Archive for the 'Medias' category

The Airbus 380 finally didn’t collide in mid-air with the TVA helicopter before landing at YUL-Montréal Trudeau airport, like any other airplane worth the name.

Can we go back to Cédrika’s story now?

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A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chip bags from a convenience store.

The seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn’t looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos.

Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds.

Since its first shoplift, the seagull has become a regular. Always choosing the same kind of chips.

Customers have begun paying the store owner for the seagull’s stolen bags of chips because they think it’s cute.

This is not a hoax.

If the above image isn’t convincing enough, check the video below.

Also, in Finland, a squirrel liked to steal chocolate so much that there is now a law forbidding squirrels in supermarkets.

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via Cute Report

Untranslatable funny typo from a local newspaper.

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This story might seem like nothing, but it has the potential of creating a case law that could litterally cut the grass from under the feet of many bloggers.

In Montreal, Zeke’s Gallery is a place where unkown and experimental artists can show their art. Chris Hand, Zeke’s owner also writes a blog about arts to promote his gallery. He also comments on issues pertaining to artists, among which are selling of paintings, and of course, frauds.

November 25 2006, Chris wrote an article and linked to a couple of stories published from reliable sources (National Post, CBC, Radio-Canada, etc.) about a Montreal car dealer who “had previous dealings with the Montreal Mafia and boasted a mild criminal past”, mentionning he was implicated in a mob probe by multiple law enforcement agencies. He then went on to report that the said car dealer was now doing business with a “fellow” gallery owner who tried to sell some fake paintings to Loto-Québec, with a link to this story as well.

After a while, things went bad. Apparently, the people mentionned on Zeke’s blog were not happy at all about these allegations and asked him to remove all these “false” stories about them. The thing is though that poor Zeke only used the information from what was linked from reliable mass media sources! Why didn’t these people sue the mass medias then?

After receiving a couple of cease and desist letters, he was asked to go to court where the judge granted the plaintiff an injunction against him.

The judgement called for Zeke’s Gallery removal of offending material from his blog, though there is no mention that the source (National Post, CBC, Radio-Canada) has to comply with this injunction. Isn’t it odd?

Since I cannot afford a lawsuit, I will refrain myself from doing any name dropping, but here’s a link to an article from Hour.ca that has all the names of those who cannot be named.

I guess bloggers from outside Quebec and Canada could do Zeke a favour in publishing this information everywhere on the Web in protest, thus de Facto rendering the judge’s injunction ineffective. But I would never call for bloggers to do that. Oh no.

There is a difference between reporting facts published by known and reliable sources, and libel. Right?

Freedom!

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via Julie Bélanger

Global TV just left the house from having an interview with me. I was ashamed to show my junk piles of stuff on my desks on TV, but apparently, it makes the interview more authentic!

I was expecting to be asked more about the role of blogs in politics, but was happily surprised that we rather asked for my expert opinion on the local Lévis politics!

I’ve even been asked my predictions for the elections results. At a statistical equality, the choice is not obvious. I gave the PQ the advantage, since the liberal vote is more concentrated in the western part of Montreal, thus involving less ridings, and the same phenomenon exists now with the ADQ, where the vote is concentrated around Quebec City.

I don’t know yet when this interview will be aired, but prepare to record. There are good chances this will be broadcast during the Global Quebec QC TV show either this saturday or next saturday. I think that only people of the Quebec City area have access to this programming. I’ll try to see if this is going to be broadcast on the Web.

Yoshi wasn’t very cooperative. I had to hold him on my lap during the interview.

Also, it’s a small world. These guys knew some friends of my wife and I. Hi Karen and François, hi Michèle.

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