One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 8 March 2005

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Italy Mourns Intel Officer Killed in Iraq (AP)

AP - Italy paid homage Monday to an intelligence officer killed by U.S. fire in Iraq while escorting an ex-hostage to freedom, with a state funeral in a Rome basilica drawing as many as 20,000 mourners — some bringing flowers, some waving flags — and all of the country's top officials.
[Via Yahoo! News - World]

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School warns: hit your son or he's out

Boy, 6, suspended from Christian school near Chicago after his mother refused to hit him for misbehaving.
[Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest]

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Mary-Ann Stephenson: Bush against women's right

Comment: Bush's America is waging a global battle against women's rights, writes Mary-Ann Stephenson.
[Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest]

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US names outspoken hawk as new UN ambassador

European hopes that the Bush administration would bring a more multilateral approach to its foreign policy dealt a blow.
[Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest]

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Out in the cold

Interview: Twenty years after perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev is troubled by US plans for the Arab world.
[Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] 'All day, amid the wooden paneling, marble busts and gold-framed portraits of Turin's military club, hosting the event, this steam-roller of a man has greeted a constant stream of admirers and flashing cameras, hardly stopping for breath.

Surrounded by many more wrinkly and frail contemporaries, some fiddling with hearing aids and canes, he looks strong and energetic He is dressed in a plain, dark suit with a blue striped tie and gold watch. His face is calm and strong. It hasn't changed much in the past 15 years except the double chin is slightly more noticeable and the hair on either side of the trademark wine-coloured birthmark has retreated and turned pure white.'

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Sony's New CEO Shows Japan Is Opening Up (AP)

AP - First it was Mazda, then Nissan. Now it's Sony. Some of the biggest names in once notoriously insular corporate Japan have tapped foreigners as leaders, underlining a new flexibility shaped by globalization and years of economic malaise.
[Via Yahoo! News - World]

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Montreal: car theft capital

Montreal is the North American capital of vehicle theft. It's the combo of motorcycle gangs and the convenient port that does it.
[Via montreal city weblog]

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RCMP operation called 'failure' of supervision

"Based on my many, many years of experience in both rural Alberta and elsewhere as an operational police officer, this was a failure," said Kitteringham, who spent 21 years in Alberta during his 39-year career with Canada's national police force.
[Via CBC | Canadian News]

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Radio stations in Montreal, air and online

Found a useful list of radio stations in and around Montreal, and in many cases their online-listening links as well.
[Via montreal city weblog]

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Morissette, Sutherland among Canada's Walk of Fame inductees
Others to be honoured include Anka, Chuvalo and Lanois
[Via The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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At Sony, Diplomacy Trumps Technology

Sony's new chief, Sir Howard Stringer, will have plenty of knots to untangle, including deep-seated conflicts between Sony's technology and entertainment businesses.
[Via New York Times: Technology]

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100 Definitive CDs...

Norman Lebrecht's weekly look at the 100 definitive recordings. This week, Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915.
[Via LaScena-Features]

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CBC Arts: Mexican soap crosses Canadian border
”A cast and crew of about 50 – joined by Mexican media covering the trip to Canada – will spend the week filming four episodes in Calgary, Banff and Lake Louise. The whole trip has been amazing, said executive producer Pedro Damain.

"It's going to be so good because in Mexican television, you never have this kind of atmosphere [and] landscape," he said. "We always [film] it on the beach or a forest, but never in the snow so it's going to be fantastic."

The trip, spearheaded and partially funded by the Canadian Tourism Commission in Mexico City, is meant to spark an interest in Rebelde's predominantly young audience to visit Canada.”

More Mexicans in Banff? Canucks, prepare your hearts!

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There are four titles currently available in the CBC Records catalogue with Comissiona conducting.

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Disk and broadcast systems battle it out

Analysis Over the past 20 years, the potential of high definition (HD) has seen development in a number of interlinked fields - broadcasting, consumer electronics and pre-packaged content.…

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Mark Frauenfelder @ Boing Boing Blog

U.N. landmine commerical won't air in US.

A U.N. commercial depicts American girls playing in a soccer match. A girl steps on a landmine and there's a big explosion. Kids get blown apart. CNN and other networks don't want to air the ad.

The explosion appears to kill and injure some girls, sparking panic and chaos among parents and other children. Shrieks of horror are heard through much of the spot, and a father is shown cradling his daughter's lifeless body, moments after celebrating a goal she had scored.

It closes with a tag line reading: "If there were landmines here, would you stand for them anywhere? Help the U.N. eradicate landmines everywhere."

You can view the ad here. (Here's a torrent file). Link and another Link

Joi Ito: You can say landmine all you want, but a video has impact beyond words. I really think that video blogging will evolve into an important part of our dialog. I wish more news agencies would provide us with material to use to create citizen video commentary. Maybe CNN can ban it, but we can still distribute it on the Internet.

Pass it on.

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