Forward halt!

The Mozilla Foundation, the people behind the wildly successful open-source browser Firefox, is spinning off a for-profit corporation. The first sign? They’re using a particular phrase in no less than five of their FAQs: “going forward”. As in,...

(Focus) tested in battle

BBC News: New name for ‘war on terror’ Confidential focus group report To: Karl Rove Re.: Rebranding exercise Note to Karl: This thing actually is confidential, okay? It’s not like the identity of a CIA operative; this is serious business here. Focus...

The Telus firewall

While Telus cries foul over cable-cutting in its labour dispute, the company has been snipping a few virtual wires of its own. …Specifically, the connections leading to at least two web sites critical of the company. If you want to check out their perspective,...

Help wanted.

As Rick Mercer points out, one of the top speechwriting gigs in the country is up for grabs: The writing fraternity in Canada is abuzz with talk that the Prime Minister’s speechwriter, Scott Feschuck, has decided to vacate his post. This means that for the first...

Vancouver Courier on Rob on speechwriting

The Vancouver Courier has a big front-page article by Brandon Yip on speechwriting, interviewing folks like Tim Porteous (who wrote for Pierre Trudeau during those heady early years at the end of the 1960s), Libby Davies, Bill Vander Zalm, Hedy Fry, and recovering...
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