Media relations specialist. Former journalist @CTVNews and elsewhere.
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Don't trust the water.
It's a lesson children are taught from a young age in Six Nations of the Grand River.
That's just daily life in this community — despite a state-of-the-art treatment plant that opened a decade ago.
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The Municipality of South Bruce, a collection of Ontario farm towns about a 40-minute drive from Canada's largest nuclear power plant, has set the table for an historic vote on whether it will host a nuclear waste dump. cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/n… .
I'm old enough to remember 2021, when Bell was heavily criticized for laying off 200+ media employees one week after #BellLetsTalk Day.
Wonder how that experience informed this year's decision to wait until two weeks after #BellLetsTalk Day to cut 4,800 positions.
Of all the things I did as a journalist, none ever felt more important than steadily, reliably covering the goings-on of local governments.
It's awful that so many communities that don't have any professionals doing that vital work anymore.
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Finally decided to dip a toe into Bluesky; those of you who are there should be able to find me with ease, if interested.
(Not a guarantee that I'll have more to say there than I have here lately! And I'm not fully saying goodbye to this place yet either!)
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Superb work by @ksieff Game, Set, Fixed.
Must read for anyone interested in fixing.
Will add the tennis fixers' comments about the story in upcoming days but for now - read it. Excellent.
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Absolutely enthralled by this 7+ minutes of film showing @DTKitchener King Street in 1967. (cc @vidman)
The argument between Canadian news publishers and Google, Meta, etc. basically boils down to this:
“You’re stealing our content by linking to it!”
“Disagree, but OK, fine, we’ll get rid of the links.”
“HOW DARE YOU!”
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Thinking of all my friends and former colleagues at @CTVNews, @CTVKitchener and the rest of the network today.
6% of Bell Media is a LOT of jobs being cut. Audiences will notice, and migrate elsewhere, and the cycle will continue.
STORY: Bell cuts 1,300 jobs, shutters six radio stations: financialpost.com/pmn/busine…
-The layoffs include a 6% cut at Bell Media
-Around 30% of positions being eliminated are current vacancies that won't be filled
-Management jobs are being cut by 6%
@CdnPressNews @CdnPressBiz
Ryan Flanagan retweeted
This could 100% fundamentally change all those SEO-driven efforts and teams and is 100% why we should rely on trust and community engagement to build audience, not a platform or tech company. buff.ly/3BiedQX
RIP, Mr. Gordon Lightfoot. Saw him in a barn (actually) in Elora in 2017.
His first line, which I assume he had been using since that time in 2010 when everyone on Twitter wrongly thought he had died: "I'm Gordon Lightfoot and rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
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This most definitely applies to me and the many other journalists (I'd estimate about half of all those I worked with) who have moved into comms.
I wonder if non-journalists know that when journalists between the ages of 30-45 announce they've quit their job "to start an exciting new opportunity" in communications, the subtext 80% of the time is they wanted real stability and/or the pay to comfortably raise a family
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Ryan Flanagan retweeted
Local journalists are often seen as lesser. Universities tout their grads who go to large pubs & imply that those who go to small pubs are their weaker students. But local journalism is HARD. It is writing 2-3 stories a day. And taking the photos. And designing it. And editing it
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As ice cover dwindles on the Great Lakes, researchers scramble to understand the implications theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Canada’s Jonathan David is the top goal scorer in France’s Ligue 1, ahead of the likes of Mbappe, Messi, and Neymar.
Amazing.
One could read this as Google calling the bluff of Canadian news orgs, who have long argued that Google and social platforms shouldn't be able to 'steal' their content without paying compensation.
Google blocking news content for some Canadians in response to government bill ctvnews.ca/politics/google-b…
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I like imagining most @_restaurant_bot selections as family-run hidden gems from distant lands.
But sometimes it reminds me that not every restaurant can conjure up fantasies of deliciousness...
Wimpy's Diner Guelph; 25 Wyndham St N, Guelph, ON N1H 4E4, Canada; ★★★★☆ google.com/maps/search/?api=…
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