger of being purged: "To waste the precious...
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Hunger-striking Bahraini dissident Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja near death; Formula...
Tuesday night's As It Happens program on CBC radio featured a segment on the terrible human rights situation in Bahrain, opening with an archive interview with Zainab Al-Khawaja, daughter of the...
View ArticleCatcopter artist explains all
In the event that you were wondering about the motives of the Dutch artist Bart Jansen, who attained notoriety by taxiderming his dead cat and retrofitting its corpse to serve as a quadcopter, wonder...
View ArticleCBC's flagship news program sold favorable coverage to the Harper government,...
Jesse Brown from the Canadaland podcast (RSS) writes: "CBC News has made a bad error in judgment. They sold news coverage to the Harper government, who were seeking publicity for a shipwreck salvaging...
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CBC threatens podcast app makers, argues that RSS readers violate copyright
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation publishes several excellent podcasts, notably the As It Happens feed; like every podcast in the world, these podcasts are available via any podcast app in the...
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The Kids in the Hall: An Oral History
The Kids in the Hall are Canada's greatest national export. Comprised of Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, and Mark McKinney, they were a comedy troupe that started out...
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Apple investigated by CBC News over Genius Bar repair policies and pricing
Through the use of hidden cameras, consulting with private computer repair joints, and chatting with right-to-repair advocates, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation has cast a very unflattering light on...
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CBC's longstanding tech columnist condemns the broadcaster's cozy...
Jesse Hirsh the CBC Toronto's longstanding and deservedly respected tech columnist, a fixture for many words, interpreting the tech news of the day for the public broadcaster's nonexpert audience,...
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Talking Radicalized on CBC's Day 6, with Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail
This morning, CBC's flagship weekend programme Day Six aired its latest episode (MP3), a conversation between host Brent Bambury, me, and Tim Maughan, the author of an outstanding debut novel called...
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CBC sues Canada's Conservative Party for using short debate clips in campaign...
Canada's Conservative Party is terrible, and it has terrible policies, and it will be terrible for Canada if they are elected. I already voted against them with my mail-in ballot. That said, the CBC...
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Radicalized makes the CBC's annual Canada Reads longlist
The Canadian Broadcasting Coporation's annual Canada Reads prize is one of Canada's top literary prizes, ranking with the Governor General's prize for prestige and reach; it begins early in January...
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Radicalized is a Canada Reads finalist, will be a graphic novel, and is...
My 2019 book Radicalized has been named one of the five finalists for Canada Reads, the CBC's annual book prize — Canada's leading national book award, alongside of the Governor General's award! My...
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CBC gets super pedantic about big waves in California
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation offers this delightfully pedantic critique of US newscasters calling California's big waves "rogue." The waves were very big last week in California. Some waves...
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