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Truthdig Jul 21, 2008

The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of news print with the lightning speed of the Internet. It does not signal an inevitable and salutary change. It is not a form of progress. The decline of newspapers is about the rise of the corporate state, the loss of civic and public responsibility on the part of much of our entrepreneurial class and the intellectual poverty of our post-literate world, a world where information is conveyed primarily through rapidly moving images rather than print. (Keep reading…)

Georgia Straight       July 17, 2008

  In June 2007, the Palestine Media Collective produced a newspaper parody of the Vancouver Sun that satirized CanWest’s anti-Palestinian bias with articles such as “Study Shows Truth Biased Against Israel” by Cyn Sorsheep. Six months later, CanWest Mediaworks Publications Inc. launched a lawsuit against those “conspiring” to produce and distribute the parody. The original writ named Mordecai Briemberg, Horizon Publications, and six Jane and John Does. (Keep reading…)

Uptown May 22, 2008

The Canadian Armed Forces rebrands itself with video game-like recruitment ads - but Marlo Campbell wonders what exactly they’re selling (Keep reading…)

Georgia Straight
May 8, 2008

The defendants in a lawsuit brought by CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. over a Vancouver Sun parody got support this week from a magazine editor who knows much about satire and getting sued. (Keep reading…)

rabble.ca
May 5, 2008

Last year, peace activist Mordecai Briemberg was served with a lawsuit by CanWest. The charge? Producing a fake edition of CanWest’s Vancouver Sun, and infringing upon the company’s trademark related rights in the process. The four-page parody, produced by a group calling itself the “Palestine Media Collective,” focused on what they perceived to be biased media coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict in the Vancouver newspaper. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail April 9, 2008

Some of the biggest guns in Canada’s creative community - including Oscar-nominated actor/writer Sarah Polley - are heading to Ottawa tomorrow to protest against a controversial provision on film and TV tax credits now before the Senate banking committee. (Keep reading…)

Toronto Star March 22, 2008

As we speak, Canada is quietly negotiating away rights to our water. The cloak-and-dagger dealings mirror the subject of a critically acclaimed CBC series that was dropped late last year. Coincidence? (Keep reading…)

Press Release

In early June 2007 a satirical edition of “The Vancouver Sun” newspaper, a mass circulation daily in the province of British Columbia (Canada), was produced and copies distributed. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail Update February 7, 2008

This week, in a government building in Gatineau, Que., our federal broadcasting regulator meets to hear arguments from broadcasters, filmmakers, actors, television producers, cable companies and other players in Canada’s TV business. (Keep reading…)