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Some Ontario Posts.
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TVO archives online
Forty years of incredible programming from Ontario's public broadcaster now viewable on the Web
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The OCAD 2010 grad show
No one does a design review like Joe Clark, and in Canada, no one (else) does reviews of grad shows
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Liquor store API
Find our what booze is available at the LCBO in JSON
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AGO logos over time
The new one strains my eyes, Bruce Mau did a far better job in 1997
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Processing the Ontario election
Patrick Dinnen builds a compelling visualization of the 2003 election results.
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Ontarians: Get your (2007) vote on
Election day comes to Ontario and the parties are dull, but the referendum on proportional representation offers hope.
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Making the popular vote count
Ontario is holding a referendum on changing its election system to one of the best ways to reflect the popular vote: the mixed-member proportional (MMP) system.
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Collection X
AGO's online art gallery that encourages user submissions and social networking.
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Ontario magazines get digital tax credit
The Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit is available to companies to develop digital extensions of the print versions.
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Weisblott blogs again
For a variety of reasons, not the least of which being I don’t want this to be a marketing blog, I try not to focus too often on my day job. However, when something happens that would warrant an entry were it at another media outlet, I will.
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Museum blog killed by marketing
The ROM's nascent blog was dead on arrival because, rumour has it, the marketing department didn't get it.
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Net libel’s global reach
Media appeal an Ontario court ruling that could
threaten free speech and [the] development of the Internet
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Ontario stops censoring movies
Next year, the Ontario Film Review Board will likely lose its powers to censor film in the province.
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Coulter on Carlson elucidate on Canada
The pundits of conservative America demonstarte their skills.
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Election day in Ontario
It’s election day here in the fine province of Ontario; if you are a resident, please get out and vote. Maybe, just maybe, the new government won’t be as callous as the last.
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Get a newsfeed to validate; low-fi reading; libel online
The database genius also known as Rudy writes about his experiences in trying to get a news feed from ITToolbox.com working on his site and having it still validate. Anyone who has tried to do this on the client-side will recognize some of the hurdles he encounters. Oh, and his final suggestion…take it with a grain of salt. ;)
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Strike’s done
After 54 days, its over. Fifty-four days. This has not been something I would like to repeat anytime soon.
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Impossible tuitions
Almost six years ago to the day, I was part of a protest that saw hundreds of students storm the Ontario Legislative Assembly. Thousands of students had gathered across the country to raise their voices against staggering tuition increases.
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Make a change
What to do with your “Taxpayer Dividend”
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Sometimes a Grant Notion
An investigation on how a merged Toronto could affect the grants the city�s writers will receive. Co-written by Jonathan Blackburn.
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