Locked-out CBC employees are doin' their own thing, with podcasting!

the story: http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2005/08/22/CBCUnplugged/

the site: http://www.cbcunplugged.com/

Can anyone suggest their favorite online alternative news sources? Canadian/American and/or world focus, left-leaning.

Thanks!

woah, i've been translated!

( Au cœur du trafic : Le sujet-agent dans les structures de l’automobilité urbaine )

JY and Stef and I went to New York last weekend. This was exciting, because I've never been there. We spent most of our time walking around Manhattan, which was kind of exactly like Toronto, except enormous, contained (on an island, as opposed to Toronto's infinite sprawl) and friendlier. Strangers talk to you, even on the subway, which never ( Read more... )

"Silence is a memory, solitude a white wire."
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A modest proposal, in case anyone is intersted. Its for a course on Theoretical Approaches to Media and Culture: Theories of Identity and Subjectivity...
( Problem Bodies on New Frontiers: Floating Cyborgs and the Discursive Construction of Space Travel )

Look at this story. If you click the "View Photogallery" link in the middle of the text, you see pictures of the locations where a girl was sexually abused and photographed. The police have digitally removed the girl from the photos, leaving only vague ghostly remnants in place of her abused body.

Florida hotel identified as scene of child porn ( Read more... )

I just watched Woody Harrelson's Go Further (Dir. Ron Mann) with Lori and Megan.  Activist communication strategy-rule No. 1: do not make what you are doing look like a cult.

And although I fully respect and accept their message, that lifestyle politics is a crucial part of any struggle for change, the whole let's-hold-hands-in-a-circle-and-eat-raw ( Read more... )

Matt and I realised that the stamp he found in his collection is indeed not the same as the one from the poster.

So just forget it. The project if off.

Sorry, KT.

(P.S. 6:28 am on December 28th and I have just printed off the 23 pages that is my cultural studies masterpiece, "Caught in Traffic? Subject-agency in the Structures of Urban

If one were to refer to my lj entry from December 19th, I mentioned a poster Lori and I found on Brunswick Ave., which, using my almost preternatural googling skills, I determined was a print based on a Soviet postage stamp from 1965 commemorating of the first extravehicular spacewalk. I also posted an image of the original stamp ( Read more... )