Vigilant Futures, the trading firm that funded Canadian Economic Press (CEP News) has changed its name to Vigilant Global. Although Vigilant Futures founder Arvind Ramanathan confirmed in an interview with me that his company had funded CEP News, the now defunct news agency had always refused to say who its funders were. CEP News also [...]
Newspapers need to start their own live radio shows As newspapers everywhere fool around with video, Twitter and Facebook, they’re ignoring the one medium that really makes sense for them — radio. This is especially strange given that the only news media habit the internet doesn’t appear to have changed is radio listening. News junkies [...]
Calling all foodies: Highlights Festival (Montréal en Lumière) makes a great late February break In 2012, the fine dining part of the Highlights Festival is featuring the Belgian regions of Brussels and Wallonia and their complementary cuisines. Visiting chefs include Yves Mattagne, the honorary president and youngest and most promising of Belgium’s rising talents, who [...]
OK, it’s official. RTTNews hates to talk as much as CEP News. I did finally manage to get Martin Kalverkamp, the guy who said DPA-AFX would gain access to lockups thanks to its deal with RTTNews, on the line, but then he pleaded ignorant about exactly what lockups and told me I had to speak [...]
Update: this movie will be available on demand December 27th. —————————- Margin Call is one of those okay movies that mysteriously and undeservedly garners almost uniformly great reviews. Yes, its first-time director and screenwriter, J.C. Chandor, does indeed elicit excellent performances as he tells the story of the first major trading firm to recognize that [...]
The Globe and Mail’s Top 100 List is a pretty good demonstration of what makes Canada’s national newspaper’s book section so boring. It’s as if the Canadian Authors Met and the entire proceedings were recorded and then published in The Onion. Take, for example, the book that deals with “the relationship between English fur traders [...]
Coming on the heels of my critique of the Globe and Mail‘s Top Books of 2011 article, I learned via the website Melville House that, on the same day that the Globe published its list, the Spanish newspapaer El País pronounced a state of crisis in worldwide literary criticism. Melville House also referenced a November 17th [...]
Best Picture 2010 Nominees WINNER The King’s Speech Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids Are All Right 127 Hours The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter’s Bone Best Actress 2010 Nominees WINNER Natalie Portman, Black Swan Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone Michelle [...]
Moneyball (2011) Biography, Drama, Sport, 2 hrs 13 mins Plot Outline: Billy Beane , the general manager of the Oakland A’s and the guy who assembles the team, has an epiphany: all of baseball’s conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. [...]
New On Demand Releases for week of Jan. 2 Here are the movies to keep you entertained now that the holidays are over: American Teacher (2011) Documentary, Biography, History, News, 1 hr 21 mins Plot Outline: Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells [...]
