Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'onnovember'
November 23, 2007
Dual protests are set for tomorrow afternoon in Vancouver and Toronto in an effort to maintain media awareness of the misuse of force by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that led to the death of Robert Dziekanski, captured on video by a witness. The video, since viewed (in its various incarnations) by millions of people, documents a confused and clearly agitated Dziekanski sweating and pacing until a fatal confrontation with four RCMP officers killed......
Continue Reading "Taser Terror "November 5, 2007
In June, 200 media professionals, producers, activists and academics packed into a Bathurst Street studio for a party celebrating the launch of a new English-language global news and documentary network, The Real News. If building an international news network from scratch doesn’t sound mind-boggling-ly ambitious to you, consider this: Real News CEO Paul Jay is promising to accomplish this feat without corporate, government or advertising dollars. This makes The Real News the world’s first......
Continue Reading "Real News The Real Deal"October 21, 2005
On November 30, As It Happens will not be happening as we've known it for the past eight years. Mary Lou Finlay is leaving the position of regular host to become an unregular freelancer. Some people care, others don't.......
Continue Reading "Toodle Doo, Mary Lou"