The more I read of Richard Stursberg and his justifications for his controversial renovations to CBC English Language Services, the more I am convinced that he is—there is no way to say this nicely—on a fool’s errand.
My reasoning for this takes a little attention, just as it takes a modicum of mental sweat to understand the differences between cap and trade and a carbon…
Wade Rowland
Wade Rowland is a former producer and senior executive at both CBC and CTV, and is now a professor at York University, teaching in the joint York-Ryerson graduate program in communication and culture and in the Atkinson School of Arts and Letters program in culture and expression. He is a former Maclean Hunter Chair of Ethics in Communication at Ryerson University and is author of a number of books, including Greed, Inc. (Thomas Allen, 2005), Galileo’s Mistake (Arcade Publishing, 2003), Spirit of the Web (Key Porter, 1999) and Ockham’s Razor (Key Porter, 1999). He is an unreconstructed CBC radio addict.
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Wade Rowland
The Hapless Hunt for Paradise Lost
A Canadian historian says we have been off track since biblical times April 2006
This is a small book with a large ambition: to establish a coherent historical context for the global justice movement that has in recent years confronted the juggernaut of international corporate capitalism and neo-liberalism. It is the latest in a continuing series of provocative, closely argued, book-length essays on social issues produced by this out-standing historian and indefatigable activist…