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The Saturday Six – Dec. 19, 2009
Today’s Saturday Six is all climate change related in light of the recent climate change talks in Copenhagen. Was what will become known as the Copenhagen Accord enough to actually make change? Will it be simply regarded as window dressing if n...
Breast Screening: use common sense, onus is on you
A BRIEF RUN THROUGH WITH ASHLEIGH As most women know medicine goes far beyond the ears nose and throat generally from the age of 18 and on. The process involves signing up for a series of yearly appointments, and waiting through what may seem like th...
Kidnapped journalist now free
Amanda Lindhout is now free after 15 months of being held captive and the profound relief and happiness of her family and friends must be off the scale. This space here at On Deadline has long thought about how its final post about Lindhout’s o...
Amanda Lindhout freed! Canadian journalist free!
What great news, after 15 months Amanda Lindhout is freed! Regular readers of On Deadline know we have been following her ordeal closely and as delicately as possible. We have posted our thoughts and support for efforts for her release and during tha...
The evolution of religion, what is faith to you?
Why can’t more religious discussions be like this? TVO’s The Agenda, with Steve Paikin, recently held a dynamite discussion about the evolution of religion. It pulled together five very engaging experts of various faiths. The discussion that unfo...
Remembrance Day, Canada, 2009
REMEMBER THEM ALL TODAY Their faces flash across the screens, another young boy not coming home, another family man never again to hug his kids, another young woman never to return and be daddy’s little girl again. When does this all end and how do...
Dying 6-year-old girl leaves love notes behind
This is a heart-wrenching story that stopped me in my tracks this morning during my reporting machine gear up of two cups of coffee. Elena Desserich, a six-year-old girl dying of brain cancer left hundreds of little notes hidden around her home for h...
Too soon for Obama?
They gasped. When President Barack Obama was announced as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner reports indicate that some people in attendance “gasped”. What a wonderful debate has now ensued about Obama’s Nobel-worthiness. Is...
One year passes and Lindhout still not home
The Canadian Association of Journalists is again urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to help bring kidnapped Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout home. It has been one year since Ms. Lindhout was abducted in Somalia and there appears to be little pro...
Shinsedai Cinema Festival- a great start
A great start to a great idea. The Shinsedai Cinema Festival kicked off last night with screenings of Naked of Defenses and Hottentot Apron: A Sketch and what a wonderful introduction to new generation Japanese films those movies were. Unfortunatel...
One clicks helps Fill The Cup
Your clicks counted before and they can count again. Fill The Cup is the latest cause On Deadline has chosen to fundraise for after its successful assistance with raising online crisis support for To Write Love On Her Arms. This blog’s readers ...
Hiroshima… Never Again
Never again. The two words are almost always guaranteed to come up in any conversation, debate or literature about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the infamous date of August 6 1945. The deadly devastation that was unleashed on those two cities courtesy o...
I’ll take Canadian health care anyday
Canadian health care is just fine, thank you very much, and the sooner hard core American republicans stop spitting our fine system, the better. This post is not a story, or reporting, it is a rant, a column, so let us begin: Here’s the newsfla...
Meet The Elders
There are some initiatives which are so cool that you have to take a moment to truly appreciate them. Let me introduce you to The Elders. Sounds very mythical or medieval-ish, correct? There was once a time a village, town or tribe would turn to its ...
Long live the King of Pop
The King of Pop is dead. A quick scan of my cds and iTunes reveals not a single Michael Jackson tune in my collection, however, his talent was undeniable and we are lucky he graced us all with it. Who has never rocked to an MJ tune or tapped a toe it...
Iran: Tweeting for free expression
The value of social media is gaining with every Tweet, Facebook update, YouTube video and blog post both from and about the escalating situation in Iran. With the heavy-handed Iranian government cracking down on foreign journalists as protests grew o...
Click to help lift the darkness
It is time to make this blog earn its keep. Yes, I know, you are too busy to help or listen to or read a pitch about another worthy cause. Well, if you are one of our constant readers you know we tend to not bludgeon you too much on what you “s...
Kidnapped Canadian reporter speaks to AFP
Agence France – Presse has made contact with kidnapped Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout. Dedicated readers of On Deadline know we have written about Amanda’s plight since we learned about it and have tried to follow it as ta...
Remember Tiananmen
Remember Tiananmen. This week was the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. That event, that struggle for freedom 20 years ago has left us with the above image which beautifully depicts the struggle for democracy some people face. Studen...
Mother’s Day at OnDeadline’s Sunday movies
Happy Mother’s Day to all the women out there and those in my life, whether through family or friends, you are beautiful and wonderful. For the expecting moms I know and the newly crowned moms, you will do a great job. We owe so much to our mot...
Going hogwild over swine flu
Keep it all in perspective. As the headlines get more sensational so will the public’s hysteria. Everyone needs to remain calm and be a realist. As more information is spread about the “swine flu”, more cases are bound to be identif...
Last walk in Tokyo
2:20 a.m., can’t sleep, I’m always restless the night before a flight and it is my last night in Tokyo. Get up, get dressed and start to roam the streets around my downtown Tokyo hotel. The lights are all out on the nearby World Trade Cen...
Lightning in a bottle
We caught lignting in a bottle while in Hiroshima and boy…did it burn bright. Some trips simply develop their own pace based on a variety of obstacles, barries and challenges and then, on some days, everything simply comes together to create a ...
Hiroshima we are here
Never thought my stay in Hiroshima would start this way but it has. We just enjoyed the afternoon on the rooftop terrace of our hotel, in a blazing sun without a cloud in the sky, whoever thought I would be working on my tan in Hiroshima. After a s...
Kyoto we hardly know you
Kyoto,we hardly know you. After a whirlwind two days in Kyoto we cannot help but feel there is some unfinished business here. The cultural capital of japan is definitely a city in transition. It has many stetches of postcard old japan from the 1930s ...
Air Canada once again succeeds in disappointing
So, we have arrived but my love for Air Canada has only diminished even more, but yes, Tokyo here we are. Was great waking up here in Tokyo but we arrived in the dead of night, using the subway was fun and precusor to the fun challenges ahead but...
Off to Japan!
Hello On Deadline readers, critics, fans and friends. The day is finally here, I am off to Japan today, a dream adventure and trip about to be realized, I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve when Christmas was still an exciting mystery. I am headed to T...
Red Eye deserves a punch in the eye
Leave it to Fox to enrage someone just before they head to bed. If you have not heard, there is a lame late night show on Fox called Red Eye. In a recent segment they made fun of our Canadian troops and military, playing upon recent comments by a lie...
Wife of fallen Canadian soldier speaks
Today’s feature is a single showing simply because nothing else compares this week. Michelle Brown, wife of Dennis Brown, a warrant officer with Canada’s troops in Afghanistan, took time to speak to media this week about the passing of h...
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming?
Russian military airplanes approaching Canadian airspace is not a new story but you would never have known that with the press the latest incident created. Credit the Tory spin doctors and timeliness with NORAD’s commander visiting Ottawa. The ...
