From John Ibbitson’s Globe and Mail [online] column today: “Balls, the opposition replied…” The head reads, “Historic ruling to bestow supremacy on either Parliament or PM”, but talk about opinion writing that jumps off the page — at least in Canada, where so much such penmanship is as drab as the newsprint it falls on. [...]

Web stories are, given the immediacy of the Net’s news cycle, prone to typos. That’s still no excuse for poor headline writing — especially when it can carry sexual innuendo. The CBC’s story about a Canadian general’s unauthorized firearm discharge can read like it was written by Bevis or Butthead, and never considered how it [...]

The following is a filed story with a local media outlet from August 2007, shortly after B.C. MLA’s approved significant pay raises for themselves. The editor of the outlet at the time refused to publish the story, citing its “irrelevance” and stale-datedness during the dog days of that year. That the House which was to [...]

Some time recently, the Globe and Mail appears to have changed its hyphen-use style to make it commonly pervasive in every report’s prose. To wit, whereas a $100-million deficit would amount to $100 million, it now reads ‘$100-million’ — modifier, modifying, or not — mostly across the board. An example story: here. To be honest, [...]