Category Archives: Media Watch

The Comedic & Cartoon Minority

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Hollywood Reporter Reviews in Review

Astro Boy: “among the year’s best” Fantastic Mr. Fox: “too sly for its own good” Where the Wild Things Are: “uninvolving adaptation”
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So Happy Together

Very often people oddly put books against the internet…I love them. You don’t throw away your books when you buy a computer. You keep both. The beauty of living in the present day is you don’t abandon the past. The past co-exists. —Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry: The internet and Me | BBC News Magazines are my happy [...]
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Area Woman Found Buying Groceries

[QUEENS COUNTY, NS] Missing Liverpool woman found in Sobeys: Queens RCMP located a missing Liverpool woman in Sobeys grocery store June 4 shortly after 6:30 p.m. Queens detachment NCO Staff Sgt. Bruno Deveau said, “For herself, she was never lost but her family was concerned. She was found in Sobeys in Liverpool after making a [...]
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Hanging up on the Pom Phone

The Pomegranate phone is the thrust of a $300 000 “viral” marketing campaign by the Province of Nova Scotia to lure ex-pats back home. It features a mythical mobile phone that can do all sorts of useful things (that actual cell phones can do nowadays) plus some extra “out there” features like a harmonica and [...]
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Grow One

Win a Power Lunch* and a feature story – on you – in Backbone and an iPhone or a Blackberry *with Dave Chalk, technology expert and our editor, Peter Wolchak From a recent call from Backbone magazine to get it’s readers to fill out a survey. Very interesting approach, it you expect your readers to understand [...]
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It’s Not Greek To Me

I tend to impervious to advertising in my life but some blogs are a-buzz with a controversial Greek BMW Premium Used Car ad that features a very young looking girl in a very sexually suggestive fashion. I must say the content is offensive to me (and the reason I am not re-posting the image), but [...]
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Newfie Stroke

This story just disappeared/reappeared on the CBC website: Ontario woman gains East Coast accent following stroke Old file name: newfie-stroke.html New file name: stroke-accent.html
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The Horrors of Gambling

Man pushes luck, falls off casino’s parking garage | Chronicle Herald A man was injured after falling from the third level of the Casino Nova Scotia parkade just before midnight Saturday. Witnesses told Halifax Regional Police the 23-year-old and another man were “fooling around,” running through the Upper Water Street parking garage. The man jumped onto a car, [...]
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In Defense of Oprah

Ok, well not exactly. I have accidently caught a few episodes here and there, but I don’t think I will ever really be able to forgive her for The Secret. I just want to apply some credit-where-credit-is-due because quite a few blogs have jumped on The Flip’s success and I just think it becomes less [...]
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