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Paying attention: Another bizarre and alarming twist in the auditor general scandal
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Wednesday, January 09, 2013. Another bizarre and alarming twist in the auditor general scandal. The Times Colonist has a damaging story. On the decision not to reappoint John Doyle as auditor general. The devastating audit identified widespread sloppy management practices of MLA expenses and $63 million in legislature spending. Foster's staff provided only a spreadsheet showing $67,000 in work,...
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Paying attention: 05/03/2015 - 05/10/2015
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Wednesday, May 06, 2015. Six thoughts on that Alberta election. Six thoughts on the Alberta election. My dad at 90. Fourth, voters didn’t just ignore the warnings of doom from the corporate supporters of the Conservatives. Their presumption in assuming the right to tell people how to vote damaged Prentice. The four major daily newspapers. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A journal in haiku.
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Paying attention: In The Tyee - my piece on why journalists shouldn't be friends with the people they cover
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Saturday, March 07, 2015. In The Tyee - my piece on why journalists shouldn't be friends with the people they cover. Journalists: Never Befriend a Source. Columnist's athlete admission shows favourable coverage - not good reporting. Today, TheTyee.ca. A too-cozy relationship between a journalist and source hurts coverage. Flickr photo. How Journalists Invented Ethics. Once that's happened, you'...
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Paying attention: Public might blame both sides, but holds government responsible for inaction on strike
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Tuesday, September 09, 2014. Public might blame both sides, but holds government responsible for inaction on strike. Both sides are losing in the teachers’ dispute. The spin and counter-spin, PR gestures and ad campaigns aren’t moving the parties any closer to a deal. More and more people - as an informal sampling. By The Tyee suggested - are sick of both the BCTF and the government. But the go...
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Paying attention: 03/01/2015 - 03/08/2015
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Saturday, March 07, 2015. In The Tyee - my piece on why journalists shouldn't be friends with the people they cover. Journalists: Never Befriend a Source. Columnist's athlete admission shows favourable coverage - not good reporting. Today, TheTyee.ca. A too-cozy relationship between a journalist and source hurts coverage. Flickr photo. How Journalists Invented Ethics. Once that's happened, you'...
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Paying attention: 03/08/2015 - 03/15/2015
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Friday, March 13, 2015. Andrew Weaver, the National Post and media accountability. The National Post devoted just 160 words to the news it had lost a defamation suit launched by Victoria climate scientist and Green MLA Andrew Weaver and had to pay him $50,000. Even that brief report didn’t come until two days after other media reported the B.C. Supreme Court decision. The headline was “Cl...
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Paying attention: 04/12/2015 - 04/19/2015
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Thursday, April 16, 2015. Another bleak update for Postmedia, with a shark waiting to be leaped. It looks like Postmedia has moved into asset-strip mode, based on its latest quarterly report. Earnings before interest, depreciation and taxation were $190 million in 2011. This year, they will be about half that amount. The company is about two years away from being unable to meet the inte...CEO P...
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Paying attention: Letter from Leon: Battling the dust storms
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Sunday, March 08, 2015. Letter from Leon: Battling the dust storms. Looking from the square to the Iglesia el calvario on a sunny, dusty Saturday. When we said were heading to Leon once our Cuso International placements ended, our Nicaraguan co-workers warned us about the heat. They forgot to mention the dust storms. Our house has windows and doors that we can close. Lots of people, includi...
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Paying attention: 01/18/2015 - 01/25/2015
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Saanich, Atwell, online noise and big issues being ignored. Train wreck, gong show, circus - the clichés used to describe the municipal meltdown in Saanich, Victoria´s bigger suburban neighbour, have been piling up. Newly elected Mayor Richard Atwell is being likened to Toronto´s Rob Ford, always a bad sign. So far, that hasn’t happened this time. Social m...And tra...
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Paying attention: Another grim year for Postmedia, and what lies ahead
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Paul Willcocks on anything that strikes me as interesting. Click here to send me an email. willcocks@gmail.com. Saturday, October 26, 2013. Another grim year for Postmedia, and what lies ahead. It’s tough to pick the biggest problem for Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper company. And it’s just as hard to figure out where the corporation is going. The problem is that, in the last two years, revenue has already fallen by $147 million and Postmedia predicts more revenue losses in 2014. The cost-cutting t...