Category: ethics
The contentious issue of 905ers infiltrating and infesting Toronto
| October 7, 2009 | Posted by caroline under ethics, humour, lifestyle, on identity, storytelling |
Oh those 905ers. You’ve heard of them, you might know a few, you might have actually been one at some point…and they’re talked about far more than you notice. The term 905er has planted itself firmly in Toronto’s slang and in-the-cool jargon, especially in the downtown core. But what exactly is a 905er and why…
Canadian Internships, new grads from journalism get exploited
| July 27, 2009 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news |
Some months back, my journalist friends and I noticed a trend with “internships.” It was at the height of recession fear-mongering. Media agencies were dealing with their own financial reaction to the economy alongside the shift from traditional journalism to the web, desperately scrounging for revenue through new sources. So everyone was getting laid off.…
Canadian Immigration Minister: Jason Kenney’s flawed plans and threats
| March 24, 2009 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news, on identity, Uncategorized |
Kenney is promoting, if anything, the disappearance of diversity and 2nd generation identity in regards to ethnic roots/language. What’s next, are we resurrecting residential schools?
CJAD interview with Dan Delmar and the Internet Personality
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by caroline under ethics, internet, myself, on identity, storytelling, technology, Uncategorized |
As some of you may’ve heard, I was interviewed by Dan Delmar Friday night on CJAD radio, in Montreal. I love the guy, we go way back to j-school days at Concordia University, studying journalism. I mean, we are very different from each other in many ways but I think ultimately we share a strong…
older than america
| November 21, 2008 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, ethics, in the news, on identity, Uncategorized |
I have been in Winnipeg for the past few days, and finally had the chance to watch a movie from the Aboriginal Film Festival that opened here on the 19th of this month. With the booming native population in Canada, and Manitoba in particular, I thought this would be the ideal environment in which to…
Attention Span and Web Advertisements
| October 28, 2008 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news, internet, Uncategorized |
While reading a Forbes article (via CBC) on attention span and 10 things that erode our attentive abilities, I found myself bombarded by advertisements that would not even let me read the whole article! Talk about oxymorons!: http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/15/short-attention-span-forbeslife-cx_avd_1015health_slide_4.html?thisSpeed=15000 It’s only been in the past few weeks that I’ve really come face to face with these…
Online Marketing in Blogs
| September 23, 2008 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news, internet, technology, theories, Uncategorized |
As one of my web entrepreneur friends put it, in terms of whether the public can weed through the garbage online and figure out where the truth lies, “Generally speaking there is a 80 to 20 ratio on the Internet. 20% are intelligent and the 80% are computer illiterate. Thus they are idiots and will…
The Performance: Brecht, Montreal, Theatre and The Protest
| May 28, 2008 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, ethics, in the news, on identity, theories, Uncategorized |
Due to a lack of time and perhaps valuable inspiration, I am posting this essay I wrote last year that I found while crying poverty…tee hee — Four years ago, in 2003, one could enter Concordia University’s pub, Reggie’s, and be greeted by a barrage of cigarette smoke, wafts of beer-laced breath, and colourful political…
blog etiquette
| February 15, 2008 | Posted by caroline under ethics, internet, myself, technology, Uncategorized |
I’ve transferred a lot of my writing to a public blog. Maybe this isn’t the best way to begin a new venture, but I figure I’ll lay my cards out from the start. I’ve been writing blogs for years, hah, on those network sites most of the time for friends, and also on some official…
“whose” wrong?
| October 26, 2007 | Posted by caroline under ethics, storytelling, Uncategorized |
when the fist hits the shove, there’s something amiss, those curbs aren’t so kind when you’re saying goodbye..can trust be resolved? i think not.. we were at dominion, and the man in front of us caused a bit of a stir. he had two identical mastercards, and he asked the lady to try both of…
