Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'globeandmail'
June 18, 2008
Severed feet are turning up on beaches in British Columbia—this Monday, the fifth one in the past year floated onto Westham Island, south of Vancouver. It's the first left foot found in a sea of rights, and the gruesome mystery has provided fodder for many a news organization. This week, the Globe published two versions of the story onto their website: one in the British Columbia section and the other in National. The stories......
Continue Reading "The Globe's Afoot"May 14, 2008
Mathew Ingram, a technology writer for the Globe and Mail and has been on the tech beat for the last 17 years. Now he's sharing some of his knowledge as an organizer of MeshU, a web conference happening on May 20 where the brightest and shiniest tech brains will converge. Speakers include Daniel Burka, the designer behind Digg, and Leah Culver, a co-founder of Pownce. We spoke to Ingram about MeshU, how companies mess up......
Continue Reading "I Will Mesh U Up"March 31, 2008
The above video—not safe for work unless you're using headphones—was shot by the late Peter Walker and is a clip from Min Sook Lee's documentary Hogtown: The Politics of Policing (winner of the best Canadian feature prize at Hot Docs 2005). Uploaded to YouTube fewer than three weeks ago, it's been passed around online over the last few days, since being linked to by Toronto Life's Philip Preville in a Friday blog post. The......
Continue Reading "The Excoriation of John Barber by a Soured Rob Ford"