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Net legend Doc Searls has published a passionate warning: the Internet as a commons is in grave, immediate danger. Do you believe a free and open market should be “Your choice of walled garden” or “Your choice of silo”? That’s what the...Follow-up: Inspector’s report slams conservative interference at public broadcaster
To one of our commenters, Kenneth Tomlinson — the disgraced former chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — is an innocent man just trying to get at the truth. Well, not according to the corporation’s inspector general: A report by the...Transit in Ottawa, where the price is wrong
Talk about your golden tickets — Vicky Smallman reports on the latest transit fare hike in our nation’s capital: Pretty soon Ottawa riders will be paying more to take the bus than anyone else in Canada. As of December 1, cash fares will be $3. $3!!!!!...CPAC is ready to feed your iPod’s politics addiction
Political geeks — er, make that “civic-minded Canadians” — have a new resource to while away the hours between poring over riding boundaries and poll-by-poll results. CPAC, the Canadian Public Affairs Channel, is now offering some of its...Pink Triangle Services: decline and fall of an Ottawa institution
My brother Mike has been ably chronicling the sad, slow-motion implosion of Ottawa’s Pink Triangle Services: Despite a plunge in community donations and a depleted budget surplus, the head of Pink Triangle Services is blaming a recent public controversy on...
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Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
