Rogers’ owned News 1130 radio reports that David Black is poised to launch seven daily newspapers in Greater Vancouver. The report is curt and doesn’t confirm what targets Black has for the new papers. But scuttlebutt is that the new rags will spring from Black’s major weeklies. Black already owns about half of the weeklies [...]

One woman’s Welfare is another’s… Langley Liberal MLA Lynn Stephens is retiring from politics. She’s upset because she doesn’t get any severance pay for just retiring. So she’s running — as an independent — to lose. If she loses, she’ll get 14 months worth of severance, or one month for every year she’s been an [...]

It must have been a slow weekend for the Globe and Mail’s new B.C. columnist, Gary Mason. How slow you say? Saturday’s Globe and Mail featured nothing less than a profile of Kelowna-Mission MLA Sindi Hawkins (subscription link) under Mason’s byline. That’s right, it’s a profile of a single B.C. provincal government minister… of state [...]

When it comes to layout and photo choice, the same ethical standards should apply online as they do in print. This is a basic ethical mandate for the media — at least so long as objectivism remains a keystone of reporting general news stories. CanWest didn’t heed this call of duty when it posted a [...]