It’s official. Georgia Straight editor and publisher, Dan McLeod, has booted former news editor Charlie Smith out of his cublicle and onto the paper’s big desk as its editor. The change, which was noted on the Association of Alternative Weeklies website last friday, was made ‘official’ in today’s editon of Vancouver’s urban weekly.

For some decent government-sanctioned military photography/photojournalism, check out the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence Image Database and selected projects from the Canadian Forces’ Combat Camera section (the one chronicling some of Canada’s ‘citizen soldiers’ is especially cool).

The background Here’s another reason why newspapers have to embrace the web (as if there aren’t enough already): the Vancouver’s venerable Georgia Straight, a weekly, was beat by blogger Sean Holman’s report regarding B.C. Liberal Ted Nebbling’s upcoming run for Whistler’s mayorship. Newspapers, especially weeklies or twice-weeklies, must embrace not only the immediacy of the [...]

A Canadian Press report regarding Kelly Ellard’s newest appeal runs under the following headline: “Teen killer Kelly Ellard appeals murder conviction, seeks fourth trial” (it runs with a similar, “Teen killer launches appeal” on the Globe and Mail’s pickup). I understand that she was convicted, but headlines like this still seem dangerous. If this appeal [...]