News and Politics with a Local Voice
Mystery solved! If only crop circles were that easy. After making an international media splash last week, the curious case of the Toronto tunnel was resolved this morning when Toronto Police announced that two unidentified men had come forward claiming responsibility for creating the 10-metre long construct for “personal reasons.” Too long; didn’t read – they were building a man-cave Continue reading “Secret of the Toronto Tunnel Solved”
In case you miss our interview with Charlie Angus on this past week’s Open Sources Guelph, you can play it here for your listening pleasure… Continue reading “Open Sources Interview with Charlie Angus”
Terror. Now that we have your attention, it’s time to talk about this week’s Open Sources Guelph. After being made afraid of going to the mall and digging holes, we’ll talk to someone afraid of four more years of Harper. Then, after the break, we’ll be afraid for our friends in the First Nation community with another scary development, and then we’ll see if we should be afraid of talking about S-E-X in front of the C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N. In other words: be afraid, be very afraid. Continue reading “Open Sources Show Notes for Thursday February 26, 2015”
Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper has been an award season sensation, and a box office success, but it’s not come without controversy. The partisan politics of Sniper have been well-documented in the weeks since its release, and where there’s complex political concerns, there’s the opportunity for satire. Enter the folks at Cannibal Milkshake. In much the same spirit as other cultural mockery efforts like The Simpsons and “Canadian Graffiti,” these comedians have seen the opportunity to use the controversy to strike comedic gold, and the result can now be seen on a You Tube near you. Prepare for the gut-wrenching drama and behold the soul-crushing moral divide in war with Canadian Sniper.
Continue reading “Get Patriotic With “Trailer” for ‘Canadian Sniper’”
This week’s episode of Open Sources Guelph will feature a mixed bag of issues from startling acts of violence, to the future federal election, to the demise of a would-be media giant. It’s a tricky balance discussing the incredibly sad news of people being killed to the still sad, but kind of schadenfreude-y, conversation about the passing of Sun News, but to parapharase a great news anchor, that’s the kind of week it’s been. From Copenhagen, to Halifax, to right here on our own backyard, the Royal City, it’s been another busy seven days in the news. Continue reading “Open Sources Show Notes for Thursday February 19, 2015”
The untimely demise of Sun News Network Friday left about 200 media professionals out of work, which is sad considering the current sorry state of the media business. Still, if Sun News is looking for someone to blame for their fortunes, then they need only to look in a mirror. True, the lack on any desire on the part of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) to make Sun News mandatory for national cable boxes might have had something to do with it too, but for the most part, here are the 10 reasons why Sun News bombed. Continue reading “10 Reasons Why Sun News Network Failed”
On this day in 1990, the Voyager I space probe, the only man-made object to so far to leave our solar system and travel into interstellar space, took a series of photographs commonly referred to as “The Family Portrait.” On the suggestion of astronomer Carl Sagan, NASA turned the cameras on Voyager around as it flew past Pluto to look at our solar system from its outer end. At a distance of about 6 billion kilometers from Earth, on February 14, 1990, Voyager I made history again. Continue reading ““Pale Blue Dot” Turns 25 Today!”
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