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Playing dirty

Coming clean on climate-change spin—how the PR industry sold the ‘made in Canada’ solution to global warming
By Zoe Cormier [Read more]

Lost in the bathtub

Editor’s Note By Jessica Johnston [Read more]

The internet: a survival guide

Everything you need to know to waste your time on the World Wide Web
By Richard Poplak [Read more]

What’s The Frequency, Gwyneth?

Why more women’s voices are being broadcast on community radio
By Nicole Cohen


THIS & THAT

Queen Bee-I-T-C-HCanadian Daily Show correspondent hasn’t lost her stingBy Charles Demers

Canadian Broadcasting Corpse?Cash-strapped CBC obliged to rethink its prioritiesBy Vanessa Milne

Blog LogThis time around: journalism blogsBy Ron Nurwisah

Number One ThreatYour pee is toxicBy Hannah Renglich

Progressive DetectiveHow to make Fluffy a vegetarian

Harper IndexBy Matthew Elliot

And Now A Word From Our SponsorHow PR gets onto TV newsBy Tim Querengesser

Whose Space?Taking over a social networking space is harder than it looksBy Tim Querengesser

Dateline RwandaFree the presses!By Blake Lambert

The Dominion: Someday Its Print May ComeBy Mason Wright

And Then There Were Two...CHUM takeover gets mixed reviewsBy Hannah Renglich

Wal-Mart’s War On WagesUS big-box retailer takes surprising stance on staff payBy Ellen Russell

The Other OneThe ultimate media monopoly showBy Terence Dick

FICTION & POETRY: THE GREAT CANADIAN LITERARY HUNT 2006

Pick up the September/October issue to read this year’s winning entries. They won’t be available online, so don’t delay!

The Montreal Trip Fiction 1st place By Mary Thaler

Hapless Girl with a Port Wine Stain on Her Left Cheek Fiction 2nd place By P.R. Barr

More Fruit Fiction 3rd place By Wendy Brandts

In Praise of Beauty Poetry 1st place By Sean Horlor

A Recently Rediscovered Note from a Girlfriend Poetry 2nd place By James Harbeck

My Parents’ Past Poetry 3rd place By Leslie Vryenhoek

What We Do With It Poetry honourable mention By Jessica Block

ARTS & IDEAS

Making AirwavesRadio artist redefines the mediumBy Saara Liinamaa

It Takes A Hip-hop VillageMontreal collective goes globalBy Julia De Laurentiis Johnson

Print For PrisonersZine targets jailed activistsBy Liz Worth

Google Never ForgetsA cautionary taleBy Max Fawcett

Read This The Fighter, by Craig Davidson. Review by Holland Gidney
Social Acupuncture: A Guide to Suicide, Performance and Utopia, by Darren O’Donnell. Review by Peter McCamus
Types of Canadian Women, Volume II, by K.I Press. Review by Nicholas Bradley

Hear This: Off the Beaten Track Reviews by Christine Davidson
the beige, 01 (Independent)
Andre Ethier, Secondathallam (Paper Bag Records)
The Dears, Gang of Losers (Arts & Crafts)

Punk Begins At 50Nomeansno takes the show on the roadBy Allan MacInnis

Back StoryFlunking Out The SchoolsWeb watchdogs target university brandsBy David Tough



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