Twitter? What sort of name is that? How could I, with my lofty journalistic intentions possibly subscribe to a micro blogging site with such a silly name? Birds twitter (the feathered variety), twits twitter and so now do 6 million users- some of which have very impressive resumes.
Oh there I go again checking Facebook for the fourth time today. I feel vaguely guilty every time I do because I’m aware I’m feeding a rather pathetic addiction.
The social networking site has just celebrated its fifth year and I, like the 150 million others around the world, am hooked.
To participate in The Masticator’s reading week adventure, you will need the following items:
A bus pass
Seven dollars
A backpack big enough to hold six pounds of shrimp and eels
Courage, fortitude, and an adventurous palate
Sorry, what was that? You wanted to go to the Yucatan Peninsula? Well so did I. Unfortunately, my bank account had other ideas. [...]
Celebrity gossip reporting might be the garnish — a clipping of parsley, a side of horseradish — to the prime rib of investigative, enterprise and/or analytical journalism. We can’t live without the steak (vegetarians, stay with me for a moment), but although we can live sans quelque chose d’extra, life just might be better with [...]
The Granville Island brewery opened in 1984 on Vancouver’s Granville Island.
It is one of the first microbreweries in British Columbia and a major tourist attraction on the island, offering tours throughout the day.
Miné Salkin and Alexis Stoymenoff went behind the scenes to learn how the beers are made. Watch the audio slideshow:
Vancouver-based musician Matt Good thinks Olympic money would be much better spent on poverty relief in the Downtown Eastside.
He’s certainly not alone. With a crumbling world economy, growing city debt and increasingly visible street poverty, it’s no surprise many Vancouver residents are reconsidering their support for the two-week, $6 billion event.
But despite extensive criticism, the [...]
Al-Jazeera will soon be coming to a Canadian television near you.
This is the network’s second Canadian coming (I’ll get to that) and I like to think it will bode well for news organizations and journalists in our country. I have high hopes for Al-Jazeera English in Canada because the global network, according to their own [...]
Who is Peter Kent? Known to many because of his background as a journalist, (or as a talking head, as some call him), he shot out on the political scene in English Canada as Israel bombed Gaza to bits.
Kent is Canada’s junior minister for foreign affairs. After the holiday lull, he cut his teeth [...]
My father always had a very clear idea of what he wanted for me. He never gave up the idea that I was going to return to Taiwan for work after getting as much Canadian education as possible. In my father’s prediction, I would learn English, go to a prestigious university, be the first woman [...]
British Columbia’s economy could suffer another multi-million dollar loss this winter, but if it does, the global financial crisis won’t be to blame.
Honeybees, which have an annual impact of approximately $250 million on BC’s economy, experienced a significant drop in winter survival rates over the past few years, declining 38 per cent in 2008. That’s [...]
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